Vengeance Demon Hunter Tank Easy Mode — Midnight Pre-Patch (12.0)

Annihilator offers a relatively simple raid build with good passive defensive coverage. The core concept of this build centers around building and spending Voidfall stacks with your core abilities. This version drops some damage talents to get Last Resort for a safety net, which can be useful, especially when learning new Raid Encounters.

Be sure to make use of the 'Export Talents' button to import the best build directly into your game!

The Dungeon build for Annihilator is very similar to the Raid Build, opting to take some utility and defensive options more applicable to Dungeons at the cost of some weaker damage talents. The core concept of this build centers around building and spending Voidfall stacks with your core abilities. This version drops some damage talents to get Last Resort for a safety net, which can be useful, especially when learning new Dungeons or when progressing into Mythic+ Dungeons.

Be sure to make use of the 'Export Talents' button to import the best build directly into your game!

Below are simplified versions of the rotations with one or multiple targets. For more detailed and in-depth rotation advice visit the Rotation page with the button below.

• As Annihilator use Soul Cleave or Spirit Bomb when you have 3 stacks of Voidfall.
• As Aldrachi Reaver use Reaver's Glaive and finish the Combo by using Fracture and then Soul Cleave.
• Use Fiery Brand and Metamorphosis close to on cooldown.
• Use all of Soul Carver, Sigil of Spite, Immolation Aura, and Sigil of Flame on cooldown.
• Keep Fracture recharging.
• Use Felblade when low on Fury.
• Use Soul Cleave to spend Fury and Soul Fragments for damage and healing.
• Use Throw Glaive as a filler when nothing else is available.

• As Annihilator use Soul Cleave or Spirit Bomb when you have 3 stacks of Voidfall.
• As Aldrachi Reaver use Reaver's Glaive and finish the Combo by using Fracture and then Soul Cleave.
• Use Fiery Brand and Metamorphosis close to on cooldown.
• Use all of Soul Carver, Sigil of Spite, and Sigil of Flame close to on cooldown.
• Use Immolation Aura on cooldown unless you have 5 or more Soul Fragments ready.
• Use Spirit Bomb close to on cooldown when you have 5 or more Soul Fragments ready.
• Keep Fracture recharging.
• Use Soul Cleave to spend Fury and Soul Fragments for damage and healing.
• Use Felblade when low on Fury.
• Use Throw Glaive as a filler when nothing else is available.

Patch 11.1.7 added the Combat Assistant tool, which can help simplify your rotation either by highlighting abilities or by condensing it into a single button, which rotates through abilities for you. These tools rotate through a priority list set up ahead of time by Blizzard and are of varying quality, depending on your Hero Talents of choice. Below is information for both Hero Trees. Do note that the Single-Button Assistant comes with a built-in penalty to the global cooldown, making it 25% longer. Because of this, it will always perform worse than if you use the spells yourself.

The Single-Button Assistant is currently broken and does not use Fracture right now, effectively breaking it completely for both Hero Talents, until this is fixed it is highly recommended to not use it in any situation.

You have one active mitigation ability that you need to use to keep yourself alive, which is Demon Spikes. This should be used frequently, even simply against auto-attacks. Always keep at least one of its charges rolling.

Aside from this, you also have a couple of other abilities you can use to help keep you alive.

Fiery Brand should be used when you think you will take high damage soon or simply to give damage reduction for a period of time.

In addition to that, you have access to a major survivability cooldown in Metamorphosis. This works best when used proactively to increase your health in preparation for incoming damage. Additionally, an additional Soul Fragment and an extra 20 Fury is generated when Fracture is used.