You are not prepared! - Havoc Demon Hunter 7.0 Guide

[Mueller Greyhound]

"You are not prepared!"

Illidan Stormrage

And he was right, we aren't prepared! I'm creating this guide to help players who are eager to play Demon Hunter and how to get the most from playing as Havoc Spec. Demon Hunter is a brand new hero class that are playable only in Legion Expansion. In this guide, I will keep most of the things in-depth while keeping some of the obvious concise and simple.

Havoc Spec is a Damage Specialization available to Demon Hunter and they focuses on dishing out damage. They also have the ability to Metamorphosis into hellish form, enhancing their role to deal more damage.

=== Table of content ===

Section 1: Preparing your Demon Hunter
[1.1] - Gears
[1.2] - Stats Priority
[1.3] - Gem Sockets
[1.4] - Enchants
[1.5] - Consumables
[1.6] - Professions
[1.7] - Races

Section 2: Demon Hunter's Abilities and Build
[2.1] - Abilities
--- [2.1.1] - Passive
--- [2.1.2] - Utility
--- [2.1.3] - Buff
--- [2.1.4] - Debuff
[2.2] - Single Target Rotation
[2.3] - Cleave Target Rotation
[2.4] - AoE Target Rotation
[2.5] - Talents
[2.6] - Glyphs

Section 3: Showing Demon Hunter love
[3.1] - Addons
[3.2] - FAQ
[3.3] - Author's Note
[3.4] - Changelog / Archive

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Section 1 - Preparing your Demon Hunter

Demon hunters, disciples of Illidan Stormrage, uphold a dark legacy, one that frightens their allies and enemies alike. The Illidari embrace fel and chaotic magics—energies that have long threatened the world of Azeroth—believing them necessary to challenge the Burning Legion. Wielding the powers of demons they’ve slain, they develop demonic features that incite revulsion and dread in fellow elves. Demon hunters ritually blind themselves in exchange for spectral sight that enables them to better sense their prey. This enhanced awareness, together with their great agility and magical prowess, makes demon hunters unpredictable adversaries. An Illidari’s quarry has much to fear.

[1.1] Gears

Demon Hunter is a leather wearer class. With them being introduced in Legion expansion which makes it the fourth leather wearer class. That means Demon Hunter have to compete against several other classes for item slots. Since there are no weapons drop in Legion Expansion. That makes your Artifact weapon your BiS weapon slot automatically.

Leather Item Slot: Druid, Rogue, Monk, Demon Hunter
Trinkets: Rogues, Feral Druids, Windwalker Monks, Enhancement Shamans, Hunter, Demon Hunters
Cloak / Amulets / Rings: Rogues, Feral Druids, Windwalker Monks, Hunters, Enhancement Shamans, Demon Hunters
Tier Token: Soon to be announced.

[Best in Slot Gear list]
MH + OH: Artifact Weapon
Head:
Necklace:
Shoulders:
Back:
Chest:
Gloves:
Ring 1:
Ring 2:
Waist:
Legs:
Boots:
Trinket 1:
Trinket 2:

[1.2] Stats Priority
Agility > ??? > ??? > ??? > ??? (soon to be revealed when there are enough information about DH)

Agility is the primary stat for Demon Hunter as it increases Demon Hunter's attack power.

Mastery -

Critical Strike -

Haste -

Versatility -

Multistrike -


[1.3] Gems Sockets
WIP

[1.4] Enchants
WIP

[1.5] Consumables
Agility Potion
Agility Flask

[1.6] Professions

[1.7] Races

Demon Hunter is a hero class that is available exclusively to Blood Elf and Night Elf due to lore reasons. In this guide, we will look in-depth how both elf races will benefit Demon Hunter with their race traits.

Night Elf [Alliance]

Nature Resistance
Wisp Spirit
Quickness
Shadowmeld
Touch of Elune

Blood Elf [Horde]

Arcane Torrent
Arcane Affinity
Arcane Resistance
Arcane Acuity

Section 2 - Demon Hunter Abilities and Build

Demon Hunter have an unique resource bar called "Fury" which can be expend to use abilities that cost Fury. In this section we will learn how to manage, build and dump Fury effectively.

[2.1] Abilities

Fel Rush
Instant
Rush forward, dealing 7,215 damage to all enemies in your path. Generates 40 Fury if you hit at least one target.

Chaos Strike
40 Fury
Instant
A brutal attack that strikes all enemies in front of you for 8,741 Chaos damage.

Chaos Nova
30 Fury
Instant (1 min CD)
Unleash an eruption of fel energy, stunning all neraby enemies for 5 sec and dealing 5,772 Chaos damage.

Eye Beam
25 Fury / 40 yd range
Channelled (12 sec CD)
Blast the target and any enemies near the target for 21,650 Fire damage over 3.71 sec.

