Stat Priorities
Stat Ranking
Offensively your stat priority should always be determined by simulating your gear, since it will be more accurate than any human can be. It will likely want you to use a fairly balanced stat spread.
Defensively stats follows the following priority:
- Agility (Item Level)
- Haste
- Versatility = Critical Strike
- Mastery
Stat Outline
Haste speeds up your global cooldown and reduces the cooldown of a few abilities like Fracture, Demon Spikes and Immolation Aura. It is a strong stat since it has a few compounding interactions with talents Such as Feed the Demon, as well as interacting well with the core of Vengeance’s toolkit.
Critical strike increases the chance for your damage to deal twice the damage and parry enemy attacks. It offers very strong damage reduction, especially when combined with other Parry sources like Demon Spikes and Illuminated Sigils. It does not affect most of our healing since very few relevant healing sources can Crit for us.
Versatility is a simple amplifier to our damage, healing and damage reduction. The stat scales poorly compared to other stats due to higher rating requirements for each percent of Versatility, however it is a well rounded stat that scales every part of our kit making it effective even though it is not very interesting.
Mastery increases your armor based on your agility as well as increasing the power of Demon Spikes. It is currently somewhat poorly tuned and is effectively a weaker version of versatility for Vengeance. After a buff in 11.0, Mastery is now very close in value to the other stats, and no longer something to be actively avoided.
Races
Demon Hunters can only be Night Elf and Blood Elf. Currently Night Elf offers slightly more value with Haste instead of Critical Strike during the evening as well as 2% passive dodge. However the difference is fairly small and if you prefer Blood Elf it will not be a massive difference in power.
Enchants
Cloak: Leeching Fangs
Chest: Crystalline Radiance
Bracers: Armored Leech
Boots: Defender’s March
Legs: Defender’s Armor Kit
Rings: Radiant Haste
Weapon: Authority of Radiant Power on both Weapons.
Gems
You want to run Culminating Blasphemite and use simulations to figure out if it is worth more to use a mix of different colored gems giving Haste, Critical Strike and Versatility, or if you want to focused into a single gem with Haste and either Critical Strike or Versatility depending on which of them the rest of your gear has the least of.
If you want a simple option, use Deadly Emerald of Versatile Emerald.
Consumables
Food: Feast of the Midnight Masquerade/Feast of the Divine Day
Phials: Flask of Alchemical Chaos if you are using Combat Potions.Flask of Tempered Swiftness if you are not.
Potions: Tempered Potion
Health Potions: Algari Healing Potion
Weapon Stone: Algari Mana Oil