Havoc Demon Hunter Mythic+ Guide (2024)

When to use this Spec

Use this spec in any Mythic+ Key, this is a perfect mix between good single target/priority damage and high sustained AoE damage, also every utility ability is talented as this significantly helps you timing keys and helping your group.

Gameplay Altering Talents

Discover all talents that significantly alter your gameplay within the Spec and Class Talent trees. This section gives a concise overview of these talents and their applications but for a more detailed look check out the Rotation and Deep Dive sections below.

Spec Tree

• Ragefire
  • Accumulates damage done by your Immolation Aura and makes you explode in a small circle around you after Immolation Aura runs out.
• Initiative
  • Hitting a target before it hits you increases your critical strike chance by 10%, this is reset on every hostile target by casting Vengeful Retreat.
• Inertia
  • After casting Immolation Aura your next Fel Rush empowers you, increasing all your damage done by 18%.
• Essence Break
  • Does massive damage in a frontal cone and amplifies the damage done of your Chaos Strike and Blade Dance to all targets hit.
• A Fire Inside
  • Immolation Aura has a 25% chance to not cost a charge.
• Accelerated Blade , Furious Throws, Soulscar
  • This talent synergizes with your Tier Set and makes Throw Glaive deal significant damage.

Class Tree

• Darkness
  • This group-wide defensive cooldown creates a zone of Darkness at the Havoc Demon Hunter's location, granting all allies within it a 15% chance to avoid all damage from incoming attacks.

• The Hunt
  • Strong offensive Cooldown that does gives a major dot to your target and every other target you charge through (capped at 5).

Hackclaw's War-Band

• Kill Tricktotem first. Make sure you instantly swap to Hextrick Totems when they spawn.
• Use your interrupt whenever you can on Earth Bolt, and use Consume Magic on Greater Healing Rapids.
• You should hold Blur or Netherwalk for Marked for Butchery.

Treemouth

• Treemouth frequently spawns 4 Decaying Slimes, which makes this fight perfect for Havoc Demon Hunters,
• You also need to stop the Decaying Slimes from casting, Gushing Ooze. Use Chaos Nova and Sigil of Misery

Gutshot

• Do not get close to the Rotfang Hyenas! Use Chaos Nova or Sigil of Misery if they ever get near you.

Decatriarch Wratheye

• Focus the Rotburst Totem every time it comes up.
• Use Blur on Withered Eruption.

Trash Tips

• Hackclaw's War-Band area
  • Use Chaos Nova or Sigil of Misery to stop Vicious Clawmangle, or Bone Bolt.
  • Be ready to Disrupt whatever is needed in this area as there are a lot of dangerous casts.
• Treemouth's Area
  • If you are playing a Fetid Rotsinger, be ready to kill Decay Totem when they spawn.
  • Use Chaos Nova or Sigil of Misery to stop Summon Lashers.

Boss Tips

The Lost Dwarves

• Use Blur if you are targetted by Ricocheting Shield.
• Interrupt Defensive Bulwark whenever it's up.

Bromach

• Focus on killing Quaking Totems instantly. They spawn roughly every 40 seconds which is great timing for a Havoc Demon Hunter.
• The boss continuously summons adds, one of which has to be interrupted, thanks to these adds you always deal great damage to the Quaking Totems because the adds fuel your Ragefire.
• Rotate Blur and Darkness on the Quaking Totems.

Sentinel Talondras

• Use Blur if you get Earthen Shards, but use it late enough to cover Crushing Stomp as well.

Chrono-Lord Deios

• Use Blur in the intermission.

Trash Tips

• Bromach area
  • Chain Lightning and Spiked Carapace are both very deadly so use Disrupt, Chaos Nova and Sigil of Misery to stop them.
• Chrono-Lord Deios area
  • Interrupt Earthen Warders Curse of Stone cast.
  • You can Line of sight Ebonstone Golems Thunderous Clap.

Boss Tips

Granyth

• Focus on killing Nokhud Saboteurs, use slows and stuns to give your group more time to kill them.
• Rotate defensives on Shards of Stone.

The Raging Tempest

• Use Blur and Darkness during Electrical Storm.
• Soak orbs early in the fight to stack up Surge of Power quickly.

Teera and Maruuk

• Use Blur or Netherwalk on Gale Arrow. This is one of the hardest hitting abilities in all of Mythic+.

Balakar Khan

• Use Chaos Nova and Sigil of Misery on the adds in the intermission to stop their casts.
• Delay Blur and Netherwalk and use them if you are the target of either Iron Spear or Static Spear in Phase 1 or Phase 2.

Trash Tips

• Granyth area
  • Use Chaos Nova or Sigil of Misery on Rally the Clan or Hunt Prey.
  • Focus on killing Nokhud Lancemasters and interrupt their Disruptive Shout.
• Teera and Maruuk area
  • Desecrated Ohunas cast Rotting Wind which is a very deadly spell. You can use Chaos Nova and Sigil of Misery, but try to stop it at the last second as they are coded so that the next one starts when the first one is about to finish, this way you can stop two at the same time.
• Balakar Khan area
  • If you are playing Batak and Balara, Remember that Balaras Vehement Charge goes on the closest target, so make sure you bait it into a wall if you are the closest, or play from max melee range and let the tank handle it.

Boss Tips

Vexamus

• Mana Bomb does a lot of damage so you should use Blur or Netherwalk.
• At around 2 minutes into the fight there is an overlap of Mana Bomb and Arcane Fissure, make sure you have Blur or Netherwalk ready for it.

Overgrown Ancient

• You can hold Immolation Aura or Eye Beam if adds are about to spawn.
• Use Blur to mitigate Burst Forth's damage.

