Havoc Demon Hunter DPS Rotation, Cooldowns, and Abilities — The War Within (11.2)

Havoc's single-target rotation is closely linked to its build-and-spend loop. It uses generation tools to fuel Blade Dance, spends excess Fury on Chaos Strike, and combos cooldowns together.

1. Cast Death Sweep during the Essence Break debuff.
2. Cast Annihilation during the Essence Break debuff.
3. Cast Death Sweep with Demonsurge active - Click for Notes

   • This only needs to be cast once, ideally right before Metamorphosis expires.
4. Cast Vengeful Retreat to trigger Initiative and Inertia and Exergy.
5. Cast Felblade with Inertia ready to activate the buff - Click for Notes

   • Avoid refreshing this if you trigger it back to back with Vengeful Retreat and The Hunt.
6. Cast Immolation Aura / Consuming Fire if it's not currently active.
7. Cast Immolation Aura / Consuming Fire if it's not active - Click for AFI Conditions

   • Cast if you're currently at 2 charges.
   • Refresh if Eye Beam is active within the next 3 seconds.
   • Drop to 0 charges if Metamorphosis is ready.
8. Cast Essence Break with Metamorphosis active.
9. Cast Annihilation / Chaos Strike with Immolation Aura active.
10. Cast The Hunt.
11. Cast Demonsurge activators to consume each buff - Click for Order

    • Cast Sigil of Doom ➜ Consuming Fire to trigger each pulse.
12. Cast Essence Break with Metamorphosis active.
13. Cast Death Sweep.
14. Cast The Hunt.
15. Cast Immolation Aura / Consuming Fire if at 2 charges.
16. Cast Sigil of Spite.
17. Cast Sigil of Flame / Sigil of Doom to trigger Student of Suffering - Click for Notes

    • Hold this for 10 seconds every cycle to align with Eye Beam.
18. Cast Eye Beam / Abyssal Gaze - Click for Notes

    • Only cast Abyssal Gaze once to consume Demonsurge.
19. Cast Sigil of Doom to consume Demonsurge.
20. Cast Metamorphosis with Eye Beam and Death Sweep on cooldown.
21. Cast Blade Dance.
22. Cast Annihilation.
23. Cast Felblade if under 80 Fury.
24. Cast Chaos Strike.
25. Cast Immolation Aura / Consuming Fire.
26. Cast Sigil of Flame / Sigil of Doom if under 40 Fury.
27. Cast Immolation Aura / Consuming Fire.
28. Cast Throw Glaive or Fel Rush to fill.
29. Cast Death Sweep during Essence Break.
30. Cast Annihilation during Essence Break.
31. Cast Reaver's Glaive - Click for Rules

    • Always cast Blade Dance second to empower Fury of the Aldrachi.
    • Only cast this if Glaive Flurry and Rending Strike are not active.
32. Cast Sigil of Spite to generate Souls.
33. Cast Felblade with Inertia ready to activate the buff - Click for Notes

    • Avoid refreshing this if you trigger it back to back with Vengeful Retreat and The Hunt.
34. Cast Vengeful Retreat to trigger Initiative and Inertia and Exergy.
35. Cast The Hunt with no active Reaver's Glaive proc.
36. Cast Essence Break with Metamorphosis active.
37. Cast Annihilation / Chaos Strike with Rending Strike active.
38. Cast Death Sweep.
39. Cast Immolation Aura / Consuming Fire if at 2 charges.
40. Cast Eye Beam.
41. Cast Metamorphosis with Eye Beam and Death Sweep on cooldown.
42. Cast Blade Dance.
43. Cast Sigil of Flame if under 90 Fury.
44. Cast Annihilation.
45. Cast Felblade if under 60 Fury.
46. Cast Chaos Strike.
47. Cast Immolation Aura.
48. Cast Immolation Aura, Throw Glaive or Fel Rush to fill.

