Vengeance Demon Hunter Tank Rotation, Cooldowns, and Abilities — Dragonflight 10.0.7

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 choises 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 you 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.

Your rotation will vary a lot depending on the talent choices you make. To start of select your talent choices below. If a talent is not presented below it likely does not affect your rotation enough to be mentioned.

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

1. Use The Hunt , preferably when your target has 6 or more stacks of Frailty.
2. Use Elysian Decree , preferably when your target has 6 or more stacks of Frailty.
3. Use Fiery Brand , with 4 or more souls available.
4. Sync one charge of Fiery Brand with the cooldown of Soul Carver, and sync the second charge with the cooldown of Fel Devastation.
5. Use Soul Carver , preferably when your target has 6 or more stacks of Frailty , when you have Fiery Brand applied to the target and more than 3 seconds remaining on the debuff.
6. Use Fel Devastation , when you have Fiery Brand applied to the target and more than 2 seconds remaining on the debuff.
7. Use Immolation Aura.
8. Use Spirit Bomb at 4 or more Soul Fragments, or at 3 or more Soul Fragments when in Metamorphosis, and your target is affected by Fiery Brand.
9. Use Soul Cleave when the target is not affected by Fiery Brand and you are close to capping Fury or have more than 3 Soul Fragments available.
10. Use Sigil of Flame when you will not cap on Fury , and have 4 or fewer Soul Fragments available.
11. Use Soul Cleave you are close to overcapping Fury or have more than 3 Soul Fragments available.
12. Use Fracture when you have 3 or fewer Soul Fragments and you will not cap Fury.
13. Use Shear when at 4 or fewer Soul Fragments and you will not overcap Fury.
14. Use Soul Cleave to spend excess Fury and Soul Fragments.
15. Use Felblade as a filler when you will not overcap on Fury.
16. Use Throw Glaive as a filler or when you are not in range of your enemy.

1. Use The Hunt , preferably when your main target has 5 or more stacks of Frailty. Try to pass through as many other targets as possible. If an enemy is not affected by the Damage over Time effect make sure to walk through enemy to apply it.
2. Use Elysian Decree , preferably when your main target has 5 or more stacks of Frailty.
3. Use Fiery Brand , with 4 or more souls available.
4. Sync one charge of Fiery Brand with the cooldown of Soul Carver, and sync the second charge with the cooldown of Fel Devastation.
5. Use Soul Carver , preferably when your main target has 5 or more stacks of Frailty , when you have Fiery Brand applied to your main target and it has spread to at least 3 targets, when you have Fiery Brand applied to your main target and more than 3 seconds remaining on the debuff.
6. Use Fel Devastation , when you have Fiery Brand applied to a target and more than 2 seconds remaining on the debuff, when your Fiery Brand spread to at least 3 targets, and has more than 2 seconds remaining on the debuff.
7. Use Immolation Aura when you will not cap on Fury , preferably without capping too many Soul Fragments from Fallout.
8. Use Spirit Bomb with 4 or more Soul Fragments available, or 3 or more during Metamorphosis.
9. Use Soul Cleave to spend Soul Fragments and Fury to avoid overcapping.
10. Use Sigil of Flame when you will not cap on Fury , and have 4 or fewer Soul Fragments available.
11. Use Fracture when you have 3 or fewer Soul Fragments and you will not cap Fury.
12. Use Soul Cleave when you have no Soul Fragments available, to spend Fury to avoid overcapping , or to stack Frailty on your targets..
13. Use Soul Cleave to spend excess Fury and Soul Fragments , or to stack Frailty on your targets..
14. Use Felblade as a filler when you will not overcap on Fury.
15. Use Throw Glaive as a filler or when you are not in range of any enemy.

In addition to these abilities, you should also make use of Infernal Strike (which is off the global cooldown) to deal additional damage. It is recommended to always keep at least 1 charge in reserve , however, unless the fight requires no movement whatsoever, in which case you can use up both charges.

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 8% leech from all damage dealt to the target, 8% 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 are 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 40% 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.

If you choose to play with Relentless Pursuit you want to make sure that you target a priority target with the main ability and that residual enemies will die within the 6 second window of the damage over time 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 and a talent which makes Fel Devastation into a third defensive cooldown.

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 3-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).

The talent Demonic will make Fel Devastation grant 8 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.

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, which 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.