Vengeance Demon Hunter Tank Stat Priority — 12.0.5

For raiding and Mythic+, the secondary stat priority for Vengeance Demon Hunter is as follows.

There are not any set stat numbers to shoot for. You do not go for a certain percentage of anything. For DPS, it is recommended that you simulate the gear you have to help figure out which stats gives you the most damage.

For Survival, you will want to prioritize item level beyond all, with a rough priority of secondary stats as above while still maintaining a roughly equal spread of stats.

Optimization

Simulations and Tools

While a generalized stat priority will assist new players, there really is no substitute for simming your character. Learn more with this guide!

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Agility increases your Attack Power, Dodge chance, and Baseline Armor of Demon Spikes, as well as Armor via Mastery: Fel Blood.

Haste reduces the global cooldown (until you reach 100% Haste) and also reduces the cooldown of Demon Spikes, Immolation Aura, Felblade, and Fracture. Scales well, with many of our talents gaining significantly more value from having higher Soul Fragment generation. It also increases the rate of your Auto-attacks, which is relevant for Aldrachi Reaver since it slightly increases the amount of souls generated by Wounded Quarry.

Mastery: Fel Blood increases your Attack Power and the amount of Armor you gain from Demon Spikes based on your Agility. Will increase your Armor by half the amount when Demon Spikes is not active.

Critical Strike increases the chance for your damaging abilities to be twice as effective. Your Critical Strike rating is also converted into Parry rating. Shattered Souls can not critically heal for twice the amount, but some other minor self-healing effects can. Critical Strike interacts with the talent Volatile Flameblood to generate extra Fury from Immolation Aura. Critical Strike scales incredibly well defensively with flat Parry effects such as Demon Spikes.

Versatility is a very straightforward stat, increasing the damage and healing you do, and reducing the damage you take by half that amount. It scales all damage and healing effects, including from items and effects not related to your character.

Every stat has a limit where they will begin to offer less increase per point gained, which are known as the points of diminishing return. Once you have reached these amounts, stats will become progressively less valuable and may fall behind other options. The current breakpoints are:

Itemization

Gearing and Enchants

Your stat priority extends to enchants, consumables, and gear. Take what you learned on this page and apply it to your gameplay with these two guides!

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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.