Havoc Demon Hunter DPS Gear and Best in Slot — Midnight Pre-Patch (12.0)

Welcome to our Gear and BiS Page for Havoc Demon Hunter for The War Within! 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.

Pre-Patch Disclaimer

Midnight has brought with it a stat squish, so all items provide less stats than they did previously. Gear is relatively similar strength with these changes, but bear that in mind when looking at pieces.

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

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BiS Gear for Havoc Demon Hunter

Pre-Patch BiS List Manaforge Omega BiS List Mythic+ BiS List

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Havoc Demon Hunter BiS List in Pre-Patch

This list contains the Best in Slot Gear for the Midnight Pre-patch. Items from all sources including Raids, Mythic+, Delves, The Great Vault and Crafting are included here.

Note that this gearset aims to balance out stats evenly to avoid diminishing returns, so individual pieces may not suit your current gearset on their own.

Slot	Item	Source/Note
Main Hand	Collapsing Phaseblades	The Soul Hunters
Off Hand	Everforged Warglaive	Crafted — Blacksmithing
Alternative	Interrogator's Flensing Blade	Tazavesh: Streets of Wonder
Helm	Charhound's Vicious Scalp (Tier)	Forgeweaver Araz
Neck	Salhadaar's Folly	Nexus King Salhadaar
Shoulder	Charhound's Vicious Hornguards (Tier)	The Soul Hunters
Cloak	Reshii Wraps with Crit	11.2 Campaign
Chest	Charhound's Vicious Bindings (Tier)	Fractillus
Bracers	Rune-Branded Armbands	Crafted — Leatherworking
Gloves	Charhound's Vicious Felclaws (Tier)	Soulbinder Naazindhri
Belt	Atomic Phasebelt	Plexus Sentinel
Legs	Gauzewoven Legguards	Ara-Kara, City of Echoes
Boots	Interloper's Reinforced Sandals	The Soul Hunters
Ring #1	Logic Gate: Alpha	Plexus Sentinel
Ring #2	Devout Zealot's Ring	The Dawnbreaker
Trinket #1	Astral Antenna	Loom’ithar
Trinket #2	Sigil of the Cosmic Hunt	The Soul Hunters
Trinket Alt.	Screams of a Forgotten Sky Araz's Ritual Forge Unyielding Netherprism Improvised Seaforium Pacemaker	Dimensius The All Devouring Forgeweaver Araz Fractillus Operation: Floodgate

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Manaforge Omega BiS List for Havoc Demon Hunter

Below is a list of the ideal pieces that can be found in each slot from Manaforge Omega. Bear in mind this is a recommendation of gear to look out for to fill in holes in your gear set, not a strict recommendation of what you should always wear in raids.

Slot	Item	Source/Note
Weapons	Collapsing Phaseblades	The Soul Hunters
Alternative	Unbound Training Claws	Soulbinder Naazindhri
Helm	Charhound's Vicious Scalp	Forgeweaver Araz
Neck	Salhadaar's Folly	Nexus King Salhadaar
Shoulder	Charhound's Vicious Hornguards	The Soul Hunters
Cloak	Reshii Wraps with Crit	11.2 Campaign
Chest	Charhound's Vicious Bindings	Fractillus
Bracers	Bindings of Lost Essence	Soulbinder Naazindhri
Gloves	Charhound's Vicious Felclaws	Soulbinder Naazindhri
Belt	Atomic Phasebelt	Plexus Sentinel
Legs	Charhound's Vicious Hidecoat	Loom’ithar
Boots	Interloper's Reinforced Sandals	The Soul Hunters
Ring #1	Logic Gate: Alpha	Plexus Sentinel
Ring #2	Logic Gate: Omega	Forgeweaver Araz
Trinket #1	Sigil of the Cosmic Hunt	The Soul Hunters
Trinket #2	Astral Antenna	Loom’ithar
Trinket Alt.	Screams of a Forgotten Sky Unyielding Netherprism Araz's Ritual Forge	Dimensius The All Devouring Fractillus Forgeweaver Araz

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Mythic+ BiS List for Havoc Demon Hunter

Below is a list of the ideal pieces that can be found in each slot from Pre-Patch of Mythic+ in The War Within. These are recommendations for pieces in each slot to look out for when farming gear upgrades, not a strict recommendation on what you should always be wearing in Mythic+.

