Havoc Demon Hunter PvP Talents and Builds (Shadowlands / 9.0.5)

Level	Choices
15	✔ Blind Fury	✘ Demonic Appetite	✔ Felblade
25	✔ Insatiable Hunger	✘ Burning Hatred	✔ Demon Blades
30	✔ Trail of Ruin	✘ Unbound Chaos	✘ Glaive Tempest
35	✔ Soul Rending	✘ Desperate Instincts	✘ Netherwalk
40	✘ Cycle of Hatred	✔ First Blood	✘ Essence Break
45	✘ Unleashed Power	✔ Master of the Glaive	✔ Fel Eruption
50	✔ Demonic	✘ Momentum	✘ Fel Barrage

While the above table provides a generally accurate overview of the viability of talents, some finer points are discussed in the sections that follow, and we recommend you read those for a deeper understanding.

Felblade is the best choice in this tier. This will allow you to get to your target much easier and generate more Fury. However, if you are using the level 50 talent, Demonic, you should use Blind Fury. Both of these talents are large increases to your sustained and burst damage.

Demon Blades is the best choice in this tier. This is a great passive to help you generate Fury and increase your overall sustained damage if you have a lot of uptime on your target.

If you are playing against a team with multiple roots and slows, Insatiable Hunger is going to be the better option. This will allow you to deal extra damage and generate more Fury with Demon's Bite.

Trail of Ruin is the best choice in this tier. This is a strong passive talent that increases your overall damage output.

Soul Rending is the best choice in this tier. Because you will be playing with the Demonic talent, you will be entering Metamorphosis very often. The additional leech you gain from this talent while in Metamorphasis greatly increases your overall survivability.

First Blood is the best choice in this tier. This reduces the Fury cost of your important spell, Blade Dance and increases its damage. This talent works great with the Trail of Ruin.

Fel Eruption is the best choice in this tier. This gives you a stun on a very short cooldown with a 20 yard range. This can be used to stop an incoming cast or to help land a Mana Rift on the enemy healer.

Note that, if you are playing against a team with multiple roots, slows or stuns to stop you from using Mana Rift, Master of the Glaive is the better choice in this tier. The slow your Throw Glaive applies with this talent will help you connect to a ranged target or kite away from incoming damage.

Demonic is the best choice in this tier. This gives you reliable burst every 25 seconds and will also increase your survivability when paired with the Soul Rending talent.

Cover of Darkness increases the chance for you and allies to avoid damage while within your Darkness effect by 50%. It is a very important talent to have if you do not have a need for any other PvP talent.

Mortal Rush is a great talent to have if your team does not already have a Mortal Wounds debuff. This will reduce any healing done to the target with this debuff, making is much more difficult for healers to heal through your team's damage.

Reverse Magic removes all harmful magical effects from yourself and all nearby allies within 10 yards, and sends them back to their original caster if possible. If you are playing with against a team with multiple magical crowd control abilities ( Polymorph, Hammer of Justice), you should be using this talent. It is important to note that this ability can also be used to reverse the absorb debuff created by Notorious Gladiator's Maledict.

Mana Rift places a mana rift on the ground. After 2.5 seconds, it will deal 8% of the target's health in damage, and remove 8% of their Mana. This PvP talent should be chosen if your overall strategy is to run the enemy healer out of Mana and win in dampening.

Cleansed by Flame makes Immolation Aura also dispel all magical effects on you when cast. This is a very important talent to have when playing against a team with DoTs on it. Use this talent versus Shadow Priest, Affliction Warlocks, Balance Druids or Elemental Shaman.

Detainment increases the duration of your Imprison by 2 seconds and that target is immune to damage and healing while it is active. This is great for crowd control and for landing a Mana Rift on the enemy healer. Use this if your team already has a few stuns to help setup Mana Rift and you need a second way to land them.

Rain from Above can also be used defensively or aggressively. This ability leaps you into the air and you can avoid most incoming damage. If your goal is to stay alive, you can replace Mana Rift with this PvP talent.