Demon Hunter Tank Azerite Traits/Powers and Armor in Battle for Azeroth

This just seems like too much for a group to even consider taking a DH as a tank. I hope that puts them into perspective for you. But since it doesn’t stack it is just good for a single hit to help take a little sting off. There is an Azerite trait which gives a shield on each soul absorb for I believe 3k or 4K at iLevel 430. The souls they absorb also heal 1% of their HP + I believe 8% of the damage they received in the last 5 seconds. Because Spirit Bomb gives them a passive leach through the damage done to the marked targets.

Just keep in mind that you will see their HP ping pong for just a second when they do. If they are good they will Spirit Bomb right after a big hit goes out with 5 souls up, that should easily recover a big portion of their HP. The final component of their mitigation is leach + self-heals. It does a decent amount of damage and gives them good survivability against certain boss abilities on a reliable and short CD. They do have a single target 8 second duration (10 seconds with the Azerite trait) 1 minute CD 40% mitigation ability. But, unfortunately a lot of tanks choose the cheat death talent. As that one doesn’t really do anything to help the healer smooth over damage. I also think either Soul Barrier or the passive mitigation talent is better than the cheat death talent. They also have the highest passive magic mitigation in the game. They have sigels and a ranged interrupt to help reduce damage. The only reason they wouldn’t kite is that they have Metamorphosis up which is a huge HP and Armor buff together. What this translates too is that they should be kiting trash for at least a few seconds while that buff comes off of cooldown again.

The Vengeance Demon Hunter is designed without 100% uptime on their armor buff through Demon Spikes.

Demon Hunter Tank Azerite Traits/Powers and Armor in Battle for Azeroth