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Demon Hunter

Tank / Melee DPS

Role

Tank / Melee DPS

Specializations

2

Type

Melee

PvP Rating7/10
PvE Rating8/10

Overview

Demon Hunters are agile fighters who have sacrificed everything to combat the Burning Legion. Havoc Demon Hunters are highly mobile melee DPS with double jumps, glides, and explosive AoE damage, while Vengeance Demon Hunters tank using demonic fire and soul fragments for self-healing.

Specializations

Havoc
Vengeance

Strengths

  • +Highest mobility of any melee class in the game
  • +Excellent AoE burst damage with Eye Beam and Blade Dance
  • +Chaos Brand provides 5% magic damage buff to the raid
  • +Only two specs makes the class easy to learn
  • +Spectral Sight detects stealthed and invisible enemies

Weaknesses

  • -Only two specs limits role flexibility
  • -Squishy in sustained damage situations without Metamorphosis
  • -Limited utility beyond Darkness and Chaos Brand
  • -Can be disorienting for new players due to extreme mobility
  • -Havoc burst is tied to cooldown windows; weak outside them

Tips & Tricks

  • 1Double Jump and Glide let you skip mechanics and reposition faster than any other class.
  • 2Fel Rush and Vengeful Retreat are both movement and damage abilities; weave them into rotation.
  • 3Use Darkness as a raid cooldown -- 20% avoidance for your group for 8 seconds.
  • 4Vengeance should pick up Soul Fragments by walking over them to heal and generate resources.
  • 5Chaos Brand is a unique 5% magic damage debuff -- highly valued in raid compositions.