Midnight Preview: A First Look at the Void-Themed Devourer Spec

[Nymrohd]

Cannot say I enjoyed Devourer in the beta. Such a blue balls spec; half the pulls you get just close to your collapsing star as the pull ends and you have to hope you rush to the next group before meta falls off and you waste all those fragments. I feel the rotation only really works well on bosses. Also too squishy.

[Eapoe]

He's absolutely right. Once again, Blizzard is giving us things we didn't ask for. I think a bard class would have been more interesting, especially now that Sylvanas has a new bard spec

I'm still waiting for the hero classes I like...

Pretty sure I’ve seen people asking for a 3rd DH spec for years, and I’ve even seen suggestions about it being a caster, or even a range/melee hybrid.

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Cannot say I enjoyed Devourer in the beta. Such a blue balls spec; half the pulls you get just close to your collapsing star as the pull ends and you have to hope you rush to the next group before meta falls off and you waste all those fragments. I feel the rotation only really works well on bosses. Also too squishy.

Isn’t that simply a git gud issue, though? Don’t pop your stuff before a pack dies and have it up for the next. I might be wrong if you lose the ability or resources (I don’t play Beta), but if you keep those things it’s just like any other spec. Save your stuff for the next pull so it’s not wasted.

[Nymrohd]

Isn’t that simply a git gud issue, though? Don’t pop your stuff before a pack dies and have it up for the next. I might be wrong if you lose the ability or resources (I don’t play Beta), but if you keep those things it’s just like any other spec. Save your stuff for the next pull so it’s not wasted.

That's the thing; you need to build to meta every time unless the pulls are rapid enough. And you can get to meta pretty fast so you cannot just ignore it or else you are doing crap damage half the pulls. I don't know, I think the spec's rotation just needs fine tuning. If collapsing star cost 20 souls instead of 30 it would work perfectly.

[Scyth]

Spec is very undercooked atm and won't capture as many people as they hope it will if it goes live like this.

Really hope they add 1 more button to press and do something about the rotation being 90% Consume spam, it's so boring. Also losing souls if you move during CStar cast is terrible design and needs to be fixed.

[Capultro]

Pretty sure I’ve seen people asking for a 3rd DH spec for years, and I’ve even seen suggestions about it being a caster, or even a range/melee hybrid

i wanted bow demon hunter or caster demon hunter...but, not mid range dps...this is shit, like evoker...

[Eapoe]

That's the thing; you need to build to meta every time unless the pulls are rapid enough. And you can get to meta pretty fast so you cannot just ignore it or else you are doing crap damage half the pulls. I don't know, I think the spec's rotation just needs fine tuning. If collapsing star cost 20 souls instead of 30 it would work perfectly.

Sounds like a non issue. Many keys are just chain pulls until you get to a boss, or the rare key where mobs are spread too far (which I can’t really think of many outside of Streets).
As far as not using a CD at the end of a pull, every spec ever has had to deal with that.
Sounds like it’s really only going to be a problem at the start of a season when people are new or learning routes.

[deenman]

Cannot say I enjoyed Devourer in the beta. Such a blue balls spec; half the pulls you get just close to your collapsing star as the pull ends and you have to hope you rush to the next group before meta falls off and you waste all those fragments. I feel the rotation only really works well on bosses. Also too squishy.

they proly need to implement some system similar to demo lock imps not expiring in dungeons

[Ezyah]

"Blizz can we have a new range spec ?"

"Sure here is a range spec with 25 yards"

"No blizz can we please have an ACTUAL range spec ? You know like 40 yards"

"Sure here is another 25 yards range spec, well kinda cause you need to be in melee half of the time lol"

[deplorable]

first look? stretching that phrase a bit much not like theres an nda on the beta. people will rush, heh. to get this as its overpowered and then theyll be a nerf within a month and life will continue as normal with some tears before bedtime

if its not overpowered for you and seems squishy, youre not playing it properly

[Ghostile]

He's absolutely right. Once again, Blizzard is giving us things we didn't ask for. I think a bard class would have been more interesting, especially now that Sylvanas has a new bard spec

I'm still waiting for the hero classes I like...

Theres one kind of spec Ive wanted for years and thats a melee/ranged hybrid. Would have preferred dw + bow but void dh is fine too.
Bard can go suck a tuba.

[Segus1992]

He's absolutely right. Once again, Blizzard is giving us things we didn't ask for. I think a bard class would have been more interesting, especially now that Sylvanas has a new bard spec

I'm still waiting for the hero classes I like...

If Blizzard actually added what people were asking for this game would be dead LONG ago. Augmentation is Bard with a less super silly theme, Survival makes sense for Hunter and plays great especially on the beta.

Devourer is a little undercooked but new specs almost always are.

[Aggressive]

It sucks that Blizzard does not give us the class we want or at least something close to it. I have seen wow gamers ask for several classes to be added only to get stuff that we did not ask for (Evokers and now this tired ass DH spec. So many good ideas out there too; tinker class, clothy necromancers, sorcerers, Witch Doctors, Blade dancers. The list goes on. And yet Blizzard gives us stuff we don't even want..../SIGH. This small indie company.

[Ghostile]

It sucks that Blizzard does not give us the class we want or at least something close to it. I have seen wow gamers ask for several classes to be added only to get stuff that we did not ask for (Evokers and now this tired ass DH spec. So many good ideas out there too; tinker class, clothy necromancers, sorcerers, Witch Doctors, Blade dancers. The list goes on. And yet Blizzard gives us stuff we don't even want..../SIGH. This small indie company.

I almost literally got what I want with devourer, so apparently they do give us stuff we want.

[Zodiark]

I mean I feel like this is cool simply because we have multiple specs in the game that more or less share the same theme or element in some way. The only spec I can think of that really doesn't have any counterpart is Shadow Priest. This makes them unique but also if the spec is in a bad state then your boned. Meanwhile if you play a fire mage and don't like the way it plays you can play a destro lock with some fire bits. You can play an Ele Shaman who uses lava/fire.

[Aggressive]

I almost literally got what I want with devourer, so apparently they do give us stuff we want.

Then you would be one of the few. Be happy about that. It does not happen often.

[Ehrenpanzer]

Playerbase: How about Tinkers or Bards?

Blizzard: Best we can do is a 3rd DH spec that virtually no-one asked for or wants.

[Rootsbum]

Well: a third specc was about damn time, so kudos
But even tough DH is simple and fun, this looks kinda boring
Evoker is one of my favorite classes, but the midrange just sucks.

But looking forward to trying it out. The reason why I never could stick with DH was missing a third playstyle. Hope they add more buttons to push. And night borne.
At least it resembles red mage