Vengeance Demon Hunter Gearing Guide

Midnight Pre-Patch Tier Set:

• (2) Set Bonus: Deal 6% more damage.
• (4) Set Bonus: Deal 10% more damage.

Midnight Pre-Patch brings a generic Tier Set for all tanks which simply increases our damage by a flat %. It is strong enough that we want 4 pieces in all situations.

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
• Raiding
• Mythic+

The third season of The War Within brings with both new and returning trinkets to strengthen your character, and unlike season one and two, the trinkets this season are tuned slightly stronger. Below are a few more notable trinkets and what they do.

Araz's Ritual Forge: Gives a massive amount of agility on a two-minute cooldown, great for burst damage when paired with cooldowns as Annihilator.

Brand Of Ceaseless Ire: A strong passive damage proc that deals more damage the longer you are in combat. One of our best damage trinkets this season.

Ringing Ritual Mud: A shield trinket with longer cooldown unless you are taking damage over time to reduce its cooldown. A fairly decent option if you really need a large shield for certain mechanics, however it comes at some damage and passive defensive loss due to having baseline Versatility instead of Agility.

Signet Of The Priory: A two-minute trinket that gives you a burst of your highest secondary stat for 20 seconds. Aligns with Metamorphosis for large burst damage as Annihilator.

Improvised Seaforium Pacemaker: A passive stat trinket getting a significant portion of Crit for 30 seconds every minute. One of the more balanced options this season, offering good damage and passive defensive benefits.

Ara-Kara Sacbrood: A passive agility proc trinket that stacks up. On average about as good as most stat sticks, but can on occasion high-roll stacks for significant amounts of agility.

Sigil Of The Cosmic Hunt: Strong single target trinket that deals more damage the lower the health of the target. Not very interesting but decently strong for raid fights, scaling into the later parts of the fights.

Blessed Weapon Grip has a chance to grant your highest secondary stats, decreasing slowly over time. The frontloaded value means that any proc early on in a fight is really strong, since a large part of our damage is frontloaded. Currently our strongest embellishment for Mythic+ and Raid, however long term you only want to run one of these in combination with an Adrenal Surge Clasp or an item with a Writhing Armor Banding, since having a 170 weapon in your Main Hand slot is more overall value.

Adrenal Surge Clasp has a chance to grant main stat and reduce your Mastery. Since Mastery is somewhat weaker than other stats even after the buff just before 11.0.5. It does however only activate from taking damage, meaning the value somewhat diminishes in raid since several bosses feature tanking downtime. Your best embellishment in Mythic+ combined with a weapon with a Blessed Weapon Grip.

Puzzling Cartel Chips

Patch 11.2.5 brings back the Puzzling Cartel Chips which allows you to purchase Trinkets and special items from Manaforge Omega and the current Mythic+ season. Killing a raid boss on Normal or higher difficulty unlocks items from that boss on Hero track, and killing the boss on Mythic difficulty unlocks it on Myth track. To unlock dungeon trinkets on Myth track you need to finish all dungeons on +12 or higher in time. Below are some solid options to buy depending on what you have unlocked and already looted.

• Araz’s Ritual Forge: One of the strongest trinkets for Raiding and a really solid purchase on Myth track if you have not managed to loot one yet.
• Brand of Ceaseless Ire: A really strong trinket for all content. Worth purchasing if you have not had the option to loot it on Myth Track and don’t think you will be able to get it from Mythic Soul Hunters.
• Soleah’s Secret Technique: One of our best stat sticks and useful in all content. A solid purchase on Myth track.
• Improvised Seaforium Pacemaker: A strong stat stick option if you already have a Soleah’s Secret Technique on Myth track.

Reshii Wraps

Reshii Wraps is a new Cloak released in Patch 11.2 and will be the only cloak you use (and the only one that can drop from any content in Season 3). You gain access to it via a quest chain and completing chapter 3 of the main patch storyline.

The Reshii Wraps are upgradable via Ethereal Strands and can have secondary stats of your choice added to it.

To add a secondary stat to the Reshii Wraps you use a Fiber in the Fiber Socket of the Cloak. The highest quality version of the Fibers requires a work-order to a Tailor.

When picking a Fiber, I strongly recommend simming your character for the best stat for your current gear and intended content. If you just want a quick recommendation for which Reshii Fiber to use, then use either Pure Chronomatic Fiber (Haste) or Pure Precise Fiber (Crit).

To find out more about the Reshii Wraps, you can read the Method Reshii Wraps Overview Guide.