Vengeance Demon Hunter Tank Easy Mode — Shadowlands 9.2.5

This page is intended for players who are new to the game or class, have no intentions of raiding Mythic difficulty, or simply want a more straightforward way to play their specialization without being overwhelmed by the numerous subtleties and active abilities that need to be taken into consideration for optimal play.

Vengeance Demon Hunters have strong mobility, which can help during tanking, especially in dungeons. Your main goal throughout fights will be to survive through clever usage of your defensive abilities.

There are two main builds for Vengeance. The first build revolves around maximizing damage and healing through Spirit Bomb. The second playstyle tries to maximize mitigation uptime, by spreading Fiery Brand to every enemy as much as possible. Spirit Bomb should be the go-to spec if the extra survival is not needed for the Mythic+ run. For the full list of talents, please click the link below.

• Level 15: Agonizing Flames or Abyssal Strike (for mobility)
• Level 25: Fallout
• Level 30: Infernal Armor
• Level 35: Fracture
• Level 40: Quickened Sigils (for Kyrian)
• Level 45: Demonic
• Level 50: Last Resort

• Level 15: Agonizing Flames
• Level 25: Fallout
• Level 30: Spirit Bomb
• Level 35: Fracture
• Level 40: Sigil of Chains or Quickened Sigils (for Kyrian)
• Level 45: Demonic
• Level 50: Last Resort

Patch 9.2 introduces set bonuses from the Sepulcher of the First Ones raid. The primary goal will be obtaining the Vengeance DH 2-Piece bonus to greatly improve healing and damage potential due to the number of souls spawning based on the number of enemies actively being tanked. This will allow players to gain extra damage and healing by planning large pulls. The Vengeance DH 4-Piece bonus reduces the cooldown of Fel Devastation and Immolation Aura. This allows for higher uptime of Metamorphosis through the talent Demonic.

Also new with Patch 9.2 is the ability to equip a Covenant Legendary at the same time as a class Legendary. The Cinch of Unity is the Legendary belt that can be purchased at Revered with The Enlightened faction in Zereth Mortis. In the situation where the belt slot is not preferred, the Memory of Unity can be purchased from the same vendor and it can be placed on other pieces via the Runecarver. This Legendary will automatically provide the current Covenant Power and it will change automatically during a Covenant swap.

For more information on Legendary powers or gear, please click the links below.

Currently, you will want to prioritise stats as follows:

1. Agility;
2. Haste;
3. Versatility ≥ Critical Strike;
4. Mastery.

To review the stat priority in more detail, please click the link below.

The basic rotation as a Vengeance Demon Hunter is based on this priority while talented into Spirit Bomb.

1. Fel Devastation on cooldown.
2. Spirit Bomb if 4 or more Souls are active.
3. Immolation Aura if you will not cap on Souls.
4. Fracture if you will not cap on Souls and you are taking the Fracture talent.
5. Soul Cleave for dumping Fury after Spirit Bomb and when you do not have any Souls spawned.
6. Sigil of Flame if not Kyrian and running Razelikh's Defilement. If you are Kyrian and running the Legendary Power Razelikh's Defilement, do not ever use Sigil of Flame.
7. Shear for filler/if you will not cap on Fury/Souls and you do not have Fracture talented.
8. Throw Glaive as a filler.
9. Infernal Strike should be woven into the standard rotation, since it is not on the global cooldown.

The basic rotation as a Vengeance Demon Hunter is based on this priority while not talented into Spirit Bomb.

1. Fel Devastation on cooldown.
2. Soul Cleave if 2 or more Souls are active.
3. Immolation Aura if you will not cap on Souls.
4. Fracture if you will not cap on Souls and you are taking the Fracture talent.
5. Soul Cleave for dumping Fury and when you do not have any Souls spawned.
6. Sigil of Flame if not Kyrian@ and running Razelikh's Defilement. If you are Kyrian and running the Legendary Power Razelikh's Defilement, do not ever use Sigil of Flame.
7. Shear for filler/if you will not cap on Fury/Souls and you do not have Fracture talented.
8. Throw Glaive as a filler.
9. Infernal Strike should be woven into the standard rotation, since it is not on the global cooldown.

For more details on rotation or spell summary, please visit the rotation link below.

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 placed on the target when you anticipate that they will deal high damage to you, or when you simply want to reduce the damage you take.

In addition to that, you have access to a major survivability cooldown in Metamorphosis. This works both pro-actively (to increase your health in preparation for damage) and re-actively, as an emergency cooldown to heal you up when you drop low on health. Additionally, extra 20 Fury is generated when Fracture or Shear is used.

While playing with Demonic, Fel Devastation will trigger Metamorphosis for 8 seconds. In most situations, either Metamorphosis or Demon Spikes is enough to survive and this opportunity allows for Demon Spikes to recharge.