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Havoc Demon Hunter

Aldrachi Reaver

Not supported in this fight ⓘPatched ⓘ

With the Single-Button Assistant and its cooldowns, Havoc Demon Hunter (Aldrachi Reaver) deals 80% of perfect manual play in M+ dungeons (rank 32 of 51) and 81% of perfect manual play on a raid boss (rank 27 of 51). In M+, the best build we found for the button deals 2.8% more than SimulationCraft's.

At a glance

4-piece set · SimulationCraft's talents · share of manual DPS kept

FightManual DPSSBA + cooldownSBA aloneAssisted HighlightRank (SBA + cooldown)
M+ dungeon320,27279.6%−20.36%34.2%−65.83%87.6%−12.40%32 of 51
Raid boss257,89181.1%−18.92%29.6%−70.35%86.8%−13.24%27 of 51

Against real +15 players

Real dungeons · data from 7 Nov 2026

−5%damage with the button and cooldowns, simulated on real +15 routes, against typical Havoc Demon Hunter (Aldrachi Reaver) players, from 183 real runs. This spec is not ranked in SimulationCraft's generic M+ fight above, which it does not support; the real routes use another fight style that it does support.

All specs against real players, and how it is measured

Fight
Tier set
Talents

What the assistant costs

M+ dungeon · 4-piece set · Best talents for the button · data as of 2026-11-11 08:07 UTC

81%of manual DPS with SBA + cooldown. SBA alone reaches 34%, Assisted Highlight 87%.
  1. Manual324.0Kreference
  2. SBA + cooldown262.3K81% of manual
  3. SBA alone110.8K34% of manual
  4. Assisted Highlight283.0K87% of manual
SimulationCraft does not support this fight for Havoc Demon Hunter.Its own report says results for this spec in the M+ dungeon are inaccurate and should not be used, so the build is not ranked there. The raid boss figures are not affected.
Patched: SimulationCraft needs a fix to play Blizzard's list for this spec.Patch 0005-demonhunter-sba-button-overrides. In the game Metamorphosis turns Blade Dance into Death Sweep and Chaos Strike into Annihilation, Throw Glaive becomes Reaver's Glaive, and several Devourer buttons change in place (Consume becomes Devour, Reap becomes Cull, Voidblade becomes Hungering Slash, Pierce the Veil or Reaper's Toll, Metamorphosis becomes Collapsing Star). SimulationCraft never pressed the new buttons. The patch lets each button become its replacement. Without the fix (SimulationCraft as published, or Raidbots) the assistant's figures differ; manual play is not affected.

Best Mythic+ talents for the button

For one-button play in M+, import this build: +2.8% damage with SBA + cooldown over SimulationCraft's build.

Best of 10 builds tested with the button (SimulationCraft's and the top 10 Mythic+ players' on murlok.io, plus a talent search), 2026-10-03: a talent search for the button, one talent swap at a time from the build of the #3 M+ player on murlok.io. SimulationCraft does not support the M+ fight for this spec, so treat it as a rough guide.

One-button damage (SBA + cooldown DPS), M+ dungeon, 4-piece

  1. Best M+ build for the buttonRecommended262,314+2.8%
  2. SimulationCraft's build255,073
Best M+ build for the button: talent string Recommended for one-button
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SimulationCraft's build: talent string
CEkAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYgZmZ2MmZmxMzkxMDAAAAAAYWegxsNDzMz2MzYZmxMWmZYmlZ2mBDjlNmkxMjhFAAAAAAAwMDwAAAAwA

In game, open the talent window, choose Import and paste it. The best build we found for the button. Every figure on this page uses it.

Best raid talents for the button

SimulationCraft's raid build is already the best we found for one-button play on a raid boss.

Talent search for the button on the raid boss, 4-piece set (2026-11-10): it starts from SimulationCraft's raid build, tries every legal single talent swap, keeps the ones that add damage and repeats, never touching a defensive talent; a build wins only when it beats SimulationCraft's raid build by more than 0.2 %. Perfect manual play keeps SimulationCraft's raid build, so the Ranking compares the button on its best talents with the best manual build.

SimulationCraft's raid build (best on the raid boss for the button): talent string Recommended for one-button
CEkAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYgZmZ2MmZmxMzkxMDAAAAAAYWegxsNDzMz2MzYZmxMWmZYmlZ2mBDjlNmkxMjhFAAAAAAAwMDwAAAAwA

In game, open the talent window, choose Import and paste it.

Where the damage comes from

M+ dungeon · 4-piece set · Best talents for the button · data as of 2026-11-11 08:07 UTC

Compare manual play with

Damage per second and casts per ability, averaged over the simulated fights. Pets and summons show their own name in brackets.

