Devourer Demon Hunter DPS Guide - Midnight

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Devourer Demon Hunter OverviewConsumeVoid RayVoid MetamorphosisCollapsing StarVoidbladeThe HuntDevourer Demon Hunter Strengths and Weaknesses

Strengths

Weaknesses

Devourer Demon Hunter Cheat Sheet Devourer Demon Hunter Changes in 12.0.5Devourer Changes

Soul Immolation no longer damages you. It now heals you for 24% of your maximum HP over its duration

Spontaneous Immolation has been reworked. Now causes Soul Immolation to heal 6% additional HP over its duration, and to have it's CD reset when you kill an enemy which provides experience or honour. This requires the final blow to proc.

Feast of Souls has had its maximum stack cap of 20 removed

Sweet Suffering now increases the duration of Feast of Souls by 1s/2s (was 2s/4s)

Void-Scarred Changes

Burning Blades now affects Hungering Slash instead of Reap. It additionally now increases the damage of Reap by 20% (this does not leave a dot, it is just a flat increase).

Untethered Fury now also increases the damage of Void Ray by 15%.

Violent Transformation now causes The Hunt to deal 25% more damage, and reset the cooldown of Soul Immolation when cast.

Monster Rising now also increases the damage of Collapsing Star by 15%.

Flamebound now increases the critical strike damage of Hungering Slash by 125% (was 50%).

Student of Suffering now grants 4% Mastery and 2 Fury per second (was 8% and 5 Fury per second).

Blind Focus now increases cosmic damage by 2% (was 3%).

Devourer Demon Hunter Hero Talents: ]Annihilator and ]Void-Scarred VoidfallWorld KillerCelestial EchoesSwift ErasureVoidbladeHungering SlashThe HuntVoidsurgeVoid MetamorphosisEnduring TormentMonster RisingALL

Throughput & Damage Profiles: is the clear winner for all target counts currently, being bolstered greatly by the changes in 12.0.5, compared to .

Defense: Unfortunately, both of our Hero trees are weak in this department. has Phase Shift, providing a fluctuating 2-8% damage reduction, as well as more Soul Fragment generation, which provides a minor healing boost. has Set Fire to the Pain, which is a minor (0.5%) damage reduction as well as a small smoothing of damage intake, or Improved Soul Rending, which is a minor increase to Leech. There is very little that separates these trees in this department.

Utility: gains access to mobility increases, either through more of your movement cooldown with State of Matter or a fluctuating speed increase with Path to Oblivion. also gains access to a fluctuating movement speed increase with Pursuit of Angriness. It also gains access to minor group utility when enemies can be stunned with Wave of Debilitation. The bonuses for both trees are mostly minor.

Playing a Devourer Demon Hunter in rotation guide

Avoid resource waste: Devourer revolves around ramping into powerful Void Metamorphosis windows. It's access is entirely based on your Soul Fragment and Fury generation, so make sure to minimize waste of both!

Plan Cooldown Windows: The majority of Devourer damage comes during Void Metamorphosis, making it a very important window to optimize. Planning your windows in advance will allow you to extract maximum value from spells like Collapsing Star.

Be aware of your surroundings: Devourer is a 25-yard ranged spec, but requires being stationary for some of its strongest spells. Using movement such as Shift proactively to position yourself so your casts won't be interrupted is important. Likewise, if using , knowing when and where to use abilities such as Voidblade and The Hunt safely is essential.

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Damage & Performance: Currently, Void Elf offers the highest damage due to its powerful passive Entropic Embrace. Both Blood Elf and Night Elf are incredibly close however, and offer passive stat bonuses.

Mythic+ & Utility: Night Elf offers situational utility in Mythic Plus with Shadowmeld, sometimes enabling some skips or the ability to dodge some mechanics, while not using your combat potion to do so. The other options bring utility as well, with Blood Elf bringing the ability to mass purge enemies due to Arcane Torrent, and Void Elf bringing the ability to dodge some mechanics and reposition easily with Spatial Rift. The differences among these options is negligible.

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Comment by DrippyNose

just made a character! looking forward to this :)

Comment by Harbenn27

I've been maining DH since it came out, and im in love with the spec. I've tried out an annihalator build with no hungering slash hunt route, just the right side. My only complaint is that its a bit simple, and the collapsing star perk to increase its damage on multiple uses feels useless in world and sometimes boss fights due to how long it takes to get up to using it.

I feel like they could throw in a button or two more to make it more engaging, since most open world is just consume > reap > void beam > repeat.

