Vengeance Demon Hunter Tank Spell List and Glossary — Midnight Pre-Patch (12.0)

Vengeance Demon Hunters use the resources called Fury and Shattered Soul Fragments. Fury is very similar in functionality to Warriors' and Guardian Druids' Rage. Soul Fragments are akin to Combo Points used by Rogues and Feral Druids. However, they are stored on the ground and can be absorbed by walking within 4 yards of them.

The Fury bar has a baseline maximum capacity of 100, which can be increased to a max of 120 by talenting into Unrestrained Fury, and is empty by default. Fury decays at a rate of 1 per second when out of combat. In combat, Fury does not decay. Fury comes using a number of abilities.

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 30 seconds. If you walk over it, you will consume the Soul Fragment, and be healed. 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. They are created by spells such as Fracture. They work in exactly the same way, but they heal for 6% of all damage taken in the last 5 seconds, with a minimum heal of 1% of your maximum Health.

The four ways you can consume souls are:

• Spirit Bomb.
• Soul Cleave.
• Automatically Consuming them via overcapping (going above 6 souls)
• Walking within 4 yards of a soul.

Note that, in general, you do not want to walk near a soul unintentionally. It will be auto-consumed, meaning loss of damage potential from Spirit Bomb. You also do not want to overcap souls if you are running Spirit Bomb for the same reason.

Your Soul Cleave and Spirit Bomb abilities will instantly consume Soul Fragments (including Lesser ones) within a 100-yard radius. This is significant because, given the frequency with which you use these abilities, walking around to manually collect Soul Fragments is simply not necessary.

The newest addition in The War Within is Hero Talent Trees, offering several new talents and one major ability that affects Vengeance Demon Hunter.

Ability	Description/Effect
Art of the Glaive	Consuming 20 Soul Fragment or using The Hunt changes your Throw Glaive into Reaver's Glaive, which deals extra damage and empowering your next Fracture and Soul Cleave to deal extra damage and interact with further Hero Talents.
Fury of the Aldrachi	Causes your Soul Cleave empowered by Reaver's Glaive to cast 3 extra attacks on all nearby enemies, dealing medium damage. If cast after your empowered Fracture it will instead cast 6 more attacks.
Evasive Action	You can recast Vengeful Retreat once within 3 seconds of your initial cast. Choice node with Unhindered Assault.
Unhindered Assault	Vengeful Retreat resets the cooldown of Felblade. Choice node with Evasive Action.
Reaver's Mark	Causes your Fracture empowered by Reaver's Glaive to mark your target, increasing damage taken from you by 7%, stacking 2 times. Using Fracture after your empowered Soul Cleave applies 2 stacks instead of 1.
Aldrachi Tactics	After using both abilities empowered by Reaver's Glaive you generate a Lesser Soul Fragment.
Army Unto Oneself	Reduces damage taken by 10% for 5 seconds after using Felblade. Choice node with Incorruptible Spirit.
Incorruptible Spirit	Generates a shield for 10% of your Soul Fragment Healing. Choice node with Army Unto Oneself.
Wounded Quarry	20% of all physical damage dealt is echoed onto your target with Reaver's Mark, this damage has a chance to generate a lesser Soul Fragment.
Incisive Blade	Soul Cleave deals 10% more damage.
Keen Engagement	Reaver's Glaive generates 20 Fury. Choice node with Preemptive Strike.
Preemptive Strike	Throw Glaive deals a minor amount of damage to enemies close to the initial target. Choice node with Keen Engagement.
Warblade's Hunger	Each Soul Fragment consumed causes your next Fracture to deal a small amount of extra damage, stacking up to 5.
Broken Spirit	Sigil of Spite generates 1 extra Soul Fragment and Soul Cleave has a 20% chance to generate a Soul Fragment.
Keen Edge	Reaver's Glaive deals 20% extra damage, all other physical damage is increased by 10%.
Bladecraft	Fury of the Aldrachi slashes 12 times if you finish the combo with Soul Cleave, and Reaver's Mark can stack to 3 and Fracture applies 3 stacks when used to finish the combo.
Thrill of the Fight	After using both abilities empowered by Reaver's Glaive, you gain 15% faster Auto-Attack speed for 20 seconds, and 20% increased damage and healing for 10 seconds.

