Unleashing our wrath wow
After picking just which horns and blindfold best suit your Demon Hunters fashion sense you’re thrown into the Black Temple with old mate Illidan as the heroes of the ‘Burning Crusade’ expansion knock down his door to bring him to justice. Much like the Death Knight before it, new Demon Hunters start at a high level and feature a whole new starting area/set of quests to the regular Night Elf/Blood Elf zones. Alternatively, it may give you just enough health to double jump and glide your way out of the fight if you think you’ve bitten off more than you can chew. This little kick of health is generally enough to keep you alive and the bonus fury it gives allows you to Fel Rush right back in to unleash more of your devastating damage. Killing enemies sometimes drops purple orbs that heal you and can even increase damage dealt if it dropped from a demon. This can lead to some edgy low health situations though where one of the Havoc spec passives, Shattering Souls specifically, comes in handy. Abilities like Blade Dance (damage), Chaos Nova (AoE stun), Vengeful Retreat (damage) and Eye Beam (oh god, so much damage) all feel wasted on single targets, causing me to go ham pulling as many mobs as I can when playing alone. While single target damage is okay, you get more bang for your buck when pulling three or four enemies at once as your area of effect (AoE) damage feels wasted when used against one target. You definitely need to be confident with movement and targeting to play a Havoc Demon Hunter as you’ll be jumping, fel rushing and back flipping around enemy mobs as you deal damage. Havoc focuses around building fury through basic attacks or a few basic attack modifiers before unleashing it for large chunks of damage with other spells in your kit. I’ve spent most of my time so far as Havoc, primarily because it’s what you’re given at the start and I didn’t want to confuse my poor little brain any more then I already was. You’re given a choice between rolling as a melee DPS with the Havoc spec or as a beefy Tank with the Vengeance spec.
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The Demon Hunter (or Illidari as they’re also known, named after their leader Illidan - by their leader Illidan - in a fit of vanity) is a melee class with some nice tools but an overall lacklustre kit. We’ll be taking a gander at the whole expansion once I finally hit its level cap (110!), but for now we’re focusing on its new class: the Demon Hunter. World of Warcraft’s “Legion” expansion is the sixth addition to the MMORPG and is Blizzard’s attempt to repent for the not-so-well-received “Warlords of Draenor”. It’s been a little over two weeks now since since the Burning Legion came crashing back into Azeroth, bringing with it the Broken Isles, a new class and whole lot more green.