Havoc's gameplay loop is heavily influenced by your talent selections, due to the number of rotationally warping effects it has. What you pick dictates how involved certain cooldown cycles are, and how many resources you need to dedicate to each of them. Some key details are:

• Reaver's Glaive is an extremely high priority press. Aim to maintain Reaver's Mark as much as possible, and cast Blade Dance second in each sequence.
• The Hunt is used to snap generate Reaver's Glaive at the start of the pull, or for priority targets. Additionally, you also have Sigil of Spite to generate 4 souls for the same purpose.
• Your Essence Break windows are a key burst moment. Always aim to overlap this with your Metamorphosis effect, and fit in at least one Death Sweep and two Annihilation casts.
• When playing A Fire Inside, you want to make sure it is always under 2 charges to avoid wasting uses throughout a fight.
• Always make sure to consume all Demonsurge buffs for each Metamorphosis entry. This means one of Annihilation, Death Sweep, Consuming Fire, Sigil of Doom and Abyssal Gaze.
• The Tier Set makes Immolation Aura uptime very important. Stagger casts to maintain more uptime, and make sure all charges are consumed it's on cooldown before using Metamorphosis.
• With the Tier Set, Annihilation / Chaos Strike is also much more important when Immolation Aura is active. This means it's cast as a priority over Blade Dance / Death Sweep.
• With Student of Suffering, Sigil of Flame should be held to sync with Eye Beam.
• Your Essence Break windows are a key burst moment. Always aim to overlap this with your Metamorphosis effect, fitting in at least one Death Sweep and two Annihilation casts. as many Annihilation casts as possible.
• Use Eye Beam on cooldown to trigger Demonic. With Cycle of Hatred, this is every 20 seconds.
• Exergy is maintained by casting Vengeful Retreat on cooldown.
• Inertia provides extra burst windows. These should always be overlapped with Eye Beam, Essence Break and The Hunt. Frequency limited by Vengeful Retreat and The Hunt cooldowns.

Havoc's gameplay doesn't change much in AoE, thanks to the large amount of passive cleave built into many of its core abilities. Instead, it focuses on priority targets while passively damaging nearby enemies:

1. Cast Death Sweep during the Essence Break debuff.
2. Cast Annihilation during the Essence Break debuff.
3. Cast Reaver's Glaive - Click for Rules

   • Cast Chaos Strike / Annihilation before your next Blade Dance / Death Sweep.
   • Only cast if Glaive Flurry and Rending Strike are not active.
4. Cast Fel Rush / Felblade with Inertia active to trigger it - Click for Notes

   • Avoid refreshing this if you trigger it back to back with Vengeful Retreat and The Hunt.
5. Cast Immolation Aura if at 2 charges.
6. Cast Vengeful Retreat to trigger Initiative and Inertia and Exergy.
7. Cast The Hunt with no active Reaver's Glaive proc.
8. Cast Essence Break with Metamorphosis active.
9. Cast Death Sweep.
10. Cast Sigil of Spite to generate Souls.
11. Cast Metamorphosis with Eye Beam and Death Sweep on cooldown.
12. Cast Blade Dance.
13. Cast Eye Beam.
14. Cast Sigil of Flame.
15. Cast Immolation Aura.
16. Cast Annihilation / Chaos Strike.
17. Cast Felblade.
18. Cast Throw Glaive or Fel Rush to fill.
19. Cast Death Sweep during the Essence Break debuff.
20. Cast Annihilation during the Essence Break debuff.
21. Cast Fel Rush / Felblade with Inertia active to trigger it - Click for Notes

    • Avoid refreshing this if you trigger it back to back with Vengeful Retreat and The Hunt.
22. Cast Vengeful Retreat to trigger Initiative and Inertia and Exergy.
23. Cast Essence Break with Metamorphosis active.
24. Cast Death Sweep.
25. Cast Immolation Aura / Consuming Fire.
26. Cast Immolation Aura / Consuming Fire on cooldown - Fel-Scarred Notes

    • Never be at 2 charges.
    • Re-cast aggressively during resets, especially before Metamorphosis.
27. Cast The Hunt.
28. Cast Sigil of Spite.
29. Cast Metamorphosis with Eye Beam and Death Sweep on cooldown.
30. Cast Sigil of Flame before Eye Beam to trigger Student of Suffering - Click for Notes

    • Hold this for 10 seconds every cycle to align with Eye Beam.
31. Cast Eye Beam / Abyssal Gaze - Click for Notes

    • Only cast Abyssal Gaze once to consume Demonsurge.
32. Cast Blade Dance.
33. Cast Sigil of Flame / Sigil of Doom.
34. Cast Annihilation / Chaos Strike.
35. Cast Felblade.
36. Cast Throw Glaive or Fel Rush to fill.

