Havoc Demon Hunter DPS Stat Priority — Midnight Pre-Patch (12.0)

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

Havoc has no significant alterations between Hero Talents or target counts, so can safely use similar gearsets for both.

Pre-Patch Disclaimer

Due to the Midnight stat squish, we're starting with an inflated amount of secondaries available. This means some recommendations here may not carry through to the full expansion, so bear that in mind.

Havoc generally has the following stat priority:

• Critical Strike - 365 Rating
• Haste - 348 Rating
• Versatility - 365 Rating
• Mastery - 428 Rating

In Midnight, Agility is more valuable once again now that stats have been squished, so choosing items based on item-level is advised.

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.

FAQDoes Know Your Enemy Affect Trinkets?

Yes. Know Your Enemy affects everything, so trinket procs and cantrip effects also benefit from its Critical Strike damage multiplier.

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, 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.