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7.1.5 Demonic
Demon Hunter
Guide
Intro
Ever feel like your
Demon Hunter
isn't
edgy
enough? You like your
Metamorphosis
form and you wanna be in it more often? Do you like topping the
damage AND healing
charts in M+/raid fights with lots of adds? If that's the case,
search no further
, you're in the right place. I'm
Greg
and I present you my
Demonic
Build
Demon Hunter
guide for patch 7.1.5. This build revolves around using
Eye Beam
as your main damage spell and trying to get as much uptime on your
Metamorphosis
as possible.
DISCLAIMER:
For the sake of this guide, I will mostly be discussing the
DPS
value of things, and disregarding the defensive/utility values (
Prydaz
Absorb shield, defensive talents instead of damage talents, etc.).
Talents
Talent
choices are somewhat flexible, besides some baseline
Talents
that define the build. The highlighted ones are the ones that I run 90% of the time, and those are in my opinion the
best
overall options.
Talent choices
Level 99
Fel Mastery
is a very lackluster talent.
You will
never
use this.
Felblade
is the go-to talent for the
Single Target
build, but in this setup it gets outshined by the 3rd option in this row.
Blind Fury
is the talent you will be taking with this build, everything else doesn't work without this as it allows you to get those juicy
Eye Beam
chains on big add packs.
Level 100
Prepared
is not a bad talent, but not the best in it's row for this build.
Demon Blades
is a decent talent, but this build focuses around generating as many
Lesser Soul Fragments
as possible in order to reduce the cooldowns on our Eye Beam through the
Feast on the Souls
Artifact Trait.
Demonic Appetite
is your talent choice in this tier, I've already explained why.
Level 102
Chaos Cleave
- as the name suggests, you take this when you know that there will be a lot of cleave, basically 3-4 adds constantly up. (will rarely be taken in M+, however some
Mythic
Nighthold
bosses (
Tichondrius
,
Botanist
) aswell as some
Normal
/
Heroic
fights(
Skorpyron
and
Elisande
) are
great
for this talent)
First Blood
is the go-to talent for
burst AOE
and outshines Chaos Cleave in big add packs.
Bloodlet
is non-competitive with the other 2 options.
Level 104
Netherwalk
is useful in very niche situations in M+, mostly
high Tyrannical keys
where you can get oneshot by certain mechanics.
Use this with a /cancelaura macro.
Desperate Instincts
should
never
be taken.
Soul Rending
is the talent you want to go for. It allows you to top the Healing aswell as the Damage charts! Jk, but seriously
this talent is bonkers broken
, it allows you to solo huge add packs with your
Eye Beam
, aswell as have on-demand Healing in case things get rough.
Level 106
Momentum
is a
skill-testing
talent, mastering this will surely increase your overall DPS. I recommend taking it even if you're not experienced with it, as it shouldn't take you that long to get used to it.
Fel Eruption
-
Nope. This is a PVE guide.
Nemesis
can be taken if you feel like your group needs more
ST damage
on bosses,
but an experienced Momentum user will still pull out more ST DPS.
Level 108
Master of the Glaive
- I can see this being used in conjunction with the
Legendary
Wrist
, but it's not worth taking over the other options.
Unleashed Power
is your go-to option in this tier, following the whole
"get-as-many-soul-fragments-as-possible"
philosophy due to the
Overwhelming Power
Artifact Trait
.
Demon Reborn
although this allows you to have a sick opener combo with a very high damage spike and Metamorphosis uptime,
overall it gets outclassed by Unleashed Power
.
Level 110
Chaos Blades
-
//
Fel Barrage
-
//
Demonic
is the
only viable option
, it defines the build and is the build-around talent.
Stats
Mastery
>
Critical Chance
>
Haste
>
Versatility
Basically what you do is take your
Single Target
Chaos Blades
build stat priority, and swap
Critical Chance
with
Mastery
on the priority list. The reason for this is that most of our damage comes from
Eye Beam
, and we want to make it hit
as hard as possible
. And what does
Mastery
do for us?
Mastery
increases our
Chaos Damage
, and therefore our
Eye Beam
damage.
Critical Chance
is still a good stat for us, but it falls out of favor due to Mastery being so important here.
Haste
should be at around 10-12% and
Versatility
is irrelevant, you will most likely get enough Haste by using the Nighthold 4-set, and you can tweak it with enchants/gems.
BiS Relics
If you want to completely focus your
Demon Hunter
on this build, and disregard the
ST
build completely, aim for 3x
Chaos Vision
relics.
If you want to play
both
builds, consider taking 1x
Chaos Vision
, 1x
Critical Chaos
and 1x
Unleashed Demons
.
General Playstyle tips & tricks
Due to not taking the
Demon Blades
talent, your most of your
Fury Generation
will be tied to
Demon's Bite
. Bind it somewhere easily reachable,
you will spam it
.
