Vengeance Demon Hunter Midnight Gearing Guide

Midnight Season 2 Vengeance Demon Hunter Tier Set Bonuses:

• (2) Set Bonus: The Sigil Of Flame damage of time effect deals 50% more damage, Soul Cleave extends the duration of Sigil of Flame on your main target by 2 seconds.
• (4) Set Bonus: Immolation Aura and Sigil Of Spite deals 100% increased damage to targets affected by Sigil of Flame.

Tier Set Discussion:

The Season 2 tier set empowers our Sigil Of Flame, making it core to our offensive rotation to increase our damage, a welcome addition after the spell was heavily nerfed going into Midnight. However the power of the tier set is tuned fairly low and while the 2-piece bonus lets you extend the duration on your main target the set still remains almost entirely passive, with only really negative gameplay effects. It also does not help that the damage is fairly low, currently only accounting for 5-10% of your damage depending on your target count and talent choices.

Since the 4-piece bonus ties a very large damage boost to targets being affected by Sigil of Flame you are now heavily discouraged to use Sigil of Flame at any point where you are not able to hit all relevant targets. This can be annoying in fights where bosses spend significant time spread out, or in Mythic+ keys where it basically forces you to never use it as a tool to pull enemies unless you can guarantee you hit all targets.

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.

• Overall
• Raiding
• Mythic+

Voracious Heart Of Ula'tek is an on-use that grants a decent amount of Agility which then increases in value. Our best burst trinket, but loses some power due to the ramping agility counteracting our otherwise frontloaded burst damage.

Zul'jin's Guillotine Technique is a damage proc that scales in damage the lower your targets health is. Our best single-target damage trinket, but it requires the weapon Aman'muso, Warlord's Vengeance to activate most of its value, especially in scenarios with more than one target. If you have the set the damage is equally strong in two-target scenarios.

Keeper's Seething Core is a passive Haste proc that gains more power when you get overlapping stacks, which will happen relatively frequently. It is not very interesting but likely to be our best general trinket due to the mix of offensive and defensive value.

Gebbo's Bottomless Bag is another passive trinket that gives rotating buffs to all secondary stats. It is similar in power to Keepers Seething Core and a strong second option if you want passive defensive trinkets.

Resonant Bellowstone is a passive crit proc trinket that ramps in power after you get a proc. The average value is slightly lower than Keeper's Seething Core, but if you can’t access a Myth version off the Core, you might want to consider the Bellowstone.

Freightrunner's Flask is an on-use Crit trinket offering a lot of crit on a 1:30 cooldown. A bit worse than Voracious Heart but not by much. Pair with Metamorphosis for more burst damage.

Embellishments are generally relatively closely tuned and as long as you are using any two of the following you are at the very least extremely close to your top performing choice.

Arcanoweave Lining can be crafted with any armor slot and grants a proc effect which gives you a small amount of Agility as well as a small amount of Main stat to a nearby player. A solid choice that lets you craft in a low budget slot like Wrists or Cloak. These currently perform the best in group content with a very small margin.

Darkmoon Sigil: Hunt is applied to your weapon and gives secondary stats randomly with high uptime. If tuned comparatively, it might end up a very solid choice since it is always crafted on a weapon, and weapons are generally a very high-value craft to start each season off with. We will see how it is tuned down the line, but a solid choice that also lets you craft a weapon and embellishment immediately.

Loa Worshiper's Band is a ring craft with Crit and Mastery that procs with different effects based on your gem choices. It will proc one effect at a time and can only proc effects that match a gem color you have on your gear. You can always proc an Agility buff and if you only wear Peridot (High Haste) and Garnet (High Crit) gems, then it is guaranteed to proc either Agility, Haste or Crit, all strong effects offensively and defensively. Can be combined with an item imbued with a Stabilizing Gemstone Bandolier to double the power of the effect.

Nebulous Voidcore (Bonus Rolls)

The Midnight Season 2 Bonus Rolls (Nebulous Voidcores) will be available from the start of the season as an alternative reward from your Great Vault. More sources for the bonus rolls will become available later into the Season.

Nebulous Voidcore Bonus Rolls let you target specific loot from a Raid Boss or Mythic+ Dungeon; once an item is received via Bonus Loot, that item is removed from the Bonus Loot Pool.

Below are the High Priority bonus roll target items and where they drop from:

Omnium Folio

The Omnium Folio is a new player power system, released in Midnight Patch 12.0.7 and active for the duration of the Midnight WoW Expansion. By completing a weekly quest, you will unlock more of the Omnium Folio upgrade Tree and can choose from a number of player power enhancements.

Recommended Omnium Folio Powers for Vengeance Demon Hunter:

• Row 1: Rune Of Unleashed Fire
• Row 2: Rune Of Void-Tainted Shell
• Row 3: Rune Of Lingering
• Row 4: Rune Of Burning Haste or Rune Of The Versatile Warrior if you have over 1320 Haste on your gear
• Row 5: Rune Of Overload

For more information on this system, check out Method’s Omnium Folio Overview Guide.