Havoc Demon Hunter DPS Best Gems, Enchants, and Consumables — 12.1

The recommended gems for all content are:

• Use Indecipherable Eversong Diamond in your first socket.
  • Use Flawless Masterful Garnet in other sockets.
• With 5+ Sockets, switch to Powerful Eversong Diamond.
  • Use one of each colour to maximize the bonus - Flawless Deadly Amethyst, Flawless Masterful Garnet, Flawless Deadly Peridot, and Flawless Deadly Lapis.

Depending on your stat balance, sockets are often the best place to fix any gaps in your gear. Since both Mastery and Critical Strike are close for Havoc, we recommend simming your character to see which of the two is worth weighting your gems toward.

Optimizations

Stats and Simulations

Not satisfied with standard recommendations? Jump to these two guides to find out more about what your stats do, and how to fully optimize them.

StatsRaidbots Guide

Your weapon enhancement consumable of choice is two Thalassian Phoenix Oil for Critical Strike and Haste.

Helm, Shoulder and Boot enchants are up to personal preference as they have no direct impact on performance, but we recommend Avoidance for the extra survivability.

Gear Information

Best in Slot Gear and Where to Get It

Before applying gems and enchants to your equipment, make sure to check whether there might be an easy-to-get item that is better than the one you're currently wearing!

Gear

In addition to enchants and improvements to your gear, making sure you come prepared with the right consumables to endgame content has a big impact on your performance.

There are two options for your flask of choice depending on your character's stats:

• Flask of the Shattered Sun — provides Critical Strike. Commonly the best pick.
• Flask of the Magisters — provides Mastery, if your gearset is severely lacking it.

You can also obtain a flask of your choice from Cauldron of Sin'dorei Flasks, provided by Alchemists.

Potion of Recklessness is your best option, provided you can make it provide Critical Strike. Always pair these with Bloodlust / Heroism alongside Metamorphosis. You can also obtain Fleeting Potion of Recklessness from Voidlight Potion Cauldron provided by Alchemists.

A note on Draught of Rampant Abandon is that, while it's technically stronger, the void zones it spawns pacify you. It only takes 1-2 GCDs inside this to wipe out the extra value, so isn't generally worth it.

Concentrated Silvermoon Health Potion is the current best healing potion. Using this has a 5-minute cooldown, but multiple can be consumed in an extended boss fight should it go on long enough. Additionally, Warlock's Healthstones do not share a cooldown with other healing consumables. Remember to use it as well if you are holding one!

Agility remains the strongest stat in Season 2, so you should be eating a Silvermoon Parade or other primary stat Feast if possible. If this isn't provided by your group, stick to Royal Roast personal food instead.

In addition, if you can afford it, you should use Void-Touched Augment Runes to increase your primary stat. These can be obtained through the weekly housing quest, but remember: Augment Runes are expensive and disappear on death, so use them wisely!

Alongside standard buff consumables, there are a handful of other items worth keeping hold of - especially in Mythic+:

• Gateway Control Shard — allows you to auto-interact with nearby Warlock Demonic Gateways.
• Void-Touched Drums — grants a weaker 15% Haste Bloodlust effect on your party when used. These are still affected by Sated, so should only be used if you have no party member that provides it naturally.
• Emergency Soul Link — can be used as a combat resurrection on your target, and does not require Engineering.
• Void-Shrouded Tincture — Midnight's invisibility potion, which can be used to skip certain trash pulls in Mythic+. Bear in mind this does share a cooldown with your offensive potion Potion of Recklessness.

Professions

Create and Craft Your Own Consumables

While you can simply buy all these items from the Auction House, you may want to craft them yourself and sell the leftovers instead with our Icy Veins Profession Guides!

Midnight Professions Guide

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Guide Author

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