Havoc Demon Hunter DPS Stat Priority — The War Within (11.2)

Welcome to our Stat Priority page for Havoc Demon Hunter in The War Within. Here we'll quickly be going over the stats you should aim for on gear, alongside any special considerations depending on your build.

Havoc Demon Hunter has slightly different stat priorities depending on your Hero Talent selection, but they do not differ significantly enough that you need different gearsets to play them.

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Stat Priorities

Aldrachi Reaver Stats Fel-Scarred Stats

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Aldrachi Reaver Stat Priority

While playing Aldrachi Reaver, a basic recommended stat priority is as follows:

1. Critical Strike;
2. Mastery;
3. Haste;
4. Versatility;
5. Agility.

Know Your Enemy keeps Critical Strike as the focus due to the additional multiplier it provides, alongside working with proc effects. Mastery multiplies this even further, applying to your strongest abilities, so is close behind as the second stat to stack.

Haste is slightly behind due to the lack of cooldown reduction on Essence Break and Eye Beam, and the amount of time spent in Metamorphosis. Alongside this, there is also no strong hook elsewhere in the kit compared to Crit or Mastery, meaning that while it shouldn't be neglected, stacking it isn't desirable.

Versatility falls behind the other three stats, but in AoE situations can be slightly superior to Haste depending on your gear level due to a lack of scaling with certain key abilities.

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Fel-Scarred Stat Priority

While playing Fel-Scarred, a basic recommended stat priority is as follows:

1. Critical Strike = Mastery;
2. Haste;
3. Versatility;
4. Agility.

Know Your Enemy keeps Critical Strike as the focus due to the additional multiplier it provides, alongside working with proc effects. Mastery is roughly equal due to the high amount of Chaos damage done by the Fel-Scarred, so aiming for these two stats equally whenever possible is ideal.

While Fel-Scarred provides a lot of Haste through Metamorphosis, its value rises with the Season 3 Tier Set to fuel Burning Blades. This puts it firmly at third, with Versatility falling to the bottom as just a flat multiplier.

Every stat has a limit where they will begin to offer less increase per point gained, which are known as the points of diminishing return. Once you have reached these amounts, stats will become progressively less valuable and may fall behind other options. The current breakpoints are:

• Critical Strike - 21000 Rating
• Haste - 19800 Rating
• Versatility - 23400 Rating
• Mastery - 21000 Rating

With the higher item level in Season 3, you will very quickly hit the first breakpoint on at least two stats. Be aware that these breakpoints often result in unusal sim results, and you should follow the recommendations.

If you are ever in doubt about what items to wear for any given situation, the best way to figure it out for your character is to use Raidbots. This website allows you to easily compare gear you already have, as well as gear you do not have.

Due to every character being unique with variables based on your current gear, racial bonuses and effects you have active, it is much easier to trust its bespoke output rather than a general priority if you are looking to min-max your damage potential.

The gems, enchants, and consumables you will use are directly derived from your stat priority. You can find our advice on this topic on our dedicated page.

As a Havoc Demon Hunter, Agility is your primary stat, meaning it aims to have this present on all gear pieces when possible. Individual stats provide the following benefits:

• Agility - provides you with Attack Power, increasing the damage of your Havoc abilities and melee attacks.
• Critical Strike - increases the chance for your attacks critically strike, dealing double damage. Additionally:
  • Havoc has talents with specific additional scaling with Crit, including Critical Chaos and Ragefire.
  • Know Your Enemy also converts Critical Strike Chance into bonus Critical Strike damage at a fixed rate, increasing the base 200% multiplier based on gear.
• Mastery - increases all Chaos damage you deal through Mastery: Demonic Presence. Additionally:
  • Also increases your base Movement Speed via Pursuit.
  • Certain talents convert non-Chaos abilities into Chaos damage, including them in the Mastery effect. Important examples are First Blood, A Fire Inside, and Soulscar.
• Haste - increases your auto attack speed, increasing Fury generation via Demon Blades. Additionally:
  • Reduces your Global Cooldown to a minimum of up to 0.75 seconds.
  • Reduces the cooldown of Blade Dance, Immolation Aura, Glaive Tempest and Throw Glaive.
• Versatility - increases all damage and healing you do (including trinkets and proc effects) by a flat amount. Additionally, reduces all damage you take by half of that amount.