Introduction
Hello there, I’m Meyra. A distinguished member of The Fel Hammer with love for optimizing every single detail of Vengeance Demon Hunters with several expansions worth of experience coaching and helping players improve at the spec across all levels of gameplay.
Vengeance Demon Hunter enters The War Within after spending the last two major patches as an incredible powerhouse of a Tank, with several noticeable changes to mainly reduce the amount of Crowd Control we have available. To counteract this Vengeance gets access to two relatively strong Hero Talent Trees that offer slightly different niches and powers.
What has changed
Patch 11.1.0 Changes
Patch 11.1.0 brings a long list of changes for Vengeance. First, several spells and talents received minor tuning, which will not have any impact on rotation but will overall bring a bit extra damage to Vengeance. Beyond that there were several major changes which will impact our rotation and talent choices somewhat. Below are some of the most impactful changes:
- All damage increased by 20%.
- Cycle of Binding now gives 5 seconds of cooldown reduction to all sigils, but only when you cast Sigil of Flame. Which will significantly increase the amount of Sigils you have available.
- Demon Spikes base duration increased from 6 seconds to 8 seconds.
- Feed the Demon is now a 1-point talent node and reduces the cooldown of Demon Spikes by 0.35 seconds per Soul Fragment consumed.
- Fel-Scarred received a close to 50% damage increase to Demonsurge damage, as well as a buff to Burning Blades. A minor nerf to Student of Suffering counters some of the gain but overall a significant buff to damage in both Single Target and AoE.
- Aldrachi Reaver gets a significant change to the talent Wounded Quarry, where it now echoes 20% of all physical damage done to any target onto the target marked by Reaver’s Mark. This damage is Chaos damage and is amplified by any effect that increases Fire damage, making it a very strong tool to funnel damage from multiple targets into a priority target.