Vengeance Demon Hunter: Analysis of the 9.2 Tier Set Bonuses - AoE Powerhouse

In this week's PTR build 41827, Vengeance Demon Hunters received a major rework for their 9.2 Tier 4-Set bonus! Our Vengeance Demon Hunter Guide Writer, Itamae, has provided an updated hands-on look at all the recent changes to the Vengeance Demon Hunter Tier Set bonus comparing it to other tanks and defining its strength in a variety of encounter sizes.

Vengeance Demon Hunter Tier Set Bonus Changes 2-Set: Burning Hunger — Damage dealt by Immolation Aura has a 10% chance to generate a Lesser Soul Fragment. 4-Set: — Consuming a Lesser Soul Fragment has a 100% chance to grant you 2 sec ofreduces the remaining cooldown of your Immolation Aura or extend an existing Immolation Aura by 2 sec.Fel Devastation by 1 sec.

Itamae, our Vengeance Demon Hunter guide writer, has given more extensive thoughts on the Vengeance Demon Hunter Tier Set bonus change!

Change and Effects On the latest build of the 9.2 PTR, the Vengeance 4 piece set bonus Rapacious Hunger has been changed from extending Immolation Aura if active or granting 2 seconds of it if not, to reducing the cooldown of either Immolation Aura or Fel Devastation by one second per lesser Soul Fragment absorbed. This change fixes 2 major issues with the previous set:The cancelaura interaction with our talent Fallout no longer exists, so we can no longer gain absurd stacks of Blind Faith making us effectively immortal in all situations.We can no longer get infinite uptime on a single Immolation Aura, so our damage doesn't scale as high from Growing Inferno. However, the new set does still introduce some new issues and reinforces some existing issues with the base spec as well.There is a major resource conflict on our GCDsOptimizing for damage or defensiveness can lead to Read more on wowhead.com