Vengeance Demon Hunter Tank Gear and Best in Slot — Midnight (12.0.1)

Welcome to our Gear and BiS Page for Vengeance Demon Hunter for the Midnight. Check this page to learn everything you need to know about gearing a Vengeance Demon Hunter, including some of the best Gear from all sources, Raiding, and Mythic+, information on the best Trinkets, Tier Sets, and much more.

For discussion and information on Stats specifically, check out our Stats page below.

Upgrading gear in Midnight continues to use the Crest system which lets you increase the item level of gear along tracks that relate to where you obtained the item, which harder content dropping gear that can be upgraded to higher Item Levels. If you follow the link below you will reach our dedicated page on how the gearing system works and what has changed as we enter the Midnight expansion.

More information about all the changes that has been added in the Midnight expansion, including new content, changes to gear and more in our dedicated Midnight hub which you reach from the button below.

2.

Best-in-Slot (BiS) Gear for Vengeance Demon Hunter

Pre-Season BiS

3.

Pre-Season BiS List for Vengeance Demon Hunter

This list contains the Best in Slot Gear for Vengeance Demon Hunter available before Season 1 launches. This limits gear to dungeon content available before Raid and Mythic+ launches. Initially increasing your item level is more important than looting a specific item.

Slot	Item	Source/Note
Weapon Main-Hand	Singularity Slicer	Voidscar Arena
Weapon Off-Hand	Singularity Slicer	Voidscar Arena
Helm	Fetid Vilecrown	Maisara Caverns
Neck	Yoke of the Charging Bear	Den of Nalorakk
Shoulder	Scavenger's Spaulders	Den of Nalorakk
Cloak	Defiant Defender's Drape	Magister's Terrace
Chest	Hide of Pestilence	Voidscar Arena
Bracers	Custodial Cuffs	Magister's Terrace
Gloves	Gauntlets of Fevered Defense	Murder Row
Belt	Falconer's Cinch	Maisara Caverns
Legs	Legwraps of Lingering Legacies	Windrunner Spire
Boots	Eclipse Espadrilles	Nexus-Point Xenas
Ring #1	Occlusion of Void	Nexus-Point Xenas
Ring #2	Omission of Light	Nexus-Point Xenas
Trinket #1	Heart of Wind	Windrunner Spire
Trinket #2	Permafrost Essence	Den of Nalorakk

Throughout this page, we regularly refer to the importance of simming yourself on Raidbots, as it is an indispensable aspect of optimizing your character.

If you are new to simming and Raidbots, check out our detailed guide below.

Crafting is a very useful way of getting access to high Item Level gear, with the ability to craft a high Item Level gear piece unlocking every other week during Season 1. Before then we are limited to very low Item Level gear.

Since you will be limited during Season 1 in how many items you can craft it is worth planning ahead what items can be useful to grab. Generally it is best to avoid crating in one of the five slots that are occupied by tier items. Early on in a Season crafting a high Item Level Weapon is usually a good choice for Tanks, followed by Embellishments, empowered gear of which you can wear two pieces.

For more information about crafting gear you can visit our Profession page through the button below:

Generally it is not recommended to invest Gold into Embellishments before a Season launches, but if you want to try some out and Gold is not and issue, then the following seem like decent options.

1. Darkmoon Sigil: Hunt on a weapon, preferably a Warglaive.
2. Arcanoweave Lining on any armor slot.

You will be able to upgrade your items via Crests, such as Veteran Dawncrest. Once you have upgraded a slot to a certain item level, upgrading other items of that slot to that item level is free.

When you upgrade with Crests, you should think of it as upgrading slots and not items.

Additionally, to speed up gearing, you will generally want to obtain the highest item-level possible before upgrading a given slot, as this means you will spend fewer Crests on that slot in total.

Below is the slot priority you should upgrade your items in. It is essentially based on "which slot gives the most DPS and survivability if you increase its Item Level".

1. Main-hand Weapon
2. Trinkets
3. Helm/Chest/Legs
4. Shoulders/Gloves/Belt/Boots
5. Rings/Necks/Off-hand Weapon
6. Cloaks/Bracers

Note that exceptions are possible, such as special items that have more Item Level scaling than their slot would imply.