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.

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.

Puzzling Cartel Chip (Dinars)

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

• The Jastor Diamond
• Capo’ Molten Knuckles
• Eye of Kezan
• House of Cards/Improvised Seaforium Pacemaker

For your choice of trinkets with dinars it will depend on what you are after, while Eye of Kezan is the most powerful option for the later bosses in the raid it will fall short of a House of Cards and Pacemaker combo for any fight that is shorter than five minutes. If you are more concerned with Mythic+ than raiding or want the setup that will be best for both I would not advise for Eye of Kezan at all and a House of Cards/Pacemaker setup will be superior.

Corruptions

For our choice of corruption we will be running Echoing Void in all scenarios as it outperforms all other options until we reach an unrealistic amount of targets.

Update as of corruptions going live, unfortunately Echoing Void is currently bugged and is not proccing as often as it should, due to this I advice to instead run Gushing Wounds for ST/Raid and Void Ritual for M+

Best D.I.S.C Belt & Miniature Titan Disc Effects

Recommended Titan Discs for Havoc Demon Hunter:

I advise to run Charged Bolts(ST proc) in all scenarios, the only scenario where Electric Current (The mastery proc) would beat out Charged bolts is a council fight with constant uptime on multiple targets which we do not have in the current patch.

For more information about unlocking the DISC belt and the different Miniature Titan Disc effects available, check out Method's D.I.S.C Belt Guide.

With the tuning of the effects going live at the reset 26/6 Charged Bolts have been massively nerfed and the crit effect Critical Chain has been buffed to a level where that will now be superior and recommended to use in all PvE content.