The majority of tools you make use of in single-target apply directly to AoE, with the exception of Annihilation / Chaos Strike, which fall much further down the priority. Your focus depends on which key AoE talents you have taken, with some key notes being:

• Reaver's Glaive is an extremely high-priority press due to the high damage, and the need to maintain Thrill of the Fight. Make sure to always consume the Blade Dance buff second to empower it.
• The Hunt is used to snap generate Reaver's Glaive at the start of a pull, or at key moments. Additionally, you also have Sigil of Spite for a burst of 4 Souls for the same purpose.
• Fel-Scarred builds deal extremely high 2-minute burst with Metamorphosis. Make sure to plan around these moments to maximize your burst with Demonsurge and empowered abilities.
• If you are playing Student of Suffering in an AoE situation, you should still be holding Sigil of Flame for 10 seconds each cycle to align it with Eye Beam.
• Immolation Aura is a core component of AoE. Ragefire requires you to watch its expiry time, making sure it hits targets when it does. With A Fire Inside, you should never be sat at 2 charges during combat. As Fel-Scarred, you need to make sure it's at 0 charges on cooldown before casting Metamorphosis to reset the cooldown.
• With Inertia, aim to to cast Vengeful Retreat and The Hunt on cooldown, overlapping these buffs with your other cooldowns. Avoid overwriting an existing Inertia window if you cast these back-to-back.
• With Exergy, cast Vengeful Retreat and The Hunt on cooldown. The buff has a 30-second max duration, so it should have 100% uptime if used correctly.
• Essence Break should always be layered over your Metamorphosis effect. Make sure to cast one Death Sweep, but the remaining time it is not as essential to cast Annihilations.

The Havoc opener is a fairly rigid sequence, mostly due to Chaotic Transformation. The goal is to get everything on cooldown, then enter into Metamorphosis quickly. You can pick a fight style below:

1. Cast Immolation Aura 2 seconds before the pull.
2. Cast Sigil of Flame 1 second before the pull.
3. Cast The Hunt.
4. Cast Felblade to generate Fury.
5. Cast Immolation Aura until it's at zero charges.
6. Cast Immolation Aura until it's at zero charges.
7. Cast Felblade to trigger Inertia.
8. Cast Eye Beam.
9. Cast Annihilation to consume Inner Demon.
10. Cast Essence Break.
11. Cast Death Sweep.
12. Cast Vengeful Retreat and immediately Metamorphosis.
13. Cast Death Sweep.
14. Cast Consuming Fire until it doesn't reset.
15. Cast Death Sweep.
16. Cast Annihilation to consume Inner Demon.
17. Cast Felblade to refresh Inertia.
18. Cast Sigil of Doom.
19. Cast Abyssal Gaze.
20. Cast Consuming Fire, repeat if it resets.
21. Cast Felblade to refresh Inertia.
22. Cast Essence Break.
23. Cast Essence Break.
24. Cast Annihilation until Essence Break expires.
25. Cast Annihilation until Consuming Fire expires.
26. Cast Death Sweep.
27. Cast Sigil of Doom.
28. Cast Consuming Fire.
29. Cast Immolation Aura 2 seconds before the pull.
30. Cast Sigil of Flame 1 second before the pull.
31. Cast The Hunt.
32. Cast Reaver's Glaive.
33. Cast Chaos Strike to apply Reaver's Mark.
34. Cast Blade Dance.
35. Cast Immolation Aura until it's at zero charges.
36. Cast Felblade to generate Fury to trigger Inertia.
37. Cast Felblade to trigger Inertia.
38. Cast Eye Beam.
39. Cast Annihilation to consume Inner Demon.
40. Cast Annihilation to apply Reaver's Mark.
41. Cast Essence Break.
42. Cast Death Sweep.
43. Cast Vengeful Retreat and immediately cast Metamorphosis.
44. Cast Death Sweep.
45. Cast Annihilation.
46. Cast Eye Beam.
47. Cast Sigil of Spite.
48. Continue with the normal priority list.

The most warping effect on the initial rotation is Chaotic Transformation, which causes your Blade Dance and Eye Beam cooldowns to reset. This means that you need to use these cooldowns first, before entering into your first Metamorphosis.

