Vengeance Demon Hunter Tank Gear and Best in Slot — 12.0.5

Welcome to our Gear and BiS Page for Vengeance Demon Hunter for the Midnight. Check this page to learn everything you need to know about gearing a Vengeance Demon Hunter, including some of the best Gear from all sources, Raiding, and Mythic+, information on the best Trinkets, Tier Sets, and much more.

Upgrading gear in Midnight continues to use the Crest system which lets you increase the item level of gear along tracks that relate to where you obtained the item, which harder content dropping gear that can be upgraded to higher Item Levels. For more information, read up on our dedicated page on how the gearing system works and what has changed in the Midnight expansion.

Overall BiS ListMythic+ Gear BiS ListRaid Gear BiS List

This list contains the Best in Slot Gear for Vengeance Demon Hunter from all gear sources. This list goes for a balance of maximum damage output while leaning into stats that are stronger for us, and that plenty of other combinations will perform extremely close to this one.

For pure damage output make sure to simulate your available gear to figure out what combination will perform best from what you have available. And do keep in mind that if you have an item that is not on this list but that has higher Item Level, then that item is almost certainly better defensively.

FAQWhich Tier Set Pieces Do I Want?

In Midnight Season 1 as a Vengeance Demon Hunter, you will want to try and prioritize getting the Helmet, Shoulder, Legs, and Gloves set pieces. However, it is more important to complete the set, and to use the highest Item Level combination possible. So if this combination includes a Chest piece then you still want to use it. Long-term you will want to play an off-set Chest piece with better secondary stats.

Vengeance Demon Hunter

1.1.

Overall BiS List

Devouring Reaver's Intake Helm

Catalyst or Lightblinded Vanguard Empowered Hex of Leeching

Devouring Reaver's Essence Grips Hands

Catalyst or Vorasius

Eternal Voidsong Chain Neck

Crown of the Cosmos

Scorn-Scarred Shul'ka's Belt Waist

Chimaerus

Devouring Reaver's Exhaustplates Shoulders

Catalyst or Fallen-King Salhadaar Silvermoon's Mending

Devouring Reaver's Pistons Legs

Catalyst or Vaelgor and Ezzorak Forest Hunter's

Defiant Defender's Drape Cloak

Magister's Terrace

Void-Claimed Shinkickers Feet

Imperator Averzian Shaladrassil's Roots

Maledict Vest Chest

Nexus-Point Xenas Mark of the Worldsoul

Occlusion of Void Ring

Nexus-Point Xenas Eyes of the Eagle

Shirt

Eye of Midnight Ring

Midnight Falls Eyes of the Eagle

Tabard

Heart of Wind Trinket

Windrunner Spire

Silvermoon Agent's Deflectors Bracers

Crafted by Leatherworking

Gaze of the Alnseer Trinket

Chimaerus

Lightless Lament Main Hand

Midnight Falls Berserker's Rage

Spellbreaker's Warglaive Off Hand

Crafted by Blacksmithing Berserker's Rage

This list contains the Best in Slot Gear for Vengeance Demon Hunter you can loot from Mythic+ dungeons. This list goes for a balance of maximum damage output while leaning into stats that are stronger for us, and that plenty of other combinations will perform extremely close to this one.

For pure damage output make sure to simulate your available gear to figure out what combination will perform best from what you have available. And do keep in mind that if you have an item that is not on this list but that has higher Item Level, then that item is almost certainly better defensively.

TipsWhich Dungeons Should I Farm?

If you have limited time to play the game, we recommend to farm the following dungeons:

• Algeth'ar Academy: Your best weapon drops here: Mystakria's Harvester.
• Nexus-Point Xenas: Drops your best off-set item in a chest piece, as well as a good ring option and the best boots from Mythic+.
• Windrunner Spire: Drops your best trinket from dungeons Heart of Wind, as well as several good or acceptable items in other slots.

Vengeance Demon Hunter

1.2.

