Welcome to our Havoc Demon Hunter guide for World of Warcraft — Battle for Azeroth (BfA) 8.3. Here, you will learn how to play as a Havoc Demon Hunter in both raids and Mythic+ dungeons: from the very beginning to maximizing your DPS.

1. Havoc Demon Hunter Overview

Havoc in Battle for Azeroth has gone through somewhat of a maturing process, trying to focus more on the talent tree and allowing for more diverse options in gameplay approaches, alongside tightening up some of the more loose aspects of the original implementation. It still remains a predominantly builder spender style rotation and is largely Global Cooldown locked. The core hook is making the most of your Fury pool and reacting to unpredictable gains, ensuring you use high burst cooldowns and windows to push yourself even further. On top of that, it comes with a variety of mobility and defense tools, creating a versatile toolkit with some unique abilities that can be used in a variety of ways.

2. Shadowlands Changes for Demon Hunters

We are maintaining a list of changes for Demon Hunters for Shadowlands, the upcoming World of Warcraft expansion, which you can access using the link below. We also have pages for the new Covenant abilities and Anima Powers.

3. Patch 8.3 Changes for Havoc Demon Hunters

While the changes for Havoc Demon Hunter do not go far beyond simple bug fixes, you can view the Patch 8.3 change list below.

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4. Havoc Demon Hunter's Strengths

Powerful burst single target damage

Extremely powerful cooldowns for high damage requirement moments

Flexible mobility allowing for great positioning control in encounters

Can switch targets without any downsides, and can pool resources for instant burst

Powerful, versatile cooldowns for different situations

Strong group utility, especially via Chaos Brand

5. Havoc Demon Hunter's Weaknesses

AoE is tied to cooldowns, which hurts sustained damage

Some RNG is built into the resource system, which can on rare occasions lead to starvation at bad moments

Outside of cooldown windows, damage can be lackluster

Some talents have problems with certain encounter types, which can hinder options.

6. Viability of Havoc Demon Hunter in the Current Patch

Havoc still likely remains a dominant melee specialization due to the power of the Chaos Brand debuff, and its versatile damage toolkit in most situations. Alongside this the utility tools such as Darkness and Netherwalk bolster its place in the raid, and it is unlikely that Havoc will not be present in most raid groups throughout Ny'alotha.