Vengeance Demon Hunter Gearing Guide

Aldrachi Tier Set

• (2) Set Bonus: Deal 25% more physical damage with all abilities, and 50% more damage with Reaver’s Glaive.
• (4) Set Bonus: Fury of the Aldrachi further empowers Soul Cleave when cast after Fracture, increasing slashes from 6 to 12. Reaver's Mark now stacks up to 3 times and further empowers Fracture when cast after Soul Cleave, applying a third stack for 100% of normal duration.

This tier set is the very definition of set and forget. The bonuses empower your base kit by a lot without having much impact on actual gameplay outside of always following Reaver’s Glaive with a Fracture into Soul Cleave once you have the 4-piece set bonus.

Fel-Scarred Tier Set

• (2) Set Bonus: Immolation Aura does 30% increased damage and Soul Cleave does 20% more damage when Immolation Aura is active.
• (4) Set Bonus: Entering Metamorphosis through Demonic, Metamorphosis or Last Resort causes an instant Demonsurge explosion and spawns a Demon Soul that increases damage done by 20% for 15 seconds when consumed.

The Fel-Scarred tier set is overall very similar in concept, your core parts of the kit do more damage, as well as empowering the windows where you already do most of your damage further through the Demon Soul spawned by the 4-piece set bonus. The one caveat to this tier set is that you ideally always consume the demon soul with a Spirit Bomb as soon as possible after entering Metamorphosis.

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 Fel-Scarred.

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 Fel-Scarred.

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 an Adrenal Surge Clasp, since having a 639 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.

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.

Best D.I.S.C Belt & Miniature Titan Disc Effects

The D.I.S.C belt is a new addition in patch 11.1.7 unlocked and upgraded through Delve content but usable everywhere. It will be slowly upgraded to 701 item level and can be equipped with one of several unique effects. It is worth using in all content and you might have to craft a new embellishment if you are currently using an Adrenal Surge Clasp belt.

The best effects for Vengeance Demon Hunter are:

• Raiding: Spark Burst (Haste proc) or Critical Chain (Crit proc)
• Mythic+: Spark Burst (Haste proc) or Critical Chain (Crit proc)