Vengeance Demon Hunter Best Legendaries in Shadowlands — Dragonflight 10.2.5
Legendary Powers are targetable, unique effects that you can imbue certain base items with through the Runecarving system. In Shadowlands, these enable you to customize your Vengeance Demon Hunter, drastically improving your performance, and are arguably the most important aspect of your gear.
The purpose of this page is to help you pick the right legendary powers (and item slots for them) for your character, depending on the content you are interested in.
Vengeance Demon Hunter Legendaries
Legendaries are special equipment that has been empowered by the Runecarver inside of Torghast. Legendaries are broken down into spec-specific Legendaries that only affect Vengeance, and class-specific ones that affect generic Demon Hunter abilities.
Starting in Dragonflight Legendary Powers are only going to be active in Shadowlands content. Further should a Legendary Power be part of the new Talent Trees the Talent version will overwrite the Legendary Power, making the effect of the Legendary deactivate.
Best Overall Legendary for Vengeance Demon Hunter
Fiery Soul is a strong, consistent defensive and offensive option.
Fiery Brand cooldown is lowered by 2 seconds for each Soul consumed
by
Soul Cleave. With the addition of the talent
Fiery Demise
this Legendary adds noticeable damage, so it will be your strongest offensive
and defensive option. Since the cooldown reduction doesn't work with Soul
Fragments consumed by
Spirit Bomb it is not advised to talent into
it unless the encounter consists of many groups of more than 5 enemies.
Razelikh's Defilement is the standard Legendary Power for
anyone running Kyrian Covenant in raid for the cooldown reduction for
Elysian Decree. Due to a bug the effect of
Razelikh's Defilement does not work if you are talented into
Precise Sigils.
Unity Power
Unity was added in Patch 9.2 and it provides you with your
current Covenant's Legendary power. The power will automatically swap when your
Covenant is swapped. This can be equipped at the same time as any
other Legendary. You can get
Cinch of Unity from finishing
the Zereth Mortis Campaign. The power
(
Memory of Unity) itself can be purchased from The Enlightened vendor at
Revered which allows you to put the power on any equipment slot if
you do not want it on the belt. This is a free Legendary power that should be
used at all times once unlocked.
The powers provided by
Unity are:
Blind Faith: Kyrian power that spawns 2 extra
Lesser Soul Fragments when
Elysian Decree hits a target and provides
the buff Blind Faith for 20 seconds. For each Lesser Soul Fragment consumed,
you gain 10 Fury and 1% versatility, up to 20%.
Agony Gaze: Venthyr power that does 10% increased
Sinful Brand damage and increases the duration of Sinful Brand by
0.75 seconds when
Fel Devastation deals damage.
Blazing Slaughter: Night Fae power that causes you to be
engulfed in
Immolation Aura and gain 4%
Agility for 12 seconds for each enemy hit by
The Hunt
Demonic Oath: Necrolord power that applies
Fiery Brand
on 5 nearby enemies for 5 seconds
when the
Fodder to the Flame's demon explodes. Additionally, Shattered
Soul's duration is increased by 8 seconds.
Best Raiding Legendaries for Vengeance Demon Hunter
These are the recommended Legendaries for Raiding. Survivability and damage are considered.
Fiery Soul is a good, consistent offensive and defensive option for
Vengeance.
Fiery Brand cooldown is lowered by 2 seconds for each Soul
consumed by
Soul Cleave. This Legendary adds noticeable damage, so it
will be your strongest offensive and defensive option.
This should be worn on the Wrist or Hand slot.
Razelikh's Defilement will lower the cooldown of
Elysian Decree by 2 seconds when casting
Soul Cleave, if
Kyrian is the selected Covenant. This will increase both
single-target and AoE damage slightly. This should be worn on the Wrist slot.
Best Mythic+ and Torghast Legendaries for Vengeance Demon Hunter
These are the recommended Legendaries for Mythic+ and Torghast. Survivability, damage, and utility are considered.
Fiery Soul is a strong, consistent defensive and offensive option.
Fiery Brand cooldown is lowered by 2 seconds for each Soul consumed
by
Soul Cleave. With the addition of the talent
Fiery Demise
this Legendary adds noticeable damage, so it will be your strongest offensive
and defensive option. Since the cooldown reduction doesn't work with Soul
Fragments consumed by
Spirit Bomb it is not advised to talent into
it unless the dungeon has groups of far more than 5 enemies.
Darkglare Boon is a strong Legendary Power for a defensive
build in Mythic+; it provides a chance for
Fel Devastation
to not trigger its cooldown and refund the Fury cost. This power will give a
significant increase in uptime of
Metamorphosis thanks to the talent
Demonic.
Due to the deactivation of
Vengeance DH 4-Piece and the addition of a talent
with similar effects overwriting the legendary it is no longer the best
legendary power available.
Razelikh's Defilement will lower the cooldown of
Elysian Decree by 2 seconds when casting
Soul Cleave if
Kyrian is the selected Covenant. This will increase both single target
and AoE damage marginally. This will also decrease the cooldown of a Sigil
selected at random by 8 seconds. This increases overall utility.
Changelog
- 20 Mar. 2023: Reviewed for Patch 10.0.7.
- 10 Nov. 2022: Minor updates to Legendary powers.
- 24 Oct. 2022: Updated for Dragonflight Pre-Patch.
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This guide is written by Meyra, a Vengeance main with a love for pushing Mythic+ keys and showcasing Proof of Concept keys with 5 tanks or other non-standard group compositions. They are a distinguished member and frequent contributor to Vengeance theory in the Demon Hunter class discord, and also occasionally stream Vengeance and other tank content on Twitch.
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