Havoc Demon Hunter Leveling Guide from 8 to 80 — The War Within (11.2)

Last updated on Aug 04, 2025 at 19:30 by Wordup 60 comments

On this page, you will find our Level by Level Havoc Demon Hunter leveling guide for The War Within. Make sure to use the slider to make the guide adapt to your level. For more general leveling information, please refer to our Demon Hunter leveling guide.

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Havoc Demon Hunter Leveling Guide for The War Within

Welcome to our Leveling Guide for The War Within. This will help you in your journey to max level as a Havoc Demon Hunter, covering talents and abilities you should know about.

1.1.

Havoc Demon Hunter Leveling Playstyle

Havoc Demon Hunter deals massive frontloaded AoE burst while leveling, and is suited to pulling a large amount of enemies to kill them quickly. It also has excellent self-sustain, which means you do not usually have to worry about how much you pull. It is also well suited to dungeons because of this AoE toolkit, but you may find your queues go faster if you do so as Vengeance instead, to tank.

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Gear Options

When leveling up, you should always choose the piece of loot with the highest item level. You will be replacing these gear pieces very quickly, so just equip whatever comes to you without worrying about secondary stats.

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Best Leveling Talents For Havoc Demon Hunter

Unlike many classes, you start at Level 8 and enter into the Demon Hunter intro campaign on Mardum. Some abilities are unlocked as you progress through this story segment, granting access to your core Havoc abilities when you select your specialization at Level 10.

At level 10, you will unlock Vengeful Retreat Icon Vengeful Retreat, an extra movement tool to pair with Fel Rush Icon Fel Rush which you should have already unlocked. Your first spec tree point is Eye Beam Icon Eye Beam - a powerful burst AoE cooldown.

Your talents can be changed anywhere in the world as long as you are out of combat. Be sure to explore various combinations of talents at will while leveling to get a feel of the gameplay flow. We have provided a sample leveling path below that introduces core Havoc concepts over the course of your journey.

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Level by Level Rotation for Havoc Demon Hunter

To help with understanding what changes as you level up and progress through the talent tree, use the slider below to select your current level. Each time you level up, move it along, and the section will level up with you!

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Havoc Level-by-Level Tips

Move the slider below to make the guide update to your level!

Level: 70

After reaching level 71 and unlocking Hero Talents, we recommend playing with Fel-Scarred to empower your Metamorphosis Icon Metamorphosis with Demonsurge Icon Demonsurge.

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Key Concepts

As you level and populate the talent tree, Havoc gains access to additional tools to navigate the world outside of just its rotation. This section will grow alongside the slider with each level.

  • Remember to Recuperate! - Whenever you're low on health between pulls, you can use the Recuperate Icon Recuperate ability available to all classes to quickly recover.
  • Use your Movement! - Havoc has access to Fel Rush Icon Fel Rush, allowing you to quickly cross distances to stay in the fight.
  • Use your Movement! - Havoc has access to Fel Rush Icon Fel Rush, and Vengeful Retreat Icon Vengeful Retreat, giving you two ways to quickly jump between targets.
  • Use your Movement! - Havoc has access to Fel Rush Icon Fel Rush, and Vengeful Retreat Icon Vengeful Retreat, giving you two ways to quickly jump between tartets. Felblade Icon Felblade also charges your target.
  • Leverage your Healing - Havoc heals from killing enemies with Shattered Souls Icon Shattered Souls orbs.
  • Leverage your Healing - Havoc heals from killing enemies with Shattered Souls Icon Shattered Souls orbs. Soul Rending Icon Soul Rending also provides significant Leech (especially while in Metamorphosis Icon Metamorphosis), so pull big!
  • Remember your Defense - Blur Icon Blur is a strong defensive, especially against enemies that auto-attack a lot. Use it frequently!
4.1.

Dynamic Priority List

Below is a sample priority list to keep track of which abilities to press:

