Vengeance Demon Hunter Tank Guide — The War Within (11.1.0)

Demon Hunters are the kings of mobility in raids and dungeons. In general, they can move around more and more quickly than many other specs, thanks to Infernal Strike, as well as various talents that aid their mobility. Additionally, they excel at burst AoE damage, with many abilities dealing AoE and cleave damage. They also excel at dungeon utility using tools such as Sigil of Silence and Chaos Nova to control enemy spellcasters for extended periods.

Vengeance Demon Hunter defensively features a mix of strong, constant healing and damage mitigation, with low-cost but low uptime of active mitigation and the ability to mitigate magic damage extremely well.

Strengths

• Has access to a wide array of defensive tools without giving up strong offensive talents, which lets Vengeance handle almost any situation it needs to defensively.
• Both Hero trees offer different sought after damage profiles in Mythic+. Aldrachi Reaver offers great funnel capabilities into priority targets, while Fel-Scarred has an incredibly strong 2-minute cooldown profile.
• Access to some of the strongest Crowd Control tools available in dungeons making Vengeance a strong Mythic+ tank.
• Higher mobility than practically any other spec in the game.
• Access to Chaos Brand which provides a good portion of extra damage for your group.

Weaknesses

• Struggles defensively during early moments in combat.
• Some utility comes at a moderate offensive or defensive cost.
• Deals mediocre Single Target damage in raid builds compared to other tanks and rarely offers good raid utility.
• Damage and healing suffers a lot from rotational mistakes, especially as Aldrachi Reaver.

Vengeance is a very mobile class, which makes it a very good spec for leveling, focusing on very fast mobility as well bursty damage to quickly level up. For more information on how to level as Vengeance Demon Hunter and what talents to use, follow the link to the levelling guide below:

Vengeance is all about resource management, including active mitigation, healing, damage, and enemy control. The rotation is all about building souls as quickly as possible with tools like Fracture or Fallout and then consuming them with either Spirit Bomb or Soul Cleave. Outside of the build/spend cycle, you will be weaving in multiple sigils to help crowd-control the enemies.

As a beginner, you may start out dropping Spirit Bomb and only use Soul Cleave as your spender of choice, as you begin to learn the rotation and start to figure out how to properly use the rest of your toolkit. If you are a beginner, the best place to start becoming familiar with the spec is by reviewing the Easy Mode Page.

After continuous tuning to our stats, especially Mastery which has historically been lacking, Vengeance is now easier to gear than ever due to all secondary stats being very close in both offensive and defensive capabilities. This means you want to prioritize increasing your item level in specific slots and finding strong trinkets and other items to empower your character. The link below will have the most updated list for the current gear, trinkets and embellishments this season.

Despite item level being the strongest factor in gearing and all of our stats being fairly close in value there are still some preference to stats when comparing two items of the same item level. The link below shows the stat preference and which consumables are important to maximize gameplay.