Vengeance Demon Hunter Tank Macros and Addons — 12.0.5
On this page, you will find a number of useful macros and addons to make your life easier when playing your Vengeance Demon Hunter in World of Warcraft — 12.0.5.
Macros
General Macros for Demon Hunters
Focus Interrupt Macro
Focus: Disrupt
This macro will use
Disrupt on your current focus target.
Focus Purge Macro
Focus: Purge
This macro will use
Consume Magic on your current focus
target.
Specific Macros for Vengeance Demon Hunters
Demon Spikes Macro
Demon Spikes macro
This macro is useful when playing with
Feed the Demon since you will
virtually guarantee 100% or higher uptime of
Demon Spikes with it. This
way you can drop a button from your action bars.
Sigil Macro
You should use this macro for your Sigils to remove the need to manually place
the reticle for your sigil spells, instead placing it where your cursor is placed.
You can also change @cursor to @player, which always places the sigil at your feet.
Only use the macro if you are comfortable with the range of your sigils. You can
eplace
Sigil of Flame with any other Sigil spell name to get the same effect.
Sigil on Player/Cursor
Infernal Strike on Immolation Aura Macro
Infernal Strike on Immolation Aura
This macro is designed to make the most out of the general damage from
Infernal Strike, which is off the Global Cooldown and deals a bit of
uncapped damage to all nearby targets. It also makes the most of the new talent
First In, Last Out which gives a shield for 6% of your Maximum Health when
you cast
Infernal Strike. This macro will keep
Infernal Strike
on cooldown, giving you a few % extra damage, and roughly 30% of your max health
as a shield every minute, while still keeping one charge of
Infernal Strike
avaiable for movement should it be needed.
Keep a separate keybind for
Immolation Aura in case there are parts of
encounters where spending half a second locked into
Infernal Strike can
be dangerous
Infernal Strike Macro General Macro
This macro for
Infernal Strike causes you to leap to where your
cursor is placed without the need to click there with the standard reticle, which
makes it faster and less likely to cause gaps in your rotation or let you escape
dangerous situations faster.
Infernal Strike Macro
The following version modifies your button so that you can alternate between
the normal @cursor macro that lets you use
Infernal Strike easier, and
adding a modifier. The modifier makes is so that pressing the button while holding
down Ctrl makes you leap in place to deal damage and get a shield from
First In, Last Out.
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Infernal Strike Macro
Blessing of Protection Cancelaura Macro
Blessing of Protection Cancelaura
This macro is very useful to have. It allows you to cancel a
Blessing of Protection that may have been cast on you, allowing you
to resume your attacks. It is also important because, while you are under the
effect of
Blessing of Protection, mobs will not attack you and instead will
attack the next person the aggro list (usually your Co-tank in raid or a DPS player).
Mouseover Taunt Macro
Mouseover Taunt Macro
This macro will use
Torment on the target you are currently
mousing over.
Addons for Vengeance Demon Hunters
Before you go downloading a bunch of different Addons, we recommend you set up your base UI first. Blizzard has added a wide variety of improvements to the base UI, and many Addons you may think you cannot do without, are now available through the standard interface. Once you've set up your UI, we recommend thinking about which aspects or customization layers you would like to add, and then look for Addons that do those things, instead of downloading an entire suite's worth of Addons that you may not even need anymore.
It might even be worth it to see how far you can get without any additional Addons, and maybe you'll even enjoy not having to spend hours every Patch updating and reconfiguring your UI. Many Addons are still in development or are specifically aiming to launch with all their options for Midnight launch, so some of your favorites may not be available just yet.
ElvUI
ElvUI is a complete replacement for the default User Interface, and you will often find even the best players in the world use ElvUI for certain customization options. ElvUI is extremely user friendly, and takes very little time to set up and master. It also comes already furnished with almost everything you need; unit frames, raid frames, minimap, buffs and debuffs, and much more. You can easily unlock and drag all the components around so your UI will look exactly the way you want it to. ElvUI is clean, easy to use, and a great starting point for your UI.
Boss Mods
Boss Mods are helpful pre-made timers that allow you to keep track of the noteworthy mechanics in any given encounter. Usually they come equipped with helpful prompts, visuals, and sounds to ensure you do not miss anything important.