Ability	Description/Effect
Voidfall	Fracture has a 35% chance to give a stack of Voidfall, reaching 3 stacks lets you drop meteors on your enemies.
Swift Erasure	Each stack of Voidfall gives 2% Haste.
Meteoric Rise	Causes Fel Devastation to deal 15% more damage and spawn 3 Soul Fragments.
Phase Shift	Each stack of Voidfall gives 2% Damage Reduction.
Path to Oblivion	Each stack of Voidfall gives 3% Movement speed. Choice node with State of Matter.
State of Matter	Gives a second charge of Torment. Choice node with Path to Oblivion.
Mass Acceleration	Metamorphosis resets the cooldown of Spirit Bomb and grants up to 3 stacks of Voidfall.
Doomsayer	Casting Infernal Strike out of combat or in the first 5 seconds of combat drops 1 Voidfall meteor. Choice node with Harness the Cosmos.
Harness the Cosmos	Increases Voidfall meteor damage by 15%. Choice node with Doomsayer.
Celestial Echoes	Fracture deals 30% more damage and generate 5 more Fury.
Final Hour	Swift Erasure, Phase Shift, and Path to Oblivion lasts for 8 seconds after spending Voidfall.
Meteoric Fall	Soul Cleave and Spirit Bomb spend 3 stacks of Voidfall.
Dark Matter	Your first Spirit Bomb every cast of Metamorphosis deals extra damage to all enemies.
Otherworldly Focus	Spirit Bomb and Voidfall deal 35% more damage, reducing by 5% for each target beyond the first.
World Killer	The last out of every 3 Voidfall Meteorsis 50% larger and deal 50% more damage and reduces the cooldown of Metamorphosis by 10 seconds.

Vengeance will unlock a couple of abilities in their starter zone; however, most of the abilities and ranks are gained from talenting into them after reaching level 10.

Ability	Abbreviation	Description/Effect
Thick Skin	-	A passive to assist you in tanking, increasing your Armor from gear by 150% and your Stamina by 60%.
Demonic Wards	-	A passive to assist you in tanking, reducing all damage taken by 8%.
Immolation Aura	IA	Has no cost, deals moderate Fire damage to all enemies in an 8-yard radius instantly, and then a low amount of damage every second for 6 seconds, dealing reduced damage above 8 targets. It generates 20 Fury throughout its 6-second duration. This ability interacts with several passive talents that add to its functionality.
Sigil of Flame	SoF	You place a Sigil on the ground and 2 seconds later deals Fire damage to all enemies in the Sigil, and places a 6-second Fire damage DoT on them as well. It generates 30 Fury and will apply one stack of Frailty to every target hit.
Soul Cleave	SC	A melee ability that costs 30 Fury. It damages up to 5 enemies located in front of you heals you and consumes 2 Soul Fragments in a 100-yard radius around you to deal increased damage. Depending on what talents you select, this spell will either be used to consume souls and heal you, or be used to fill out your rotation when you have Fury to burn but no Lesser Soul Fragments available..
Throw Glaive	TG	Throws a glaive at a target, dealing Physical damage to them and ricocheting to 1 additional enemies within 10 yards. It has a 9-second base cooldown, generates high threat, and is good for pulling mobs from a distance or as a filler ability.
Demon Spikes	DS	Grows spikes from your back, increasing your Armor for 12 seconds, Armor amount scaling with your Agility. Your Mastery will increase the armor granted by Demon Spikes. It has a 20-second recharge rate, reduced by Haste. You to also gain 8% Parry during the full duration.
Metamorphosis	Meta	Turn into Demon form, increasing Health by 40% and Armor by 200% for 15 seconds on a 2-minute cooldown.
Mastery: Fel Blood	-	The Vengeance Mastery increases your Armor by an amount of your Agility equal to your Mastery percentage. This amount is doubled when you have Demon Spikes active. It also increases your Attack Power.
Chaos Brand	CB	Causes enemies you damage to take 3% more Magic damage from everything. This effect is exclusive to Demon Hunters and is a very strong passive effect in all content.
Torment	Taunt	Forces the target to attack you for 3 seconds with a cooldown of 8 seconds and has a 30-yard range. During the next 6 seconds, your threat generation on that target is also increased significantly.
Infernal Strike	IS	Your main movement ability, has 1 charge (a second one available from Blazing Path), and a hasted 15-second cooldown (reduceable with talents). It causes you to leap through the air to the desired location (within 30 yards), dealing Fire damage to enemies in a 6-yard radius where you land. It is used both for mobility and for dealing damage. Worth noting that while the the animation looks like you are jumping; the spell will actually cause you to run to your target location really fast. This makes it impossible to jump over most beams and similar mechanics using Infernal Strike.
Disrupt	Kick	Your interrupt for spells. Using it on a spellcaster will cancel their cast and lock them out of that Magic school for 5 seconds. It has a 15-second cooldown and a 5-yard range (can be increased to 15-yard range with Improved Disrupt). Disrupting Fury causes successful interrupts to generate 30 Fury.
Spectral Sight	-	Allows you to see enemies and treasures through walls for 10 seconds. It will also reveal hidden enemies, as well as stealthed and invisible ones.
Double Jump	-	Allows you to jump in the air for extra height.
Glide	-	Allows you to extend your wings and glide forward. It can be activated with the spell or by pressing jump again after having used Double Jump.

