Welcome to Skill Capped’s Overview of the Best Talents for Havoc Demon Hunter in PvP in Dragonflight 10.2.7
To make it easier to navigate, we’ve divided the guide into the corresponding sections, covering everything from race and talents to gear and macros. These will give you a good idea about what to expect from Havoc Demon Hunter in PvP in Dragonflight, its strengths and weaknesses, and how to get your character ready to conquer the arena. In this section, we will cover the most important change that came with Dragonflight – talents. We will go over the class and spec trees, as well as the best PvP talents for Havoc Demon Hunter in Dragonflight.
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Havoc Demon Hunter Talents Overview
Since the talent system received a huge revamp going into Dragonflight, we will cover both the class and the spec tree. They both have some mandatory and some optional talents. Those will depend on the situation and the comp you are playing. The Core talents will be the ones you pick almost all the time either because they are that good on their own, or simply better than all other options.
Demon Hunter Class Talents
The Hunt is back in its original state, where you can cancel its animation in order to guarantee it lands. We go into more detail on how to utilize it in our Damage Course. But overall, it is just a unique ability. It hits incredibly hard, so fake-casting it can force your opponents to use defensive cooldowns. Of course, this requires your target to be low enough on HP to land a kill. Otherwise your opponent will simply eat The Hunt’s damage.
It can also be used defensively because it heals you for 10% of all damage you deal to the target for the next 30 seconds. This results in a decent amount of healing, which can help when you have no other defensives left. And it is also the longest charge in the game with an incredible 50-yard range. So you can even use it to escape a dire situation as a last resort.
As for Felblade, it is our main source of Fury. If you played in Shadowlands, you should already be familiar with the synergy that it has with Demon Blades. This combo allows you to use Fury generators less frequently, indirectly resulting in more damage.
Sigil of Misery was a tank-only ability in Shadowlands. It is on the Fear DR and cannot be dispelled. This makes it an incredible tool for peeling and for simply landing CC on healers. It takes 2 seconds for the Sigil to go off, therefore it is important that you chain it off other CC, rather than just throw it out there and hope it lands. Afterall, it has a pretty long cooldown, so you have to use it well to get as much value out of it as possible.
Havoc Spec Talents
For better or for worse, there aren’t many optional talents for Demon Hunters in the Havoc tree.
Any Means Necessary is a completely new talent in Dragonflight. It allows our Mastery to apply not only to Chaos damage, but also every other school in the game. This means that Immolation Aura, The Hunt and other abilitiies will now scale with Mastery, making this our best stat.
This also means that with enough modifiers, we can completely annihilate players with The Hunt. Obviously, it grants us more kill pressure. But aside from that, whenever you have a cooldown like The Hunt that your opponents have to respect, you can constantly fake cast it to force cooldowns.
First Blood is extremely powerful now since Blade Dance also scales with Mastery because it deals Chaos damage, not Physical. This has huge implications for the Mastery build, and is one of the primary factors as to why this stat is the go-to for us currently. When combined with Essence Break, Blade Dance can hit for an absurd amount of damage, acting as a mini-hunt every 40 seconds.
Finally, we have Soulrend, which is what makes the Mastery build by far the greatest. This talent allows an otherwise burst-oriented build to also have great sustained damage. By using Blade Dance and Throw Glaive off cooldown, you be able to deal a lot of damage with no cooldowns active.
Havoc Demon Hunter PvP Talents
Out of all PvP talents, there is one that you will want to run almost every single game – Glimpse. It makes you immune to all CC while you’re in the air after casting Vengeful Retreat.
Next, Chaotic Imprint should almost always be your second PvP talent. This talent is just raw damage. It may seem misleading that the target will take additional damage from a random school, such as Frost, Arcane, etc, and Demon Hunters don’t have abilities that deal that type of damage. However, Chaos Strike and Eye Beam, for example, deal Chaos damage, which is technically every school possible. This means that no matter what school your Chaotic Imprint rolls, your Chaos abilities will always benefit from it. And now with Any Means Necessary, pretty much all of your abilities get amplified by this talent, making it much better than before.
For your third PvP talent, you can swap between Reverse Magic, and Blood Moon. In every game you need to ask yourself if the enemy team has any magical CC or major debuffs that need to be dispelled. Think Polymorph, Fear, etc. If that’s the case, pick up Reverse Magic. Not only does it dispel everyone in your vicinity, it also returns those debuffs to their original caster. So if a Mage casts Poly on your healer and you Reverse it, the Mage will now be Polymorphed instead. It is also incredibly useful when playing against Ret Paladins, since they rely on locking someone down with Hammer of Justice and then bursting them. Reverse Magic completely negates that. Reverse should not be used into Affliction Warlocks as it triggers all backlash effects.
Whenever you don’t need Reverse Magic, you’ll pick up Blood Moon. This talent was recently changed in 10.1 to now generate a soul fragment. This not only provides a large amount of healing but there is a 5% chance that this fragment will be a demon soul providing a 20% damage buff as well as additional healing. This makes purge worth pushing off cooldown.
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