Havoc Demon Hunter DPS Gear and Best in Slot — 12.0.5

Welcome to our Gear and BiS Page for Havoc Demon Hunter for Midnight! Check this page to learn everything you need to know about gearing an Havoc Demon Hunter, including the BiS Gear from all sources, Raiding, and Mythic+, information on the best Trinkets, Tier Sets, and much more. For information on what's currently available in Midnight, check out our Midnight page!

For discussion and information on Stats specifically, check out our Stats page below.

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BiS Gear for Havoc Demon Hunter

Overall Best-in-Slot Raid Best-in-Slot Mythic + Best-in-Slot

2.1.

Havoc Demon Hunter BiS List in Season 1

The list below contains gear from all possible endgame sources, including Raids, Mythic+, Crafting, Delves and The Great Vault. It aims to provide the absolute best possible setup, but bear in mind that each individual item may not be the strongest in your particular gear setup at any given point.

This gearset aims to optimize your Critical Strike and Mastery rating as much as possible, due to their strength and the lower stats available in Season 1.

Slot	Item	Source/Note
Main Hand	Lightless Lament	Midnight Falls
Off Hand	Soulblight Cleaver	Maisara Caverns
Alternative	Spellbreaker's Warglaive	Blacksmithing
Helm	Spellsnap Shadowmask	Magister's Terrace
Neck	Amulet of the Abyssal Hymn	Midnight Falls
Shoulder	Devouring Reaver's Exhaustplates	Fallen-King Salhadaar
Cloak	Adherent's Silken Shroud	Tailoring
Chest	Devouring Reaver's Engine	Chimaerus
Bracers	Silvermoon Agent's Deflectors	Leatherworking
Alt. (No Craft)	Void-Skinned Bracers	Vorasius
Gloves	Devouring Reaver's Essence Grips	Vorasius
Belt	Snapvine Cinch	Windrunner Spire
Legs	Devouring Reaver's Pistons	Vaelgor and Ezzorak
Boots	Boots of Burning Focus	Skyreach
Ring #1	Sin'dorei Band of Hope	Belo'ren
Ring #2	Platinum Star Band	Algeth'ar Academy
Trinket #1	Gaze of the Alnseer	Chimaerus
Trinket #2	Algeth'ar Puzzle Box	Algeth'ar Academy
Trinket Alt.	Umbral Plume Solarflare Prism Ranger-Captain's Iridescent Insignia Vessel of Tortured Souls	Belo'ren Skyreach Crown of the Cosmos Maisara Caverns

2.2.

Havoc Demon Hunter Raid BiS List in Season 1

The gearset below is your raid Best-in-Slot list, using gear from only raid drops, as well as ideal tier set pieces and crafted items to activate Embellishment effects. Note that this is a list of the best items available within the Raid, not a strict list of what you should be using inside the raid.

FAQWhat Are My Top Items To Chase?

Havoc has a few high value picks available within raids, having some strong trinket options alongside a cantrip Warglaive that's particularly high value. The big ticket drops you're looking for are:

1. Gaze of the Alnseer - Chimaerus
2. Lightless Lament - Midnight Falls
3. Amulet of the Abyssal Hymn - Midnight Falls

Slot	Item	Source/Note
Main Hand	Lightless Lament	Midnight Falls
Off Hand	Emblazoned Sunglaive	Vaelgor and Ezzorak
Alternative	Spellbreaker's Warglaive	Blacksmithing
Helm	Devouring Night's Visage	Imperator Averzian
Neck	Amulet of the Abyssal Hymn	Crown of the Cosmos
Shoulder	Devouring Reaver's Exhaustplates	Fallen-King Salhadaar
Cloak	Adherent's Silken Shroud	Tailoring
Chest	Devouring Reaver's Engine	Chimaerus
Bracers	Silvermoon Agent's Deflectors	Leatherworking
Alt. (No Craft)	Void-Skinned Bracers	Vorasius
Gloves	Devouring Reaver's Essence Grips	Vorasius
Belt	Twisted Twilight Sash	Fallen-King Salhadaar
Legs	Devouring Reaver's Pistons	Vaelgor and Ezzorak
Boots	Canopy Walker's Footwraps	Crown of the Cosmos
Ring #1	Sin'dorei Band of Hope	Belo'ren
Ring #2	Signet of the Starved Beast	Vorasius
Trinket #1	Gaze of the Alnseer	Chimaerus
Trinket #2	Umbral Plume	Belo'ren

2.3.

