Vengeance Demon Hunter Tank Nerub-ar Palace Raid Guide — The War Within (11.0.7)
On this page, you will find tips, tricks, and strategies tailored to your Vengeance Demon Hunter for each boss of the following raid: Nerub-ar Palace. All our content is updated for World of Warcraft — The War Within (11.0.7).
Introduction
Below, you can find class and spec-specific advice for every fight in Nerub-ar Palace. If you are looking for a general overview of the Raid that is not spec-specific, check out our dedicated Nerub-ar Palace guides.
This page assumes that you already understand most of the mechanics of each encounter. These can be found on the full raid guide, so what is contained here are details specifically tailored toward Vengeance Demon Hunter and how you can deal with each fight as best as possible.
All recommendations are progression-based tips and will not necessarily be the best for an overall DPS ranking.
Nerub'ar Palace Boss Guides for Vengeance Demon Hunter
Nerub'ar Palace Raid Builds, Tips, and Tricks for Vengeance Demon Hunter
Tips for Ulgrax the Devourer for Vengeance Demon Hunter
This section will continue to be fleshed out as the Season progresses and cool tricks and tips are found.
Defensive Tips
- The Tank swap mechanic,
Brutal Crush, deals physical damage, meaning you can use both
Demon Spikes and especially
Fel Devastation with
Demonic or
Metamorphosis to mitigate a large part of the damage.
- If the Spawn adds in phase 2 live for a longer period of time, you can talent
into
Burning Alive for a second defensive layer.
Cooldown Usage
- It is not generally worth using longer CDs on the Add Phase unless you are attempting to parse
or need them to survive; however, you can quite comfortably use
Fel Devastation during this phase and have it back phase 1.
Mechanical Tips
- You can use
Infernal Strike to cancel the knockback from
Hulking Crash.
Best Talents
Be sure to make use of the 'Export Talents' button to import the build directly into your game!
Your standard Fel-Scarred Raid talents. For more AoE defensive tools or more AoE damage you can switch
Soul Carver to
Burning Alive.
Tips for Bloodbound Horror for Vengeance Demon Hunter
This section will continue to be fleshed out as the Season progresses and cool tricks and tips are found.
Defensive Tips
- Stacking
Metamorphosis and
Fiery Brand should be sufficient to ignore
Goresplatter, add
Immolation Aura with
Fel Flame Fortification talented and eventually stacks of
Void Reaver if necessary.
Cooldown Usage
- Generally, you do not want to delay your cooldowns; however, if you are about
to focus damage on the boss soon, you might choose to hold
Metamorphosis for a shorter period.
Mechanical Tips
- The most important thing as vengeance on this fight is positioning properly.
Place yourself near where adds will spawn to reduce the groups movement needed
after
Gruesome Disgorge
Best Talents
Be sure to make use of the 'Export Talents' button to import the build directly into your game!
Your standard Fel-Scarred Raid talents. For more AoE defensive tools or more AoE damage you can switch
Soul Carver to
Burning Alive.
Tips for Sikran for Vengeance Demon Hunter
This section will continue to be fleshed out as the Season progresses and cool tricks and tips are found.
Defensive Tips
- Make sure that you use heavy defensives for
Expose and
Phase Lunge.
Cooldown Usage
- As close to on cooldown as possible while still making sure there are cooldowns
available for
Expose/
Phase Lunge.
Mechanical Tips
- Taunt swap after the second hit of
Expose.
- Darkness can help mitigate
Cosmic Shards damage if needed.
Best Talents
Be sure to make use of the 'Export Talents' button to import the build directly into your game!
Your standard Fel-Scarred Raid talents with a strong single target profile and solid defensive tools.
Tips for Rasha'nan for Vengeance Demon Hunter
This section will continue to be fleshed out as the Season progresses and cool tricks and tips are found.
Defensive Tips
- Make sure to use mitigation against
Savage Assault to reduce the overall damage of the
Savage Wound mechanic that follows. Since most of the damage is physical,
Demon Spikes adds an extra layer of damage reduction.
Cooldown Usage
- Use cooldowns as often as possible while still retaining some mitigation for
the next
Savage Assault you need to tank.
Mechanical Tips
- Save your
Infernal Strike charges to speed up positioning during intermission when the boss moves.
Best Talents
Be sure to make use of the 'Export Talents' button to import the build directly into your game!
Your standard Fel-Scarred Raid talents with a strong single target profile and solid defensive tools.
Tips for Broodtwister Ovi'nax for Vengeance Demon Hunter
This section will continue to be fleshed out as the Season progresses and cool tricks and tips are found.
Defensive Tips
- Make sure to use defensives for
Volatile Concoction while focusing on healing up since the final part of the spell deals increased damage the lower your health is.
Cooldown Usage
- Make sure to use your cooldowns as often as possible while making sure you have something
for
Volatile Concoction.
- Talenting into
Down in Flames can make
Volatile Concoction easier to manage since you will be able to have
Fiery Brand for most casts you have to tank.
Mechanical Tips
- Position boss near adds that needs to be cleaved down, especially the stationary worms.
Sigil of Chains can be a very useful talent to stack up adds for efficient AoE damage, especially in Mythic difficulty.
Best Talents
Be sure to make use of the 'Export Talents' button to import the build directly into your game!
Your standard Fel-Scarred Raid talents. For more AoE defensive tools or more AoE damage you can switch
Soul Carver to
Burning Alive.
