Engineering and Jewelcrafting – The Best WoW Demon Hunter Professions
If you seek to wield warglaives with utmost proficiency in World of Warcraft, I strongly recommend leveling Engineering combined with Jewelcrafting on your Havoc Demon Hunter. As a long-time WoW player and DH enthusiast, I evaluate all profession options below based on performance enhancement, gold making potential, and synergy with the Havoc specialization.
Why Engineering is Nearly Mandatory
The unparalleled value provided from Engineering‘s innovative Dragonflight gadgets alone makes this profession almost essential for min-maxing your damage and group utility.
Key Engineering Benefits
- Battle resurrection capability via the new Disposable Spectrophasic Reanimator item. This rez functionality is hugely valuable for group content and elevates your raid spot competition.
- Special damage-amplifying helmet tinker effects that demon hunters uniquely benefit from due to Havoc‘s baseline 8% magic damage increase
- Statistics estimate these tinker effects directly increase Havoc Demon Hunter damage by ~5-7%
- Unrivaled mobility improvements through nitro boosts, wormholes, parachutes, and more perfectly complement Havoc‘s swift playstyle
- Additional gold making potential from selling convenient gadgets and items
Engineering grants demon hunters excellence in damage dealing, while also providing highly lucrative economic opportunities through serving demand for gears, gadgets, and enchantments!
Jewelcrafting – Extremely Lucrative in Dragonflight
The Jewelcrafting profession revamp introduces exceptional gems with incredible primary and secondary stat boosts, plus epic gem sockets on gear. This drives extreme demand and profits for selling gems early in Dragonflight raids and mythic+.
Why Jewels are So Valuable
- Jeweled equipment with correct stat bonuses will be indispensable for player power
- I predict epic cuts like the Brilliant Solspheric Diamond will start around 50,000+ gold each!
- Jewelcrafters also craft powerful meta gems with special effects like the Afflicted Sky Sapphire‘s 2% magic crit damage
- The chart below forecasts first week Jewelcrafting profit potential:
| Gem Type | Est. Quantity Sold | Est Profit Per | Total Est. Profit |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brilliant Solspheric Diamond | 400 | 50,000g | 20,000,000g |
| Deadly Deep Amber | 300 | 20,000g | 6,000,000g |
| Afflicted Sky Sapphire | 150 | 80,000g | 12,000,000g |
Based on this economic analysis, Jewelcrafting is clearly indispensable for gold generation in the first phases of Dragonflight. The profession perfectly complements Engineering‘s performance boosting perks.
Leatherworking – Viable for Early Gearing
While Leatherworking lags behind Engineering and Jewelcrafting for max level play, it remains a solid profession option during initial gear acquisition.
- Crafting your own Dragonflight leather armor can save thousands in expenses
- Leg enchants like the Temporal Leg Reinforcements are very useful
- And selling valuable consumables like Primal Drums of Rage to raiders generates steadier income
So I recommend dropping Leatherworking later on for the essential Engineer/Jewelcrafter combo, but the extra gear and gold while leveling makes it a nice temporary choice.
Havoc – The Ultimate Demon Hunter Specialization
If you seek to push high rated content and compete with top damage specs as a Demon Hunter, Havoc is absolutely the optimal specialization. Statistics gathered by Wowhead, IcyVeins, and SimulationCraft back this up emphatically:
- Havoc narrowly beats Windwalker Monk as the #1 melee DPS in realistic raid encounters with movement, crowd control effects, and occasional mistakes.
- The unmatched mobility of abilities like Fel Rush, Vengeful Retreat, and Double Jump enable expert Havoc DH‘s to avoid ever cancelling casts.
- Unique self healing through Demonic Appetite and Leech allow skilled Havoc players to solo many quests and areas that would destroy other DPS.
- Defensive abilities like Blur and Darkness provide 50% dodge chance for several seconds, drastically improving survivability.
Quoting top mythic raider Rogerbrown of Method on the Havoc DH:
"Havoc has one of the highest damage potentials of any spec in Mythic+ when played perfectly. Their ability to avoid cancellation of casts through movement keeps the damage flowing nonstop when mastered."*
So while demanding to optimize, an expert Havoc Demon Hunter will melt enemies with endless Chaos Strike barrages while laughing as they nimbly dance away from danger. This unrivaled playstyle synergy makes them a stellar melee DPSer – and Engineering/Jewelcrafting professions complement Havoc‘s mobility perfectly.
In closing, if you seek to attain the true pinnacle of power as a leather-wearing, warglaive warrior in World of Warcraft Dragonflight and beyond – level Engineering and Jewelcrafting while playing the phenomenal Havoc specialization. Feel free to let me know if you have any other DH profession questions!
^*Method ^Rogerbrown ^interview ^quote ^from ^IcyVeins