Mythic+ Gear BiS List

Devouring Reaver's Intake Helm

Catalyst or Lightblinded Vanguard Empowered Hex of Leeching

Devouring Reaver's Essence Grips Hands

Catalyst or Vorasius

Necklace of the Twisting Void Neck

Seat of the Triumvirate

Falconer's Cinch Waist

Maisara Caverns

Devouring Reaver's Exhaustplates Shoulders

Catalyst or Fallen-King Salhadaar Silvermoon's Mending

Devouring Reaver's Pistons Legs

Windrunner Spire Forest Hunter's

Defiant Defender's Drape Cloak

Magister's Terrace

Eclipse Espadrilles Feet

Nexus-Point Xenas Shaladrassil's Roots

Maledict Vest Chest

Nexus-Point Xenas Mark of the Worldsoul

Occlusion of Void Ring

Belo'ren Eyes of the Eagle

Shirt

Purloined Wedding Ring Ring

Pit of Saron Eyes of the Eagle

Tabard

Heart of Wind Trinket

Windrunner Spire

Silvermoon Agent's Deflectors Bracers

Crafted by Leatherworking

Solarflare Prism Trinket

Skyreach

Mystakria's Harvester Main Hand

Algeth'ar Academy Berserker's Rage

Spellbreaker's Warglaive Off Hand

Crafted by Blacksmithing Berserker's Rage

This list contains the Best in Slot Gear for Vengeance Demon Hunter from the Raids available in Season 1. This list goes for a balance of maximum damage output while leaning into stats that are stronger for us, and that plenty of other combinations will perform extremely close to this one.

For pure damage output make sure to simulate your available gear to figure out what combination will perform best from what you have available. And do keep in mind that if you have an item that is not on this list but that has higher Item Level, then that item is almost certainly better defensively.

TipsWhich Raid-Items Do I Want Most?

If you need to submit a list of highly-important items to your raidleader, or simply want to focus on the most important bosses and items, we got you covered!

• Gaze of the Alnseer: Our strongest passive trinket. Drops from Chimaerus, who also drops our BiS Belt.
• Lightless Lament: Our BiS Mainhand, if you can get it on Myth track. Drops from Midnight Falls.
• Umbral Plume: Another good passive Trinket option if you play the Critical Strike version. Drops from Belo'ren.
• Light Company Guidon: Our strongest active trinket for damage as Annihilator. Drops from Imperator Averzian.

Vengeance Demon Hunter

1.3.

Raid Gear BiS List

Devouring Reaver's Intake Helm

Catalyst or Lightblinded Vanguard Empowered Hex of Leeching

Devouring Reaver's Essence Grips Hands

Catalyst or Vorasius

Eternal Voidsong Chain Neck

Crown of the Cosmos

Scorn-Scarred Shul'ka's Belt Waist

Chimaerus

Devouring Reaver's Exhaustplates Shoulders

Catalyst or Fallen-King Salhadaar Silvermoon's Mending

Devouring Reaver's Pistons Legs

Windrunner Spire Forest Hunter's

Imperator's Banner Cloak

Imperator Averzian

Void-Claimed Shinkickers Feet

Imperator Averzian Shaladrassil's Roots

Radiant Clutchtender's Jerkin Chest

Belo'ren Mark of the Worldsoul

Signet of the Starved Beast Ring

Vorasius Eyes of the Eagle

Shirt

Eye of Midnight Ring

Midnight Falls Eyes of the Eagle

Tabard

Light Company Guidon Trinket

Imperator Averzian

Silvermoon Agent's Deflectors Bracers

Crafted by Leatherworking

Gaze of the Alnseer Trinket

Chimaerus

Lightless Lament Main Hand

Midnight Falls Berserker's Rage

Spellbreaker's Warglaive Off Hand

Crafted by Blacksmithing Berserker's Rage

Itemization

Enchants and Stat Priority

Looking to optimize your character? Check out our Enchant and Stat Priority guides for more information!

EnchantsStats

There are a great number of fairly good Trinkets available for Vengeance, and there are a few different kinds of set-ups that can work for us as a Tank specialization. For general value stat stick trinkets that offer permanent or high uptime buffs of stats are generally good offensively while offering consistent defensive value. For Annihilator pairing an on-use trinket with Metamorphosis can lead to strong burst damage. And if you want an additional defensive layer you can choose to use a defensive shield trinket.

Below are a list of trinkets filling these niches ranked based on how strong they are. Click on our ranking chart here to see if they are worth equipping. Trinkets absent from the list are generally C-tier or lower in power.

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Ranking	Aldrachi Reaver	Annihilator
S Tier	Heart of Wind Gaze of the Alnseer	Heart of Wind Gaze of the Alnseer Light Company Guidon
A Tier	Crucible of Erratic Energies Solarflare Prism Emberwing Feather Light Company Guidon Umbral Plume Vessel of Tortured Souls	Crucible of Erratic Energies Solarflare Prism Emberwing Feather Umbral Plume Vessel of Tortured Souls
B Tier	Withered Saptor's Paw Jelly Replicator Resonant Bellowstone The Eternal Egg	Withered Saptor's Paw Freightrunner's Flask Jelly Replicator The Eternal Egg
C Tier	Lost Idol of the Hash'ey Kroluk's Warbanner Latch's Crooked Hook Freightrunner's Flask	Kroluk's Warbanner Lost Idol of the Hash'ey Latch's Crooked Hook

Midnight's patch 12.0.5 introduces two systems inspired by systems from previous expansions, they are:

• Nebulous Voidcore which can be used in dungeons or after killing a specific raid boss, and lets you gain a guaranteed piece of loot from that dungeon or raid boss. The item you get is random, but you can not get a duplicate item so using it again in a specific place will give you another chance on the remaining items.
• Ascendant Voidcore are used to increase the item level of Weapons and Trinkets which are Hero or Myth track if you have scaled them up to the highest item level possible. Alternatively these items can also be used on Crafted items at max quality.