Slot	Item	Source/Note
Weapons	Interrogator's Flensing Blade	Tazavesh: Streets of Wonder
Alternative	First Fist of the So Cartel	Tazavesh: Streets of Wonder
Helm	Helm of the Righteous Crusade	Priory of the Sacred Flame
Neck	Ornately Engraved Amplifier	Tazavesh: Streets of Wonder
Shoulder	Breakbeat Shoulderguards	Tazavesh: Streets of Wonder
Cloak	Reshii Wraps with Crit	11.2 Campaign
Chest	Vest of Refracted Shadows	Halls of Atonement
Bracers	Unbreakable Beetlebane Bindings	Ara-Kara, City of Echoes
Gloves	Knuckle-Dusting Handwraps	Tazavesh: Streets of Wonder
Belt	Shadow Congregant's Belt	The Dawnbreaker
Legs	Gauzewoven Legguards	Ara-Kara, City of Echoes
Boots	Boots of Titanic Deconversion	Tazavesh: So'leah's Gambit
Ring #1	Devout Zealot's Ring	The Dawnbreaker
Ring #2	Signet of the False Accuser	Halls of Atonement
Trinket #1	Improvised Seaforium Pacemaker	Operation: Floodgate
Trinket #2	So'leah's Secret Technique	Tazavesh: So'leah's Gambit
Trinket Alt.	Ticking Sack of Terror Ara-Kara Sacbrood Empowering Crystal of Anub'ikkaj Signet of the Priory	Tazavesh: Streets of Wonder Ara-Kara, City of Echoes The Dawnbreaker Priory of the Sacred Flame

For players returning during the Midnight Pre-Patch, since it doesn't last very long you may not have time to gather up all the gear to get a perfect setup. Instead, prioritize getting hold of the following:

• A Crafted Weapon ( Everforged Warglaive) — Having a high item level Main Hand will always be the biggest upgrade possible, and getting one crafted is the easiest way to be ready for the expansion.
• Tier Set — you should be able to gather up 4 pieces of gear to acquire the 2-piece and 4-piece bonus, making them stronger than other items at similar levels. You can make use of the Matrix Catalyst to acquire it quickly. The pieces you use to do this don't matter - just get the bonuses!
• Trinkets — focus on picking up trinkets you don't have to micro-manage. You can use Dinars left over from the final season of The War Within for this.

Reintroduced in Patch 11.2.5, the Puzzling Cartel Chip system is also currently active in Pre-Patch. Like before, a weekly quest can be completed to obtain these, and can be used to purchase high value items from Manaforge Omega and Mythic+ dungeons. You can purchase any trinkets or special cantrip items available, all the way up to Myth track!

Purchasing an item, however, does require you to have defeated the boss. Each item drops from each respective difficulty. As an example, to purchase Araz's Ritual Forge Mythic, you need to have defeated Mythic Forgeweaver Araz. Trinkets from dungeons also require you to have completed every keystone in time at level 12 or above.

To keep it very simple, your purchase order assuming you have access to every boss on Mythic Difficulty should be the following:

Puzzling Cartel Chip Purchase Quick Guide

Interloper's Reinforced Sandals ➜ Sigil of the Cosmic Hunt ➜ Astral Antenna or On-use Pick

While Havoc has a lot of options open to it, during the Pre-Patch (and especially for leveling soon after), it's best to pick up some passive trinkets or an on-use for the broadest use cases. This list is not exhaustive or in order of priority, and you are best served simming yourself for optimal results, as the best pick will depend on the gear you already have available.

• Interloper's Reinforced Sandals (Myth) - Click for Details

  • The cantrip boots are a flat increase to your Reshii Wraps, and as such are better than any alternative in the slot by quite a large margin. These can be quite easy to obtain due to being a guaranteed drop per kill, but they're also highly contested. If you can't get hold of a pair but can pick up the Myth track version, these are a very high priority. This is especially true if you don't have a pair at all.
• Sigil of the Cosmic Hunt (Myth) - Click for Details

  • A high-value passive trinket that works well with Havoc's playstyle, benefitting from Know Your Enemy. Of the direct damage trinkets, this is generally the most flexible and consistent compared to Screams of a Forgotten Sky, and has universal use between builds and most content types.
• Cursed Stone Idol - (Mythic+) - Click for Details

  • Mythic+ lends itself to having additional burst even as Aldrachi Reaver, and this provides the most up-front benefit on a cooldown that suits many route timers. While this can be a little awkward to use, it's the best pick for specifically Mythic+ purposes as your on-use slot.
• Unyielding Netherprism - Click for Details

  • Allows you to bank up high burst for key moments in encounters, which can be useful - especially for Fel-Scarred. Also has some extra uses for leveling, letting you benefit from the passive damage while having some burst in the tank for larger pulls or bosses.
• Astral Antenna (Myth) - Click for Details

  • Strongest passive stat trinket available, and can work well with any alternative and in all content types. The chance to miss orbs hurts it a little in some situations, and isn't quite as useful as more specific situational trinkets, but will always be relatively close to alternatives regardless of the scenario.