• As Aldrachi Reaver, your opening cast of The Hunt triggers Reaver's Glaive, allowing you to set up Reaver's Mark and Thrill of the Fight before Metamorphosis. It will also provide your opening Inertia trigger, letting you set up immediately for on-pull damage.
• Before the full AoE burst combo begins, set up Reaver's Mark on your priority target using a Chaos Strike. This also lines up a Fury of the Aldrachi follow-up.
• Always follow the first Eye Beam in single-target with Annihilation. This is to apply Reaver's Mark, consume Inner Demon and set up Fury of the Aldrachi.
• In AoE, when using A Fire Inside burn your charges down to zero before starting your. There are no free GCDs to efficiently squeeze in extra casts once you start the sequence.
• In single-target, you need to weave your Inertia triggers carefully with the first Vengeful Retreat and The Hunt. Consume it in the GCD before your biggest damage windows begin - those being Essence Break and the second Eye Beam.
• Sigil of Spite is cast quite late following the Metamorphosis entry, once all other setup is done. This should get you most of the way toward your next Reaver's Glaive.
• Fel-Scarred needs to activate Student of Suffering with a very early Sigil of Flame to overlap its burst, then re-activate it with Sigil of Doom shortly after Metamorphosis begins.
• Fel-Scarred delays its first Essence Break significantly, making sure it gets all of its Demonsurge procs out of the way, so it can focus on filling it with extremely high value Annihilation casts.
• Fel-Scarred delays its first Essence Break significantly to make sure it gets all of its Demonsurge procs complete, and Consuming Fire charges used.
• You also need to more be aware of Inner Demon, making sure there is at least one Annihilation cast between each Metamorphosis trigger.
• With the Season 3 Tier Set, Immolation Aura is completely drained of charges cast early before Metamorphosis. After entry, it's also re-cast again once to overlap other burst cooldowns.

Havoc's major cooldown is Metamorphosis, a 3-minute cooldown (reduced to 2 minutes with Rush of Chaos). When cast, it deals light Chaos damage, stuns targets at your location after casting, and enters into your Demon Form for 20 seconds. While transformed, it confers the following benefits:

• Haste is increased by 20%;
• Chaos Strike swaps to Annihilation, dealing significantly more damage;
• Blade Dance swaps to Death Sweep, dealing significantly more damage.
• With Chaotic Transformation — resets the cooldown of Blade Dance and Eye Beam.
• Fel-Scarred - Demonic Intensity resets the cooldown of Sigil of Flame and Immolation Aura.

While this is active, Havoc deals significantly more damage, and is usually flooded with additional resources to fuel these stronger casts. Aim to enter with as much Fury as you can, and leave with as little as possible, and try to plan uses so it's always on cooldown. While playing with Chaotic Transformation, you should make absolutely sure that both Blade Dance and Eye Beam are on cooldown before pressing it. You can also use the leap from casting it to cancel the Vengeful Retreat animation in your opener, allowing you to stick to a target.

While playing Fel-Scarred, Fury generation is also dramatically increased. This means you should spend much more aggressively, aiming to ramp up the Burning Blades DoT with Annihilation.

While Eye Beam has a shorter, 40-second cooldown, it's still a powerful ability that's a core part of Havoc's damage profile. It has a variety of talents to enhance it, making it a priority cast both in single-target and especially AoE situations. Some details are:

• Deals heavy Chaos damage over the duration, but you cannot move while channeling
• Looks Can Kill — all damage will always Critically Strike
• Demonic — grants 5 seconds of Metamorphosis
• Collective Anguish — summons an allied demon hunter to cast Fel Devastation
• Blind Fury — generates a large amount of Fury while channeling
• Isolated Prey — deals 30% increased damage if it only hits a single target
• Furious Gaze — grants 10% Haste for 10 seconds after completing the channel

You should aim to cast this as frequently as possible, both for the damage it provides and, in particular, the Demonic triggers. The only situation worth holding it is in single-target, but you expect adds to spawn before its cooldown completes again. Also, make sure to have it on cooldown before casting Metamorphosis, as its cooldown is reset by Chaotic Transformation.

Cycle of Hatred significantly increases your access to Eye Beam, ramping up during an encounter. It begins at 1 stack, and each time you cast Eye Beam while in combat, it gains another, up to 4. Each stack reduces the cooldown of Eye Beam by 5 seconds, and is a cornerstone of the Havoc rotation for both Hero Trees. This means, after your opener, it should be down to 25 seconds, and shortly after to 20, at which point it will align naturally with other burst windows such as Tactical Retreat.

While playing Fel-Scarred, as this ramps up, it becomes very common to extend Metamorphosis casts past the cooldown. While this does give you a chance at another Abyssal Gaze cast, you should instead let Metamorphosis fall off before casting. This is because the extra power of Abyssal Gaze is nowhere near as valuable as a fresh Demonic entry that grants Demonsurge.

This effect persists through death, but after 1 minute spent out of combat you revert back to 1 stack.

