Vengeance Demon Hunter Tank Guide — The War Within Pre-Patch

Demon Hunters are the kings of mobility in raids and dungeons. In general, they can move around more and more quickly than many other specs, thanks to Infernal Strike, as well as various talents that aid their mobility. Additionally, they excel at burst AoE damage, with many abilities dealing AoE and cleave damage. They also excel at dungeon utility with their sigils.

Vengeance Demon Hunter gameplay features a mix of healing and damage mitigation, with low-cost but low uptime of active mitigation, the ability to mitigate magic damage well, and extremely high burst healing potential.

Strengths

• One of the highest mobility specs in the game.
• Strong utility for Mythic+ despite nerfs.
• High damage output especially when accounting for Chaos Brand.
• Extremely strong defensively with a proper talent setup.
• Great sustain with self-healing and leech.

Weaknesses

• Utility comes at a moderate offensive or defensive cost.
• Mediocre Single Target damage without specific talents.
• Misplaying will hurt the flow of your rotation a lot.

If you are interested in playing one of the most unique tank specs in Dragonflight, please check out the leveling guide.

Addons are a very important part of maximizing your play at max level in both dungeons and raids. As a Vengeance player, it is important to track important resources, like the number of souls available or the amount of Fury needed to cast Fel Devastation. The UI plays an essential part of being successful. Moving need-to-know information to the center of the screen can save your life by not forcing your eyes away from your character at pivotal moments. If you are interested to know what Addons we recommend, please click the link below.

Vengeance is all about resource management, including active mitigation, healing, damage, and monster control. The rotation is all about building souls as quickly as possible and then consuming them with either Spirit Bomb or Soul Cleave. Outside of the build/spend cycle, you will be weaving in multiple sigils to help crowd-control the monsters.

As a beginner, you may start out using Shear as you begin to learn the rotation and start to feel out how to properly use Demon Spikes. If you are a beginner, the best place to start becoming familiar with the spec is by reviewing the Easy Mode Page.

Dragonflight is soaring at us, and with it comes a major talent tree revamp. The new talents will make large changes to the passive powers of Vengeance, as well as reintroduce some old spells and talents and even a few new ones.

The largest change overall is a complete revamp of the Frailty system. Previously only a leech debuff, Frailty now has several talent points reworking it into a debuff that weakens enemies and empowers you against them. More on these reworked talents and how to use them can be found in the talents and rotations guides, respectively.

Vengeance has been easier to gear than most other specs. Even though we do have a stat preference, we scale better with the overall item level. For the players who care about being as efficient as possible with their gearing, the link below will have the most updated list for the current gear tier.

Despite item level being the strongest factor in gearing, we do care about what secondary stats we choose when comparing two items of the same item level. The link below shows the stat preference and which consumables are important to maximize gameplay.

Vengeance is a strong tank in Mythic+ with lots of strong tools at its disposal. For more information, visit the link below to get to our Mythic+ page for Vengeance.

Becoming an experienced Vengeance player does not happen overnight. It takes practice, research, trial and error, and simulations. Below are links to help every player to aspire to the highest levels of gameplay.