AbilityManualSBA + cooldownSBA + cooldown vs manual
Wounded Quarry40.0K12.3% · 166.6 casts23.9K9.1% · 139.6 casts−16.1K
Soulscar34.1K10.5%27.5K10.5%−6,618
Death Sweep (First Blood 4)19.1K5.9%15.1K5.8%−3,987
Reaver's Glaive16.7K5.2% · 29.2 casts12.0K4.6% · 23.1 casts−4,728
Perfected Guillotine15.6K4.8% · 27.7 casts15.1K5.8% · 27.1 casts−433
Essence Break (Proc Damage)13.8K4.3% · 62.8 casts12.1K4.6% · 60.1 casts−1,707
Essence Break13.2K4.1% · 11.3 casts12.2K4.6% · 9.4 casts−1,015
Eye Beam (Tick)13.1K4.0%11.5K4.4%−1,621
Annihilation (Damage 1)12.9K4.0%7,8313.0%−5,023
Annihilation (Damage 2)9,7823.0%5,9452.3%−3,837
Eye Beam (Empowered Tick)7,9992.5%9,3793.6%+1,380
Fury of the Aldrachi (1)8,6332.7%3,8001.4%−4,833
Fury of the Aldrachi (2)8,5692.6%3,7811.4%−4,788
Fury of the Aldrachi (3)8,5132.6%3,7601.4%−4,753
Auto Attack (Main Hand)7,6552.4% · 190 casts7,4012.8% · 186.6 casts−254
The Hunt (DoT)7,0192.2%7,6462.9%+627
Trail of Ruin (Death Sweep)6,1001.9%5,3482.0%−752
Glaive Tempest (MH)5,3691.7%5,3682.0%−1
Total324.4K262.4K−62.1K

A dash means the ability was never used in that mode. Damage is attributed the way SimulationCraft reports it, so a pet's damage appears under the pet.

Questions about Havoc Demon Hunter (Aldrachi Reaver)

What are the best Mythic+ talents for Havoc Demon Hunter (Aldrachi Reaver) with the one-button rotation?

The best build we found for the Single-Button Assistant in Mythic+ deals 2.8% more damage with the button than SimulationCraft's build. It was the best of 10 builds tested (SimulationCraft's and the top 10 Mythic+ players' on murlok.io), plus a talent search for the button. Its talent string is on this page, ready to import. The raid build is searched separately.

How much DPS does Havoc Demon Hunter (Aldrachi Reaver) lose with the Single-Button Assistant?

With the Single-Button Assistant and its cooldowns, Havoc Demon Hunter (Aldrachi Reaver) deals 80% of perfect manual play in M+ dungeons (rank 32 of 51) and 81% of perfect manual play on a raid boss (rank 27 of 51). In M+, the best build we found for the button deals 2.8% more than SimulationCraft's.

Related builds

DPS lost with SBA + cooldown, 4-piece set, SimulationCraft's talents (a top player's build for the hero talents SimulationCraft has no profile for). All specs · Ranking

How it's measured, and its limits

  • SBA + cooldown is a best case: the simulator never misplays. It is always better to sim your own character.
  • Manual play is SimulationCraft's own rotation executed perfectly, so it is an upper bound for what a person can do, not a typical player.
  • Assisted Highlight assumes every suggestion is seen and pressed at once, which is generous for a player reading the highlight.
  • The M+ dungeon is SimulationCraft's own DungeonSlice fight style, its approximation of Mythic+ pulls, not a specific dungeon route.
  • Best talents for the button: of SimulationCraft's build, the top 10 Mythic+ players' builds on murlok.io and a talent search for the button, the one that deals the most with SBA + cooldown in the M+ dungeon. Gear and rotation are unchanged.
  • SimulationCraft ships no profile for some hero talents (9 here). Those use SimulationCraft's gear with a top player's build: a top Mythic+ player's build on murlok.io in M+, and on the raid boss the most played build in top raid kills on Warcraft Logs when there are any, otherwise SimulationCraft's raid talents with that Mythic+ build's hero talents (or the Mythic+ build itself where it deals more). No talent search for the button has been run for them yet.
  • SimulationCraft ships no profile at all for Devastation Evoker and Balance Druid. Those use the median gear of real +15 players, raised to the item level of SimulationCraft's profiles, with the build most real players use (or a top player's build where too few play that hero talent), and a talent search for the button.

Full method, reliability rule and patches: Sources · Simulated with SimulationCraft 1210-01 (WoW 12.1.5.70575) 710c240 +16 patches, 10,000 iterations per figure.