Playing Havoc

Playing Havoc

Keya thoroughly loves being a Vengeance demon hunter. She can be swathed in fire, surrounded by mobs, and standing in boiling oil, and still walk away intact and victorious. It just takes awhile.

With her recent successes Keya is interested in trying something new. She wonders how she would fare in the DPS Havoc spec? She decided to give it a try. This may not be a good idea, Keya realizes this right up front. Certainly her ability to slaughter her enemies becomes easier, but staying alive gets a lot dicier. Still, her curiosity is getting the better of her. Maybe it will even be fun!

"Fun?" Sista had overheard Keya talking to Rakta. Rakta started to say something, but Sista cut her off. "Rok, don't you think you have more important things to do - like learn to open treasure chests? Hmmm?" Rakta snarled and stomped off.

Sista turned to Keya. "Go paint your nails, Keya, I just finished plowing through the Maw for dear Chaitee, the witch, and I'm going to Stormwind and spend some of my gold for all that work. It's time I got something back!"

Sista stormed off, her purse jangling. No one heard Keya's parting comment . . . "about time you stood up for yourself, girl." Keya grinned.

Sista turned out to be a pretty cheap date. She made cow eyes at the male Auctioneer and soon had her pick of new gear, including a chest piece, necklace, shoes, pants, cloak, and wrist, all for under 15,000 gold. Her underwhelming current gear was rated at i804. Her new digs added up to i814. Not bad, but Sista knew what Chaitee had blessed Keya with. Her own 100k makeover was only a matter of time.

Back to Keya. She entered the doorway of Icy Veins, where the most prestigious scholars and weapon masters in all of Azeroth provide guidance and suggestions toward mastering the arts of both death and survival. Keya was well pleased with her last visit. Her Vengeance spec has served her well. She has high expectations for her new challenge as a Havoc demon hunter.

Keya switched specs from Vengeance to Havoc. She checked the spells needed and began setting them up. But something was off. Some of the necessary spells weren't there! When she dug deeper, she was even more confused. Her weapon was gone, too!

A little research gave the answer - The Havoc spec uses a different weapon. Keya has a vague memory of Sista going through a similar process, but Sista couldn't help her because Sista never finished establishing a second weapon. It was up to Keya to figure it out for herself.

Long pause. Very long pause. Keya distinctly remembers earning her Havoc weapon. Yea, so she's forgetful somethimes, but not with this. She's something of a hoarder, too  . . .  Hmm. Keya went rummaging through her bags. Let's see, there's those crafting agents, a bag of partly burnt food (Keya loves to cook food that only she has the stomach to eat), some sentinax beacons (save those for her next party), leftover lures from her fishing expeditions . . . what's in this box? Aghh! Dead fish! Wow, that smells. Aha! There's that weapon. A Fel Etched Glaive? No no, that's not it, either.

Ta da! There they are, the "Twin Blades of the Deceiver." Sniff sniff. Still smelling a bit like fish. No matter. In a very short while her enemies will be smelling their own blood.

Once her new blades were slotted and her spell set was ready Keya tried out her new weaponry on some wild saber cats and withered creatures around the Meridil flight path. It was a good thing the flight master was nearby. Keya had forgotten her hearthstone. But that's a another story.

As far as the killing goes, the Havoc spells are quite powerful. Using them properly is more complicated than Vengeance spells. It's going to take some practice. That was only a quick test. More refinement is needed. For that Keya needs to visit the Fel Hammer.

Keya brought her Twin Blades deep into the ship. She opened her blades to see the ranks of spells. Since this was the first time, there were only two ranks showing: Fury of the Illidari and Warglaives of Chaos. Keya couldn't steal AP from her vengeance weapon, and the blade came with only 100 AP. However, Keya did have artifact relics to go into those two relic slots for Shadow and Fel.

Then Keya remembered she had a fel hammer mission to turn in. She got a bonus from the mission. Her 100 AP blossomed to 18,850. Nice. Keya then had an interesting argument with herself. Which blade should get those AP? Her Vengeance blade is close to being finished, although the amount of AP still needed is prodigious. Her Havoc blade is chaste and the early ranks are inexpensive. Keya made a quick decision before her other half changed her mind. Spend the AP from the mission on the Havoc blade. That will at least jump start her role as a DPS. It cost nothing for her to slot the Fel and Shadow relics, so in they went. The hundred AP she started with bought her one rank, added to the one the weapon came with. She also had in her hands the exact sequence needed to begin filling in more ranks. Keya had failed to make that list when she started filling ranks for Vengeance.

Learning from all the mistakes she'd made before, she followed the guidance. Keya started spending down the AP from the mission. The 18k will do a lot more to help her havoc spec (18k is mere drop in the bucket on the vengeance side). With the AP she had, Keya was able to complete 8 full ranks plus 1 of 3 in her 9th rank. That will have to do for now. And this time she followed directions.