Vengeance Demon Hunter Tank Stat Priority — Midnight Season 1
On this page, you will find out the optimal stat priority for your Vengeance Demon Hunter. We first present the stat priority, before delving into more complex explanations. Our content is updated for World of Warcraft — Midnight Season 1.
The Basics of Stats for Vengeance Demon Hunter
The defensive stat priority for Vengeance Demon Hunter is as follows:
- Agility
- Haste
- Versatility/Critical Strike
- Mastery
Your stat priority extends to enchants and consumables, as well as gear. For an in-depth look at the best gear for the current tier or what enchants and consumables to use, please visit the links below.
There are not any set stat numbers to shoot for. You do not go for a certain percentage of anything. For DPS, it is recommended that you simulate the gear you have to help figure out which stats gives you the most damage.
FAQHow do Simulations Work for Tanks?
For survival, you will want to prioritize item level beyond all, with a rough priority of secondary stats as above while still maintaining a roughly equal spread of stats.
Entering Midnight, you will have access to relatively low amounts of secondary stats, but you may still reach diminishing returns if you have gear which only focuses on one stat. Diminishing returns for each stat starts roughly at the points in the list below.
- Haste: 1320 Rating
- Critical Strike: 1380 Rating
- Mastery: 1380 Rating
- Versatility: 1620 Rating
FAQIs There any Point Where you Stop Stacking Stats?
FAQIs There Any Point Where You Want To Drop Item Level on Gear?
Getting a Better Understanding of Vengeance Demon Hunter Stats
Agility increases your Attack Power, Dodge chance, and Baseline Armor
of
Demon Spikes, as well as Armor via
Mastery: Fel Blood.
Haste reduces the global cooldown (until you reach 100% Haste) and
also reduces the cooldown of
Demon Spikes,
Immolation Aura,
Felblade, and
Fracture. Scales well, with many of our talents gaining significantly
more value from having higher Soul Fragment generation. It also increases the
rate of your Auto-attacks, which is relevant for
Aldrachi Reaver since
it slightly increases the amount of souls generated by
Wounded Quarry.
Mastery: Fel Blood increases your Attack Power and the amount of
Armor you gain from
Demon Spikes based on your
Agility. Will increase your Armor by half the amount when
Demon Spikes
is not active.
Critical Strike increases the chance for your damaging abilities to
be twice as effective. Your Critical Strike rating is also converted into Parry
rating.
Shattered Souls can not critically heal for twice the amount,
but some other minor self-healing effects can. Critical Strike interacts
with the talent
Volatile Flameblood to generate extra Fury from
Immolation Aura. Critical Strike scales incredibly well
defensively with flat Parry effects such as
Demon Spikes.
Versatility is a very straightforward stat, increasing the damage and healing you do, and reducing the damage you take by half that amount. It scales all damage and healing effects, including from items and effects not related to your character.
Changelog
- 31 Mar. 2026: Updated with clarifications and formatting.
- 16 Mar. 2026: Reviewed for Midnight Season 1 release, no changes needed.
- 26 Feb. 2026: Updated for Midnight.
- 10 Feb. 2026: Updated for the Midnight Pre-Patch.
- 30 Nov. 2025: Updated for Patch 11.2.7.
- 05 Oct. 2025: Reviewed for Patch 11.2.5, no changes needed.
- 04 Aug. 2025: Updated for Patch 11.2, Mastery slightly devalued.
- 15 Jun. 2025: Reviewed for Patch 11.1.7, no changes needed.
- 21 Apr. 2025: Reviewed for Patch 11.1.5, no changes needed.
- 24 Feb. 2025: Updated for Patch 11.1.
- 15 Dec. 2024: Reviewed for Patch 11.0.7, no changes needed.
- 21 Oct. 2024: Reviewed for patch 11.0.5, no changes needed.
- 09 Oct. 2024: Updated information regarding defensive stat priority and added information about diminishing returns.
- 09 Sep. 2024: Added some information to Haste description.
- 21 Aug. 2024: Updated for The War Within.
- 23 Jul. 2024: Updated for The War Within Pre-Patch.
- 07 May 2024: Reviewed for 10.2.7.
- 22 Apr. 2024: Added some information regarding diminishing returns on secondary stats.
- 19 Mar. 2024: Expanded slightly on a condition for item level differences on gear.
- 15 Jan. 2024: Reviewed for Patch 10.2.5.
- 06 Nov. 2023: Updated for Patch 10.2
- 04 Sep. 2023: Updated for Patch 10.1.7.
- 10 Jul. 2023: Reviewed for Patch 10.1.5.
- 01 May 2023: Updated to reflect changes with changing tier sets in patch 10.1.
- 20 Mar. 2023: Reviewed for Patch 10.0.7.
- 24 Jan. 2023: Reviewed for Patch 10.0.5.
- 11 Dec. 2022: Reviewed for Dragonflight Season 1.
- 28 Nov. 2022: Updated for Dragonflight launch.
- 24 Oct. 2022: Updated for Dragonflight Pre-Patch.
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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, and also occasionally stream Vengeance and other tank content on Twitch.
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