Vengeance Demon Hunter Midnight Playstyle and Rotation Guide

Vengeance Demon hunter is at its core built as a standard builder/spender spec. Focusing on generating Soul Fragment and Fury through Generators like Fracture and Immolation Aura, and spending them with Spirit Bomb or Soul Cleave for damage, healing as well as several passive talent effects you may choose to talent into.

This makes Vengeance a fairly aggressive tank since the defensive kit is built around staying near enemies to generate resources to heal and mitigate further damage.

Rotation

As of the current tuning, the rotation priority stays relatively fixed regardless of target count.

Aldrachi Reaver

1. Use Reaver's Glaive if you do not have empowered spells available
2. Use Sigil Of Spite, if talented
3. Use Fiery Brand if you are about to reach 2 charges of Fiery Brand.
4. Use Fracture Empowered by Reaver's Glaive before using the Empowered Soul Cleave.
5. Use Soul Cleave Empowered by Reaver's Glaive after using the Empowered Fracture.
6. Use Soul Carver, preferably when you have Fiery Brand applied to the target and more than 3 seconds remaining on the debuff.
7. Use Immolation Aura.
8. Use Fracture if you have close to 2 charges.
9. Use Spirit Bomb with 6 souls.
10. Use Soul Cleave with 3 souls.
11. Use Fel Devastation when you have Fiery Brand applied to the target and more than 2 seconds remaining on the debuff.
12. Use Sigil Of Flame.
13. Use Fracture to generate Fury and Soul Fragment.
14. Use Felblade as a filler.
15. Use Soul Cleave with 2 or fewer souls as filler.
16. Use Throw Glaive as a filler or when you are not in range of your enemy.

Annihilator

1. Use Fiery Brand, if you have 3 stacks of Voidfall, Metamorphosis available or are about to reach 2 charges of Fiery Brand.
2. Use Metamorphosis if you have 0 or 1 stacks of Voidfall, or Untethered Rage is about to expire.
3. Use Spirit Bomb, ideally with 6 souls, if you have 3 stacks of Voidfall.
4. Use Soul Cleave, ideally with 3 souls, if you have 3 stacks of Voidfall.
5. Use Fracture if you have close to 2 charges.
6. Use Immolation Aura.
7. Use Soul Carver, preferably when you have Fiery Brand applied to the target and more than 3 seconds remaining on the debuff.
8. Use Sigil Of Spite, if talented
9. Use Soul Cleave with 3 souls.
10. Use Fel Devastation when you have Fiery Brand applied to the target and more than 2 seconds remaining on the debuff.
11. Use Sigil Of Flame.
12. Use Fracture to generate Fury and Soul Fragment.
13. Use Felblade as a filler.
14. Use Soul Cleave with 2 or fewer souls as filler.
15. Use Throw Glaive as a filler or when you are not in range of your enemy.

Opener

Aldrachi Reaver

1. Pre-cast Immolation Aura on single target
2. Pre-place Sigil Of Flame
3. Cast Fiery Brand
4. Cast Immolation Aura if fighting multiple targets
5. Cast Sigil Of Spite
6. Cast Reaver's Glaive
7. Cast Fracture
8. Cast Soul Cleave
9. Proceed with regular rotation

Annihilator

1. Pre-cast Immolation Aura on single target
2. Pre-place Sigil Of Spite
3. Cast Fiery Brand
4. Cast Immolation Aura if fighting multiple targets
5. Cast Fracture if you have fewer than 4 Soul Fragment
6. Cast Spirit Bomb
7. Cast Metamorphosis
8. Cast Fracture
9. Cast Spirit Bomb
10. Proceed with regular rotation

General Playstyle

Vengeance Demon Hunter is, at its core, built as a standard builder/spender spec. Focusing on generating Soul Fragment and Fury through Generators like Fracture and Immolation Aura, and spending them with Spirit Bomb or Soul Cleave for damage, healing, as well as activating interactions with several passive talent effects you may choose to talent into.

This makes Vengeance a fairly aggressive tank since the defensive kit is built around staying near enemies to generate resources to heal and mitigate further damage.

Cooldowns

Vengeance has several cooldowns that can broadly be divided into two categories, rotational and defensive cooldowns. Rotational cooldowns include spells like Immolation Aura and Sigil Of Flame, shorter cooldowns that mostly function as damage spells baseline, but that have talent interactions that make them valuable defensively as well. These spells should, as a rule, be kept on cooldown as often as possible since reducing their usage will have compounding negative effects on your damage, healing, and damage mitigation.

Defensive cooldowns such as Fiery Brand, Metamorphosis and Demon Spikes mostly follow the same rules.

Fiery Brand and Metamorphosis, especially the latter as Annihilator, offer significant offensive power on top of their defensive benefits. Therefore, your goal should generally be to use them as often as possible.

Demon Spikes is our only purely defensive cooldown, and currently, with Feed The Demon talented offers effectively 100% uptime as long as you have at least a small amount of haste.

This also fits in the defensive plan of Vengeance, where you want to cover damage events with strong defensives as often as possible, and use your lower value defensive Demon Spikes to cover situations when Fiery Brand or Metamorphosis are not available.