DPS Rotation & Cooldowns
A general priority guide for Havoc Demon Hunter abilities and cooldowns. Helpful for understanding the spec's fundamentals and getting comfortable with core synergies. Updated for the latest patch in World of Warcraft: Midnight (12.0.1).
Single Target
Ensure Immolation Aura is active 1 GCD before pull.
Maintain Immolation Aura uptime and prioritize Felblade with Inertia active. Use The Hunt and Death Sweep for burst, and ensure Eye Beam is on cooldown. Follow with Essence Break during Metamorphosis and use Blade Dance and Annihilation as fillers.
AoE
Switch to AoE priority at 2+ targets.
For AoE, prioritize Felblade with Inertia active, followed by The Hunt and Death Sweep. Use Immolation Aura and Eye Beam on cooldown, and follow with Essence Break during Metamorphosis.
Cooldowns
Use Metamorphosis after spending empowerments, and Eye Beam on cooldown for burst. Pair Essence Break with Metamorphosis or Demonic windows, and cast The Hunt on cooldown, ensuring Reavers Glaive is spent first if applicable.
New to Class? Try Assisted Rotation
Patch 11.1.7 introduced new features that make it eaiser to pick and play new characters. These new settings can be enabled from settings » gameplay enhancements:
- Single-Button Assistant
- Assisted Highlight
- Cooldown Manager
If you are new to World of Warcraft or a certain class, enabling Assisted Highlight and Cooldown Manager can help you learn which abilities to prioritize and use.
While the Single-Button Assistant can be a much easier and more accessible way to play the game, it does come with a slight performance hit due to a small GCD penalty, as you will have to wait 25% longer in between spells and abilities.
To see which specs are best with the Single-Button Assistant feature, you can check out our DPS Rankings which uses SimC to sim every class using this feature.