Trait & Talent Interactions

[wowheadrename] Vengeance has an especially complex relationship with Talents and Artifact Traits, where one trait can be greatly affected by a talent, or a baseline ability changed completely with traits.

Soul Fragments

Soul Fragment management is key to excelling as Vengeance, and it’s almost entirely controlled by random events.

• Proc from:
  • Shear, proc chance increased by:
    • Artifact sub 50% hp, via Shatter the Souls
  • Artifact Soul Carver
  • Talent Fracture
  • Talent Fallout
• Benefits from consuming with Soul Cleave:
  • Heal with Soul Cleave
  • Artifact Reduce damage by 3% for 4s per consumption, via Painbringer
  • Artifact Chance for 5s Meta per consumption, via Fueled by Pain
    • Talent Indirectly increases leach via Soul Rending.
  • Talent Reduce the cooldown on Demon Spikes by 2s per fragment with Feed the Demon
  • Talent Increases damage on Soul Cleave with Gluttony.
• Other ways to consume:
  • Talent Spirit Bomb consumes one Soul Fragment and provides AoE leech in return.
  • Talent Soul Barrier converts Soul Fragments into an absorption shield.

Fire Damage

Painbringer, an artifact trait, heals you for 15% of the fire damage you deal. That makes many of your baseline, talented, and artifact abilities healing spells as well!

• Baseline Fire spells:
  • Fiery Brand
  • Immolation Aura
  • Infernal Strike
  • Sigil of Flame
• Talents that increase fire damage:
  • Abyssal Strike: Increases effect of Infernal Strike.
  • Agonizing Flames: Increases effect of Immolation Aura.
  • Felblade: Deals fire damage directly.
  • Burning Alive: Increases effect of Fiery Brand and deals fire damage directly.
  • Concentrated Sigils: Increases effeect of Sigil of Flame.
  • Fel Devastation: Deals fire damage directly/
  • Flame Crash: Increases effect of Sigil of Flame.
• Artifact Traits that increase fire damage:
  • Fiery Demise: Increases fire damage while Fiery Brand is active.
  • Demonic Flames: Increases duration of Fiery Brand.
  • Infernal Force: Increases damage of Infernal Strike.
  • Aura of Pain: Increases damage of Immolation Aura.
  • Soul Carver: Deals fire damage directly.

Demon Spikes

Demon Spikes is Vengeance’s primary damage reduction active mitigation. It increases damage reduction by an amount based on mastery and increases chance to parry by 20% (baseline).

• Razor Spikes: Increases physical damage dealt while Demon Spikes is active.
• Defensive Spikes: Increases chance to parry up to 50% for the first 3 seconds after activation of Demon Spikes. (see section on Parry for additional benefits)
• Feed the Demon: Consuming Soul Fragments reduces the cooldown of Demon Spikes. (see section on Soul Fragments for more on generation/consumption)

Soul Cleave

Soul Cleave is our primary healing tool and consumes Soul Fragments.

• See section on Soul Fragments for benefits of consumption.
• Heals for an additional heal-over-time via Feast of Souls (talent).
• Heals for an additional 3% instantly via Devour Souls (artifact)

Pain

• Abilities that can be used more with increased Pain generation
  • Soul Cleave, an instant heal that consumes Soul Fragments.
  • Fracture (talent) to create two Soul Fragments.
• Abilities that consume Pain but are cooldown-limited
  • Demon Spikes
  • Fel Devastation
• Abilities that generate Pain:
  • Taking damage
  • Shear
  • Immolation Aura
  • Felblade (talent)
  • Parry, via Blade Turning (talent) (see Parry section for more information on Parry)
  • Metamorphosis passively increases Pain generation. (See section on Metamorphosis for more information.)

Parry

• Increased by:
  • Critical strike, via Riposte
  • Demon Spikes
  • Defensive Spikes (artifact)
  • Aldrachi Design (artifact)
• Effects
  • Chance to avoid melee auto-attacks
  • Increased Pain via Blade Turning (talent)

Fiery Brand

Fiery Brand is Vengeance’s primary damage reduction cooldown. It affects a single target, lasts 8 seconds, and reduces damage by 40%. It also deals fire damage to the enemy target.

• Spreads to multiple targets via Burning Alive (talent)
• Increases fire damage dealt to target via Fiery Demise (artifact) (see section on Fire Damage for abilities increased by this effect)
• Increases the duration via Demonic Flames (artifact)
• Heals via Painbringer.

Metamorphosis

Meta is our signature defensive ability, on a 3 minute cooldown, increasing max health and pain generation.

• Additional Benefits
  • Even more increased max health via Embrace the Pain (artifact)
  • Damage converted to healing via Soul Rending (talent)
• Additional Activation
  • Upon Soul Fragment consumption via Fueled by Pain (artifact) (see section on Soul Fragments for more on consumption)
  • Upon an attack that would otherwise kill you, via Last Resort (talent)