Vengeance Demon Hunter Leveling Guide from 8 to 90 — Midnight Season 1

Due to it being a Tank specialization, Vengeance is capable of a multitude of effective ways of leveling. The ability to pull large groups of enemies quickly by moving around with Infernal Strike, and self-sustaining large amounts of damage through consuming Soul Fragments, makes it fairly efficient at questing despite doing less damage than a DPS specialization. Alternatively, you will also enjoy short, if not instant queues to dungeons, which means that you can also speedrun dungeons for experience by gathering a ton of enemies and clearing dungeons in only a handful of pulls.

If this is your first character, or you simply want to find out more about leveling in WoW in general we have guide that can help you figure out your leveling journey:

Item level is always more important than individual stats when leveling up. Always choose the piece of gear with the highest item level. Items with Speed tertiary stats can help speed up your leveling, especially during parts of extended time spent indoors.

Heirloom gear are also a useful part when leveling, letting you ignore a lot of gearing for a large part of your leveling journey. For more information on how Heirlooms work you can visit our Heirloom guide by pressing the button below.

You unlock your Demon Hunter talent tree at level 10 and will get access to points to spend in the Vengeance tree every level after that.

If you are just starting your journey into Midnight, we have a Level 80 import string for you. You can follow the point-by-point allocation of the below tree once you start gaining levels in Midnight.

Below are what talents and abilities are recommended that you access as you level. Note that talents may differ from what is recommended for other content once you hit level 90.

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1. Use Metamorphosis.
2. Use Sigil of Spite.
3. Use Soul Carver.
4. Use Fiery Brand.
5. Use Fel Devastation.
6. Use Sigil of Flame.
7. Use Immolation Aura.
8. Use Spirit Bomb with 5 Soul Fragments.
9. Use Soul Cleave 2 or more Soul Fragments.
10. Use Felblade to build Fury.
11. Use Fracture to build Fury and Soul Fragments.

As you level in Midnight there are certain consumables you could consider using to speed up leveling. Below is a list of a few items that can be useful in some situations.

• Umbral Essentia can be used in a similar fashion to Shadowmeld to drop combat, which can be very useful both in outdoor content to let you drop combat to mount, or to skip enemies as you go between quests in areas with many enemies.
• Invigorating Healing Potion can be useful to give a burst of healing if you find yourself fighting too many enemies at some point while leveling.
• Enchants that give Speed for Cloak and Bracers can be useful if only to slightly speed up your process whenever you are unable to mount.
• Speed consumables can help speed up your journey to some extent, including foods like Exquisitely Eviscerated Muscle which can be useful to speed up your process whenever you are unable to mount.
• Tempered Potion can be combined with cooldowns to deal slightly more damage when leveling, which might speed your process up a bit if you have some lying around.

Questing in War Mode provides at least 10% additional experience and three new talents to choose. You will unlock one talent slot at level 20, 30, and level 40. There are several good choices depending on the content you are doing and whether or not you are playing solo.

• Everlasting Hunt is a passive ability that increases your movement speed by 15% for 3 seconds when dealing damage. This ability is designed to move from pack to pack quickly and more efficiently.
• Jagged Spikes reflects damage back to the attacker for 30% of the damage received when Demon Spikes is active. A strong tool to speed up how fast you can kill enemies while leveling.
• Illidan's Grasp crowd controls 1 target for 6 seconds. If the ability is activated again, throw the target at a location within 40 yards and stun everything in the target area for 3 seconds. This ability provides additional crowd control and is fun to use.
• Tormentor debuffs the target when taunted, applying the Focused Assault debuff, which increases the damage received by 3%. Your melee attacks refresh the duration of Focused Assault. Each unique target up to 5 that hits the target will stack Focused Assault by an additional 3%. This ability will provide a decent single-target damage buff in a party.
• Detainment increases the duration of Imprison by 2 seconds and makes the imprisoned target immune to damage and healing. This talent is amazing for arena and battlegrounds, but it should not be picked for leveling. Imprisoning a target while using this talent will put you into combat and prevents monster skipping when leveling.
• Unending Hatred increases Fury generation based on magic damage received. Larger attacks will increase Fury generation. This talent is quite situational and weak while leveling.
• Cleansed by Flame removes all magical effects when you cast Immolation Aura. This talent is situational, but it can be very strong depending on the situation.
• Demonic Trample transforms you into a demon and increases your movement speed by 175%. Any enemy hit with the trample will be knocked and receive physical damage. You are immune to snares while trampling. Demonic Trample shares cooldown with Infernal Strike. This ability is decent to move around inside caves and other places where you cannot mount.
• Sigil Mastery reduces the cooldown of sigils by 25% which can be useful if you are leveling by doing large pulls while questing.
• Reverse Magic removes all harmful magic effects on you and all allies within 10 yards and, if possible, returns them to their caster. It has a 1-minute cooldown. It can provide situational value while leveling.
• Blood Moon empowers your Consume Magic to now affect all enemies within 8 yards of the target and grants 5% leech for 5 seconds after using it.
• Chaotic Imprint makes your Throw Glaive deal damage from a random school of magic, leaving a mark increasing their damage taken from that school by 10% for 20 seconds. A good talent to increase damage done to enemies that you gather with Throw Glaive.
• Cover of Darkness increases the radius of Darkness by 4 yards and increases its duration by 2 seconds.
• Rain from Above launches you up in the air and grants access to Fel Lance allowing you to deal damage to enemies on the ground.
• Glimpse grants you immunity to loss of control effects while under the effect of Vengeful Retreat and reduces damage taken by 75% until you land. A talent that will not add much to your leveling experience.