  1. Cast The Hunt Icon The Hunt as frequently as possible (especially against tough enemies).
  2. Cast Fel Rush Icon Fel Rush to engage targets.
  3. Cast Felblade Icon Felblade to engage targets
  4. Cast Sigil of Doom Icon Sigil of Doom / Consuming Fire Icon Consuming Fire / Abyssal Gaze Icon Abyssal Gaze while in Metamorphosis Icon Metamorphosis.
  5. Use Metamorphosis Icon Metamorphosis as frequently as possible (especially against tough enemies).
  6. Cast Immolation Aura Icon Immolation Aura when at 2 charges.
  7. Cast Eye Beam Icon Eye Beam on cooldown.
  8. Cast Blade Dance Icon Blade Dance on cooldown.
  9. Cast Immolation Aura Icon Immolation Aura on cooldown.
  10. Use Metamorphosis Icon Metamorphosis as frequently as possible when Eye Beam Icon Eye Beam and Blade Dance Icon Blade Dance are on cooldown (especially against tough enemies).
  11. Cast Blade Dance Icon Blade Dance on cooldown against multiple enemies.
  12. Cast Chaos Strike Icon Chaos Strike whenever you have enough Fury.
  13. Cast Sigil of Flame Icon Sigil of Flame in AoE situations, or to generate Fury.
  14. Cast Demon's Bite Icon Demon's Bite to generate Fury.
  15. Cast Felblade Icon Felblade to generate Fury.
  16. Cast Throw Glaive Icon Throw Glaive when you need to pull enemies from a distance.
4.1.

Survival Tools

Havoc has a habit of pulling big and getting into dangerous situations, but luckily it comes with a variety of tools to help manage this:

  • Shattered Souls Icon Shattered Souls spawn when killing an enemy, healing for a percentage of health.
  • If you ever find yourself stuck or caught in a dangerous situation, Fel Rush Icon Fel Rush dashes and Vengeful Retreat Icon Vengeful Retreat can almost always get you out of it.
  • Blur Icon Blur has a high duration and a low cooldown, so don't be afraid to use it if you ever feel unsafe.
  • Chaos Nova Icon Chaos Nova gives you an emergency AoE stun if you're caught in a bad situation, alongside Fel Eruption Icon Fel Eruption for particularly dangerous single enemies.
4.3.

Havoc Demon Hunter War Mode Talents for Leveling

In this section, we will rank the PvP talents for leveling and doing solo or small-group PvE content. Below is a ranking of both General PvP Talents and Havoc Demon Hunter-specific PvE talents.

  1. Chaotic Imprint Icon Chaotic Imprint will always buff Chaos damage dealt, such as Chaos Strike Icon Chaos Strike and Eye Beam Icon Eye Beam. Also great to pair with talents such as Soulscar Icon Soulscar due to the conversion to magic damage, causing Throw Glaive Icon Throw Glaive to deal significantly more damage.
  2. Unending Hatred Icon Unending Hatred is just free additional Fury generation when taking damage.
  3. Sigil Mastery Icon Sigil Mastery reduces the cooldown of sigils, such as Sigil of Spite Icon Sigil of Spite, which is a small DPS gain.

Reverse Magic Icon Reverse Magic, Detainment Icon Detainment, Cover of Darkness Icon Cover of Darkness, Cleansed by Flame Icon Cleansed by Flame and Glimpse Icon Glimpse all have very limited uses in PvE, due to it being very focused on crowd control tools or pressuring enemy players into spending more resources than they would otherwise want to.

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Changelog

  • 04 Aug. 2025: Updated for Patch 11.2.
  • 15 Jun. 2025: Reviewed for Patch 11.1.7.
  • 21 Apr. 2025: Updated for Patch 11.1.5.
  • 24 Feb. 2025: Updated for Patch 11.1.0.
  • 15 Dec. 2024: Reviewed for Patch 11.0.7.
  • 21 Oct. 2024: Reviewed for Patch 11.0.5.
  • 09 Sep. 2024: Reviewed for The War Within Season 1.
  • 21 Aug. 2024: Updated for The War Within.
  • 23 Jul. 2024: Updated for The War Within Pre-Patch.
  • 13 May 2024: Format adjustment to move slider closer to rotation.
  • 07 May 2024: Reviewed for 10.2.7.
  • 22 Apr. 2024: Reviewed for Season 4.
  • 21 Mar. 2024: Reviewed for Patch 10.2.6.
  • 15 Jan. 2024: Reviewed for Patch 10.2.5.
  • 06 Nov. 2023: Updated for Patch 10.2.
  • 04 Sep. 2023: Reviewed for Patch 10.1.7, no changes necessary.
  • 10 Jul. 2023: Reviewed for Patch 10.1.5.
  • 01 May 2023: Reviewed for Patch 10.1.
  • 22 Mar. 2023: Updated for Patch 10.0.7.
  • 24 Jan. 2023: Reviewed for Patch 10.0.5.
  • 11 Dec. 2022: Reviewed for Dragonflight Season 1.
  • 28 Nov. 2022: Updated for Dragonflight launch.
  • 24 Oct. 2022: Updated for Dragonflight.
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