Seasonal Mechanics

Voidforge and Voidcores

Check our our guide on the Voidforge to learn how to acquire this powerful upgrades!

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The item you want to look for will depend a lot on the gear you already have available which will change for each individual player. Ideally you make sure you increase the odds of obtaining good Myth-track items, if possible in slots where you do not have a Myth-track item yet. Below are the items to try to target, unless you already have them:

Voidcore (Bonus Roll) Priority

1. Myth Track Main-hand Weapon, preferably a Warglaive if you plan on playing Devourer Demon Hunter as an off-spec.
2. Mythic Gaze of the Alnseer
3. Myth-track trinket, choice depend on what you specifically need for the content you are doing
4. Remaining BiS List items or item level upgrades

You want to generally prioritize usage of your Ascendant Voidcores similarly to how you prioritize using your Crests to upgrade gear:

1. Your Mainhand Weapon
2. Myth-track Gaze of the Alnseer
3. All other trinkets which are used often
4. Your Offhand weapon if there are no further trinkets to upgrade

Generally you want to first upgrade gear you are unlikely to replace, such as Myth-track items or specific trinkets you are unlikely to see on a higher item track.

Crafting is a very useful way of getting access to high Item Level gear, with the ability to craft a high Item Level gear piece unlocking every other week during Season 1.

Since you will be limited during Season 1 in how many items you can craft it is worth planning ahead what items can be useful to grab. Generally it is best to avoid crating in one of the five slots that are occupied by tier items. Below is a recommended order of crafting items:

Vengeance Crafted Gear Priority

• Spellbreaker's Warglaive with Darkmoon Sigil: Hunt
• Silvermoon Agent's Deflectors with Arcanoweave Lining
• Any item you do not have on Myth track yet.

For more information about crafting gear you can visit our Professions page.

You can use up to two items that are Embellished, items with additional bonus effects that empower your character. These are added to crafted gear by people who have mastered professions, adding the bonuses to items making them stronger.

Generally, as a tank your best Embellishments are options that grant you extra stats, since we benefit both offensively and defensively. And as of current tuning the two best options are:

• Darkmoon Sigil: Hunt on a weapon, any weapon works, but Spellbreaker's Warglaive is the only weapon that can be used by Vengeance and Devourer Demon Hunter, so if you ever want to play Devourer it is the recommended option.
• Arcanoweave Lining, ideally on a low budget slot like Wrists.

You will be able to upgrade your items via Crests, such as Veteran Dawncrest. Once you have upgraded a slot to a certain item level, upgrading other items of that slot to that item level is free.

When you upgrade with Crests, you should think of it as upgrading slots and not items.

Additionally, to speed up gearing, you will generally want to obtain the highest item-level possible before upgrading a given slot, as this means you will spend fewer Crests on that slot in total.

Below is the slot priority you should upgrade your items in. It is essentially based on "which slot gives the most DPS and survivability if you increase its Item Level".

Vengeance Demon Hunter Crest Upgrade Priority

Weapon (Main hand) ➜ Trinkets ➜ Helmet/Chest/Legs ➜ Shoulders/Gloves/Belt/Boots ➜ Rings/Neck

Note that exceptions are possible, such as special items that have strong additional effects on top of their normal stat budget.

Throughout this page and elsewhere in our guide, we regularly refer to the importance of simming yourself on Raidbots. This is because every character is unique, and each gear piece you have access to can change what is best right now for you.

While we do offer recommendations for gear and trinkets, these are not complete replacements for simming yourself. The only way to truly optimize your character to that degree is by making use of the tools available!

Optimization

Simulations and Tools

For further reading on how to truly maximize your character's potential, check out our guide on Raidbots!

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This guide is written by Meyra, a Vengeance main with a love for pushing Mythic+ keys and showcasing Proof of Concept keys with 5 tanks or other non-standard group compositions. They are a distinguished member and frequent contributor to Vengeance theory in the Demon Hunter class discord, and also occasionally stream Vengeance and other tank content on Twitch.