Vengeance Demon Hunter Midnight Gearing Guide

Midnight Season 1 Tier Set Bonuses:

• (2) Set Bonus: Fracture deals 35% more damage.
• (4) Set Bonus: Fracture has a 30% chance when cast to cause an explosion dealing moderate fire damage to all nearby targets.

Tier Set Discussion:

A very passive Tier Set that has next to zero impact on our rotation, but at least it is fairly strong for a season 1 tier set. Relatively good damage, with a single target component and an AoE component. We do not need to rush for this tier set, but rather pick it up as we get more item levels, since it just provides a minimal amount of damage.

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+

With a new expansion comes a lot of new trinkets, in general tuning seems relatively low value on most trinkets, with stat trinkets generally pulling ahead for tanks since they contribute both damage and defensive value. Below are some standout options and how they work.

Gaze Of The Alnseer is arguably the strongest trinket available in Midnight season 1, dropping from Chimaerus in the Dreamrift raid. While the passive Mastery on it isn’t ideal, the Agility proc more than makes up for it, with high uptime and average stat value that surpasses all other trinkets with a fair margin.

Umbral Plume is a passive Crit trinket that drops from Belo’ren in the March on Quel’danas raid. It gives a fair bit of stat that diminishes over a minute while in combat before resetting to full value. Exiting combat slowly replenishes the value over time. Like with all stat sticks it is not very interesting, but decent value overall.

Heart Of Wind is a passive Haste trinket with high uptime on a medium amount of Haste. The value is overall equivalent to other stat trinkets, and Haste is generally our strongest stat, making this a very solid option.

Solarflare Prism is a passive Crit trinket with high uptime and increases in power depending on how much damage your target has taken. It will generally reward slightly higher amounts of stats compared to Heart of the Wind, and in continuous combat, more than Umbral Plume, but since it offers Crit instead of Haste, it will likely be just a little bit worse than Heart of the Wind.

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.

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.

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. Can be a better choice later in the season, or at the very least very close in performance to the other options.

Nebulous Voidcore (Bonus Rolls)

Bonus rolls return with patch 12.0.5 which lets you get an extra chance for items up to two times per week. Any item received this way can not be received again, however you can get items you already had before Patch 12.0.5 or that you loot or take from the Great Vault. These item will match the loot track corresponding to what would be rewarded in the Great Vault, meaning Mythic+ dungeons at +10 or higher, as well as Mythic Raid, allows you to roll for Myth-track gear.

Below is roughly the order to prioritize gear, changing depending on what you already have available:

1. Myth-track Gaze Of The Alnseer unless you are clearing the Dreamrift often and believe you will get the trinket soon.
2. Myth-track Main hand weapon if you do not have one already.
3. Myth-track trinkets that you plan on using frequently.
4. Use in the dungeon with the highest probability of giving an upgrade.

Ascendant Voidcore (Gear Upgrades)

Further into patch 12.0.5 you will unlock Ascendant Voidcores which lets you upgrade your weapons and trinkets up to as high as 298 item level. The following is the priority you want to upgrade items:

1. Main hand weapon (your highest item level weapon)
2. Myth-track trinkets you frequently use
3. Hero-track trinkets you frequently use
4. Off hand weapon