Despite being a 1.5-minute cooldown, The Hunt is a less high-impact effect, and is simply used a large source of direct damage. This has a huge range of 50 yards, dealing heavy Chaos damage on arrival, applying a DoT to both your target and up to 5 other enemies you pass through. It also applies a second debuff that heals you based on damage dealt.

This is cast on cooldown as a burst tool, aiming to overlap it with AoE if possible. There is a small grace period after arriving, where your hitbox still actively applies the debuff if you haven't already hit 5 targets yet.

When playing Aldrachi Reaver, it also grants a charge of Reaver's Glaive. This means it's used to quickly set up your Hero Talent on a pull to apply Reaver's Mark to a priority target.

Havoc comes with a number of unique talents that make use of its movement tools to gain additional damage. Due to that, unlike other specs being aware of how to manage movement during an encounter is a key skill for Havoc. Notable talents that make use of this type of gameplay are:

• Initiative and Tactical Retreat
• Exergy or Inertia
• Unbound Chaos

Vengeful Retreat is the main activator for both Exergy and Inertia, cast on cooldow. The best way to get back to a target following a Vengeful Retreat cast is Felblade, but it has a brief shared movement cooldown after casting. This means you have to wait to cast it, but this usually means that you will have made enough range to activate the charge effect. This is also the way activator for Unbound Chaos, empowering the return Felblade significantly.

Inertia provides a short-duration, high-intensity burst window. This pairs well with a number of Havoc's tools, and with Cycle of Hatred it perfectly aligns Vengeful Retreat with every Eye Beam. You should be timing your Vengeful Retreat casts around these windows, making sure to have Felblade available to get back onto your target quickly. For Aldrachi Reaver, you have the advantage of Unhindered Assault that makes this consistent. Remember though, Evasive Action does not allow you to double trigger anything, even if you trigger Inertia in between.

Exergy causes both Vengeful Retreat and The Hunt to grant 5% increased damage, lasting for 20 seconds, and can be extended up to 30 seconds. This should be 100% uptime throughout an encounter, as the additional time buffer granted by The Hunt gives you some breathing room to drift Vengeful Retreat slightly. This much less involved, very consistent, and is often the go-to pick for movement builds.

With Havoc being so reliant on its resources, it's important to identify situations where you need to aggressively spend Fury vs. what you expect to generate. Your main goal is to avoid overcapping at all costs, which often means your spending breakpoint is roughly 90 Fury. 120 with Fel-Scarred. This is due to the volatile nature of Demon Blades, paired with Felblade generating 40. Your rotation also needs to adjust around Chaos Strike refunds, returning 20 Fury back and often shifting your spending plans.

Some basic rules to follow when thinking about your Fury management in practice are:

• Cast Chaos Strike / Annihilation as frequently as possible, unless pooling for burst windows.
• Cast Felblade, as long as youare below 60 Fury. 80 Fury with Fel-Scarred.
• Cast Sigil of Flame as a backup generation tool if you fall behind on Fury.
• Wait, allowing Demon Blades to generate Fury, or collect Demonic Appetite orbs.
• Cast Throw Glaive or Fel Rush if out of range of any targets or during empty Globals.

Due to all builds locking in Demon Blades, there is often a small amount of waiting if you commit to over-spending. This is normal, but with some experience you can learn to predict and plan around it. The most important thing to remember though, is you never want to be caught during a burst window without the Fury to capitalize upon it.

Essence Break is an additional high-value burst cooldown, but only lasts for 4 seconds - this means all of your setup needs to be done before casting it. You always want to be in Metamorphosis form when activating this, ideally via Demonic, due to the benefits of layering this with Chaotic Transformation. Your goal with each 2-minute cast is to get two high-powered Death Sweep casts during its short window. Starting from Demon form, your goal with each cast should be:

• With Metamorphosis: Death Sweep ➜ Metamorphosis ➜ Death Sweep ➜ Annihilation.
• With Metamorphosis: Fel-Scarred prefers to get setup complete, then Essence Break. This means both Demonic windows and Metamorphosis casts play the same, depending on Tier Set:
  • Season 3 Tier - After Essence Break: cast Annihilation x3-4.
  • No Tier - After Essence Break: cast Death Sweep ➜ Annihilation x2-3.
• Without Metamorphosis: Death Sweep ➜ Annihilation x2-3.

Depending on your Haste, and whether you are affected by Bloodlust, this can be extremely tight to fit in; but it' absolutely worth the payoff. In AoE situations, you instead only need to fit in as many Death Sweeps as the above shows, ignoring the Annihilation recommendations.