Ability	Abbreviation	Description/Effect
Vengeful Retreat	VR	A movement ability with a 25-second cooldown. It removes all snares, deals a low amount of physical damage, and launches you backwards.
Felblade	-	An active ability with a 15-second cooldown (reduced by Haste) that charges your target and deals Fire damage to them. Has a shortened global cooldown. It generates 15 Fury.
Spirit Bomb	SpB	A spender that costs 40 Fury and consumes up to 5 available Soul Fragments and deals fire damage increased by the amount consumed to all enemies in range. Applies Frailty to each target hit.
Sigil of Misery	SoM	Places a Sigil on the ground, and 2 seconds later fears all enemies in the Sigil for 15 seconds. It has a 2-minute cooldown.
Fel Devastation	FD	Breathe fire dealing heavy fire damage to all enemies in a cone in front of you, healing you a medium amount while channeling. It costs 50 Fury to use and has a 40-second cooldown.
Imprison	-	A 1-minute duration single-target crowd control effect on a 45-second duration with a 20-yard range that works on Demon, Beast, and Humanoid targets. Using it before you enter combat with a target will not put you in combat and reduce the range at which the enemy will enter combat with you.
Fiery Brand	FB	Deals moderate fire damage to your target and branding yourself, causing you to take 40% less damage for 12 seconds. This spell is modified heavily by other talents.
Consume Magic	Purge	Purges the target, removing 1 beneficial magic effect on the target. It has a 30-yard range and a 10-second cooldown.
Chaos Nova	CN	Is a 2-second AoE-stun on a 45-second cooldown. It costs 25 Fury and deals a low amount of chaos damage to every target hit.
Sigil of Silence	SoS	Places a Sigil on the ground, and 2 seconds later silences all enemies in the Sigil for 2 seconds. It has a 90-second cooldown. Choice node with Roaring Fire.

Ability	Abbreviation	Description/Effect
Vengeful Bonds	-	Causes enemies hit by Vengeful Retreat to be slowed by 70% for 3 seconds.
Unrestrained Fury	UF	Increases your maximum Fury by 20.
Shattered Restoration	SR	increases healing from your Shattered Souls by 10%.
Improved Sigil of Misery	-	Reduces the cooldown of Sigil of Misery by 30 seconds.
Bouncing Glaives	-	Causes Throw Glaive to hit a third target.
Charred Warblades	CB	Heals you for 4% of all fire damage you deal to enemies.
Quickened Sigils	QS	Makes your sigils activate after 1 second instead of 2 seconds.
Ascending Flame	Asc	Increases the damage from the initial hit of Sigil of Flame by 50%.
Improved Disrupt	-	Makes your interrupt Disrupt have a 10-yard range instead of a 5-yard range.
Aldrachi Design	-	Increases your Parry chance by 3%.
Perfectly Balanced Glaive	-	Reduces the cooldown of Throw Glaive by 6 seconds.
Calcified Spikes	Calc	Demon Spikes reduces all damage taken by 5%.
Roaring Fire	RF	Increases the healing of Fel Devastation by up to 50%, proportional to your missing Health. Choice node with Sigil of Silence.
Retaliation	-	Causes attacking enemies to take minor damage when they deal physical damage to you when you have Demon Spikes active.
Felfire Fist	-	Using Infernal Strike out of combat or in the first 5 seconds of combat drops a Sigil of Flame at your landing spot.

