Havoc Demon Hunter DPS Gear and Best in Slot — Shadowlands 9.1

Welcome to our Gearing Page for Havoc Demon Hunter, this section will cover everything you need to know about equipping your character correctly.

When you acquire a new piece of gear that can be enchanted, you should make sure to put the right effect on it. We have that covered in our Enchant page below.

At this point in World of Warcraft's lifecycle, and despite the stat priority we recommend, there are often too many variables to each individual character to give hard recommendations. There is no easy way to give you an exact answer to individual items, and this is why we always recommend simulating your own character using Raidbots. The website can help you choose set bonuses, trinkets and item combinations in a way that is tailored completely to your specific character. Learning to use this tool is a big factor in unlocking your potential, as there is simply no other way to take all the variables into account.

The Droptimizer feature from Raidbots lets you identify which dungeons and Raid Bosses you should spend your Bonus Rolls on. 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 bonus rolling on it. We have a guide for it that you can access using the link below.

While we heavily recommend simming yourself, you can find some of our general simulations on the dedicated page below.

Havoc has a few strong options, but right now there is an easy first pick that serves well in all situations with Collective Anguish. While there are more specialized choices, this will generally provide you with a solid benefit to both single-target and AoE in one craft.

Despite this, there are a lot of more specialized options available, in particular Burning Wound and Darkglare Boon. If you want a more detailed explanation of each individual Legendary and also more options for different scenarios, you can look at our dedicated page linked here:

1. Growing Inferno
2. Relentless Onslaught

1. Fel Defender
2. Viscous Ink

For more details regarding each individual Conduit, you can look at our dedicated Covenant, Soulbind and Conduits page linked below:

Due to how strong trinkets can sometimes be, and that they are not always easily accessible from Mythic+, raiding, and PvP sources, we always recommend always best to use Raidbots' Top Gear to determine what your optimal trinkets are.

Bloodmallet.com also provides rankings for Shadowlands trinkets to give a general overview of relative power levels, and things to look out for:

Often, many people tend to overthink the distribution of secondary stats, rather than consider the most important factor: more stats is often better. Due to this (especially in Shadowlands with the increased value of Agility), you will often be making your choice based on item level above all outside of specific situations. Keep that rule in mind when considering gear, but always remember to sim yourself, and check out our stats page for more details.

This is a recommended set of gear available exclusively from Dungeon drops. This excludes open world drops because of how random it can sometimes be to acquire them, so these serve as items to slot in whenever you can. Trinkets are not listed, as they are covered in the dedicated section above.

Note that as of Patch 9.0.5, these items can also be upgraded all the way up to item level 246 via the new Valor system. If possible, hunting these items and upgrading them to fill any gaps in your gear is ideal.

Slot	Item	Source
Helm	Vicious Surge Faceguard	Spires of Ascension
Neck	Azure-Venom Choker	Spires of Ascension
Shoulder	Far Traveler's Shoulderpads	De Other Side
Cloak	Blighted Margrave's Cloak	Plaguefall
Chest	Rainshadow Hauberk	Mists of Tirna Scithe
Wrists	Risen Monstrosity Cuffs	The Necrotic Wake
Gloves	Gloves of Haunting Fixation	Halls of Atonement
Belt	Sapgorger Belt	Mists of Tirna Scithe
Legs	Abyssal Disharmony Breeches	Spires of Ascension
Boots	Vanquished Usurper's Footpads	Theater of Pain
Ring #1	Stitchflesh's Misplaced Signet	The Necrotic Wake
Ring #2	Bloodoath Signet	Theater of Pain
Weapons	Poxstorm, Longsword of Pestilence	Plaguefall
Alternative	Stone General's Edge	Sanguine Depths

The new mega-dungeon introduces new items at a base item level of 226, or 233 if completed on the hard-mode difficulty. Due to the inability to upgrade them, they are mostly side-grades until you are able to get a hold of new options.

One exception to this, however, is the quest item to access hard-mode, the Passably-Forged Credentials neck. The proc activates anywhere, and can be an alternative that competes with some slightly higher item level options.

Patch 9.1 introduces the Domination socket system, with unique slots that can have gems applied to them that are acquired within the Sanctum of Domination raid. For Leather, these are present on Helms, Shoulders, Chests, Gloves, and Boots acquired within the raid and are something you should aim to get all 5 of.

Your priority for gems is in the following order:

1. Complete the Unholy gem set bonus, requiring a Shard of Dyz, Shard of Zed, and Shard of Oth. This bonus also requires you to have a Domination Socket Helm to activate.
2. Fill out your 4th and 5th slots with Shard of Bek and Shard of Cor gems from the Blood and Frost types respectively.

If you would like to know more about the remaining Domination Shards' effects, their set bonuses, or how to upgrade their effects into even more potent forms, please see our official guide detailing everything about this new system of Patch 9.1:

This section contains the best gear to look for in the Sanctum of Domination raid. It does not include anything from outside sources, so with some drops you have access to you might have better choices.

There is one unique weapon available from Painsmith Raznal in Cruciform Veinripper that comes with no secondary stats, but a powerful single-target proc. This is absolutely worth the trade off and you should aim to get at least one, if not two of these for fights with a heavier focus on boss damage.

Slot	Item	Source
Helm	Cap of Writhing Malevolence	Remnant of Ner'zhul
Neck	Interplanar Keystone	Kel'Thuzad
Shoulder	Spaulders of the Crooked Confidant	Kel'Thuzad
Cloak	Self-Replicating Tissue	Guardian of the First Ones
Chest	Witherheart Studded Breastplate	Sylvanas Windrunner
Wrists	Fate-Threaded Bindings	Fatescribe Roh-Kalo
Gloves	Loyal Kvaldir's Handwraps	The Eye of the Jailer
Belt	Windrunner's Baldric	Sylvanas Windrunner
Legs	Elite Aranakk Breeches	Kel'Thuzad
Boots	Unstable Energizer Boots	Guardian of the First Ones
Ring #1	Tarnished Insignia of Quel'Thalas	Sylvanas Windrunner
Ring #2	Miniature Breaking Wheel	Painsmith Raznal
Weapons	Cruciform Veinripper	Painsmith Raznal
Alternative	Elethium-Bladed Glaive	The Tarragrue