Havoc Demon Hunter Mythic + BiS List in Season 1

The gearset below are the best items available from Mythic+, using gear only available from dungeons in the Season 1 pool, alongside your ideal Tier Set pieces and Crafted items for Embellishments. Note that this is a list of the best items available from Mythic+ dungeons, not a strict list of what you should be using in Mythic+ content.

FAQWhich Dungeons Should I Farm?

Havoc has a couple of key items worth farming early, in particular in the trinket slot. There's also a few pieces that have far better stats that raid equivalents, so are worth the time investment when farming dungeons:

1. Algeth'ar Puzzle Box - Algeth'ar Academy
2. Soulblight Cleaver - Maisara Caverns
3. Platinum Star Band - Algeth'ar Academy
4. Snapvine Cinch - Windrunner Spire

Slot	Item	Source/Note
Weapons	Soulblight Cleaver	Maisara Caverns
Alternative	Spellbreaker's Warglaive	Blacksmithing
Helm	Spellsnap Shadowmask	Magister's Terrace
Neck	Barbed Ymirheim Choker	Pit of Saron
Shoulder	Devouring Reaver's Exhaustplates	Matrix Catalyst
Cloak	Adherent's Silken Shroud	Tailoring
Chest	Devouring Reaver's Engine	Matrix Catalyst
Bracers	Silvermoon Agent's Deflectors	Leatherworking
Alt. (No Craft)	Chewed Leather Wristguards	Vorasius
Gloves	Devouring Reaver's Essence Grips	Matrix Catalyst
Belt	Snapvine Cinch	Windrunner Spire
Legs	Devouring Reaver's Pistons	Matrix Catalyst
Boots	Boots of Burning Focus	Skyreach
Ring #1	Platinum Star Band	Algeth'ar Academy
Ring #2	Occlusion of Void	Nexus-Point Xenas
Trinket #1	Algeth'ar Puzzle Box	Algeth'ar Academy
Trinket #2	Solarflare Prism	Skyreach

Havoc generally seeks to use one on-use trinket that aligns with Metamorphosis to enhance its burst windows, and then one strong passive trinket to go with it. Both stat procs and damage effects are useful due to Know Your Enemy, so there's a good amount of flexibility on offer.

Aim to pick up one trinket from each of these categories as a pair:

Trinkets to Hunt in Midnight Season 1

On-Use - Algeth'ar Puzzle Box
Passive - Gaze of the Alnseer or, alternatively, Umbral Plume

You can click below to open a ranking chart for other trinkets, in case you've picked something else up are are looking to check how it stacks up.

Click for Havoc Season 1 Trinket Rankings

Ranking	Trinket
S Tier	Algeth'ar Puzzle Box - Click for Details There's no other on-use trinket at the same level as this in Season 1, so it's always worth farming one up. While the small wind-up cast can be awkward, try to activate it before beginning your Eye Beam leading into Metamorphosis every 2 minutes. Gaze of the Alnseer Umbral Plume / Radiant Plume - Click for Details This should generally be set to Umbral Plume for additional Critical Strike procs, though if your gear is particularly lacking in Mastery, switching to Radiant Plume is an option to fix it.
A Tier	Solarflare Prism Ranger-Captain's Iridescent Insignia Kroluk's Warbanner
B Tier	Drum of Renewed Bonds - Click for Details Go to the Jan'alai altar in Zul'Aman to set this to Mastery. Crucible of Erratic Energies Undreamt God's Oozing Vestige Light Company Guidon Latch's Crooked Hook Vessel of Tortured Souls Emberwing Feather Glorious Crusader's Keepsake Fiber of Living Agony Darkmoon Dominion: Hunt Darkmoon Dominion: Blood
C Tier	Heart of Wind Void-Reaper's Libram Darkmoon Dominion: Void Void Stalker's Contract Eye of the Drowning Void Withered Saptor's Paw
D Tier	Sylvan Wakrapuku Darkmoon Dominion: Rot Magister's Alchemist Stone Lost Idol of the Hash'ey Sealed Chaos Urn

Patch 12.0.5 introduces Midnight's take on two systems, intended to increase your access to big ticket items, and their maximum potential:

• Nebulous Voidcore - can be spent after completing endgame dungeons or defeating raid bosses, granting you an item at random from its respective loot table. Once an item has been received through Voidcore rolls, it cannot appear again. One Voidcore is used to roll on dungeon loot tables (providing loot equivalent to its Great Vault item level), while Two are used for Raid bosses.
• Ascendant Voidcore - can be used on fully upgraded Hero, Myth, and Radiance Crafted Weapons & Trinkets. This further increases their power (similar to Turbo Boost from The War Within), raising their item level by 10.

