Havoc Demon Hunter Playstyle and Rotation Guide

General Rotation

Fel-Scarred Single Target priority list

1. Death Sweep during Essence Break
2. Annihilation during Essence Break
3. Fel Rush when Unbound Chaos active
4. Immolation Aura / Consuming Fire before Eye Beam is off cooldown
5. Vengeful Retreat
6. The Hunt
7. Sigil of Doom
8. Essence Break whilst in Metamorphosis
9. Death Sweep
10. Metamorphosis if Eye Beam is on CD
11. Eye Beam / Consuming Fire
12. Blade Dance
13. Annihilation
14. Felblade if under 80 fury
15. Sigil of Flame if under 90 fury
16. Chaos Strike
17. Throw Glaive

Aldrachi no mover priority list

1. Reaver’s Glaive
2. Fel Rush when Unbound Chaos active.
3. Immolation Aura
4. Vengeful Retreat
5. The Hunt
6. Death Sweep
7. Sigil of Spite
8. Metamorphosis if Eye Beam is on CD
9. Eye Beam
10. Blade Dance
11. Annihilation
12. Chaos Strike with Rending Strike
13. Felblade if under 80 fury
14. Sigil of Flame if under 90 fury
15. Chaos Strike
16. Throw Glaive

Notes

It's important to keep your Reaver’s Mark on the target, while at the same time not wasting any uptime on the damage amp portion of Thrill of the Fight (lasts 10s).

Assuming you don’t lose a cast of Meta it’s always worth to hold your meta so that you can cast eyebeam before you press meta, since you’d then reset closer to 100% of the cooldown of Eye Beam.

Openers

Opener for Single target Fel-Scarred Inertia build

1. Immolation Aura (pre-pull).
2. Sigil of flame (pre-pull).
3. The Hunt.
4. Felblade (same global).
5. Tempered Potion + Trinket.
6. Eye Beam.
7. Fel Rush
8. Death Sweep
9. Annihilation
10. Vengeful Retreat and Metamorphosis
11. Death Sweep.
12. Annihilation.
13. Consuming Fire
14. Sigil of Doom
15. Abyssal Gaze
16. Fel Rush
17. Essence Break
18. Death Sweep
19. Annihilation until Essence Break ends.
20. Continue with normal priority

Opener for Single target raid low mover Aldrachi build

1. Immolation Aura (pre-pull).
2. Sigil of flame (pre-pull).
3. Felblade.
4. Tempered Potion + Trinket.
5. Eye Beam.
6. The Hunt
7. Reaver’s Glaive
8. Death Sweep.
9. Annihilation.
10. Sigil of Spite
11. Vengeful Retreat and Metamorphosis.
12. Death Sweep.
13. Annihilation.
14. Eye Beam.
15. Normal priority.

Opener for AoE Fel-Scarred Mythic+ build

1. Immonlation Aura on pull
2. The Hunt
3. Sigil of Flame
4. Fel Rush
5. Immolation Aura
6. Fel Rush
7. Tempered Potion + Trinket.
8. Eye Beam
9. Annihilation
10. Essence Break
11. Death Sweep
12. Vengeful Retreat and Metamorphosis.
13. Death Sweep
14. Annihilation
15. Sigil of Doom
16. Consuming Fire
17. Fel Rush
18. Abyssal Gaze
19. Glaive Tempest if talented.
20. Continue with normal priority.

Opener for AoE Aldrachi Reaver Mythic+ build.

1. Immonlation Aura pre-pull
2. Sigil of Flame pre-pull
3. The Hunt on pull
4. Reaver’s Glaive
5. Felblade
6. Tempered Potion + Trinket.
7. Fel Rush
8. Eye Beam
9. Essence Break
10. Annihilation
11. Death Sweep
12. Vengeful Retreat and Metamorphosis.
13. Death Sweep
14. Sigil of Spite
15. Eye Beam
16. Continue with normal Priority.

Playstyle

Essence Break and the 40 second burst

Essence Break is a very powerful talent opening up for a very powerful Burst window for Havoc in both AoE and single target situations. When paired with Metamorphosis which is most commonly gained through Demonic + Eye Beam it makes Blade Dance an incredibly hard hitting ability in the 4 second debuff window and it's important to buff the damage of this short window as much as possible. This is made possible with Initiative which should always be activated right before the cast of Essence Break granting you an additional 25% crit in the burst window.

If you play with Chaotic Transformation it makes it possible to be able to cast 2 Blade Dances in Essence Break which is a very strong burst every 3 minutes when Metamorphosis lines up with Essence Break. So always pair up Meta with Essence Break if talented into Chaotic Transformation.

How to minmax Felrush + Vengeful without downtime

When Casting Felrush and Vengeful Retreat it’s important that you take into account where the cast will end up leaving you. You always want to cast the ability with the thought in mind you want to be in melee range of the Boss’s hitbox to not lose any uptime. It’s also important you don’t make the faulty move of putting yourself in front of the target due to its potential frontal abilities and the fact it can block your attacks.

I would recommend following the green lines in the picture below for the most optimal usage of your movement abilities.

Momentum uptime

Momentum has become a buff which is possible to keep up for the entire duration of a fight meaning it can have a 100% uptime. It’s very important to keep track of the buff due to its short Cooldown and make sure to use your Momentum activating abilities on CD. However Fel Rush is slightly different due to its low CD and double charges the most important thing is that you never have 2 charges of it.

Defensive usage

Havoc Demon Hunter is an immensely tanky Class with its crazy high amounts of self healing through various talents, making it a viable target to receive hits that aren't fatal if need be. Netherwalk is also a crucial ability in the Havoc kit depending on the situation, if there’s ever a need for an immunity, which is a common trope in especially a raiding environment.

Blur is a crazy short Cooldown Defensive so make sure to make good use of it, press it often however always make sure to have it available for the most important situations which would normally prove fatal.