Crawth

• Deafening Screech does increasingly more damage each stack. For the first 2 hits you use nothing, for later ones you need to use Blur. If your group plays up to 4 Deafening Screeches you may need to Netherwalk or Metamorphosis immune on them higher key levels.

Echo of Doragosa

• Use Blur or Netherwalk if you get Energy Bomb.
• If you are at 3 stacks of Overwhelming Power, position yourself in a good way to drop Arcane Rift.

Trash Tips

• Vexamus area
  • Look out for Spellbound Scepters casting Mystic Blast and use Chaos Nova or Sigil of Misery to stop them.
• Overgrown Ancient area
  • Make sure to position properly to hit Fel Devastation and Ragefire on all targets.
  • Try to stick to your tank so you don't clutter melee with more Detonation Seeds than necessary.

Boss Tips

Watcher Irideus

• Use Chaos Nova and Fel Eruption to stop the Boss adds.

Gulping Goliath

• Use Blur on Overpowering Croak.
• Use Chaos Nova or Sigil of Misery to stop the Curoius Swoglets.

Khajin the Unyielding

• Use Blur and Netherwalk when your healer is struggling.

Primal Tsunami

• Stack with other melees to stack the Infused Globule.
• Use Chaos Nova, Imprison, Sigil of Misery or Fel Eruption to stop the intermission adds from casting Inundate.

Trash Tips

• Watcher Irideus area
  • Use Disrupt, Chaos Nova and Sigil of Misery to stop Expulse and Demoralizing Shout.
  • Focus on killing the Containment Apparatuses.
• Khajin & Primal Tsunami area
  • Use Blur for the Glacial Proto-Dragons Deep Chill, you can also remove the debuff with Vengeful Retreat.
  • Stop Ice Shard to help your tank.

Boss Tips

Leymor

• Phial of Icy Preservation provides a lot of value in this fight. Explosive Brand and Consuming Stomp do massive damage.

Azureblade

• There is not much to this boss, interrupt and kill the Draconic Images.
• The intermission is a great time to use Blur and Darkness.

Telash Greywing

• Use Blur if you are targetted by Icy Devastator.

Umbrelskul

• At 75%, 50%, and 25% Umbralskul spawns Detonating Crystals and one Hardened Crystal. The latter one has an absorb shield that needs to be broken, while the shield persists it deals massive AoE damage to your group. Make sure you have Eye Beam and Essence Break for every spawn.
• Use Blur and Darkness for each of these Crystal phases if they are ready.

Trash Tips

• Azureblade area
  • Interrupt Arcane Elementals Waking Bane and Ritual Seal Keepers Icy Bindings. You can also use stop such as Chaos Nova and Sigil of Misery
• Telash Greywing area
  • Focus Drakonid Breakers, and use defensives on Shoulder Slam.

Boss Tips

Chargath, Bane of Scales

• Use Blur and Netherwalk during Fiery Focus. They happen roughly every 55 sec so rotate them accordingly.

Forgemaster Gorek

• If you use Blur just before the second hit of Might of the Forge it also covers the Blazing Aegis right after.

Magmatusk

• Rotate Blur and Netherwalk on Magma Eruption.

Trash Tips

• Chargath area
  • Hold Eye Beam and Essence Break for when your group uses the chain.
  • Watch out for the Qalashi Hunter's Bold Ambush. A random player gets targeted with a leap and receives a massive bleed. This ability targets the furthest player from the boss.
• Forgemaster Gorek area
  • Lava Flares cast Melt which is a very dangerous spell that you need to interrupt or stop. Coordinate with your team when you want to use Chaos Nova and Sigil of Misery.
• Magmatusk area
  • Disrupt Qalashi Thaumaturges Molten Core. Stop their Magma Conflagration after the initial cast finishes, otherwise they recast it immediately.

Boss Tips

Melidrussa Chillworn

• Chillstorm is the main mechanic of this fight. It happens too frequently for Havoc Demon Hunters to have defensives for each.
• During Frost Overload is the absolute best time to use Blur as there are whelplings you can AoE for extra healing.

Kokia Blazehoof

• Kokia casts Ritual of Blazebinding every 30 seconds, which spawns a Blazebound Firestorm. These adds need to be killed asap, Havoc Demon Hunter is very strong in this fight since Eye Beam and Essence Break line up almost perfectly for each set.
• Blazebound Firestorm casts Roaring Blaze which needs to be interrupted, and Kokia casts Molten Boulder at the same time which needs to be baited in a good direction. Blazebound Firestorm also casts Inferno which deals massive damage so rotate your defensives. Ideally, you can kill it before the second cast of Inferno.

Kyrakka and Erkhart Stormvein

• In Phase 1 Kyrakka targets one random player with Infernocore, use your Blur if you are targetted.
• In Phase 2 Kyrakk starts applying Infernocore to multiple players so you want to nuke her down as quickly as possible, this is a great time to Bloodlust.

Trash Tips

• Melidrussa Chillworn area
  • Stop Flashfrost Earthshaper's Tectonic Slam with your Chaos Nova and Sigil of Misery.
• Kokia Blazehoof area
  • This area is one of the roughest in all of Mythic+, Blazebound Destroyers cast Inferno and Living Bomb which are extremely deadly. Use Blur if you get Living Bomb.
  • Interrupt Primalist Cinderweavers as much as possible and use Chaos Nova and Sigil of Misery to stop Primalist Flamedancers Flame Dance.

• Kyrakka and Erkhart area
  • Flame Channelers cast Flashfire which you need to interrupt.
  • Tempest Channelers and High Channeler Ryvati both cast Lightning Storm so rotate Blur and Netherwalk.

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