Ability	Abbreviation	Description/Effect
Sigil of Spite	SoSp	Places an arcane sigil on the ground that explodes after 2 seconds, dealing massive Chaos damage and spawning 3 Lesser Soul Fragments. It has a 1-minute cooldown.
Sigil of Chains	SoC	Places a Sigil on the ground, and 2 seconds later grips all enemies in the Sigil, slowing them by 70% for 6 seconds. It has a 1.5-minute cooldown. Replaces Sigil of Misery.

Ability	Abbreviation	Description/Effect
Frailty	-	Causes enemies hit by Sigil of Flame, Soul Cleave, or Spirit Bomb to get a stack of Frailty, causing you to heal for 8% of all damage you deal to them for 10 seconds.
Blazing Path	-	Grants an additional charge of Infernal Strike.
Soul Barrier	SB	Casting Spirit Bomb gives you an absorb shield based on the amount of Soul Fragments consumed. Choice node with Soul Sigils.
Soul Sigils	-	Your Souls spawn a Soul Fragment when a Sigil affects an enemy. Choice node with Soul Barrier.
Pursuit	-	Adds a passive effect to your Mastery stat Mastery: Fel Blood, increasing your movement speed slightly based on your Mastery percentage.
Disrupting Fury	-	You generate 30 Fury on successful interrupts with Disrupt
Aura of Pain	AoP	Grants you 6% increased critical strike chance on Immolation Aura.
Swallowed Anger	-	Causes successful purges with Consume Magic to generate 20 Fury.
Fel Flame Fortification	FFF	Reduces Magic damage taken by 10% when Immolation Aura is active.
Felfire Haste	-	Gives you 10% movement speed for 8 seconds after using Infernal Strike.
Focused Ire	-	Chaos Nova stuns your Main Target for 4 seconds instead of 2.
Master of the Glaive	MotG	Grants a second charge of Throw Glaive and slows enemies hit by 50% for 6 seconds. Choice node with Champion of the Glaive.
Champion of the Glaive	CotG	Grants a second charge of Throw Glaive and increases its range by 10 yards. Choice node with Master of the Glaive.
Live by the Glaive	-	When one of your attacks are parried, or you parry an attack, you heal for 2% of your maximum Health and gain 10 Fury. It can only occur once every 5 seconds.
Lost in Darkness	-	Causes Spectral Sight to last 6 seconds after canceling the initial cast.
Feast of Souls	-	Causes Soul Cleave to give a minor 6-second duration heal over time effect.
Agonizing Flames	AF	Increases movement speed by 10% while Immolation Aura is active and increases the duration of Immolation Aura by 50%.
Feed the Demon	FtD	Reduces the cooldown on Demon Spikes by 1 second every time you spend 20 Fury.
Burning Blood	BB	Increases your Fire damage done by 8%.
Soul Rending	-	grants you 5% leech per point, as well as 5% additional leech while you have Metamorphosis active.
Infernal Armor	-	Causes your Immolation Aura to increase your Armor by 10% per point, and cause attackers to suffer minor fire damage.
Void Reaver	-	Targets afflicted by Frailty now deals 4% less damage to you.
Fallout	FO	Causes the initial damage of Immolation to spawn a Lesser Soul Fragment, and have a high chance to spawn extra Lesser Soul Fragments for every extra target hit. You can spawn up to a maximum of 5 Lesser Soul Fragments.
Ruinous Bulwark	RB	Increases the healing of Fel Devastation by 10% and gives you a shield equal to the full amount of the heal.
Volatile Flameblood	VF	Generates 1-5 Fury randomly when Immolation Aura deals critical damage. It may only occur once every second. Also increases Immolation Aura Critical Strike chance by 10%.
Revel in Pain	RiP	Grants a shield for 2% of all Fire damage done, up to 10% maximum Health, effect doubles when Fiery Brand is active.
Illidari Knowledge	-	Reduces magic damage taken by 3/6%.
Felbound	-	Grants 3% Movement Speed.
Will of the Illidari	-	Increases your maximum health by 3/6%.
Burn It Out	-	Immolation Aura removes 1 Disease. Choice node with Soul Cleanse.
Soul Cleanse	-	Immolation Aura removes 1 Curse. Choice node with Burn It Out.
Painbringer	PB	Grants you a 8-second buff damage reductions for 3%/6% when a Shattered Souls is consumed.
Fiery Demise	Demise	Causes targets afflicted by Fiery Brand to take 15%/30% increased fire damage from you.
Chains of Anger	CoA	Increases the radius of all your sigils by 2 yards and their duration by 2 seconds.

