Welcome to Skill Capped’s Guide on the Best PvP Talents & Hero Talents 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 PvP Talents in The War Within.

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Hero Talents: Fel-Scarred
Hero Talents: Aldrachi Reaver
Class Talents
Spec Talents
PvP Talents

The War Within expands our arsenal of talent options, which include our new talent hero talent trees, Fel-Scarred and Aldrachi Reaver. Fel-Scarred is our preferred loadout, whereas Aldrachi Reaver is favored at times where you want coordinated burst. This is especially valuable against compositions that constantly prevent you from connecting on your selected target. Now, let’s understand how to best allocate these hero talent points.

Hero Talents: Fel-Scarred

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As for our preferred loadout, we have our Fel-Scarred hero talents, which is more beginner friendly and is preferred in Battleground Blitz as we receive more cleave damage thanks to Demonsurge. Let’s look at the core talents chosen that make up this build.

Demonsurge is a potent AoE damage effect that’s applied from our core damage spells, as long as they haven’t been used once entering Demon Form.
Student of Suffering increases our Mastery whenever we use Sigil of Flame, and with Violent Transformation, we can use this ability more frequently to increase our Mastery buff uptime. You’ll most likely use this before entering Demon Form from Eye Beam to empower your burst windows.
Set Fire to the Pain provides fire damage mitigation, which tremendously boosts our survivability against Fire Mages, Destruction Warlocks, and Elemental Shamans, as these classes are constantly using fire spells to dish out damage. Additionally, 5% of all non-fire damage we receive converts into Fire damage, making this talent valuable regardless of what class you face.
Demonic Intensity empowers more core spells, granting you more usage out of Demonsurge. Another benefit we receive is that Demonsurge now applies a stackable buff on your character which increases the damage of our next Demonsurge by 10%.

Hero Talents: Aldrachi Reaver

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Next up, we have our Aldrachi Reaver loadout. This build is excellent when you want to coordinate how to deal your damage, waiting for the right moment to connect and throw out your Reaver’s Glaive. Not only does this deal some hefty damage itself, but it applies damage modifiers that will help you pressure your opponent.

Our centerpiece node as this build is Art of the Glaive, granting you occasional access to Reaver’s Glaive when we generate 6 Soul Fragments or use The Hunt. After using Reaver’s Glaive, we gain considerable buffs to both our Blade Dance and Chaos Strike, and on top of that, it makes our second enhanced ability become even more powerful than the first one you end up using.

Evasive Action provides us with more value out of Glimpse for a increased immunity duration, and if we select Vengeful Bonds in our Class tree as one of our potential flex talents, this could help us stay connected on our target or reduce their overall uptime.
Reaver’s Mark applies a 7% damage buff on your selected target you used Reaver’s Glaive on, but we recommend always doubling its effect by using Blade Dance first, followed by Chaos Strike in your burst sequence after applying Reaver’s Glaive.
Thrill of the Fight supplements your burst damage, providing you with a massive damage and healing buff for 10 seconds, and some increased attack speed for an easier time generating Fury. This only occurs after both enhancements from Reaver’s Glaive have been used up.

Demon Hunter Class Talents

In the Demon Hunter Class talent tree, most of your talent choices will be mandatory when advancing onto each tier. Some of most noteworthy talents represented in The War Within are:

Consume Magic to remove any magic effect off your selected target.
Collective Anguish supplements our burst damage during our Eye Beam channels, as it summons an allied Vengeance Demon Hunter that casts Fel Devastation.
Demonic grants us another way of entering Demon Form after using Eye Beam.

There are also some adaptations worth considering in our class talent tree, as this gives us the opportunity to swap out Aura of Pain for any of our flexible talents.

Pitch Black provides us with a solid cooldown reduction on Darkness, and is selected more often in non Solo Shuffle 3v3 matchups.
Shattered Restoration, which further assists us with our survivability, and is best picked as Aldrachi Reaver. This is because our Aldrachi Reaver build allows us to generate more Soul Fragments.
Improved Sigil of Misery for more Sigil of Misery uptime, which can be potent for Non Solo Shuffle Rated 3v3 to prevent setups pre-emptively more often, or to help you with securing kills as a melee cleave.

If you decide to opt for Aldrachi Reaver, we advise removing points from Erratic Felheart and Collective Anguish for Soul Sigils and Sigil of Spite. This provides us with more Soul Fragment generation to increase our uptime on Reaver’s Glaive.

Havoc Spec Talents

For our spec talents, most of these will be mandatory as you advance onto each tier. Some of the most noteworthy talents are:

Essence Break staying as one of our most essential cooldowns to deliver massive burst damage.
Any Means Necessary for a nice passive buff to any of our abilities, as they scale off your Mastery and are always converted to the Chaos school regardless of what spell you use.

Finally, depending on whether you are playing Fel-Scarred or Aldrachi Reaver, you’ll have a few points which can be moved around.

With our Fel-Scarred build, make sure to place two points in Growing Inferno and Burning Wound for more consistent AoE damage coming out of Immolation Aura. You’ll also want Relentless Onslaught to produce more hits coming out of Chaos Strike and Annihilation.
For Aldrachi Reaver, we recommend playing Accelerated Blade and Chaos Theory instead of Growing Inferno and Burning Wound for more single-target damage as well as for more Throw Glaive damage. We also suggest grabbing Soulscar instead of Relentless Onslaught. Both Soulscar and Accelerated Blade pair exceptionally well with Reaver’s Glaive, as this ability benefits from any Throw Glaive modifier.

Havoc Demon Hunter PvP Talents

In the current meta, your default Havoc PvP talent loadout will typically include Glimpse, Blood Moon, and Detainment.

Glimpse empowers our Vengeful Retreat, allowing us to immune all Crowd Control effects while in the air, and have a way to escape disarm effects without needing to trinket out of it.
Blood Moon provides an extra lesser Soul Fragment and an AoE dispel out of Consume Magic that will always grant you value.
Detainment alters our Imprison to become similar to a miniature Cyclone without the need to cast it. This means that your Imprison becomes unbreakable and immune to all incoming effects while active.

For your last PvP talent slot, Detainment will be swapped around with Reverse Magic against classes that can control your healer with magic-based CC, especially with Polymorph, allowing you to free them on a 1 minute cooldown.