Opinion on new VOID DH spec (Devourer)

Classes Demon Hunter
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Hello all,

I’ve played the new DH spec for a couple of hours now on PTR & Beta and I must say the spec is quite special.
I have to admit I had some issues at the start trying to find out what the spec is really about but once you get the hang of it … it’s fun atleast for me.

Now that said the spec has some very big flaws:

  • DPS DH is squishy in general but damn the new spec is flawed at this, the cooldowns we get are definitely not what they should be for us to be able to survive decently.
  • I’ve played a couple of dungeons and I must say it’s was bada$$ but I compared to pretty much all other classes the burst of this class is very very low, I really DO NOT see this spec work out in high M+ keys.
  • Once you go SOLO on the class and you do some quests you really start to see that this class really lacks skills and definitely also survivability, compared to the havoc spec the life leech is definitely not on par.
    Darkness on 5min CD & Blur on 1min cd and if you spec into it you get 2 of em, 1stun for 2 seconds … this is very very big time lacking …
  • Some classes have really a lot of buttons and my main for a couple of season has been Monk & Paladin, now that I’ve switched to Devourer to try this spec out, I find myself A LOT OF times having difficulties not just to survive but to be able to use skills … I found myself A LOT of times with not being able to use VOID RAY & ran out of REAP … then I’m like wtf what now !? just spamming consume, consume, consume, …. this can’t be it …

Can’t be that it’s just me that finds the spec really fun but very lacking, I fear to see how this spec is going to have a spot both in high M+ keys and also in PvP.
NO WAY with such low survivability this spec stands a chance …

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Dont forget the missing AoE.

DH Tree gives for example Leech of FireDamage - but Devo does Cosmic Damage, why?

It gives Parry Change but… you are casting 99% of the time, so no Parry… but this restores Fury and Health

I’ve leveled to 50 now and it is not fun. Not at all. But I stick to it for the sake of testing it out (if there is maybe a breakpoint where it changes). Every other Class seems to outdamage me by a lot, they all seem to have AoE alot and just spam down packs where I get close to death by pulling more than 2 Mobs.
Really I dont remember what other classes was at around 20-50, but I cannot remeber that I ever had such a struggle with… well simple leveling.

Setup for Collapsing Star is … well just save the Skillpoint and put it somewhere else!

Void Ray is nice, but it hits like a wet noodle and takes far to long to be useable, often just taking 40% of the Mobs, so you need at last 2 Casts + other AoE or several Consumes to Finish mobs, as you have no other AoE… well :slight_smile:

Give Consume a Cleave, spread 20% of its damage up to 4?5? other Targets… done. Easy fix.

Make Immo-Aura not selfdamage, but instead deal damage again… done Easy fix.

But instead? Nothing :smiley:

Blizzard spitted the spec out and it seems like they put no effort into it at all. Compared to Evoker (whichh I mained after release + Aug the same) it is like the unwanted Uncle on a party, yeah you talk to him if needed but… if he would not be there no one would care.

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