Tips for Nexus-Princess Ky'veza for Vengeance Demon Hunter
This section will continue to be fleshed out as the Season progresses and cool tricks and tips are found.
Defensive Tips
- Use mitigation for
Void Shredders to reduce the incoming damage. Using
Fiery Brand sligtly before the
Void Shredders should ensure you have it available for every cast.
Cooldown Usage
- Make sure to use your cooldowns as often as possible while making sure you have something
for
Void Shredders.
Mechanical Tips
- Make sure to position the boss in such a way that
Nether Rift has minimal effect on the raid.
Best Talents
Be sure to make use of the 'Export Talents' button to import the build directly into your game!
Your standard Fel-Scarred Raid talents with a strong single target profile and solid defensive tools.
Tips for The Silken Court for Vengeance Demon Hunter
This section will continue to be fleshed out as the Season progresses and cool tricks and tips are found.
Defensive Tips
- Make sure to use mitigation when targeted by
Piercing Strike, the ability does Physical damage and is mitigated by
Metamorphosis effects and
Demon Spikes which you can leverage for more damage reduction.
Cooldown Usage
- As often as possible while keeping at least one defensive layer active at most times
and to mitigate
Piercing Strike damage.
Mechanical Tips
- No major Vengeance discoveries have been made on this boss yet.
Best Talents
Be sure to make use of the 'Export Talents' button to import the build directly into your game!
Your standard Fel-Scarred Raid talents. For more AoE defensive tools or more AoE damage you can switch
Soul Carver to
Burning Alive.
Tips for Queen Ansurek for Vengeance Demon Hunter
This section will continue to be fleshed out as the Season progresses and cool tricks and tips are found.
Defensive Tips
Liquefy can be partially mitigated by your physical mitigation spells, but majority of the damage can only actively be mitigated by
Fiery Brand, or passively by talents such as
Void Reaver,
Fel Flame Fortification and
Painbringer. Using
Fel Devastation or
Metamorphosis can help give a buffer of Health to survive the hit and help heal through the lingering effect.
Feast applies a healing absorb proportional to the damage taken. Since it deals physical damage you can mitigate the damage effectively with
Metamorphosis,
Demon Spikes and
Fiery Brand. You can also further mitigate it with passive talents like
Infernal Armor by having
Immolation Aura active, or
Student of Suffering if you play
Fel-Scarred.
Infest follows the same rules as
Liquefy, use
Fiery Brand or
Metamorphosis effects on top of other passive tools.
Gorge can be mitigated by all your defensive tools and mitigating more damage will reduce raid damage taken the echoing damage.
Cooldown Usage
- Plan to have cooldowns available to mitigate all the necessary mechanics, and use any extra available casts on cooldown.
Mechanical Tips
- You can manage the pull from
Wrest relatively easily with
Infernal Strike.
- You can manage the knockback from
Oust relatively easily with
Infernal Strike.
- If you play
Fel-Scarred you can talent into
Chaos Nova and
Wave of Debilitation and use
Chaos Nova on the Spiders spawned by
Infest to stun them and apply a 60% slow on them once the stun runs out.
Best Talents
Be sure to make use of the 'Export Talents' button to import the build directly into your game!
Your standard Fel-Scarred Raid talents with a strong single target profile and solid defensive tools.
General Defensive Usage Notes
As a tank Vengeance Demon Hunter has access to several defensive spells that you should plan to use and rotate throughout mechanics. It is a good rule to note which dangerous tank mechanics deal physical damage, since several of our defensive cooldowns increase armor, reducing the damage of such abilities by a good margin.
Metamorphosis grants increased health and armor.
Fel Devastation with
Demonic grants 7 seconds of
Metamorphosis.
Fiery Brand reduces all damage taken from the enemy by 40%.
Demon Spikes increases your armor and chance to parry auto-attacks.
General Cooldown Usage
Vengeance Demon Hunter damage is, to a large extent, centered around
using our defensive cooldowns except Demon Spikes. Therefore, to deal
damage and retain aggro on the boss after tank swaps; it is highly recommended
to plan out your cooldown usage so that you lose as few casts as possible of each
while also covering every single dangerous mechanic.
If you are playing as Fel-Scarred it is extra vital for you to use
Fel Devastation and
Metamorphosis as often as possible
since a very significant portion of your damage comes from those abilities. Therefore,
it is recommended that you plan on using these as often as possible while working around
them with your other defensive tools to make sure you mitigate all dangerous damage.
I highly suggest using some Addon or WeakAura to track the estimated time to
die of your target/boss target.
Method
Raid Tools has this as an option if you are already using this addon.
By tracking time to die, if you know that you can only fit one more cycle of
your cooldowns in before the boss dies, you can choose to hold these cooldowns
to better line up with Bloodlust, your Potion, or even your other
cooldowns, trying to look for opportunities to stack all of them.
Changelog
- 15 Dec. 2024: Reviewed for Patch 11.0.7, no changes needed.
- 21 Oct. 2024: Updated for Patch 11.0.5 with some minor additions to tips and tricks.
- 28 Sep. 2024: Updated with new tips and tricks.
- 09 Sep. 2024: Guide added.
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This guide is written by Meyra, a Vengeance main with a love for pushing Mythic+ keys and showcasing Proof of Concept keys with 5 tanks or other non-standard group compositions. They are a distinguished member and frequent contributor to Vengeance theory in the Demon Hunter class discord who also occasionally streams Vengeance and other tank content on Twitch.
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