Gear
Tier Set
- 2-piece: When you attack a target afflicted by Sigil of Flame, your damage and healing are increased by 2% and your Stamina is increased by 2% for 8 sec, stacking up to 5.
- 4-piece: Sigil of Flame's periodic damage has a chance to flare up, shattering an additional Soul Fragment from a target and dealing fire damage. Each 40 Fury you spend reduces its cooldown by 1.0 sec.
The 2-piece is relatively boring, almost completely passive. But it is decently strong. There is not a lot worth mentioning about it.
The 4-piece is interesting, the cooldown reduction makes it decently potent in raid, since Sigil of Flame deals good damage after the buffs to it. In Mythic+ the soul generation becomes very potent, making Sigil of Flame an incredibly strong ability.
Notable Gear
There are three items you want to keep an eye out for as a Vengeance Demon Hunter beyond trinkets this season.
Thorncaller's Claw from The Council of Dreams is a very potent weapon that adds a very strong offensive ability at the cost of a small amount of the stats on the weapon.
Seal of Diurna’s Chosen from Eranog in Vault of the Incarnates is a powerful ring with an extra Fire damage effect that you absolutely want to get your hands on.
Lastly, Stormslash from The Nokhud Offensive has a bonus damage effect which is not extremely powerful, but comes with no additional cost.
Gear can easily be upgraded up to as high as 522 this season if they are on the Hero track, and 528 if they are on the Myth track, my recommendation is to prioritize high value items like Double those just mentioned, or trinkets mentioned below. After that you simply want Hero gear to upgrade to item level 522, since item level is your best value over any specific stat.
Vengeance Demon Hunter Best in Slot Gear
You should still prioritise the gear you use by running a sim for your character, but the lists below will give you a good idea of what items are considered good for Vengeance Demon Hunter, and help you target the right content for each piece of loot.
Worth noting that as a tank, most items on this list will only be your best option defensively if they are the highest item level piece available for you.
Overall Best Gear
| Slot | Item | Source |
| Head | Screaming Torchfiend’s Burning Scowl | Catalyst or Head Token |
| Neck | Terros’s Captive Core | Terros |
| Shoulders | Screaming Torchfiend’s Horned Memento | Catalyst or Shoulder Token |
| Cloak | Voice of the Silent Star | Sarkareth |
| Chest | Screaming Torchfiend’s Binding | Catalyst or Chest Token |
| Wrist | Lifebound Bracers | Crafted |
| Gloves | Screaming Torchfiend’s Grasp | Catalyst or Glove Token |
| Belt | Bloody Dragonhide Belt | Igira |
| Legs | Loathsome Thunderhosen | Raszageth |
| Boots | Lifebound Boots | Crafted |
| Ring | Seal of Diurna’s Chosen | Eranog |
| Ring | Onyx Impostor’s Birthright | Neltharion |
| Trinket | Cataclysmic Signet Brand | Smolderon |
| Trinket | Elementium Pocket Anvil | Amalgamation Chamber |
| Main Hand | Thorncaller Claw | Council of Dreams |
| Off Hand | Stormslash | Nokhud Offensive |
Best Gear from Raid
| Slot | Item | Source |
| Head | Screaming Torchfiend’s Burning Scowl | Catalyst or Head Token |
| Neck | Terros’s Captive Core | Terros |
| Shoulders | Screaming Torchfiend’s Horned Memento | Catalyst or Shoulder Token |
| Cloak | Voice of the Silent Star | Sarkareth |
| Chest | Screaming Torchfiend’s Binding | Catalyst or Chest Token |
| Wrist | Verdant Sanctuary Bands | Council of Dreams |
| Gloves | Screaming Torchfiend’s Grasp | Catalyst or Glove Token |
| Belt | Bloody Dragonhide Belt | Igira |
| Legs | Loathsome Thunderhosen | Raszageth |
| Boots | Tasseted Emberwalkers | Tindral |
| Ring | Seal of Diurna’s Chosen | Eranog |
| Ring | Onyx Impostor’s Birthright | Neltharion |
| Trinket | Cataclysmic Signet Brand | Smolderon |
| Trinket | Elementium Pocket Anvil | Amalgamation Chamber |
| Main Hand | Thorncaller Claw | Council of Dreams |
| Off Hand | Claws of the Blazing Behemoth | Magmorax |
Best Gear from Mythic+
| Slot | Item | Source |
| Head | Screaming Torchfiend’s Burning Scowl | Catalyst or Tindral Sageswift |
| Neck | Tuskarr Bone Necklace | Brackenhide Hollow |
| Shoulders | Screaming Torchfiend’s Horned Memento | Catalyst or Smolderon |
| Cloak | Cloak of Lost Devotion | Azure Vault |
| Chest | Screaming Torchfiend’s Binding | Catalyst or Nymue |
| Wrist | Ferocious Hyena Hidebinders | Brackenhide Hollow |
| Gloves | Screaming Torchfiend’s Grasp | Catalyst or Igira |
| Belt | Cinch of Forgotten Duty | Azure Vault |
| Legs | Legguards of Adamant Rule | Nokhud Offensive |
| Boots | Treads of Restored Order | Halls of Infusion |
| Ring | Unstable Arcane Loop | Azure Vault |
| Ring | Eternal Sentry’s Ring | Uldaman |
| Trinket | Prophetic Stonescales | Dawn of the Infinite |
| Trinket | Treemouth’s Festering Splinter | Brackenhide Hollow |
| Main Hand | Stormslash | Nokhud Offensive |
| Off Hand | Stormslash | Nokhud Offensive |
Embellishments
In Season 4 your best embellishments will be Shadowflame-Tempered Armor Patch on Wrists and Belt or Boots. This is due to the scaling of these embellishments being better with item level than other options.
Once you have gotten more gear and sockets on most of your item slots you can switch out one item with the Shadowflame-Tempered Armor Patch for an Elemental Lariat if sims indicate it is similar or close in offensive value.
Trinkets
There are a handful of strong trinkets from Awakened Raids, as well as a few contenders from the new Mythic+ season or even the Mythic 0 mode of Dawn of the Infinites.
Prophetic Stonescales is a trinket from the Dawn of the Infinites. This trinket offers a cheat death effect on an 8-minute cooldown that will heal for a significant amount any time where you would have died, as well as reducing damage enemies deal to you by 20% and granting a large amount of haste for 12 seconds. This trinket is a decent option defensively, especially for hard content since it lets you have a cheat death effect without talenting into Last Resort.
Cataclysmic Signet Brand is a very potent damage trinket that drops from Smolderon in Amirdrassil. A stacking trinket that deals Fire damage to your target. In Mythic+ you have to make sure not to stay out of combat for extended periods of time as you will lose all your stacks and most of the damage potential.
Elementium Pocket Anvil is a very strong trinket for any situation where you primarily spend Fury on Soul Cleave, which currently mainly occurs in Raid. This trinket does a significant amount of single target and ramps in damage every minute when you add a stack by activating the trinket.