Havoc Demon Hunter Midnight Gearing Guide

Midnight Season 2 Tier Set Bonuses:

• (2) Set Bonus: Blade Dance, Chaos Strike and Essence Break deal 12% increased damage.
• (4) Set Bonus: Essence Break now applies and benefits from Cycle Of Hatred, has 35% increased initial strike damage, and has 2 seconds increased duration.

The season two tier set makes Essence Break an auto-pick for every talent build. The tier bonuses provide around 10% DPS increase, making them quite powerful.

You should still prioritise the gear you 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+

The best trinkets for Havoc in Midnight Season 2 are:

• Voracious Heart Of Ula'tek - Powerful on-use trinket that increases main stat, with a damage proc that further increases main stat.
• Zul'jin's Guillotine Technique - Passive damage proc trinket with an execute effect. Pairing this trinket with Aman'muso, Warlord's Vengeance grants a set bonus that makes the damage proc ricochet to a second target.
• Font Of Venomous Rage - Channeled on-use trinket. This trinket is incredibly powerful due certain Havoc talents synergizing with it. Using this trinket with Potion Of Recklessness (providing it grants Critical Strike) and Initiative active almost guarantees 100% Critical Strike chance, while also increasing the damage massively with Know Your Enemy.

Alternatives:

• Sapling Of The Dawnroot
• Freightrunner's Flask
• Lightspire Core
• Vile Vial Of Volatile Venom
• Gebbo's Bottomless Bag

Your first craft should be Spellbreaker's Warglaive, with Hunter's Ritual Stone embellishment. Crafting a weapon first is usually the largest damage increase, and as it’s going to be BiS for Havoc in the future, it’s a safe craft.

My Recommendation:

1. Spellbreaker's Warglaive with Hunter's Ritual Stone.
2. The second craft should use Arcanoweave Lining as the embellishment, but what should be crafted depends on your gear situation. Feel free to choose one of these three: Silvermoon Agent's Deflectors, Silvermoon Agent's Sneakers or Adherent's Silken Shroud.

Use Thalassian Missive Of The Peerless for all crafted pieces when possible. This ensures that the item has Critical Strike and Mastery on it.

Note: Make sure that your crafted weapon is a warglaive, so that you can use it for all three specs.

Nebulous Voidcores (Bonus Rolls)

The Midnight Season 2 Bonus Rolls (Nebulous Voidcore) will be available from the start of the season as an alternative reward from your Great Vault. More sources for the bonus rolls will become available later into the Season.

Nebulous Voidcore Bonus Rolls let you target specific loot from a Raid Boss or Mythic+ Dungeon; once an item is received via Bonus Loot, that item is removed from the Bonus Loot Pool.

Below are the High Priority bonus roll target items and where they drop from:

As these items provide so much character power, you should be bonus rolling these on Heroic until you’re able to bonus roll them on Mythic.

Bonus roll The Coiled Altar until you have both of the key items from there, then move on to bonus rolling Ula’tek.

Omnium Folio

The Omnium Folio is a new player power system, released in Midnight Patch 12.0.7 and active for the duration of the Midnight WoW Expansion. By completing a weekly quest, you will unlock more of the Omnium Folio upgrade Tree and can choose from a number of player power enhancements.

Recommended Omnium Folio Powers for Havoc Demon Hunter:

• Row 1: Rune Of Unleashed Fire
• Row 2: Rune Of Void-Tainted Shell
• Row 3: Rune Of Lingering
• Row 4: Rune Of Critical Power
• Row 5: Rune Of Overload

For more information on this system, check out Method’s Omnium Folio Overview Guide.