Vengeance Demon Hunter Tank Rotation, Cooldowns, and Abilities — Dragonflight 10.2

Welcome to the rotation guide for Vengeance Demon Hunter. Below, you will find the general priority of your abilities, as well as how your talent choices will affect the Rotation. Further down, you can find out how certain key talents interact with the rest of your toolkit, as well as how you best utilize them to their full potential. In the final section, you will also find advice on how to best approach your defensive toolkit.

If you are a beginner player or just new to Vengeance and want an easier guide to get started, please visit the Easy Mode page linked below. In it, you will find a more basic version of your Rotation. Once you are more comfortable with the spec and have a rough idea of how the abilities work together, you can review this page again for a more in-depth rotation.

We highly recommend you go and see what talent options you have available over on our talent page. Check out the dedicated Talents page below for different talent builds:

Your Rotation will vary a lot depending on the talent choices you make. To start, select your talent choices below. If a talent is not presented below, it likely does not affect your Rotation enough to be mentioned. The links below will default the talent choices to those present in our recommended talent builds.

Active Talents	Passive Talents
Fracture	Soulcrush
Spirit Bomb	Focused Cleave
The Hunt	Fiery Demise
Soul Carver	Burning Alive
Elysian Decree	Down in Flames
Felblade	Illuminated Sigils
	Fallout
	Charred Flesh

Dragonflight introduces a reworked version of the Frailty mechanic. Depending on which talents are selected on the Vengeance Tree you it will be applied to all targets hit by Sigil of Flame, Spirit Bomb, or Soul Cleave.

With all related talents selected, each stack of Frailty will give you 10% leech from all damage dealt to the target, 4% increased damage to the target, and reduce all damage taken from the target by 4%. Talenting into Soulcrush allows you to stack multiple stacks. The duration of the stacks is independent of each other.

This allows you to utilize frailty as a damage cooldown. Whenever you are planning on using any of your strong offensive damaging abilities, you can pool Fury and use it all up on Spirit Bomb and/or Soul Cleave to stack Frailty on your targets, increasing the damage they take from your massive abilities by a significant amount.

If you talent into Fiery Demise your Fiery Brand will now be an offensive cooldown on top of being a defensive cooldown. Several of your spells deal fire damage, and increasing the fire damage by up to 50% is a massive bonus.

When using Fiery Demise, you want to make sure that all your strong fire spells during the duration of your Fiery Brand. This includes Soul Carver if talented, and Fel Devastation. Since Fel Devastation is usually also used for its defensive value. Ideally, you finish channeling it just as the initial Fiery Brand expires.

The Hunt makes a comeback in Dragonflight after being a Covenant ability in Shadowlands. On paper, it is a very simple ability, press it, and you do damage. However, due to pathing issues and inconsistencies in enemy hit-boxes, the damage over time effect will sometimes struggle to apply to all enemies. This can be managed by moving around for a bit after the initial hit of the spell. There is a grace period of roughly half a second after hitting your target when you can move through other enemies to apply the effect.

As a Vengeance Demon Hunter, you have one active mitigation ability, Demon Spikes.

Demon Spikes should be used frequently to avoid and reduce Physical damage taken, even against simple auto-attacks. Always keep at least one of its charges rolling.

As a Vengeance Demon Hunter, you have two defensive cooldowns in Metamorphosis and Fiery Brand, and two talents in Demonic and Illuminated Sigils, which make Fel Devastation and Sigil of Flame into defensive cooldowns.

Metamorphosis increases your current and maximum health by 50%, and your Armor by 200% for 15 seconds. It also enhances your Shear and Fracture to generate 1 extra soul and 20 extra Fury. It has a 2-minute cooldown and no cost.

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 (regardless if it is Physical or Magical damage). With Burning Alive you can spread Fiery Brand to multiple enemies for a large amount of damage and defensive value.

The talent Demonic will make Fel Devastation grant 7 seconds of Metamorphosis when you press it, making it a very potent defensive cooldown. It has a 1-minute cooldown and a 50-fury cost.

Illuminated Sigils makes attacks from targets affected by Sigil of Flame 20% more likely to be Parried. This gives you a large amount of damage reduction against most physical attacks, which is usually the main damage source in Mythic+ dungeons.

Metamorphosis works best proactively to increase your health and armor in preparation for incoming damage and should generally not be used reactively as an emergency cooldown if possible.

Torment is your only taunting ability. It only works on a single target and has an 8-second cooldown. It forces the target to attack you for 3 seconds and also increases the threat you generate against that target for the same duration.

Soul Fragments are a unique Vengeance Demon Hunter mechanic. The baseline ability comes from the Shattered Souls passive.

When you kill a target, there is a chance that a Soul Fragment will be created. This is an orb that is placed on the ground at a nearby location and persists for up to 20 seconds. If you walk over it, you will consume the Soul Fragment, and be healed for a certain amount (348.075%% of your attack power in health). Only you can see and interact with your Soul Fragments.

Moreover, if a Soul Fragment comes from a Demon target, consuming it will also, increase your damage done by 20% for 15 seconds.

In addition to these Soul Fragments, there are also Lesser Soul Fragments. These have a chance to be created when you damage targets with Shear, or with Immolation Aura (provided that you have the Fallout talent), and using the Fracture talent also generates 2 Lesser Soul Fragments each time it is used. They work in exactly the same way, but they heal for 6% of damage taken in the last 5 seconds, or a minimum of 1% of your Maximum Health.

It is worth noting that each Soul Fragment or Lesser Soul Fragment you generate, if you already have 5 active, will be instantly consumed. Moreover, Spirit Bomb will consume all Soul Fragments within 100 yards.