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All Demon Hunter Class Changes Coming in the Shadowlands Pre-Patch

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The Shadowlands pre-patch releases next week, so we're recapping all class changes that you can expect starting with Demon Hunters.

General Changes

  • Newly created Demon Hunters now begin at level 8.
  • Immolation Aura Immolation Aura is no longer a Talent for Havoc and is learned by all Demon Hunters through their initial questing experience or at level 10.

Havoc

Havoc Abilities Learned Above Level 50

  • Fel Rush Fel Rush (Rank 3) - Fel Rush damage increased by 25%.
  • Metamorphosis Metamorphosis (Rank 4) - When you activate Metamorphosis, the cooldown of Eye Beam and Blade Dance is immediately reset.
  • Chaos Strike Chaos Strike (Rank 3) - Chaos Strike damage increased by 10%.
  • Eye Beam Eye Beam (Rank 3) - When Eye Beam finishes fully channeling, your Haste is increased by an additional 15% for 12 seconds.

Havoc Talent Tree

Vengeance

  • Vengeance Demon Hunters now use Fury as a resource instead of Pain.
  • Demonic Wards Demonic Wards increase to Stamina and Armor have been moved into a new Passive: Thick Skin Thick Skin which increases Stamina by 65% and Armor by 100%.
  • Soul Cleave Soul Cleave replaces Chaos Strike, Shear Shear replaces Demon's Bite and Infernal Strike Infernal Strike replaces Fel Rush when selecting the Vengeance specialization.
  • Fel Devastation Fel Devastation is no longer a Talent and will be learned by all Vengeance Demon Hunters at level 11. Additionally, Fel Devastation Fel Devastation now costs 50 Fury.
  • Soul Cleave Soul Cleave now heals you for an additional amount for each Soul Fragment consumed.
  • Soul Cleave Soul Cleave now capped at 5 targets.
  • The following Talents have been adjusted:

Vengeance Abilities Learned Above Level 50

  • Infernal Strike Infernal Strike (Rank 3) - Infernal Strike damage increased bz 25%.
  • Fiery Brand Fiery Brand (Rank 3) - The duration of Fiery Brand is increased by 2 seconds.
  • Soul Cleave Soul Cleave (Rank 3) - Soul Cleave damage increased by 10%.
  • Revel in Pain Revel in Pain - When Fiery Brand expires on your primary target, you gain a shield that absorbs up [ 450% of Attack Power ] damage for 15 sec, based on your damage dealt to them while Fiery Brand was active.

Vengeance Talent Tree

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1 hour ago, Mugendai said:

Big nerf of the dps spec, and the tank spec is below all the other tanks, well I guess we won't see many DH

And can you define that where exactly do you see the big nerf? I see that they merged good azerite traits into flat rank of for example Eye Beam and Meta. (Havoc) (above 50)

But i am more into warrior, DK and monk, just want to know.

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I think the fact that you can now fairly reliably reduce Eye Beam's CD, should actually benefit the player. Eye Beam, as far as I know, is the main damage source for DH, so that, combined with the fact that it seems to be amongst the AoE skills that doesn't cap at five targets sounds pretty good to me.

I am a laymen when it comes to DH as well, but I'm kind of excited about what I read here. Seems to be a casual friendly, yet viable DPS spec.

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2 hours ago, Mugendai said:

Big nerf of the dps spec, and the tank spec is below all the other tanks, well I guess we won't see many DH

Havoc is in a decent state imo (not perfect) however the nerf really hit Vengeance where the self healing got reduced by 50% along with increasing cool down time on Meta along with clipping some leveling  talents eg) Abyssal Strike in Shadowlands will not offer an extra 10 yards when you use Infernal Strike.  Gluttony is also removed entirely from the Talent system which was a decent source of a random proc of Meta that helped with being defensive.  The new variation of adding Demonic and Fel Devastation is new and may offer some potential but I can't say if it can out perform the standard of using a build with Soul Bomb at the start of the SL expac.

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how did havoc get nerfed? 

