Vengeance Demon Hunter Tank Best Gems, Enchants, and Consumables — 12.0.5

Your best combination of gems uses a Indecipherable Eversong Diamond for your single Thalassian Diamond, and combining it with Flawless Deadly Peridot in all remaining sockets. If you happen to have gear that is very heavy on Haste you could use Flawless Versatile Garnet instead of Flawless Deadly Peridot for slightly better stat balance.

Optimizations

Stats and Simulations

Not satisfied with standard recommendations? Jump to these two guides to find out more about what your stats do, and how to fully optimize them.

StatsRaidbots Guide

In current tuning Thalassian Phoenix Oil wins compared to other oils and Refulgent Whetstone both offensively and defensively.

FAQWhat Weapon Enchant Should I use?

Generally you want to use Enchant Weapon - Berserker's Rage since Haste is the strongest stats defensively for Vengeance. However, if you happen to be very heavily invested into Haste on your gear, and close to the diminishing returns breakpoints of 1320 Haste, you probably want to consider running one or even two Enchant Weapon - Jan'alai's Precision or Enchant Weapon - Worldsoul Tenacity to spread out your stats a bit and gain slightly more offensive and defensive value.

Gear Information

Best in Slot Gear and Where to Get It

Before applying gems and enchants to your equipment, make sure to check whether there might be an easy-to-get item that is better than the one you're currently wearing!

Gear

In addition to enchants and improvements to your gear, making sure you come prepared with the right consumables to endgame content has a big impact on your performance.

Midnight flasks come in four variants, one for each secondary stat. Vengeance prefers Flask of the Blood Knights for Haste, but if you are very heavy on Haste gear you can choose to use Flask of the Shattered Sun for Critical Strike or Flask of Thalassian Resistance for Versatility instead.

When it comes to Combat potions the strongest option is currently Potion of Recklessness for a massive burst of your highest Secondary Stat, which is usually going to be Haste, at a small loss of your lowest Secondary Stat. This makes it a really strong potion for both burst damage and survivability while it is active.

Midnight also has a Healing potion, Silvermoon Health Potion, which can be used for a burst of healing if needed. As a tank it will not restore a massive amount of your health, but it can still be useful in a pinch.

There are plenty of food choices available in Midnight, but the food that currently looks to perform the best is one of the Main Stat Feasts such as Silvermoon Parade, and if that is not available you can use Royal Roast for yourself.

Professions

Create and Craft Your Own Consumables

While you can simply buy all these items from the Auction House, you may want to craft them yourself and sell the leftovers instead with our Icy Veins Profession Guides!

Midnight Professions Guide

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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.