Vengeance Demon Hunter Tank Nerub-ar Palace Raid Guide — The War Within (11.0.5)

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

• The Tank swap mechanic, Brutal Crush, deals physical damage, meaning you can use both Demon Spikes and especially Fel Devastation with Demonic or Metamorphosis to mitigate a large part of the damage.
• If the Spawn adds in phase 2 live for a longer period of time, you can talent into Burning Alive for a second defensive layer.

• It is not generally worth using longer CDs on the Add Phase unless you are attempting to parse or need them to survive; however, you can quite comfortably use Fel Devastation during this phase and have it back phase 1.

• You can use Infernal Strike to cancel the knockback from Hulking Crash.

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

Your standard Fel-Scarred Raid talents. For more AoE defensive tools or more AoE damage you can switch Cycle of Binding to Burning Alive.

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

• Stacking Metamorphosis and Fiery Brand should be sufficient to ignore Goresplatter, add Immolation Aura with Fel Flame Fortification talented and eventually stacks of Void Reaver if necessary.

• Generally, you do not want to delay your cooldowns; however, if you are about to focus damage on the boss soon, you might choose to hold Metamorphosis for a shorter period.

• The most important thing as vengeance on this fight is positioning properly. Place yourself near where adds will spawn to reduce the groups movement needed after Gruesome Disgorge

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

Your standard Fel-Scarred Raid talents. For more AoE defensive tools or more AoE damage you can switch Cycle of Binding to Burning Alive.

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

• Make sure that you use heavy defensives for Expose and Phase Lunge.

• As close to on cooldown as possible while still making sure there are cooldowns available for Expose/ Phase Lunge.

• Taunt swap after the second hit of Expose.
• Darkness can help mitigate Cosmic Shards damage if needed.

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

Your standard Fel-Scarred Raid talents with a strong single target profile and solid defensive tools.

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

• Make sure to use mitigation against Savage Assault to reduce the overall damage of the Savage Wound mechanic that follows. Since most of the damage is physical, Demon Spikes adds an extra layer of damage reduction.

• Use cooldowns as often as possible while still retaining some mitigation for the next Savage Assault you need to tank.

• Save your Infernal Strike charges to speed up positioning during intermission when the boss moves.

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

Your standard Fel-Scarred Raid talents with a strong single target profile and solid defensive tools.

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

• Make sure to use defensives for Volatile Concoction while focusing on healing up since the final part of the spell deals increased damage the lower your health is.

• Make sure to use your cooldowns as often as possible while making sure you have something for Volatile Concoction.
• Talenting into Down in Flames can make Volatile Concoction easier to manage since you will be able to have Fiery Brand for most casts you have to tank.

• Position boss near adds that needs to be cleaved down, especially the stationary worms.
• Sigil of Chains can be a very useful talent to stack up adds for efficient AoE damage, especially in Mythic difficulty.

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

Your standard Fel-Scarred Raid talents. For more AoE defensive tools or more AoE damage you can switch Cycle of Binding to Burning Alive.

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

• Use mitigation for Void Shredders to reduce the incoming damage. Using Fiery Brand sligtly before the Void Shredders should ensure you have it available for every cast.

• Make sure to use your cooldowns as often as possible while making sure you have something for Void Shredders.

• Make sure to position the boss in such a way that Nether Rift has minimal effect on the raid.

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

Your standard Fel-Scarred Raid talents with a strong single target profile and solid defensive tools.

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

• Make sure to use mitigation when targeted by Piercing Strike, the ability does Physical damage and is mitigated by Metamorphosis effects and Demon Spikes which you can leverage for more damage reduction.

• As often as possible while keeping at least one defensive layer active at most times and to mitigate Piercing Strike damage.

• No major Vengeance discoveries have been made on this boss yet.

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

Your standard Fel-Scarred Raid talents. For more AoE defensive tools or more AoE damage you can switch Cycle of Binding to Burning Alive.

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

• Liquefy can be partially mitigated by your physical mitigation spells, but majority of the damage can only actively be mitigated by Fiery Brand, or passively by talents such as Void Reaver, Fel Flame Fortification and Painbringer. Using Fel Devastation or Metamorphosis can help give a buffer of Health to survive the hit and help heal through the lingering effect.
• Feast applies a healing absorb proportional to the damage taken. Since it deals physical damage you can mitigate the damage effectively with Metamorphosis, Demon Spikes and Fiery Brand. You can also further mitigate it with passive talents like Infernal Armor by having Immolation Aura active, or Student of Suffering if you play Fel-Scarred.
• Infest follows the same rules as Liquefy, use Fiery Brand or Metamorphosis effects on top of other passive tools.
• Gorge can be mitigated by all your defensive tools and mitigating more damage will reduce raid damage taken the echoing damage.

• Plan to have cooldowns available to mitigate all the necessary mechanics, and use any extra available casts on cooldown.

• You can manage the pull from Wrest relatively easily with Infernal Strike.
• You can manage the knockback from Oust relatively easily with Infernal Strike.
• If you play Fel-Scarred you can talent into Chaos Nova and Wave of Debilitation and use Chaos Nova on the Spiders spawned by Infest to stun them and apply a 60% slow on them once the stun runs out.

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

Your standard Fel-Scarred Raid talents with a strong single target profile and solid defensive tools.