Introduction
Hello there, I’m Meyra. A distinguished member of The Fel Hammer with love for optimizing every single detail of Vengeance Demon Hunters with several expansions' worth of experience coaching and helping players improve at the spec across all levels of gameplay.
Vengeance enters Midnight with some major changes to talents and spells to make the spec more approachable and with access to the completely new Annihilator Hero Talents shared with the new Devourer Demon Hunter. All of these changes and streamlines, along with the new Apex talents available past level 80, will mean you have a simpler, but relatively dynamic rotation, where you especially focus on maximizing value from the random Metamorphosis activations our Apex talents give us.
What has changed
Patch 12.1 Changes for Vengeance Demon Hunter
Vengeance enters patch 12.1 with only basic adjustments in our damage, with a 5.5% damage buff that does not affect parts of Aldrachi Reavers damage and double dips on some damage for Annihilator it further separates Annihilator as the top performing spec.
Beyond that the only actual change is just an adjustment to some of our flat healing and leech talents to compensate for the 25% increase to our health and the damage of all enemies which Blizzard has applied universally. All in all you can expect Vengeance to play basically the same way as before.
Patch 12.0.7 Changes for Vengeance Demon Hunter
Patch 12.0.7 did not bring any direct changes to Vengeance, but there are still power gained through new Sporefused gear from the Sporefall raid which changes our BIS gear slightly, as well as the new Omnium Folio system which will be unlocked during the first few weeks of the patch.
Patch 12.0.5 Changes for Vengeance Demon Hunter
With the 12.0.5 patch Vengeance gets some minor tuning which won’t affect performance much, but will make the rotation feel smoother.
The most important change is that the Fracture base cooldown has been reduced by 0.5 seconds, which means you can get about 11% more casts of it, which further enhances the base output of the spec. To compensate Annihilator gets a very minor nerf to Celestial Echoes reducing Fracture Fury generation by 2 and the Fracture damage increase slightly.
Feast Of Souls gains a buff but remains very undertuned and will not be recommended in any builds until further buffs.