Spectral Sight
Instant (2 min CD)
Allows you see enemies through physical barriers, as well as those stealthed and invisible.

Vengeful Retreat
Instant (24 sec CD)
Vault back and avoid the next attack or spell directed at you.

[2.1.1] Passive

[2.1.2] Utility

[2.1.3] Buff

[2.1.4] Debuff

[2.2] Single Target Rotation

[2.3] Cleave Target Rotation

[2.4] AoE Target Rotation

[2.5] Talents

[2.6] Glyphs

Section 3 - Showing Demon Hunter love

[3.1] Addons
To be reveal later.

[3.2] FAQ
To be added later.

[3.3]Author's Note
8/7/2015 - I'm still in progress of updating this guide and I'm aiming to have this guide complete before release. If you found something new or I'm missing something in this guide. Please don't hesitate to let me know and I will update it in this guide. Thank you for your support. <3

[3.4] Changelog / Archive
8/11/2015 - Added more information and updated the guide.

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P.S would be nice if a moderator can make this thread sticky. Atm most of the things are WIP, but I'm looking forward to assembling this guide completely.

[Symphonic]

Thanks for starting this thread! Excited for this new hero class.

[Imnick]

Don't you think this is a little premature?
Seriously no point making this thread when we literally don't have any information to put in it. There's no race to be first to write a guide, concentrate on making a good and informative one rather than posting a lot of empty headings before anyone else can.

You won't be able to fill any if these headers in for months, by which point this topic will already have fallen to the bottom of the list.
Nobody is going to sticky a thread which has absolutely nothing in it.

[danildoen]

Good effort, but kinda pointless

[Artorius]

I laughed.

Don't you think this is a little premature?
Seriously no point making this thread when we literally don't have any information to put in it. There's no race to be first to write a guide, concentrate on making a good and informative one rather than posting a lot of empty headings before anyone else can.

You won't be able to fill any if these headers in for months, by which point this topic will already have fallen to the bottom of the list.
Nobody is going to sticky a thread which has absolutely nothing in it.

This exactly.

[Facerockker]

Man, who cares if the class won't be released for a long time. This is still cool. Thanks for the post, pal.

[Raiju]

Don't you think this is a little premature?
Seriously no point making this thread when we literally don't have any information to put in it. There's no race to be first to write a guide, concentrate on making a good and informative one rather than posting a lot of empty headings before anyone else can.

You won't be able to fill any if these headers in for months, by which point this topic will already have fallen to the bottom of the list.
Nobody is going to sticky a thread which has absolutely nothing in it.

It is, but it gives a good discussion thread to funnel everything into one once information is available at least

[Vanyali]

On actual feedback:

"Demon Hunter are not a class to be reckon with when facing them. "

That line doesn't work; reckon with there is basically saying they're not a class to take into your considerations. I think that's the opposite of your intent

[durrtygoodz]

Not a single mechanic is known yet people are already jumping on the reroll and theorycrafting bandwagon. ggwp.

[swisscheese]

Not a single mechanic is known yet people are already jumping on the reroll and theorycrafting bandwagon. ggwp.

Yea man...stack agi and nothing else to win!

[apepi]

Don't forget that double jumping gives you more dps!!!

[Kakera]

The hype train is real this time around boys.

[Mueller Greyhound]

Don't you think this is a little premature?
Seriously no point making this thread when we literally don't have any information to put in it. There's no race to be first to write a guide, concentrate on making a good and informative one rather than posting a lot of empty headings before anyone else can.

You won't be able to fill any if these headers in for months, by which point this topic will already have fallen to the bottom of the list.
Nobody is going to sticky a thread which has absolutely nothing in it.

I think it is safe to say that we will start to see datamine in September or October before beta. So, it won't necessarily be empty for months and months, I'm just starting a guide here, I still have things to add to it.

@everyone, thanks for showing support, I appreciate your support.

[Toralin]

I understand everyone's excited, but it does feel a little early for this haha.

Either way, good job.

[Woz]

Yeah....no point in stickying something especially when beta isn't even here, neither is alpha and release is at least going to be late Q1 or some time in Q2 next year.

Appreciate the effort though, we'll see what pans out for the future.

[Vaalrn]

This just adds to the hype! WOO

[Feali]

Bit early don't you think?

[Saverem]

Hey, I've read the guide and I am still not prepared.

[SteveRocks]

Lol are you serious?? What a waste of time to create this premature thread...

Also, not to be mean, but there are WAY too many grammatical and spelling errors for me to ever take this "guide" seriously. For instance: it's 'GEAR,' not 'GEARS.'

[Misticuffs]

It's better to have it and not need it, then to need it and not have it.