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 11.0.5 and the weeks running up to it came with a handful of Vengeance Demon Hunter buffs.
A few weeks before the patch our Mastery Fel Blood got a 20% buff to the Armor portion, buffing it to a point where we do not really need to consider secondary stats from a defensive point of view anymore. Lesser Soul Fragments were buffed to heal for 7% of all damage taken in the last 5 seconds, up from 6%, a sizable buff to our self-healing. Soul Barrier got a 50% baseline buff and the portion added by consuming Soul Fragments got a buff by 100%.
Further some announced Havoc buffs also applied to Vengeance, giving Reavers Glaive a 15% buff and buffed both Wounded Quarry and Warblade’s Hunger by 100% each.
In the 11.0.5 patch Focused Hatred got buffed to diminish with 10% bonus damage per target from the initial 50% bonus damage to 1 target, boosting Fel-Scarreds damage in small target counts. The initial healing of Metamorphosis was also changed to be a flat 40% Health heal, from the approximately similarly sized health change that occurred previously. The only relevant change this has is that it now interacts with healing absorbs as well as mechanics that increase or decrease healing.
Overall these changes do not have any substantial effect on what builds you run or how you plan out your character, they are simply nice buffs to the already established builds.