Welcome to Skill Capped’s Guide on the Best Stats, Gear, Gems & Enchants for Havoc Demon Hunters in The War Within 11.0

All sections for Havoc Demon Hunter PvP have been divided into corresponding sections for the most optimal hero talents, class talents, spec talents, race, stats, gear, enchants, gems, and macros. This will help you have a good understanding of Havoc Demon Hunters in PvP for The War Within, the strengths and weaknesses associated with this specialization, and help you conquer the arena. This section will guide you on the best Havoc Demon Hunter Stats, Gear, Gems & Enchants in The War Within.

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Stat Priority
PvP Gear
Embellishments
Enchants
Gems

Havoc Demon Hunter Stat Priority

Versatility > Mastery > Haste > Critical Strike

Our main focus should be on Versatility. Versatility adds a combination of both offense and defense to our character, which is naturally obtained through our gearing process.

Beyond this stat, you’ll want to prioritize Mastery. This stat increases our movement speed and Chaos damage, and with Any Means Necessary added into the mix, this affects all of our abilities. This makes it almost necessary to maximize this stat so you can throw out the most amount of damage possible.

After Mastery, Haste is also pretty important to have, as it synergizes nicely with our Shattered Destiny and Cycle of Hatred combo to increase our uptime in Demon Form.

Finally, we have Critical Strike being our weakest stat out of the bunch, as this doesn’t really synergize with what our toolkit currently offers.

BiS Havoc Demon Hunter PvP Gear

Main Pieces

Head: Impalers of the Hypogeal Nemesis
Shoulders: War-Mantle of the Hypogeal Nemesis
Chest: Chestguard of the Hypogeal Nemesis
Gloves: Claws of the Hypogeal Nemesis
Legs: Algari Competitor’s Leather Trousers with Versatility / Mastery

Off-Pieces

Back: Forged Gladiator’s Shawl or Algari Competitor’s Cloth Cloak with Versatility / Mastery
Belt: Algari Competitor’s Leather Belt with Versatility / Mastery
Bracers: Forged Gladiator’s Leather Wristwraps or Algari Competitor’s Leather Wristwraps with Versatility / Mastery
Boots: Algari Competitor’s Leather Boots with Versatility / Mastery

Jewelry

Neck: Algari Competitor’s Amulet with Versatility / Mastery, otherwise Forged Gladiator’s Amulet if your Versatility seems too low.
Ring 1: Algari Competitor’s Signet with Versatility / Mastery
Ring 2: Algari Competitor’s Signet with Versatility / Mastery

Weapons

Main Hand: Algari Competitor’s Pickaxe with Versatility / Mastery
Off Hand: Forged Gladiator’s Warglaive

Trinkets

Trinket 1: Forged Gladiator’s Insignia of Alacrity
Trinket 2: Forged Gladiator’s Medallion

When it comes to trinkets, we will be equipping Forged Gladiator’s Insignia of Alacrity. Since it constantly procs for a solid amount of primary stat, this can greatly help with our consistent throughput.

You will then need a Forged Gladiator’s Medallion to break out of CC every 2 minutes.

An alternative trinket from Forged Gladiator’s Insignia of Alacrity is Forged Gladiator’s Emblem, as this will assist us with surviving massive burst windows. This can be potentially valuable against setup compositions, such as RMP or Jungle Cleave. However, this specialization needs the extra primary stat coming out of our Insignia trinket, granting us enough finishing power to secure wins.

Best Havoc Demon Hunter Embellishments

Item 1: Darkmoon Sigil: Ascension on Algari Competitor’s Pickaxe with Versatility / Mastery.
Item 2: Writhing Armor Banding on any crafted armor piece.

Alternative Embellishments:

x2 Elemental Focusing Lens on any crafted slot.

The Darkmoon Sigil: Ascension and Writhing Armor Banding combination provides us with a constant flow of secondary stats, which makes our consistent damage stronger and even better during our burst windows with Demon Form if we are lucky enough to proc Mastery.

Alternatively, if you would rather opt for our conquest weapon instead of a crafted one, we recommend using the Elemental Focusing Lens embellishment. This provides us with a solid amount of consistent damage, and is only effective as long as you have at least 1 gem equipped.

This embellishment occasionally deals damage from a specific school of magic based on the gem you equip. Keep in mind that the damage from this embellishment can’t be buffed by cooldowns, talents, or any damage bonuses from school types.

Best Havoc Demon Hunter Gems

Core Gems: Enduring Bloodstone + Versatile Onyx

In The War Within, you will use a Vicious Jeweler’s Setting to add sockets to your Helmet, Neck, Bracers, Belt and Rings. Two sockets can be added to the Neck and Rings.

As Versatility and Mastery are your best secondary stats, you will want to both gem and enchant it wherever possible. Enduring Bloodstone will be our newly introduced PvP gem that can only be attributed once onto your character’s gem slots. This will give you some additional damage reduction when affected by Crowd Control.

For all gem slots, we will use Versatile Onyx, as this provides the best overall boost to your favored stats.