Vengeance Demon Hunter Midnight Talents Guide

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The class tree has a few notable defensive talents in the middle section of the tree, namely Soul Rending and Infernal Armor, both of which offer a lot of defensive power at relatively low cost. Besides this the tree mostly offers the choice of utility choices, or mobility options.

For the Capstone area you get three branches ending at Wings Of Wrath for faster glide speed, Darkness and some passive damage options around it, and Demonic Resilience for an extra Demon Spikes charge which is only really viable when you don’t talent into Feed The Demon.

After all the changes to the tree most of your nodes are simply choosing between things like Chaos Nova or Sigil Of Misery for better mob control, or talents like Felfire Haste for more general mobility. Meaning there is a lot of room to alter your choices depending on the content you are tackling at the moment.

Defensively it mostly revolves around choices such as how strong Darkness is in any form of content, or in raid you can play Demonic Resilience and drop Feed The Demon in the Spec tree if the fight has tanking downtime where you can recharge Demon Spikes charges.

The Vengeance tree has a few options where you have to consider which options are useful for the content you are doing. In the first gate, you have talents such as Calcified Spikes and Ascending Flame, where one offers a small defensive benefit and the other a minor offensive gain.

Sigil Of Silence is a strong tool in Mythic+ but less important in Raid outside of maybe a handful of encounters every expansion, where you can instead run both Calcified Spikes and Ascending Flame for some extra damage or defensive value depending on your initial choice.

The second gate has slightly more options to pick from. There are offensive choices, such as Volatile Flameblood and Fiery Demise, and more defensively oriented options like Painbringer, which is nerfed but still provides solid passive damage reduction.

Sigil Of Chains is also a choice for dungeons, although its value has gone down slightly since it now replaces Sigil Of Misery, reducing the total value it adds to your kit.

With the change to Feed The Demon now being in the second gate and greatly enhanced, it is mostly a choice if you want to have a small Demon Spikes uptime or want to be able to macro it to your rotational abilities and guarantee uptime.

Last Resort is now locked behind the new and powerful talent Vengeful Beast, which enhances our Metamorphosis to be longer and increases our damage done during it. This means you are almost always pathing close to Last Resort and it becomes a much less costly choice if you want the extra defensive layer.

The Vengeance Apex talent Untethered Rage comes in two pairs. The first and last points interact strongly with each other, while the second and third are a thing of their own. Combined, they offer a lot of power that will make you stronger offensively and defensively and seem to generally be the best option for the 4 spec talent points you get access to as you level to level 90.

The first point grants every Soul Fragment consumed by Soul Cleave and Spirit Bomb a small chance to grant a special charge of Metamorphosis; the charge needs to be activated within 12 seconds and grants Metamorphosis for 10 seconds.

The second point allows Soul Cleave and Spirit Bomb to consume one more Soul Fragment each, and the second and third points both increase the damage bonus from Soul Fragments for Soul Cleave and Spirit Bomb.

The most interesting node is the final one, which gives a stacking buff that gives 1% agility per stack when you do not proc Metamorphosis from Untethered Rage, and increases the chance to proc Untethered Rage for each stack you have. The proc chance seems to increase exponentially, and it is very common to activate Untethered Rage at 6 to 8 stacks, and seemingly guarantee a proc at 13 or 14 stacks if you are unlucky enough not to get an activation. With the current spending tempo, it means you are almost guaranteed a proc at least once per minute, but usually more often, making this a very powerful Apex talent.

Aldrachi Reaver

Focusing on consuming Soul Fragment or using Sigil Of Spite to activate Reaver's Glaive, a more powerful Throw Glaive with further effects, is the core of Aldrachi Reaver.

Using Reaver's Glaive empowers your next Fracture to make the target take extra damage from you, and your next Soul Cleave to strike all nearby enemies a few times with a minor hit.

Whichever ability you press last after the Reaver's Glaive gains much more value from the Bladecraft talent. As of the current tuning, you always finish the combo with Soul Cleave.

A very interesting talent that changes Vengeance’s damage profile is the talent Wounded Quarry, which offers a large amount of funnel damage in situations with many enemies. This can be incredibly useful if there are add spawns on bosses or when pulling trash on minibosses or bosses in Mythic+.

Outside of this, the spec offers mostly passive benefits, such as more damage and healing after using both your empowered abilities and a few nodes for passive damage and healing. The Final talent has changed, going into Midnight and now offers near permanent Haste and increases the damage of future Reaver's Glaive.

Three choice nodes exist. As of current tuning and behavior, you always want Incorruptible Spirit and Keen Engagement, as these spells offer consistently better value than their choice nodes. Unhindered Assault can help marginally with Fury management while Evasive Action grants more mobility.

Annihilator

In essence, somewhat similar to Aldrachi Reaver, the new Annihilator tree focuses on building stacks of Voidfall through Fracture, which drops meteors on your enemies when you reach 3 stacks and use either Soul Cleave or Spirit Bomb. It also enhances Metamorphosis to grant 3 meteors and other bonuses, including resetting the cooldown of Spirit Bomb, and reduces the cooldown of Metamorphosis through the World Killer capstone talent.

Similar to the now removed Fel-Scarred tree, most of Annihilator's damage is buffed by Fiery Demise, meaning syncing big bursts of meteors around Fiery Brand will be significant for damage. This might require a more aggressive use of defensives for maximum damage than some players might prefer.

The defensive value of the Hero Talents comes from Swift Erasure and Phase Shift, and is extended through Final Hour, to grant Haste and passive damage reduction related to Voidfall stacks. World Killer also reduces the Metamorphosis cooldown, making it closer to a 1 minute and 20 seconds cooldown on average, instead of 2 minutes.

It has two choice nodes, but only really one choice. As it stands, Harness The Cosmos beats Doomsayer in any conceivable scenario. The only remaining choice is between a minor movement speed increase from Path To Oblivion and a second charge of our taunt Torment, through State Of Matter. The option you choose depends on whether a second Taunt is available or not.