Always try to pair your
Eye Beam
,
Fury of the Illidari
and
Blade Dance
with
Momentum
windows in order to maximise
DPS
.
If you have
Vengeful Retreat
/
Fel Rush
up, and none of the above spells are off cooldown, feel free to trigger
Momentum
and fill the window with
Chaos Strike
/
Demon's Bite
. Try to store atleast 80 Fury before doing this.
Channeling
Eye Beam
's full duration on 9+ targets fully resets the cooldown
(VERY IMPORTANT)
, which allows you to chain your
Eye Beam
s together and keep your
Metamorphosis
up for long periods of time, while healing yourself massively with
Soul Rending
.
Don't be afraid to use
Eye Beam
on packs with less than 9 adds though, as you can run in after the channel and pop your
Chaos Nova
which will 90% of the time drop 1-2 Lesser Soul Fragments, reducing your
Eye Beam
s cooldown for another 5-10s. 6 adds is an ok amount to use Beam on.
It is ok to use your
Eye Beam
even on
Single Target
if you know that there will be atleast 30-40s before another encounter.
Prioritise using
Vengeful Retreat
over
Fel Rush
when positioning yourself around add packs, as
Fel Rush
->
Eye Beam
requires you to turn your character 180 degrees which shaves some time off your
Momentum
buff.
Pausing your
Eye Beam
chains to trigger
Momentum
should be done only if you can put yourself in a better
Eye Beam
angle.
Mind your
Eye Beam
/
Metamorphosis
cooldown on
Single Target
, and aim for maximum uptime on your Meta.
Also, a general
Demon Hunter
tip - aim for every Interrupt,
Consume Magic
generates you fury when you successfully Interrupt a spell. Use it often, it's free DPS and you'll also be a better teammate overall.
Basic AOE Burst combo is
Fel Rush
in ->
Fury of the Illidari
->
Vengeful Retreat
->
Eye Beam
->
Fel Rush
->
Blade Dance
.
Single Target Rotation is just a continous circle of using your
Fury of the Illidari
/
Eye Beam
/
Blade Dance
on cooldown and generating/dumping Fury.
Macros
Netherwalk Cancelaura Macro (Make sure not to panic spam it otherwise you might cancel it too early):
Code:
#showtooltip Netherwalk
/cancelaura Netherwalk
/cast Netherwalk
Mouseover Interrupt Macro (Interrupt the mob that you're hovering with your mouse):
Code:
#showtooltip Consume Magic
/cast [@mouseover,harm,nodead][]Consume Magic
Add-ons
There are no real necessary add-ons for this build, so I'll just list a few generally useful ones.
Skada
- provides detailed information about every aspect of the encounter, the group's
DPS
,
HPS
, Interrupts etc. Good alternatives are Recount and Details!
ElvUI
-
Best UI Add-on out there imho.
Deadly Boss Mods
-
If you're new to PVE, you need this
. It tracks boss timers, and also warns you about important mechanics.
Weak Auras
- Overall extremely useful add-on.
Get used to it and you will prosper.
A
really cool Weak Aura
I can give you is the
Enemies In Range
WA. It tracks how many enemies are in a certain range (you set the exact number of yards). Useful for tracking if you have 9+ targets for your Eye Beam.
Legendaries
Raddon's Cascading Eyes
is the
bread and butter
of the build. You can still play
Demonic
without it, but it's just such a huge difference. This is a very important factor in the spectre of things that allow you to chain
Eye Beams
together and get those 6m DPS spikes.
Anger of the Half Giants
is the 2nd best Legendary for you with this build, it heavily increases your Fury generation.
Loramus Thalipedes' Sacrifice
is a viable replacement for the Ring, it goes well with
Momentum
's playstyle.
Prydaz
,
Delusions of Grandeur
,
Mo'arg Bionic Stabilizers
and
Kil'jaeden's Burning Wish
all fall short when compared to those 3.
Items to look for
Unstable Arcanocrystal
- Drops off the
Withered J'im
world boss in
Aszuna
. As of right now, it's
BiS
for most classes, including
Demon Hunter
. The sheer amount of stats it gives you outvalues most on-use/proc trinkets.
Terrorbound Nexus
- Overall a decent trinket for the build, gives a ton of
Mastery
and procs a decent amount.
Nighthold T19 4-set
- Increases your Fury Generation and Chaos Strike critical chance.
Very good set, get it.
Final Words
I know it's a lot to take in at once, try to incorporate one thing at a time into your gameplay. Eventually, you'll pick it all up and you will see just how much
Demon Hunter
's are capable of. This build is a nice gust of wind to relieve you from the
Single Target
2-button Rotation as it actually requires some planing beforehand.
If you have any questions, contact me in-game @
Gregolas
-Felsong (
Horde
).
Good luck!
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