Vengeance Demon Hunter Tank Mythic+ Tips — The War Within (11.0.5)

This build is my recommendation for High Mythic+ Pushing. High Mythic+ is defined as any level of Mythic+ that you consider a challenge. Talent choices in this build will focus more towards defensive coverage to reduce the risk of dying while still taking relevant offensive talents to help your group complete the dungeon within the timer and to help with generating and maintaining Aggro on enemies.

The reason for going Fel-Scarred is partially due to the simplicity when compared to Aldrachi Reaver and partially because of overall performance. Pushing higher key levels than you are used to can be a stressful time, and playing talents that have a simpler road to the goal will reduce the risk of making fatal mistakes. Fel-Scarred talents also focus on empowering you outside of Metamorphosis windows, helping you stay alive in your weakest moments defensively. Fel-Scarred also performs better offensively with less effort, which is relevant in dungeons where the timer is a concern.

This talent tree is a general blueprint for Dungeons, and while most dungeons can be completed with this tree as is, there are going to be cases where you want to switch a few talents for utility options in the Class Tree especially. Below are just a few talents to consider depending on the situation.

• If the dungeon has plenty of dangerous spellcasters, talents like Improved Sigil of Misery and Sigil of Chains can be options to consider. If the dungeon contains mainly humanoid enemies, you can also use Imprison as an interrupt of sorts.
• If there are dangerous magic buffs that need to be Purged in the dungeon Consume Magic can be a consideration if your group is lacking options to deal with these mechanics.
• If there are dangerous group mechanics with multiple damage instances, you can talent into Darkness to help your healer out.

Be sure to make use of the 'Export Talents' button to import the best build directly into your game!

This build focuses slightly more on damage while retaining defensive nodes that do not cost too much damage to take, while they might not hold up defensively for the highest levels of dungeons, it will perform more than fine defensively while doing very good damage.

This talent tree is a general blueprint for Dungeons, and while most dungeons can be completed with this tree as is, there are going to be cases where you want to switch a few talents for utility options in the Class Tree especially. Below are just a few talents to consider depending on the situation.

• If the dungeon has plenty of dangerous spellcasters, talents like Improved Sigil of Misery and Sigil of Chains can be options to consider. If the dungeon contains mainly humanoid enemies, you can also use Imprison as an interrupt of sorts.
• If there are dangerous magic buffs that need to be Purged in the dungeon Consume Magic can be a consideration if your group is lacking options to deal with these mechanics.
• If there are dangerous group mechanics with multiple damage instances, you can talent into Darkness to help your healer out.

Be sure to make use of the 'Export Talents' button to import the best build directly into your game!

Disrupt is your "kick" and your most important bit of utility in Mythic+, used to stop enemy casts for the benefit of yourself and the rest of the group. It is highly recommended to use a Focus Kick macro for this.

• /cast [@focus,exists,nodead][@mouseover,exists,nodead] [] Counter Shot

This macro will kick your focus target if you have one, mouseover if you have no Focus target, and your target if you have neither of those.

To quickly set a focus target in hectic scenarios, we also recommend a Focus Mouseover macro.

• /focus [@mouseover]

Make sure that your UI shows your Focus Target's casts clearly so that you are always able to kick it on cooldown or in coordination with the rest of your group.

Sigil of Silence is your best talent for stopping enemy spellcasters, silencing all enemies hit for 4-6 seconds, depending on talent choices. Able to stop all nearby casters to allow for regular "kicks" and other tools to come off cooldown.

Chaos Nova is your second-most important utility and is an AoE Stun, stunning all nearby targets for 2 seconds on a short 45-second cooldown.

Sigil of Misery is a more situational tool that can fear enemies for up to 17 seconds, depending on your talents. The fear easily breaks from damage and is, therefore, usually mostly a momentary "stop". It can also be used to skip enemy trash packs by fearing them and using Shadowmeld after you and your entire party has moved past them. Does generally not work on undead targets.

Sigil of Chains can also be used to momentarily disrupt enemy casters or reposition enemies. Due to the short range, the usefulness of stacking enemies is not very high since if enemies are close enough to be gripped, they are likely already grouped well enough. It is also worth noting that the risk of syncing up the auto-attacks of enemies is high by grouping them, which can lead to a very high spike in damage at once. Therefore, it is advised never to grip enemies on top of your location and always moving slightly so the enemies spread out a bit.

Imprison can be used to trap a enemy Humanoid, Beast, or Demon for a minute; it can also be used as a weaker version of Disrupt to stop casts for a moment. It will break as soon as anyone deals damage to the enemy, so the duration will be almost zero.

Consume Magic can be used to remove a beneficial magic buff on an enemy every 10 seconds. There are often other specs with better tools for this, and the amount of times it is useful to have are usually less than the dungeons in the season pool. However, if there are situations where it is useful, it can be a worthwhile talent choice.

Vengeful Retreat is a movement tool with a nice side-effect. Using it removes most debuffs that reduce your movement speed, which sounds limited in use until you learn how many strong debuffs are also attached to a small slow. If you have any such dangerous debuffs, you want to clear Vengeful Retreat is a cheap and convenient tool.