I tried a little bit of the hungering slash through the hunt build, but it honestly felt a bit out of the way and akward to follow that rotation. Maybe they could add a buff to reap to make it more useful, or increase soul shard Gen/reduce costs (like 20 for collapsing star instead).

Overall though I love the spec. Having a blast with it.

Comment by thric3blinded

Thanks for the guide - are the (Talent) calculator links meant to have the Hero talents selected? At the moment they're not selected/are empty for all 3 links.

Comment by vegaaxxx

Hello! This build is not good for DH in general as it does not consider the impact that Immolate has as an ability for DH, since it's imperative for metamorphosis uptime. I have changed the talent tree on my end to include immolate and have doubled the damage it puts out on retail in regular 655 gear, and tested it on beta where it has outperformed my favorite classes.

Keep in mind, this build is meant to be used for Mythic+, as I don't consider DH a good single-target damage spec. Haste is also really important in this build to get the collapsing stars out during meta.

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Put the remaining points into the rest of the annihilator tree and the apex talents.

Have a great time playing the spec!

Comment by Ribbwich710

I really, really hate the new talent calc layout. I need to see those icons for quick viewing when I am learning the build.

Comment by Dekahn

They really messed this class up bad, feels so weak., like they tested nothing, nor listened to any feedback........ Also agreeing with Ribbwich710 the new talent calc layout is much harder to understand at surface level.

Comment by Psychosis

As a long time DH player, I can say the spec is really awesome and fun, however, any mistake while in Void meta can be really punishing, and I probably won't be playing the class until some changes are made to it.

One thing is that the player barely reaches Collapsing star even once, and has a ultra-small cast window to use it, even tho the entire talent tree works with it and is the most amazing looking spell blizz's produced..
The player can be cc'd, there could be no active mob at the moment they manage to gather enough resources to have it, even sometimes the chance to target a mob and you lose your most precious spell. Wish it weren't like that. 🙄

Many of the specs are really awesome and "freeing" to play after the midnight changes. This spec however feels unrewarding and rage-baiting most of the time. I think I'll wait for some less frustrating changes. Cheerio ✌️

Comment by christhekiller

no idea why Charred Warblades is recommended when the spec itself doesnt deal any fire damage, at most it restores a tiny bit if heal that's burned away by soul immolation but you would be much better off taking pretty much anything else... the healing is miniscule.

Comment by Primalcrux

I'm running Annihilator, do I always use Reap before Void Ray since it resets? Or do I save those souls for Eradicate?

Comment by Fluffytooths

I don't understand how Void-Scarred is a better choice for single-target when none of the melee talents are taken. They seem to have about the same free damage for going into meta between 2 Voidsurges vs 1 Voidfall and 1 Meteor Shower, so while I know you get 1 extra Devourer's Bite window per meta, surely all the other Voidfall procs both in and out of meta would more than make up for that?

Edit: They changed it. Not sure why I was downvoted since apparently I was right lol...

Comment by christhekiller

can we fet a further breakdown as to what about the 12.0.5 changes makes annihilator the default over void scarred? most of the changes seem to be buffs to void scarred and they were already close.

also no changes to charred warblades and they took away the only thing that dealt fire damage when they changed immo lol

Comment by Jaker139

Am I wrong in seeing one of the changes was supposed to make eradicate do full damage to main targeted and then reduced for aoe targets? But ingame it does not split the damage the right way, and this guide glosses over that talent change so im unsure if this is a bug or its just being left alone.

Comment by Gazman

So, my Void scarred build, considering how fast you need to consume souls to get back to meta, and since the idea is getting in and out of meta as fast as 3 abilities, i use soul immolation for the dead spot that occurs when you fall out of cycle, like time skip for aug, since you should be fulling your fury when you leave meta thanks to the unconsumed stack of souls, also, popping soul immo at that point with the fury bonuses instead of feast of souls bonus allows you to cast 3-5 eradicates in 10s with the soul regen and soul immo in the background helping, this cycle pretty much defeats the need for the extra 2s on feast. you also reach meta guaranteed at the end of your first eradicate sequence, about 6s into combat, allowing a seamless in and out since your voidblade should be off cooldown when you end the first meta. ignore collapsing star, it WILL break your meta cycle xD Stats are a balance of crit and mastery but not too much haste (Ideally around 2\3 of your crit or mastery, the should be balanced for the ideal burst) or youll be stuck in meta too long. Dont worry about using the vengeful retreat dmg buff proc when it happens, it actually adds major downtime to the build cos its so janky to use in combat. You can /castsequence it to voidblade but then you're adding an overly complex mechanic to an already complex build xD. the choice is ultimately up to you.

Devourer Demon Hunter DPS Guide - Midnight

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