Havoc Demon Hunter Gearing Guide

The Demon Hunter set is called Fel-Dealer’s Contraband and wearing 2-4 provides the following bonuses to your character:

• (2) Set Bonus: Your spells and abilities have a chance to activate a Winning Streak! Increasing the damage of your Blade Dance and Chaos Strike by 3% stacking up to 10 times. Blade Dance and Chaos Strike have a 15% chance to remove Winning Streak!
• (4) Set Bonus: Winning Streak! Persists for 8 sec after being removed by Blade Dance or Chaos Strike. Entering demon form sacrifices all Winning Streak! Stacks to gain 2% critical strike chance per stack consumed. Lasts 15 sec.

The tierset for Havoc is nothing majorly interesting and does not alter your playstyle at all nor your rotation while also being a pretty minor increase to your throughput. Neither of the Hero-talents gains more value over the other with the season 2 tierset.

You should always prioritize what gear you should use by running a sim for your character, but the lists below will give you a good idea of what items are considered good for Havoc Demon Hunter, and help you target the right content for each piece of loot.

• Overall
• Raiding
• Mythic+

Eye of Kezan - The indisputable Best in Slot in raid, while it sims and looks good for Mythic + the constant disengagement of combat leads to massive drops of its stacks very quickly making it loose significant value.

House of Cards - The go to on-use trinket for Havoc granting a massive amount of Mastery. This trinket is gonna especially see massive value in AoE and Mythic+.

Improvised Seaforium Pacemaker - A super powerful passive trinket granting a nice amount of critical strike with a very high uptime. This trinket will more than likely see alot of play in both mythic+ and raid.

Signet of Priory - Another strong on-use trinket lining up with Metamorphosis making it a good option for Mythic+ and AoE situations.

Mechano-Core Amplifier - A powerful passive trinket option however it being limited to Hero-Track at its peak makes it loose some value, especially once compared against Improvised Seaforium Pacemaker.

Suspicious Energy Drink - Yet another powerful passive trinket granting mastery, however it lacks behind the other passive trinkets mentioned its a powerful trinket nonetheless.

Conductor’s Wax Whistle - A decent placeholder trinket doing physical damage, split between enemies. It sees more value on Single target compared to AoE, however very quickly falls behind other options.

The best Embellishment for raid is the combination of Darkmoon Sigil: Ascension which goes on weapons, combined with its effect increase from the Writhing Armor Banding, which goes on any Armor piece.

The Best Embellishment for Mythic+ is 2x Dawnthread Lining’s as Ascension loses value in AoE situations compared to the massive crit bonus of Dawnthread.

Once Best in Slot gear has been acquired it’s likely to see a switch to 2x Dawnthread as your best in slot Embellishments even in a raid environment so make sure to sim yourself to see your best gain.

After you’ve gotten your embellishment crafts you can use the remaining Spark of Omens you gather to fill holes in your gear.

Cyrce’s Circlet

Cyrce’s Circlet is still an amazingly powerful ring for Havoc, so make sure to get it upgraded as the Citrines scales with item level and with current tuning it's still a very good option.

You want to use the following Citrines for your Circlet:

• Yellow/Thunder: Fathomdweller’s Rune Citrine
• Blue/Sea: Stormbringer’s Runed Citrine
• Red/Wind: Windsinger’s Runed Citrine

There are 4 Gems for each Citrine colour and there could be a world where another Citrine could perform better for you, so I would always recommend simming it. You can read about the different gem effects and how the ring works in Method’s Cyrce’s Circlet guide.

Puzzling Cartel Chip (Dinars)

For Havoc the best way to spend your Puzzling Cartel Chip’s are the following:

1. The Jastor Diamond
2. Eye of Kezan
3. Capo’ Molten Knuckles
4. House of Cards.

The Jastor Diamond is an amazingly powerful Ring whilst also providing good stats for Havoc. Eye of Kezan is an immensely powerful trinket for raiding however it lacks in value in Mythic+ settings so if Raiding isn’t your primary focus you could consider leaving it for later.