Ability	Abbreviation	Description/Effect
Darkness	-	A 5-minute defensive cooldown that affects you and all allies inside the effect. It spawns a could of darkness for 8 seconds that causes all damage you or an ally inside the darkness to have a 15% chance to be negated completely. The chance increases to 30% outside of Raid content.
Soul Carver	Carver, SCa	Deals a large amount of fire damage and leaves a 3 second damage over time effect, dealing additional damage. It spawns 3 Lesser Soul Fragments on initial damage, and another Soul Fragment every second for 3 seconds. Soul Carver has a 1-minute cooldown at no cost.

Ability	Abbreviation	Description/Effect
Internal Struggle	-	Grants you 3% Mastery.
Focused Cleave	FC	Increases the damage of Soul Cleave by 50% against your primary target.
Soulmonger	SM	Causes overhealing from Soul Fragments to be stored as a shield for up to 10% of your max Health.
Stoke the Flames	Stoke	Increases the damage of Fel Devastation by 30%.
Burning Alive	-	BA, Fiery Brand spreads to a target near the first target. The spread dot starts at full duration of a normal cast.
Cycle of Binding	CoB	The cooldown of all your sigils is reduced by 15%.
Erratic Felheart	-	Reduces the cooldown of Infernal Strike by 1 second per point.
Long Night	-	Causes Darkness to last 3 seconds longer. Choice node with Pitch Black.
Pitch Black	-	Reduces the cooldown of Darkness by 120 seconds. Choice node with Long Night.
Demon Muzzle	-	Interrupting an enemy reduces magic damage taken by 15% for 12 seconds.
Furious	-	Abilities that generate Fury deal 3% more damage.
Remorseless	-	Abilities that spend Fury deal 3% more damage.
Vulnerability	Vuln	Increases your damage done to targets affected by Frailty by 3% per talent point.
Charred Flesh	CF	Extends the duration of Fiery Brand and Sigil of Flame by 0.25 seconds per point whenever Immolation Aura deals damage to a target.
Wings of Wrath	-	Glide speed is 10% faster.
Soulcrush	-	Your Frailty effects are doubled.
Last Resort	LR	A cheat death effect that will heal you if you sustain lethal damage, granting you 15 seconds of Metamorphosis. It has an 8-minute cooldown after saving you.
Darkglare Boon	DgB	Reduces the cooldown of Fel Devastation after it has finished channeling by 15-30% and refunds 15-30 Fury.
Vengeful Beast	-	Metamorphosis lasts 5 seconds longer and increases damage dealt by Fracture, Soul Cleave, and Spirit Bomb by 20% during Metamorphosis.
Down in Flames	DiF	Grants a second charge of Fiery Brand and reduces the cooldown of Fiery Brand by 12 seconds.
Final Breath	-	The last tick of Fel Devastation deals 300% more damage.
Soul Splitter	-	Whenever you generate Soul Fragments you have a 2%/4% chance to generate one more.
Demonic Resilience	-	Demon Spikes gets a second charge.