Fel-Scarred deviates from the double Death Sweep cast using the Metamorphosis reset, as the value of Annihilation is so high thanks to Burning Blades that it wants to avoid "wasting" an Essence Break GCD on casting Metamorphosis entry cast. Instead, it sets itself up fully before casting Essence Break, followed by Death Sweep then as many Annihilation casts as possible before it expires.

With the Season 3 Tier Set, this changes once again. Instead, make sure Immolation Aura is active before starting, and cast as many Annihilations as possible while it's active, ignoring Death Sweep in single-target.

While these talents are more supplementary than central, there are a number of synergistic talents on the tree that bring Throw Glaive into the rotation as a relevant ability.

• Accelerated Blade — increases Throw Glaive damage by 60%, reducing by 30% per bounce.
• Furious Throws — adds a 25 Fury cost to Throw Glaive, but it launches a second glaive when cast.
• Serrated Glaive — causes Throw Glaive and Chaos Strike to increase the targets damage taken both abilities by 15% for 15 seconds.
• Soulscar — Throw Glaive also leaves a Chaos damage DoT on the target, dealing 80% of the damage dealt over 6 seconds.
• Screaming Brutality — each cast of Blade Dance automatically consumes one charge of Throw Glaive, casting it for free on your primary target. Each individual Blade Dance slash also has a 50% chance to throw an additional glaive at 35% effectiveness.

These are often taken as a package, and uses Screaming Brutality as the activator to access the effects during rotational gameplay. This is far more efficient than investing GCDs into manually casting it - which no build currently does - and is used in a variety of different builds. This means this talent package is actually a lot more passive than it looks on the surface.

While playing Aldrachi Reaver, these are required talents as they also affect your casts of Reaver's Glaive. Bear in mind that Screaming Brutality does not cause Blade Dance to trigger it. Instead, it always needs to be manually cast to activate.

Immolation Aura has a dedicated section of supporting talents on the tree, down the right side. These are often taken as a package, especially in AoE, synergizing well with each other:

• Burning Hatred — generates an additional 24 Fury over 6 seconds when cast.
• Growing Inferno — deals 10% increased damage each time it ticks.
• Burning Wound — Demon Blades and Throw Glaive to apply a 15-second DoT, dealing Chaos damage. Targets affected take 40% increased Immolation Aura damage, with a limit of 3 wounds.
• Ragefire — 30% of damage dealt by up to 3 Critical Strikes of Immolation Aura is accumulated as Ragefire. When it expires you explode, dealing damage equal to the stored amount to nearby enemies.
• Flamebound — increases Immolation Aura range by 2 yards, and Critical Strike damage by 30%.

This forms a strong core in AoE that pairs with the talent discussed below, A Fire Inside, that is cast as frequently as possible. Screaming Brutality also naturally applies the maximum number of Burning Wounds in AoE, but if you aren't playing it, this requires tab-targeting to apply with Demon Blades.

Ragefire is a key mechanic to be aware of, and tracking when each instance of Immolation Aura is expiring is very helpful due to the amount of damage that the talent often accumulates. You need to be aware of your positioning leading up to this moment and avoid using movement tools, or risk the detonation exploding into thin air.

When playing A Fire Inside, your Immolation Aura gains a second charge, alongside the ability to overlap with itself, which allows multiple instances to be active at once. It also has a 30% chance to reset the cooldown instantly when cast, significantly increasing your cast frequency. This is usually paired with other Immolation Aura talents to maximize its damage.

It's crucial when playing this to make sure you never leave it at 2 charges, and react to resets by pressing it until it actually goes on cooldown - remember nothing is lost from overlapping buffs. As Fel-Scarred, Demonic Intensity will refund two charges when cast, giving you a full refill to double up on Consuming Fire. This means before Metamorphosis, you want to be drained to zero charges to get the most out of it.

While generally a weaker option, this does require specific setups when played. Fel Barrage is an extremely potent AoE burst cooldown, but drains a high amount of Fury every second while active. To get a full duration cast off, and get the most out of its long cooldown, you need to generate a total of 256 Fury to break even from start to finish, meaning that it's generally required to pool some up to achieve this.

Before casting, you want to make sure you have all of your maintenance buffs prepared (in particular Inertia and Initiative) and avoid spending excess Fury while it is active. Active generation tools such as Felblade and Sigil of Flame take priority during the Fury drain, especially if you fall behind. This extends to refilling via Blind Fury as well if taken.