This section will continue to be fleshed out as the Season progresses and cool tricks and tips are found.

• Move the boss away from the spawn location of the Starved Crawlers so that your group have plenty of time to kill them.
• Use defensives for Voracious Bite.

• Use Disrupt and Sigil of Silence to help move the Bloodstained Webmage adds on top of the boss.
• Impale will always be aimed at you, so make sure to position in a way that it does not hit your party, especially during Eye of the Swarm.

• You can Infernal Strike out of the Cosmic Singularity entirely by moving away from the boss and leaping just before the spell activates around 0.5 seconds remaining.
• You can use Disrupt, Chaos Nova or any other crowd control tool to remove Grasping Blood.

• Use Imprison, Sigil of Misery, or Chaos Nova to stop Alarm Shrill from finishing for Sentry Stagshell.

This section will continue to be fleshed out as the Season progresses and cool tricks and tips are found.

• Use a defensive for Subjugate.

• Position such that your group can help you clear Freezing Blood.

• Use a defensive to mitigate damage from Oozing Smash.

• Use a defensive and heal through the three hit combo from Process of Elimination.

• No specific mechanics that Vengeance Demon Hunter have very specific ways to solve.

This section will continue to be fleshed out as the Season progresses and cool tricks and tips are found.

• Use a defensive when the boss casts Obsidian Beam, since it deals significant shadow damage to you when it activates.

• You can use Infernal Strike to cancel the knockback from Terrifying Slam.

• Make sure to not leave melee range of the boss, since it will cast Tacky Burst if no target is in melee range, quickly wiping your group.

• After defeating Speaker Shadowcrown make sure to move around the city in a way that reduces risk of pulling extra enemies.

This section will continue to be fleshed out as the Season progresses and cool tricks and tips are found.

• Use a defensive for Skullsplitter.

• Use a defensive for Molten Flurry and heal through the damage.
• Out-range the boss when it uses Molten Mace and move it tactically to leave the puddles of lava where they do not take up space you need.

• No Vengeance Demon Hunter specific tactics on this boss.

• Use defensives to reduce the damage from Crush, and use Infernal Strike to cancel the knockback from it.

• Twilight Brutes can sync up their Brutal Strike attacks, so if engaging several make sure to have defensives active.

This section will continue to be fleshed out as the Season progresses and cool tricks and tips are found.

• Move the boss such that your group do not run out of space from Fetid Gas puddles.
• Use defensives to mitigate damage from Crunch

• Sigil of Silence can be used to silence and group Reanimated Mage.

• Position the boss such that your group can use Meat Hook to cancel the Morbid Fixation fixate.

• Instead of auto-attacks, the boss casts Icy Shard that deals physical damage, all your normal defensive tools work to mitigate this damage so rotate them appropriately.

• You can use Consume Magic to remove Dark Shroud.

This section will continue to be fleshed out as the Season progresses and cool tricks and tips are found.

• Use Disrupt to help reposition the bosses away from puddles after Tears of the Forest.

• Use Disrupt to stop Patty Cake as you are the only one able to interrupt the spell.

• Use Infernal Strike to quickly break Mind Link.

• The Mistveil Guardians use Anima Slash which leave a stacking debuff that deals heavy damage. It can be an idea to hold defensive cooldowns in the maze if you believe your next pack will have multiple Mistveil Guardians.

This section will continue to be fleshed out as the Season progresses and cool tricks and tips are found.

• Face Irontide Cleavers away from your group so their Heavy Slash does not hinder your group.
• Grab aggro on the spawning adds and stack them up conveniently.

• If your group lacks means to slow the boss you can talent into Master of the Glaive, although it will impede your rotation significantly.

• Face Crashing Tide away from the group so they do not have to avoid it.

• Always remain in melee range from Demolishing Terror.

• No impactful tips for Vengeance Demon Hunter on trash in this dungeon.

This section will continue to be fleshed out as the Season progresses and cool tricks and tips are found.

• Make sure to use one or several defensives for the first Seismic Smash, and make sure your healer know not to dispel Seismic Reverberation until just before future Slams to help mitigate the massive damage.

• It can be useful to leave fragments of Unstable Energy for the DPS players to let them break the Fortified Shell faster.

• Help interrupt Molten Metal with Disrupt or Sigil of Silence since it leaves a heavy Damage over time effect on the whole party.
• Vengeful Retreat will remove the effects of Molten Metal if nobody interrupts the cast.
• Position the bosses on the vents that are currently not active.

• Use Infernal Strike to quickly drop Void Corruption into a portal.

• There are no unique tricks available to Vengeance Demon Hunter on trash in this dungeon.

Sigil of Silence, Chaos Nova and Sigil of Misery are all amazing for this affix.

Infernal Strike is a great tool for catching Shattered Essence crystals.

Your natural healing will generally be able to heal through Void Rift.

Make sure to position enemies with the Void Emmisary so that your party members can cleave other targets efficiently.