For more information on how to acquire these items, make sure to check out our dedicated guide below!

Which item you should target is strongly influenced by what pieces you've already acquired through Raids or the Great Vault up to this point in Season 1, but there's some specific pieces that are highly desirable. Since pieces are acquired through a process of elimination, in some cases it's also best to think about the best Overall table to roll on in case you aren't lucky as well. A recommended priority on locations to roll is:

Voidcore (Bonus Roll) Priority

1. Al'gethar Academy
   • Until you acquire Algeth'ar Puzzle Box
2. Chimaerus (Devourer loot spec)
   • Until you acquire Gaze of the Alnseer
3. L'ura* (See FAQ)
   • Until you acquire Lightless Lament
4. Remaining BiS Locations

Similar to Dawncrest recommendations, your Ascendant Voidcore use should follow the same rules for upgrading your items:

Ascendant Voidcore Order

Main-Hand Weapon ➜ Algeth'ar Puzzle Box ➜ Gaze of the Alnseer ➜ Off-Hand Weapon

Always prioritize Myth track items over Hero track pieces if possible, unless you don't expect to ever acquire a higher item level version. For example, if you're not expecting to kill Mythic Chimaerus but have a Hero Gaze of the Alnseer, it's fine to invest a Voidcore.

Crafted gear provides one of the easiest ways to pick up high value items in a season, allowing you to target key pieces to fill out your gearset. With the release of Season 1, two crafts using four Spark of Radiance total are available, with an additional craft acquired every two weeks after.

Unless secondary stats are already assigned by the item, you should use a Thalassian Missive of the Peerless for Critical Strike and Mastery on your crafts, unless sims return different recommendations.

Havoc Crafting Order

Spellbreaker's Warglaive ➜ Adherent's Silken Shroud ➜ Silvermoon Agent's Deflectors

Crafting Notes:

• Craft a weapon first, as it has the biggest impact early. Warglaive is best, as it allows you to switch specs. Attach Darkmoon Sigil: Hunt for your first embellishment.
• Craft an off-piece second - we recommend Adherent's Silken Shroud in the Cloak slot. Attach Arcanoweave Lining as your second embellishment.
• Following this, craft Silvermoon Agent's Deflectors third. Remove the Darkmoon Sigil: Hunt from your weapon, and attach Arcanoweave Lining.

Following these crafts, you should have a solid setup, and can look to crafting high item-level pieces to fill out any empty slots in your gear setup. High priority candidates are Jewellery, especially a Neck as there's no good Crit/Mastery option available this season.

If you want to find out more about professions, make sure to check out our The Midnight Profession guide!

Early into the season, or if you have just started playing an alt, you will have limited access to upgrading-crests such as Myth Dawncrest. These can be used to upgrade gear to higher item levels. Since crests are limited each week, and every slot will cost 20 crests per upgrade regardless of the slot. Due to that, you should prioritize your usage of these on items you don't plan on replacing any time soon, or specific slots that offer larger stat benefits:

Havoc Demon Hunter Crest Upgrade Priority

Weapon (Mainhand) ➜ Trinkets ➜ Helmet/Chest/Legs ➜ Shoulders/Gloves/Belt/Boots

These are not the only items worth upgrading, of course. They simply offer the highest DPS gain early into the tier when your upgrade currency is limited. Note that exceptions are possible, such as special items that have additional procs attached to them.

While all Rings and Necklaces come with one socket by default, three additional sockets can be acquired on the Helmet, Belt and Bracer slots as a bonus when they drop. These can also be added manually using the Radiant Jewelbinder consumable, which can be purchased 6 Thalassian Token of Merit, the pity currency from The Great Vault.

When using these, it's always best to put them on pieces you don't expect to ever replace. This means Mythic items, or any crafted pieces in these slots, since they can't have them added in any other way. Due to them being a very limited currency, if you have these, it's best to plan long term before wasting any.

Throughout this page and elsewhere in our guide, we regularly refer to the importance of simming yourself on Raidbots. This is because every character is unique, and each gear piece you have access to can change what is best right now for you.

While we do offer recommendations for gear and trinkets, these are not complete replacements for simming yourself. The only way to truly optimize your character to that degree is by making use of the tools available!

The Droptimizer feature from Raidbots lets you identify which dungeons and Raid Bosses offer the highest DPS upgrades to you. It simulates all of the potential upgrades in a raid or a dungeon and lists the bosses/dungeons by rank order of how much DPS you can expect to gain from each of the items it drops. Linked below are two guides to help break down using these two features to get the most out of your gearing process: