Stat Priorities
Stat Ranking
Agility > Critical Strike > Mastery > Haste > Versatility
The stat priorities for both Hero Trees are very similar, but they do have minor differences. Fel-Scarred tends to favor Mastery to a larger extent, while Aldrachi Reaver leans more towards Critical Strike.
Stat Outline
Havoc Demon Hunters have Agility as their primary stat. It increases your Attack Power, making your abilities do more damage.
Critical Strike is very powerful for Havoc Demon Hunter due to its many interactions with the stat, such as Know Your Enemy.
Mastery increases your Chaos Damage dealt, with options to increase your movement speed as well. With a lot of Havoc’s damage being Chaos, Mastery scales well.
Haste increases our melee attack speed, reduces the global cooldown, and reduces the cooldown of some abilities. With melee auto-attack damage buffed massively in Midnight, and Demon Blades being a large part of Havoc’s Fury generation, Haste gains more value.
Versatility provides a flat Damage and Healing increase, while also providing Damage Reduction at half the value.
Races
Demon Hunter has three playable races: Blood Elf, Night Elf and Void Elf.
The damage output between the races is more or less identical, so feel free to play whichever race you prefer.
Night Elf is looking strong for Mythic+ due to Shadowmeld.
Void Elf provides a great mobility tool which can prove useful in raid encounters.
Blood Elf has an AoE purge with Arcane Torrent, which is only really used in niche situations.
Enchants
Head: Enchant Helm - Empowered Rune Of Avoidance
Shoulders: Enchant Shoulders - Amirdrassil's Grace
Chest: Enchant Chest - Mark Of The Worldsoul
Legs: Forest Hunter's Armor Kit
Boots: Enchant Boots - Lynx's Dexterity
Rings: Enchant Ring - Eyes Of The Eagle
Weapon: 2x Enchant Weapon - Rite Of The Hash'ey
Always sim your own character to get a clearer picture on which enchants and gems to choose.
Gems
Indecipherable Eversong Diamond is a unique gem that provides primary stat.
Powerful Eversong Diamond is another option. While it increases your Critical Strike effectiveness by 0.15% per unique gem colour, it grants less primary stat.
There are four gem colours, the best ones for Havoc are listed below:
- Best Amethyst gem: Flawless Quick Amethyst
- Best Peridot gem: Flawless Masterful Peridot
- Best Lapis gem: Flawless Masterful Lapis
- Best Garnet Gem: Flawless Masterful Garnet
Havoc wants to use a Powerful Eversong Diamond, combined with one of each different gem color. The rest of the sockets can be filled with Garnet gems.
Note: You want to use gems that give 2 different secondary stats since they provide more stats than the single secondary stat gems.
Always sim your own character to get a clearer picture on which enchants and gems to choose.
Consumables
Food: Harandar Celebration or Royal Roast
Flasks: Flask Of The Magisters / Flask Of The Shattered Sun (both are around equal, but will depend on your gear).
Potions: Potion Of Recklessness
Health Potions: Concentrated Silvermoon Health Potion
Weapon Oil: 2x Thalassian Phoenix Oil
Runes: Void-Touched Augment Rune