We present to you the two artifact weapons that Demon Hunters can obtain in World of Warcraft: Legion.
With the upcoming expansion of WoW: Legion, all classes will receive artifact weapons that become increasingly powerful throughout the expansion. Each specialization will get its own artifact, closely tied to the storyline of the add-on, offering numerous customization options and upgrades. In a new article series, we will highlight the weapons for each class individually, starting today with the Demon Hunters – the new class in Legion.
Only 2 weapons for Demon Hunters in World of Warcraft: Legion
Unlike other classes, Demon Hunters are handed their artifact weapons right in the starting area. Since the class has “only” two specializations (Havoc and Vengeance), the number of weapons is also limited. We present both weapon pairs to you.
Havoc – Twin Blades of the Deceiver (the artifact for DD Demon Hunters)
Background story: Among the first Demon Hunters of the Blood Elves is Varedis Soulwrath, who was trained by the Illidari. After surpassing all his masters in just one year, he became a trainer of new Demon Hunters and served his master Illidan in the Temple of Karabor in the Twisting Nether for a long time. The players killed him during a quest line, but Kil’jaeden did not allow him to die and revived Varedis in the Twisting Nether. There, the former Blood Elf ultimately renounced his mortality and gave in to the demon within him. As a “thank you” for this decision, the Eredar granted Varedis and his blades immense power – a power that would soon change hands.
Features of the Twin Blades of the Deceiver: The Havoc specialization is designed to deal damage. Therefore, many features of the Twin Blades enhance damage or grant entirely new abilities.
- It all starts with Fury of the Illidari, which unleashes a whirlwind of strikes in an area, dealing high damage for 6 seconds. Depending on which direction you then invest in the weapon’s “talent tree”, more powerful abilities become available.
- Rage of the Illidari ensures that after the duration of Fury of the Illidari, 100% of the damage dealt is caused as an explosion around the Demon Hunter.
- Anguish of the Deceiver improves the eye beam and applies a stack of “Anguish” to the target with each hit. Depending on how many hits you land, Anguish then causes a small damage spike on the target.
- Inner Demons provides an interesting effect: Whenever the Demon Hunter hits a target with Chaos Strike, there is a chance to unleash the character’s “inner demon,” which rains down on the target and causes massive area damage.
Vengeance – Warblades of the Aldrachi (the artifact for Tank Demon Hunters)
Background story: The onslaught of the Legion began many eons ago, as the fallen Titan Sargeras devoured one world after another with his demonic armies of the Burning Legion. No known world (except Azeroth) could withstand him for long, and very few refused to join the Legion. One of these special races were the Aldrachi, who did not want to succumb to corruption and stood against the demons for a while. Sargeras himself had to defeat the strongest champion of the Aldrachi and took his weapons as loot. Sargeras handed the blades to his officer Kil’jaeden, who in turn gave them to a converted Demon Hunter to use the weapons for the Legion – since then, the power of the Aldrachi has been in the hands of the demons.
Features of the Warblades of the Aldrachi: As Vengeance is a specialization for tanks, many of the features of the Warblades are designed for damage avoidance, increasing health, or self-healing.
- The “starting feature” is Soul Carver, which deals high damage to a target and generates a small amount of soul fragments (which other abilities can consume).
- Painbringer ensures that every devoured soul fragment reduces the damage taken by 3% for 4 seconds.
- Charred Warblades enhances self-healing, as the feature converts 15% of the fire damage dealt into healing for the Demon Hunter.
- Also interesting is Fueled by Pain. It gives a chance to enter the state of Metamorphosis for 5 seconds for free every time a soul fragment is devoured.
In the coming days and weeks, we will also present the other artifact weapons of the various classes.
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