BigWigs Bossmods
BigWigs is the best boss mod available currently. It is extremely customizable, allowing you to change what is displayed on an individual boss level and how boldly you want each alert customized.
LittleWigs Bossmods
This is really just BigWigs, but for dungeons. It has the same customization options, and allows you to prepare as best as you can for all mechanics that will be thrown at you in regular or Mythic+ dungeons.
Deadly Boss Mods
Deadly Boss Mods is an alternative to BigWigs, and offers almost the exact same customization options for keeping track of boss abilities, trash mobs, and combat timers. It is a great tool to help you focus more on your own character, instead of having to worry about keeping track of all those pesky boss mechanics!
Name Plates
Nameplates are essential for allowing you to easily keep track of basic debuffs and quickly select new targets in combat. While ElvUI nameplates do come standard with the AddOn, they are a little limited and occasionally buggy. Listed below are some good alternatives.
Plater Nameplates
Plater offers a very high degree of customization and accuracy, although somewhat limited due to the Addon changes in Midnight. You can still configure the nameplates to enlarge and change color in certain circumstances, and it might help you keep track of important buffs and debuffs in a chaotic fight, so you do not get lost in the weeds. Some setup is required, although it is very simple and straightforward.
Platynator
Platynator is a new Addon developed by plusmouse, who is known for many super helpful addons like Auctionator, Baganator, Prat, and many more. They have now developed a very customizable Nameplate addon that offers numerous options for debuffs, status colors, icons, textures, and much more. It is definitely worth checking out, especially if you end up having any issues with Plater for any reason.
Details
Details is still around as the #1 Addon to customize damage and healing meters. While it may not offer as many tracking options as before due to the limits imposed by Blizzard, it is still around and kicking to help you customize the Blizzard Damage, Healing, and Other metrics pane.
Changelog
- 20 Apr. 2026: Reviewed for Patch 12.0.5.
- 21 Mar. 2026: Updated macros and added some explanations.
- 16 Mar. 2026: Updated with a minor fix for Midnight Season 1 release.
- 26 Feb. 2026: Updated for Midnight release.
- 10 Feb. 2026: Updated for the Midnight Pre-Patch.
- 30 Nov. 2025: Reviewed for Patch 11.2.7, no changes needed.
- 05 Oct. 2025: Reviewed for Patch 11.2.5, no changes needed.
- 05 Sep. 2025: Changed some addon recommendations.
- 04 Aug. 2025: Reviewed for Patch 11.2, no changes needed.
- 15 Jun. 2025: Reviewed for Patch 11.1.7.
- 21 Apr. 2025: Reviewed for Patch 11.1.5, no changes needed.
- 24 Feb. 2025: Corrected the spell mentioned in one of the macro description.
- 15 Dec. 2024: Removed Reaver's Glaive macro since it is not relevant currently.
- 21 Oct. 2024: Reviewed for patch 11.0.5, no changes needed.
- 09 Sep. 2024: Reviewed for Season 1 The War Within, no changes were needed.
- 21 Aug. 2024: Updated for The War Within.
- 23 Jul. 2024: Updated for The War Within Pre-Patch.
- 07 May 2024: Reviewed for 10.2.7.
- 22 Apr. 2024: Reviewed for Season 4.
- 19 Mar. 2024: A minor mistake fixed as well as clarification added to a macro.
- 15 Jan. 2024: Reviewed for Patch 10.2.5.
- 06 Nov. 2023: Reviewed for Patch 10.2.
- 04 Sep. 2023: Reviewed for Patch 10.1.7.
- 10 Jul. 2023: Reviewed for Patch 10.1.5.
- 20 Mar. 2023: Reviewed for Patch 10.0.7.
- 24 Jan. 2023: Reviewed for Patch 10.0.5.
- 11 Dec. 2022: Reviewed for Dragonflight Season 1.
- 28 Nov. 2022: Reviewed for Dragonflight launch.
- 24 Oct. 2022: Updated for Dragonflight Pre-Patch.
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This guide is written by Meyra, a Vengeance main with a love for pushing Mythic+ keys and showcasing Proof of Concept keys with 5 tanks or other non-standard group compositions. They are a distinguished member and frequent contributor to Vengeance theory in the Demon Hunter class discord, and also occasionally stream Vengeance and other tank content on Twitch.
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