Devourer Demon Hunter - Rated BG Meta

Devourer Demon Hunter - Rated BG

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How Devourer plays

Devourer is the third Demon Hunter specialization and the only one that is neither melee nor a tank. It trades Fel for the Void: a mid-range Intellect caster that deals Cosmic damage from about 25 yards while keeping every scrap of Demon Hunter mobility. The loop is a harvest. Consume is a filler you can cast while moving that pays out both Soul Fragments and Fury, Soul Immolation adds a stream of both over its duration, and Reap sweeps the loose Fragments in. Fury goes into Void Ray, a channeled frontal with no cooldown, which is the single biggest departure from Havoc's Eye Beam. Souls go into Void Metamorphosis, and once you are transformed Collapsing Star is the payoff button. Void-Scarred is the default hero tree in Season 2 and folds the melee combo - Voidblade into Hungering Slash into an empowered Vengeful Retreat - back into a caster rotation. You still bring Disrupt, Void Nova, Blur and Darkness, so the spec keeps Demon Hunter's utility while standing where a ranged DPS stands.

Stat direction

Intellect›Mastery›Haste›Critical Strike›Versatility

Intellect and item level first, as always. The order after that is genuinely hero-tree dependent and the published guides do not agree on it. Void-Scarred, the Season 2 default, wants Mastery: Monster Within as high as it will go, because its damage is concentrated inside Void Metamorphosis where the Cosmic multiplier is largest, with Haste close behind for how fast it cycles transformations. Annihilator inverts that in single target and prefers Haste to ramp its transformation, then flips back to Mastery in AoE. Mythic+ writeups commonly lead with Haste for Void Metamorphosis uptime and Void Ray channel speed. The gap between these orderings is small enough that they share one gear set, so treat this as a starting point and sim your own character before you commit gems and enchants.

Build choices

Raid and Mythic+ - Void-Scarred

The Season 2 default, and it is the default in both raid and keys rather than one of a pair. Void-Scarred shortens the gap between transformations through Soul Glutton, then pays you for entering them: Voidsurge turns each one into burst cleave you did not have to aim. It also folds the melee combo back in - Voidblade into Hungering Slash, with Voidstep resetting Vengeful Retreat - so you step in for a beat and leave, which suits Demon Hunter mobility and costs nothing when a mechanic pushes you out. Second Helping, Soulshaper, Moment of Craving and Devourer's Edge all sharpen Reap, which is the node everything else keys off. Take Eradicate when Reap needs to become an AoE tool.

Void-ScarredSoul GluttonVoidsurgeCullEradicateSecond HelpingSoulshaperMoment of CravingDevourer's Edge

Alternative - Annihilator

The tree Devourer shares with Vengeance, and the one the published guides disagree about. It ramps more slowly and pays out harder: Reap summons Voidfall meteors, and Collapsing Star triggers a meteor barrage rather than a single hit. Most Season 2 writeups now put Void-Scarred ahead in both single target and AoE after the 12.1 Mastery change, but at least one keeps Annihilator marginally in front, and the gap is small enough that it is a real choice rather than a trap. Run it if you prefer a longer ramp into a bigger window, and shift toward Haste in single target to reach the transformation sooner.

AnnihilatorVoidfallCollapsing StarEmptinessCullSecond HelpingMoment of Craving

Flex - control and survivability

A swap package rather than a third archetype. Void Nova covers the caster packs Disrupt alone cannot, Darkness is a real raid cooldown that this spec keeps from the Demon Hunter class tree, and Soul Immolation is both a resource stream and a 24 percent heal, which makes it the talent you stop treating as purely offensive on damage-pattern fights. Trade class-tree throughput nodes to afford it on weeks where dying is the damage loss.

Rated BG gear planning

These are curated candidates from the spec guide. Verify your character with a current sim before replacing equipped gear.

HeadBest tier helm · Raid Tier - Omni-Token · Tier

NeckRotmire's Sporeheart · Sporefall - Rotmire · Socketed neck

ShoulderBest tier shoulders · Raid Tier - Omni-Token · Tier

BackDraconic Nullcape · Vaelgor & Ezzorak · Raid BiS

ChestBest tier chest · Raid Tier - Omni-Token · Tier

WristCrafted or high-track leather bracers · Leatherworking / dungeon · Custom Mastery / Haste

HandsBest tier gloves · Raid Tier - Omni-Token · Tier

WaistHighest item-level intellect leather belt · Raid or dungeon · Prefer Mastery / Haste