Vengeance Demon Hunter

Aldrachi Reaver

Not supported in this fight ⓘ

With the Single-Button Assistant and its cooldowns, Vengeance Demon Hunter (Aldrachi Reaver) deals 81% of perfect manual play in M+ dungeons (rank 6 of 12) and 74% of perfect manual play on a raid boss (rank 7 of 11).

At a glance

4-piece set · SimulationCraft's talents · share of manual DPS kept

Fight	Manual DPS	SBA + cooldown	SBA alone	Assisted Highlight	Rank (SBA + cooldown)
M+ dungeon	150,881	81.3%−18.68%	75.8%−24.22%	92.1%−7.91%	6 of 12
Raid boss	138,125	74.3%−25.73%	67.6%−32.40%	82.3%−17.66%	7 of 11

Fight

Tier set

Talents

Change tank

What the assistant costs

M+ dungeon · 4-piece set · SimulationCraft's talents · data as of 2026-10-23 12:52 UTC

81%of manual DPS with SBA + cooldown. SBA alone reaches 76%, Assisted Highlight 92%.

Manual150.9Kreference
SBA + cooldown122.7K81% of manual
SBA alone114.3K76% of manual
Assisted Highlight138.9K92% of manual

SimulationCraft does not support this fight for Vengeance Demon Hunter.Its own report says results for this spec in the M+ dungeon are inaccurate and should not be used, so the build is not ranked there. The raid boss figures are not affected.

Cooldowns and defensives

Damage onlyThese figures are the damage this tank keeps with the button. It says nothing about survival: the button presses only a few defensives (Death Strike, Marrowrend, Shield of the Righteous) and none of the others, listed below. Bind those to their own keys.

Cooldowns in SBA + cooldown

The button alone never presses these. In SBA + cooldown you press them on your own keys, with your potion and on-use trinket, and the simulator presses them on time.

Defensives the button never presses

Checked in game: they are not in the Single-Button Assistant's list. Press them yourself.

Best talents for the button

Our standard build is already the best we found for one-button play on a raid boss.

Best of 260 builds tested with the button on the raid boss (2026-10-22): our standard build, the 3 most played builds on Warcraft Logs for this hero talent, then every single talent swap from the best of them. Defensive talents are locked: the search never trades survival for damage.

Searched on the raid boss only: SimulationCraft does not support tanks in its dungeon fight, so AoE talents for Mythic+ are not tested.

Standard build (best on the raid boss for the button): talent string Recommended for one-button

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In game, open the talent window, choose Import and paste it. SimulationCraft's standard build. Every figure on this page uses it.

Where the damage comes from

M+ dungeon · 4-piece set · SimulationCraft's talents · data as of 2026-10-23 12:52 UTC

Compare manual play with

Damage per second and casts per ability, averaged over the simulated fights. Pets and summons show their own name in brackets.

Ability	Manual	SBA + cooldown	SBA + cooldown vs manual
Soul Cleave (Damage)	23.5K15.5%	14.7K12.0%	−8,765
Reaver's Glaive	16.5K10.9% · 24.9 casts	16.4K13.3% · 30.1 casts	−83
Wounded Quarry	16.0K10.6% · 158 casts	15.1K12.3% · 186.2 casts	−891
Sigil of Flame (Damage)	8,3925.6%	7,6876.3%	−705
Immolation Aura (Tick)	8,3775.5%	4,4413.6%	−3,936
Auto Attack (Main Hand)	7,7265.1% · 207.7 casts	7,6296.2% · 212.6 casts	−97
Spirit Bomb (Damage)	5,4703.6%	7,0345.7%	+1,564
Perfected Guillotine	6,6724.4% · 27.8 casts	6,6765.4% · 27.7 casts	+4
Fury of the Aldrachi (1)	6,0804.0%	6,4355.2%	+355
Fury of the Aldrachi (2)	6,0364.0%	6,3965.2%	+360
Fury of the Aldrachi (3)	5,9914.0%	6,3555.2%	+364
Sigil of Spite (Sigil)	5,7113.8%	4,0263.3%	−1,685
Warblade's Hunger	4,4172.9%	4,0353.3%	−382
Fel Devastation	4,0292.7% · 2.9 casts	–	−4,029
Sigil of Flame	3,9382.6%	–	−3,938
Auto Attack (Off-Hand)	3,6792.4% · 202.7 casts	3,6303.0% · 207.5 casts	−49
Fracture (MH)	3,0582.0%	2,9832.4%	−75
Fracture (OH)	3,0442.0%	2,9652.4%	−79
Fiery Brand (DoT)	2,6541.8%	–	−2,654
Immolation Aura (Initial)	2,5761.7%	1,5411.3%	−1,035
Infernal Strike (Impact)	2,5071.7%	–	−2,507
Venomfang Burst	1,6871.1% · 81.1 casts	1,6731.4% · 80.9 casts	−14
Soul Carver	1950.1% · 0.7 casts	1,4981.2% · 6.2 casts	+1,303
Venomfang	1,2740.8% · 85.9 casts	1,2731.0% · 85.9 casts	−1
Fiery Brand	1,2510.8% · 8.8 casts	–	−1,251
Soul Carver (OH)	620.0%	4550.4%	+393
Felblade (Damage)	1650.1%	–	−165
Throw Glaive (Damage)	–	70.0%	+7
Total	151.0K	123.0K	−28.0K

A dash means the ability was never used in that mode. Damage is attributed the way SimulationCraft reports it, so a pet's damage appears under the pet.

Questions about Vengeance Demon Hunter (Aldrachi Reaver)

How much DPS does Vengeance Demon Hunter (Aldrachi Reaver) lose with the Single-Button Assistant?

Related builds

Other hero talents of Vengeance Demon Hunter

Vengeance Demon Hunter · AnnihilatorM+ −28.80% · raid −32.83%

DPS lost with SBA + cooldown, 4-piece set, SimulationCraft's talents (a top player's build for the hero talents SimulationCraft has no profile for). All specs · Ranking

How it's measured, and its limits

SBA + cooldown is a best case: the simulator never misplays. It is always better to sim your own character.
Manual play is SimulationCraft's own rotation executed perfectly, so it is an upper bound for what a person can do, not a typical player.
Assisted Highlight assumes every suggestion is seen and pressed at once, which is generous for a player reading the highlight.
The M+ dungeon is SimulationCraft's own DungeonSlice fight style, its approximation of Mythic+ pulls, not a specific dungeon route. Nothing hits the tank there, so SimulationCraft does not support it for tanks.
The raid boss is SimulationCraft's Patchwerk fight with a boss that hits the tank. Only damage is compared: survival is not measured.

Full method, reliability rule and patches: Sources · Simulated with SimulationCraft 1210-01 (WoW 12.1.5.70575) 710c240 +16 patches, 10,000 iterations per figure.