Vengeance Demon Hunter
Annihilator
With the Single-Button Assistant and its cooldowns, Vengeance Demon Hunter (Annihilator) deals 71% of perfect manual play in M+ dungeons (rank 9 of 12) and 67% of perfect manual play on a raid boss (rank 11 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 | 188,579 | 71.2%−28.80% | 44.0%−55.96% | 80.0%−19.96% | 9 of 12 |
| Raid boss | 145,443 | 67.2%−32.83% | 40.8%−59.24% | 68.5%−31.54% | 11 of 11 |
What the assistant costs
M+ dungeon · 4-piece set · SimulationCraft's talents · data as of 2026-10-23 12:52 UTC
- Manual188.6Kreference
- SBA + cooldown134.3K71% of manual
- SBA alone83.1K44% of manual
- Assisted Highlight150.9K80% of manual
Cooldowns and defensives
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 169 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.
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Where the damage comes from
M+ dungeon · 4-piece set · SimulationCraft's talents · data as of 2026-10-23 12:52 UTC
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 Voidfall Meteor (Damage) | 44.4K23.5% | 22.9K17.1% | −21.5K |
 World Killer (Damage) | 23.3K12.3% | 15.7K11.7% | −7,579 |
 Catastrophe | 18.5K9.8% | 12.0K8.9% | −6,537 |
 Meteor Shower (Damage) | 17.0K9.0% | 13.9K10.3% | −3,142 |
 Spirit Bomb (Damage) | 15.8K8.4% | 13.0K9.7% | −2,841 |
 Soul Cleave (Damage) | 12.1K6.4% | 13.6K10.1% | +1,462 |
 Sigil of Flame (Damage) | 8,3034.4% | 7,4315.5% | −872 |
 Immolation Aura (Tick) | 6,9523.7% | 4,9053.7% | −2,047 |
 Perfected Guillotine | 6,6823.5% · 27.7 casts | 6,5774.9% · 27.2 casts | −105 |
| Auto Attack (Main Hand) | 6,0103.2% · 211.6 casts | 6,1814.6% · 210.6 casts | +171 |
| Fiery Brand (DoT) | 5,4652.9% | – | −5,465 |
 Sigil of Spite (Sigil) | 4,4922.4% | 3,6742.7% | −818 |
 Fracture (MH) | 3,3521.8% | 3,6012.7% | +249 |
| Fracture (OH) | 3,2591.7% | 3,4992.6% | +240 |
 Auto Attack (Off-Hand) | 2,8601.5% · 206.5 casts | 2,9412.2% · 205.5 casts | +81 |
 Infernal Strike (Impact) | 2,4821.3% | – | −2,482 |
| Immolation Aura (Initial) | 2,2171.2% | 1,6001.2% | −617 |
 Venomfang Burst | 1,6870.9% · 80.9 casts | 1,6401.2% · 79.5 casts | −47 |
| Venomfang | 1,2670.7% · 85.8 casts | 1,2480.9% · 84.4 casts | −19 |
| Fiery Brand | 9940.5% · 8.4 casts | – | −994 |
 Felblade (Damage) | 9620.5% | – | −962 |
| Fel Devastation | 4510.2% · 0.5 casts | – | −451 |
 Throw Glaive (Damage) | 2310.1% | 330.0% | −198 |
| Total | 188.8K | 134.3K | −54.5K |
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 (Annihilator)
How much DPS does Vengeance Demon Hunter (Annihilator) lose with the Single-Button Assistant?
With the Single-Button Assistant and its cooldowns, Vengeance Demon Hunter (Annihilator) deals 71% of perfect manual play in M+ dungeons (rank 9 of 12) and 67% of perfect manual play on a raid boss (rank 11 of 11).
Related builds
Other hero talents of Vengeance Demon Hunter
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.