Vengeance Demon Hunter Guide for Midnight Season 2 (Patch 12.1)
viewsAbout the Spec
The Vengeance Demon Hunter is a tank whose primary stat is Agility. In combat it wields two one-handed warglaives. The spec offers excellent survivability, solid damage and a large toolkit for controlling one or many targets.
Strengths
- Excellent mobility and a wide array of abilities for gathering enemies.
- A simple defensive rotation that lets you pick up the spec quickly and perform well.
- Access to AoE crowd control and group-wide damage immunity for both raid and party.
Weaknesses
- Hero talents grant a random proc of a strong defensive ability, which can fire at the wrong moment and fail to fire when you need it.
- Some defensive abilities are debuffs that require a target to apply, which can be awkward at the very start of a fight.
Stat Priority
Agility
Haste
Versatility
Critical Strike
MasteryTalents
Rotation (Ability Priority)
The opener is a set sequence of abilities you use as you engage an enemy. Memorising it helps initiate your rotation in the most optimal way possible.
- 1
Immolation Aura - 2
Fiery Brand - 3
Immolation Aura - 4
Sigil of Spite - 5
Fracture - 6
Spirit Bomb - 7
Soul Carver - 8
Metamorphosis - 9Fracture
- 10Spirit Bomb
- 11
Soul Cleave
- Fiery Brand
- Fiery Brand
- Metamorphosis
Demonsurge- Fiery Brand
- Metamorphosis — if you currently have fewer than 2 stacks of Demonsurge
- Spirit Bomb — with 5+ Soul Fragments if you have 3 stacks of Demonsurge
- Soul Cleave — with at least 3 Soul Fragments if you have 3 stacks of Demonsurge
- Fracture — if you have 2 charges or are about to reach 2 charges
- Sigil of Spite
- Soul Carver
- Spirit Bomb — on cooldown when you have at least 5
Soul Fragments; hold it briefly if you plan to use Fiery Brand within about 5 seconds - Immolation Aura
- Soul Cleave — if you have 5 or more Soul Fragmentsand Spirit Bomb is on cooldown
Fel Devastation — when you have 3 or fewer Soul Fragments- Immolation Aura — ideally without overcapping your Fury
- Soul Cleave — when you have at least 3 Soul Fragments
- Fracture
Felblade- Soul Cleave — when you have 2 or fewer Soul Fragments
Throw Glaive — as a filler
Best in Slot (BiS)
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Enchants, Gems, Consumables
Leveling
From the very first level you already have damage abilities. Your main early abilities are Felblade and Fel Devastation.
As you level up you gain new abilities and get closer to your core rotation. We recommend following this ability priority as they become available:
Handy Tips for Mythic+
Use 
Chaos Nova and 
Sigil of Misery to interrupt casts and control groups of enemies.
You can use 
Imprison to cage an enemy and walk past it without pulling aggro. This ability is very useful in dungeons for skipping difficult packs without fighting them.
The ability 
Darkness grants the group full immunity to incoming damage (for a party of 5). Be sure to use it during heavy mob or boss abilities aimed at group members. It also lets you skip some boss mechanics in dungeons, but this requires coordinated play from everyone.
Macros
#showtooltip Fel Rush /cast [@cursor] Fel Rush
#showtooltip Sigil of Misery /cast [@cursor] Sigil of Misery
#showtooltip Disrupt /cast [target=mouseover, exists] Disrupt; Disrupt
Author
Fouren
Fouren has been playing World of Warcraft for over 15 years. He is an active player with 12 Cutting Edge achievements under his belt, and has reached the top 1% and 0.1% multiple times on various classes. His main classes are healers, particularly Holy Paladin.
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