As purchasing these items requires you to have defeated Mythic bosses to acquire them at the highest level, if you ever intend to kill those then hold off on buying a heroic version. You will only receive 3 total purchases through the remainder of the season, so use them wisely!

Added in the final season of The War Within, the Reshii Wraps is a unique artifact cloak item that can be obtained through the Ghosts of K'aresh quest chain. When completed, this reaches a final item level of 170. This should always be used during the pre-patch, as no other cloaks are available.

As a DPS, the unique effect is a high damage proc that also splits between enemies hit. This effect is amplified by the specific items available within Manaforge Omega:

• Interloper's Reinforced Sandals - boots from The Soul Hunters. These significantly increase the rate your cloak effect triggers, and are a best-in-slot pickup at all times.
• Band of the Shattered Soul - ring from Dimensius The All Devouring. Provides a niche extra defensive component to procs, which has some uses on certain encounters. Weaker stats means it's not very sought after.

The Reshii Wraps also come with one single Fiber Socket that dictates which secondary stat it has, which can be changed at any time out of combat. These can be acquired at Blue quality from Hashim on K'aresh, or crafted by Tailoring at Epic quality. As Havoc, you will be using either Precise Fiber or Pure Precise Fiber for Critical Strike.

For more information on acquiring and upgrading your Cloak, make sure to check ouir dedicated Reshii Wraps page that covers it in more detail:

The previous season's final Tier Set of The War Within - the Charhound's Vicious Hunt - still remains usable, though the set bonuses have been changed. Instead of providing unique bonuses based on Hero Talent choice, they instead provide flat damage increases:

• Demon Hunter- Midnight PrePatch - 11.2 Class Set 2pc — Increases all damage dealt by 6%.
• Demon Hunter- Midnight PrePatch - 11.2 Class Set 4pc — Increases all damage dealt by 10%.

These are simply straight increases, and while they have no impact on your rotation, they do significantly improve your throughput and should still be used at all times over the course of the Pre-Patch.

Crafted gear for Havoc in the Midnight pre-patch has a few embellishments worth looking at, but one in particular is a consistently worthwhile craft — Darkmoon Sigil: Ascension. It's also a Nerubian enchant that can be doubled up with Writhing Armor Banding.

You should ideally sim the optimal stats to craft for your particular character, but Critical Strike and Mastery is most likely your best option with an Algari Missive of the Peerless.

1. First - craft weapon Everforged Warglaive with a Darkmoon Sigil: Ascension applied.
2. Second - craft an off-piece and apply Writhing Armor Banding to double the effect — Any will do but Rune-Branded Armbands has the least friction with the rest of the gearset.
3. Alternatively - you can opt into using Dawnthread Lining for the passive Critical Strike, as it can perform slightly better in ideal gear setups, and does not require you to invest in a weapon if you so wish.
4. After this, you are done with priority crafts and embellishments and can use sims to determine your best piece to upgrade with item level. Generally, it is a good idea to look for Rings and Necks as good options are very contested among other classes.

The value of crafting a high item-level weapon is very high, especially if you don't have access to one. When you reach the stage where you have access to more gear options, you can consider extremely optimized setups built around two Dawnthread Lining crafts on off-pieces.

Note that any Agility one-handed weapon can be crafted, meaning you have a choice between Everforged Warglaive, Charged Slicer, Charged Facesmasher or Everforged Longsword. It's strongly advised to craft the Everforged Warglaive here, as it's the only one that will switch primary stats if you ever intend to play Devourer.

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 generic sim charts and recommendations for 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!

If you are new to simming and Raidbots, check out our detailed guide below.

As you complete endgame content, you will gather upgrade crests such as Gilded Ethereal Crest that can be used to upgrade your items. Once you have upgraded a slot to a particular item level, any other item in that slot can be upgraded without a Crest cost.

As Crests are a limited resource, ideally you want to obtain the highest item-level possible before committing any crests to upgrade it. If you are capable of completing higher Mythic+ dungeons, it is generally a good idea to wait until you have the slot maxed out with free upgrades first.

Below is a general slot priority you should upgrade your items in.

1. Weapons
2. Trinkets
3. Helm/Chest/Legs
4. Shoulders/Gloves/Belt/Boots
5. Rings and Necks
6. Cloaks and Bracers

Note that exceptions are possible, such as special items that have additional procs attached to them.