Havoc Demon Hunter DPS Easy Mode — The War Within Pre-Patch

Havoc has a number of single-target builds that are popular, varying in complexity. Below is a sample build that eliminates some of the most complex movement talents in exchange for a strong suite of tools that keeps things reasonably simple. This also picks up appropriate talents to make use of the Dragonflight Season 4 set bonus that is still available in The War Within Pre-patch. If you are more interested in alternative or more complex builds, check our talent page:

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Compared to single-target, Havoc's strongest AoE tools incorporate some of the complex movement options, and there are not really any equivalents available that do not cost a significant amount of throughput. While this can be hard to learn at first, the payoff of playing Inertia with A Fire Inside is extremely high. This also picks up appropriate talents to make use of the Dragonflight Season 4 set bonus that is still available in The War Within Pre-patch. If you are more interested in alternative or more complex builds, check our talent page:

The goal of Havoc combat is to generate as much Fury as possible to fuel spenders in Blade Dance and Chaos Strike. It does this while also using Eye Beam to activate Demonic, and making use of the powerful 2-minute cooldown burst that comes from Metamorphosis that converts your spenders to Death Sweep and Annihilation.

Most of your Fury generation will come from Demon Blades, triggered via auto-attacks, and Felblade that can be reset from these procs - try to avoid waste as much as possible here. This will be spent on Blade Dance and Eye Beam on cooldown, while any excess is used on Chaos Strike.

The most important mechanic to bear in mind, as elaborated upon in the more advanced section, is your Fury. Managing this is very simple; with 40 Fury, you can cast Chaos Strike, which has a baseline 20% chance to refund 20. This is the crux of Havoc gameplay, and reacting to and planning around that refund is the first step to grasping Havoc.

Aside from this core, there are also some additional buttons and talents that are regularly taken in the sample build that you need to keep in mind:

• Chaotic Transformation resets the cooldown of Blade Dance and Eye Beam when you cast Metamorphosis, meaning they should be on cooldown already when you activate it.
• Immolation Aura generates Fury when cast, and is generally used on cooldown.
• The Hunt is always taken, and is generally used on cooldown for burst damage in all situations.
• Cycle of Hatred is taken in single target, and causes Fury spenders to reduce the cooldown of Eye Beam. This means you need to be aware of its cooldown more actively in combat.

In AoE, Havoc is much more involved as talent builds require you to manage more short cooldowns to deal its damage. It places more of a focus on talents triggered via movement tools, and leans much more into Immolation Aura for AoE.

Some key things to bear in mind with our AoE build is as follows:

• Immolation Aura is much more important, and has two charges thanks to A Fire Inside. As it expires, it will trigger Ragefire so aim to hit nearby targets with this.
• Glaive Tempest is used on cooldown as a Fury spender.
• Initiative encourages the use of Vengeful Retreat on cooldown, which requires you to manage your positioning due to the backflip.
• Unbound Chaos / Inertia are particularly strong in AoE, and requires you to use Fel Rush rotationally to activate the effects.

Blur provides a 20% damage reduction and 50% increase to Dodge chance for 10 seconds, on a 1-minute cooldown. This is Havoc's consistent defense tool and, due to the low cooldown, can be used liberally to reduce the incoming damage from dangerous attacks.

Netherwalk grants complete damage immunity for 6 seconds, alongside 100% increased movement speed on a 3-minute cooldown. This should be used to avoid lethal mechanics, but you cannot attack while this is active. Also, bear in mind that while you are immune to damage, you are not immune to debuffs being applied while this is active.

During the Metamorphosis cast animation, you are briefly immune for 1 second which can, on rare occasions, be used to avoid dangerous mechanics.

Darkness provides you and nearby allies a 15% chance (increased to 30%) to avoid damage taken from attacks for 8 seconds. This can be extremely powerful, but is best used for frequent instances of damage rather than gambling on avoiding lethal ones.

While not an active defensive tool, Havoc comes with a lot of built-in Leech thanks to Soul Rending giving 10% plus an additional 10% during Metamorphosis. Alongside this, Demonic Appetite and enemy deaths often trigger Soul Fragments which provide additional healing in combat.