Havoc Demon Hunter DPS Spec, Builds, and Talents — The War Within (11.0.5)

Due to Aldrachi Reaver investing all of its talents into as much single-target as possible, for cleave scenarios in raids it also has an alternative build recommended.

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For situations where additional targets are present, having access to the "Ignition" talent package to activate Inertia is helpful while not fully investing into Immolation Aura. This largely just trades out the Cycle of Hatred Fury generation focus in favor of heightened fixed burst windows, opening up room to plan damage around add spawns.

Currently, Aldrachi Reaver is a niche alternative in Mythic+ due to its ability to deal heavy priority target damage while still AoEing surrounding targets. It, however, falls behind in both burst and uncapped AoE potential and is punished by frequent target swaps.

Currently, Fel-Scarred provides the highest burst and AoE potential. It also has talent options to add in additional priority target damage, so is our recommended AoE build

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Aldrachi Reaver in AoE situations picks up all of the movement talents with the "Ignition" playstyle to have access to Inertia, frontloading some of its burst potential. Due to that, it makes sure to grab A Fire Inside and all of the Immolation Aura related talents to amplify it further. It still picks up Throw Glaive talents, but avoids Furious Throws purely to amplify Reaver's Glaive.

Fel-Scarred deals extremely frontloaded 2-minute bursts around Metamorphosis, making it well suited for dangerous Mythic+ pulls. It also has a lot of additional baked in single-target to cover the gaps against bosses thanks to Burning Blades, while also being quite easy to pilot compared to the alternative. It picks up the "Ignition" set of talents to activate Inertia and amplify Immolation Aura as much as possible, but since there is no Throw Glaive does need to tab-target to apply Burning Wound to multiple targets.

• Due to the Aldrachi Reaver AoE playstyle being very busy, it struggles to find room to fit Essence Break into its build, instead favoring pure damage options like Glaive Tempest
• It needs to pick up Sigil of Spite for the additional burst soul generation between pulls where The Hunt is not available.
• On the Hero Tree Fel-Scarred always picks up Student of Suffering as an additional AoE cooldown, syncing the Mastery buff with each Eye Beam cast.
• Due to the desyncs that can happen; while slightly unintuitive, it avoids Cycle of Hatred in favor of picking up more damaging talents to play into a fixed cooldown cycle with Essence Break.
• In the middle of the tree, you can switch out Dancing with Fate which is better for single-target and priority damage, to focus more on pure burst AoE with Blind Fury if needed.

Aldrachi Reaver is well suited to Delves due to the high volume of Soul Fragment generation for additional sustain. While some aspects of its kit are quite awkward due to being target-locked by Reaver's Mark, it still justifies itself as an option by having strong frontloaded burst and a varied damage profile to handle both large groups of enemies and end bosses.

For Delves, Fel-Scarred leans heavily into explosive bursts of damage for large groups of enemies, so for speed clearing them is suited perfectly. Due to the stronger leaning toward your Metamorphosis window as well, the additional sustain provided by that makes dangerous pulls almost trivial — so long as you have your cooldowns set up correctly.

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