Seems like DH tank is getting MASSIVE nerf?

Classes Demon Hunter
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First off, I have been playing WoW since Vanilla. Stood out in line and bought the collectors edition, I have all toons at max level and have played every aspect of this game from getting the old school pvp warlord sets, running with the top guilds on my servers, and chasing achievements. Since legion I have loved and mained the Demon Hunter and loved playing Vengeance. I have played it religiously ever since and have had a blast with the aesthetics, gameplay, mechanics, everything. I was also top tank DH oh my servers as well so I am not a noob or someone who saw one post and decided to chime in.

Looking at the new Midnight talent tree for Vengeance literally looks like a massive nerf in every single aspect. The removal of Fel-scarred, which in my opinion, synergized amazingly with DH tanking literally blows my mind. The other hero talent trees is aimed at damage, whereas felscarred had dps and buffs to tanking. Having no more (Enduring Torment and Student of Suffering) is just a slap in the face. To top things off the complete removal of Demonic is just plain pointless……Other specs get it but tanking does not makes zero sense.

It removes a massive Tanking/survivability ability and destroys the aesthetic and lore/feel of the class. It’s supposed to be someone who violently turns into demons to destroy things……so what was the new idea……a warrior who can not use heavy armor, shields, weapon options, and now with less hp?

A leather tanking class whose claim to fame is face tanking with big hp pools but now has to rely on just management of demon spikes? This removes the fun, and gives no incentive to play. Might as well just play a Prot Warrior.

From an OG long time WoW player who has supported this game ever since the original Warcraft strategy games. Please don’t destroy the Spec/class I have grown so fond of. We don’t need anymore nerfs.

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Also, I know that ‘Untethered Rage’ looks like it might solve the semi-free demon form problem but that does not take into effect that we are losing more hp talents and reliable demon forms from the old ‘Demonic’ talent.

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I mean a lot of it might seem like a nerf

But trust me, veng is gonna be cracked going into midnight

Like the amount of new things we’re getting is just purely insane. The only concession I agree is the removal of demonic

But even that has been replaced by our apex talent which is just gluttony but on steroids

I feel like your just judging without fully reading the new things we get and the implications

While yes I’ll miss felscarred, the new hero tree is kinda insane as well

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Yea I hear you, you’re probably right. I liked having and being able to plan around, demonic casts. The new tree really does seem awesome, but its more dps oriented so that is why I was sad to see the change.

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idk theres alot of solid defensive options in the tree

a good example is soul barrier just being attached to spirit bomb. that alone is a huge defensive gain

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Annihilator will likely have as much or more meta uptime and without double sigil competing with double brand we may end up taking that all the time. We should be fine

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I feel like this might be one of the first xpacs that I feel I could like VDH, but man, with how likely they are to make DDH super busted OP, VDH feels like it will be a hard tank to group with.