Vengeance Demon Hunter Tank Guide — The War Within (11.1.7)

Patch 11.1.7 did not bring any changes to Vengeance Demon Hunter. The most recent minor and major updates happened in Patches 11.1 and 11.1.5, so make sure to check those out.

Patch 11.1.7 adds the new Combat Assistant feature, which includes both assisted spell highlighting and a single-button mode that automatically cycles through your skills. You can follow the link below for more information on how the Combat Assistant works, or visit the Rotation page to see how the button functions for Vengeance Demon Hunter.

Patch 11.1.5 did not bring any changes to Vengeance Demon Hunter, however in the weeks leading up to the patch we received a few tuning changes to some of our spells and talents. Below is a list of all these changes.

• Deflecting Spikes now increases your Parry chance by 10% instead of 15% during Demon Spikes.
• Sigil of Silence now has a baseline duration of 2 seconds, down from 4 seconds.
• Incorruptible Spirit now grants a shield for 10% of Soul Fragment healing, down from 15%.

Patch 11.1 brought a large list of changes to Vengeance Demon Hunter. A few talent changes accompanied by a significant amount of tuning of talents and spells. On top of this, all tanks received a damage boost to make threat management easier.

The patch brought a few minor changes to Demon Hunter that affects Vengeance Demon Hunter , mostly tuning to class specific spells and effects of the Hero talent trees.

• Minor updates to the behavior of Imprison and Spectral Sight, which will have very little application in most content.
• Immolation Aura and Sigil of Flame damage increased by 6%.
• The Hunt and Sigil of Spite damage increased by 8%.
• Demonsurge damage increased by 48.5% for Vengeance and minor buffs to Burning Blades and Flamebound as well as a nerf to the duration and effectiveness of Student of Suffering.
• Wounded Quarry reworked, instead of auto-attacks dealing extra damage to targets marked by Reaver's Mark you now replicate a part of all physical damage dealt to any target onto the marked target.
• Thrill of the Fight no longer applies its 20% damage increase twice to most of our spells.

Beyond the changes to Demon Hunter, there were also a handful of Vengeance specific changes which have varying impact on your talent choices and overall power.

• All ability damage increased by 20%.
• Demon Spikes base duration increased from 6 seconds to 8 seconds.
• Cycle of Binding now reduces the cooldown of all sigils by 5 seconds when you cast Sigil of Flame.
• Burning Blood now increases Fire damage by 8%, down from 10%, and Fiery Demise increases damage by 15%/30%, down from 20%/40%. However, both of these talents now affect Sigil of Spite and The Hunt.
• Feed the Demon is now a 1-point talent, that reduces the cooldown of Demon Spikes by 0.35 seconds per Soul Fragment, instead of 0.25/0.5 seconds.
• Fallout now always spawn one Soul Fragment with slightly increased amount of souls generated on 5 or fewer targets.
• Fel Devastation cooldown no longer resets upon leaving Metamorphosis after casting Metamorphosis if playing as Fel-Scarred.