Havoc Demon Hunter PvP Rotation and Playstyle — The War Within (11.0.5)

The Havoc Demon Hunter has only one role when in an Arena match: do damage. Players should focus on maximizing their damage as much as they can. With strong mobility, you should be able to stay on a target for most of the game. Use your strong, consistent damage to force cooldowns and then punish the enemy team by using your offensive abilities.

Have a plan for who you will be mainly using your crowd control on. Havoc Demon Hunters have powerful crowd control with Imprison, Sigil of Misery, Fel Eruption, and Chaos Nova.

If the enemy team has a class that can stealth, use Spectral Sight to see them in stealth and disrupt their opener.

The opener refers to your team's opening crowd control chain and damage done as soon as you get out of the gates. The main goal in the opener is to force your enemies to use their cooldowns.

If the enemy healer uses their trinket in the opener, they are in trouble. In the opener, Havoc Demon Hunters should focus on sticking to an enemy and dealing large amounts of damage to the target.

This is the rotation you should use on your target at the beginning of the game.

1. Use Throw Glaive as often as you can for multiple reasons:
   • To slow the enemy and close the gap between you two if you are playing Master of the Glaive.
   • To apply Soulrend to the target. This is a powerful bleed that will do a large amount of damage throughout an arena match.
   • Increased the target's damage from a school from Chaotic Imprint.
2. Make sure you are connecting to your target to take advantage of the Demon Blades talent.
3. Use Felblade to generate Fury.
4. Use Essence Break before Blade Dance or Chaos Strike.
5. Use Blade Dance to spend your Fury.
6. Use Chaos Strike if you are about to cap your Fury.
7. Use Eye Beam when you have enough Fury.
8. Use your burst rotation.

When you have the enemy healer in crowd control, and you are trying to kill an enemy, you use your burst damage.

1. Use Blade Dance.
2. Use Eye Beam.
3. Use Metamorphosis. With the Chaotic Transformation talent, Blade Dance and Eye Beam cooldowns get reset.
4. Use Chaos Nova to stun your kill target.
5. Use Essence Break
6. Use The Hunt.
7. Use Death Sweep.
8. Use Annihilation.
9. Use Reaver's Glaive.
10. Use Eye Beam.
    • With the Demonic regular talent, this will extend Metamorphosis's duration.
11. Use Felblade if the enemy team is running away and to generate Fury.
12. Use Annihilation for any Fury you have.
13. Use The Hunt.

Sustained damage is damage you do when your burst cooldowns are not available.

• Generate Fury using:
  • Demon's Bite.
  • Use Glaive Tempest
  • Use Fel Rush or Vengeful Retreat to gain the Momentum damage buff.
  • Felblade.
    • Demon's Bite has a chance to reset the cooldown of Felblade. If you are not close to capping your Fury, use this as soon as you can.
  • If you are playing the Demon Blades regular talent, you want to make sure you have as much uptime on your target to maximize your Fury generation.
• Spend your Fury on:
  1. Eye Beam should be the first ability. This will put you into Metamorphosis, where you will deal even more damage with your other abilities.
  2. Use Essence Break before Blade Dance or Chaos Strike.
  3. Blade Dance/ Death Sweep. Depending on if you are in Metamorphosis or not, the ability's name will change, but it still has the same effect.
  4. Chaos Strike/ Annihilation if the other abilities are on cooldown, and you are about to cap your Fury.
• If you are using the PvP talent Rain from Above, you want to use it when the enemy team is in the center of the map and cannot get to a pillar quickly.
• Use Consume Magic to dispel a Magic effect on the enemy target.
• Use The Hunt.

Blur is your main defensive cooldown. This increases your dodge chance and reduces the overall damage done to you. On a 1-minute cooldown, this is very powerful and should be used when your healer is struggling to keep you alive.

Darkness is a great defensive for not only yourself but also for your teammates. If the enemy team is using their offensive cooldowns on a teammate that has no defensive abilities left, using Darkness where they are could keep them alive.

Vengeful Retreat can be used in times when you will need to run away from the enemy team. This lets you get distance, and you can still use Throw Glaive.

It is advised to use Macros to use abilities on enemies or allies without having to target them. For this reason, we have a page dedicated to them.