  • no blade dance dodge (was absolutely massive for melee damage reduction, not saying it was good for the game)
  • meta has NO leech unless you spec into soul rending 
  • furious gaze on live with 3 traits = 57% haste. FG on ptr/beta = 15%
  • blur 20% not 35%
  • no eyes of rage reducing cd on eye beam (which in turn gives survivability)
  • demonic talent reduced to 6 sec instead of 8 
  • massive lack of haste and fury generation results in less chaos strikes = less souls = less heals 
  • overall damage nerfed baseline
  • forced into a very specific talent build with no other options (even worse now)
  • AoE capped on almost all abilities

probably missing a couple other things, but as you can see, DH is f***** for shadowlands. was fun while it lasted

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4 hours ago, Whiterhino said:

how did havoc get nerfed? 

  • no blade dance dodge (was absolutely massive for melee damage reduction, not saying it was good for the game)
  • meta has NO leech unless you spec into soul rending 
  • furious gaze on live with 3 traits = 57% haste. FG on ptr/beta = 15%
  • blur 20% not 35%
  • no eyes of rage reducing cd on eye beam (which in turn gives survivability)
  • demonic talent reduced to 6 sec instead of 8 
  • massive lack of haste and fury generation results in less chaos strikes = less souls = less heals 
  • overall damage nerfed baseline
  • forced into a very specific talent build with no other options (even worse now)
  • AoE capped on almost all abilities

probably missing a couple other things, but as you can see, DH is f***** for shadowlands. was fun while it lasted

Dude i played DH and the nerfs are reasonable since DH was op af. It will still be better than most other melee specs. (Ferals still crying in a corner)

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10 hours ago, Whiterhino said:

how did havoc get nerfed? 

  • no blade dance dodge (was absolutely massive for melee damage reduction, not saying it was good for the game)
  • meta has NO leech unless you spec into soul rending 
  • furious gaze on live with 3 traits = 57% haste. FG on ptr/beta = 15%
  • blur 20% not 35%
  • no eyes of rage reducing cd on eye beam (which in turn gives survivability)
  • demonic talent reduced to 6 sec instead of 8 
  • massive lack of haste and fury generation results in less chaos strikes = less souls = less heals 
  • overall damage nerfed baseline
  • forced into a very specific talent build with no other options (even worse now)
  • AoE capped on almost all abilities

probably missing a couple other things, but as you can see, DH is f***** for shadowlands. was fun while it lasted

Even though it's not finalized we are still considered an A rank dps for the new Raid Tier.  Yes those are nerfs however it could be a lot worse; in BFA we rely heavily on select traits to be decent in a given scenario and with that going out the door just the same as the Legion Legendaries and Artifact Weapon we will have to rely on the new form of borrowed power to be viable against other classes.  Yes it sucks but doesn't mean you should give up entirely on the class unless you are just absolutely tired of playing it and wish to try something new.

In SL your Covenant Abilities, Soulbinds, Conduits, and your choice of crafted Legendaries will be your new found strength.

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12 hours ago, Ragingwolf said:

Even though it's not finalized we are still considered an A rank dps for the new Raid Tier.  Yes those are nerfs however it could be a lot worse; in BFA we rely heavily on select traits to be decent in a given scenario and with that going out the door just the same as the Legion Legendaries and Artifact Weapon we will have to rely on the new form of borrowed power to be viable against other classes.  Yes it sucks but doesn't mean you should give up entirely on the class unless you are just absolutely tired of playing it and wish to try something new.

In SL your Covenant Abilities, Soulbinds, Conduits, and your choice of crafted Legendaries will be your new found strength.

It's not even these specific nerfs why I'm not playing it. They lost all of the things that made it enjoyable and had no compensation, so now its a slow boring rotation of 4 spells. Before it was atleast fast and had good damage. The only reason their damage is even somewhat competitive right now is because of the covenant ability doing 35% of their damage (which is dispellable). I agree that things like blade dance dodge and some leech being gone is good, but by god when they nerf all of that and nerf their only on use defensive, they are going to be squishier than an enhance shaman. Trust me, I've played a LOT of beta and watched a lot. They die first, easily. 

 

19 hours ago, Fisky said:

Dude i played DH and the nerfs are reasonable since DH was op af. It will still be better than most other melee specs. (Ferals still crying in a corner)

I mean yeah some melee classes are garbage as well, but those classes should be buffed. Not make DH garbage too. I agree that their survivability was pretty OP but I would compomise that for some actual skilled on use defensives. But they nerfed ALL of it. 

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