Devourer Demon Hunter DPS Spec, Builds, and Talents — 12.0.5

Welcome to our Devourer Talents Page for Devourer in Midnight Season One! Here you'll find a comprehensive list of recommended builds for both Annihilator and Void-Scarred Hero trees for the all-new specialization in Midnight. If you're looking for advice tailored to Mythic+, check out the dedicated page below.

Over the course of Season 1 in Midnight, Devourer has settled quite firmly on one playstyle, cemented by some of the recent patch changes. While there are a lot of potential options available on the tree, our current recommendations are as follows:

• Single Target - Following 12.0.5 changes, Annihilator is significantly ahead of Void-Scarred in all Season 1 encounters. While Void-Scarred can be played if you enjoy the playstyle, it's firmly behind.
• AoE - Following 12.0.5 changes, Annihilator is now better at all keystone levels. While Void-Scarred can be competitive at lower keystone levels, we recommend playing Annihilator in all scenarios.

In pure single target scenarios, Annihilator pulls ahead of Void-Scarred, while dealing much more cleave damage. Due to this, we recommend playing it on all boss fights this tier. In AoE encounters, Annihilator remains ahead due to its stronger Collapsing Star casts. Annihilator and Void-Scarred maintain their gap in AOE, but Void-Scarred can be viable at lower key levels if you prefer that playstyle, due to its faster, more frequent damage.

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Due to both Annihilator and Void-Scarred picking different talents and influencing your build, you can use the selector tool below to choose your preferred Hero Tree. The navigation buttons will open a loadout, with an explanation of the playstyle.

Anywhere you see the icon on this page, this means it is the recommended choice

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Devourer Demon Hunter Talent Builds

Due to Hero Talents playing a major role, use the tool below to display builds for each tree

Hero Talents
Void-Scarred	Annihilator (All)

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Single-Target Build Annihilator Void-Scarred
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Annihilator Void-Scarred Single-Target Build

Annihilator is firmly ahead of its counterpart Void-Scarred in Raids, benefitting greatly from the recent 12.0.5 changes. Pair that with its easier flex talents that allow it to include more cleave tools, and it becomes the recommended choice:

Void-Scarred has received some negative changes going into 12.0.5, reducing much of the passive damage gains from the tree, and the specs reliance on Reap. It still provides good single-target and modest cleave, while also having slightly less reliance on Void Metamorphosis, but struggles if encounter design prevents it from weaving into melee:

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In Single-Target, Annihilator builds play very similarly to their M+ counterparts. It aims to cycle Fury and Souls as quickly as possible for Void Metamorphosis. When paired with Emptiness, this allows for longer windows that leverage Impending Apocalypse, allowing for big Collapsing Star payoffs. Some additional notes are:

As a Hero tree, Void-Scarred focuses much more on melee abilities. This is to take advantage of its Demon Form empowered equivalents to trigger the keystone effect, Voidsurge, and as such are required picks to build the tree properly. Currently, due to tuning in Midnight Void-Scarred only uses the melee suite of talents to amplify its Voidsurge burst, and only uses each melee ability once per Void Metamorphosis window. Some additional notes are:

• Emptiness is always taken in single-target builds on the final choice node. The ramping Haste provided is key to extending Void Metamorphosis as long as possible. The one exception to this is on L'ura, where Soul Glutton allows for better timings to hit the adds in phase one.
• Tempered Soul is always taken over Spontaneous Immolation, as the two charges allow smoother rotation and a shorter ramp time, and you will rarely leverage the resets in group content.
• Since Doomsayer only activates a single time during single-target encounters, it opts for the raw Voidfall throughput provided by Harness the Cosmos.
• Cull and Reap are a core part of the rotation, and most of the talents that buff it ( Second Helping, Soulshaper, Moment of Craving, Devourer's Edge) are taken to amplify it.
• Void-Scarred is currently better suited to forgo the apex talent, as Collapsing Star is fairly weak, and The Hunt received buffs in the 12.0.5 patch. Instead, it keys heavily into these melee talents, taking the entire package and revolving around frequent, short burst windows from Soul Glutton and Void-Scarred.

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Annihilator Void-Scarred AoE Build

Annihilator pulls further ahead in multi-target scenarios. It can leverage its higher damage from Collapsing Star, as well as access to a frequent AoE tool with Voidfall. As such, it is currently the recommend choice.

While the gap between the trees widens in AoE, and Void-Scarred falls behind. Voidsurge provides powerful AoE burst on a short cooldown cycle, allowing for frequent Void Metamorphosis windows with high damage. Void-Scarred also leans into Eradicate, leveraging this as a frequent high damage option. It has lower top end due to less damage modifiers on Collapsing Star, as such, It is currently not the recommended choice.

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The Annihilator AoE build is very similar to its single-target loadout. Now that we are in the season proper, as pull size and duration has increased so to has the value of Emptiness which it plays into. This provides longer Void Metamorphosis windows, and thus more casts of Collapsing Star. Some additional notes are:

Much of the Void-Scarred toolkit is well suited to AoE scenarios due to many melee talents scaling into AoE, alongside Voidsurge triggers. Due to the shorter, more frequent pulls in AoE, Soul Glutton has even more value, suiting it well to having short, bursty cooldown windows available for each pull. Eradicate also give some strong damage both outside and inside of Void Metamorphosis due to the buff Burning Blades provides. Some additional notes are:

• Harness the Cosmos is chosen over Doomsayer due to the more consistent damage, and the increase in boss damage. If you are in lower keys, or keys where your tank is not chain pulling constantly, then Doomsayer pulls ahead.
• Annihilator finishes the entire right side capstone area to reach Eradicate. This helps convert Reap into an AoE tool after channelling Void Ray, allowing you to apply the damage increases from Moment of Craving and Soulshaper for extra value.
• Void-Scarred chooses to take all the capstones, forgoing the Apex talent. Collapsing Star is fairly weak for Void-Scarred, and thus it is not efficient to invest so many points into it.
• Void-Scarred also finishes the entire right side capstone area to reach Eradicate. This helps convert Reap into an AoE tool after channelling Void Ray, allowing you to amplify the damage increases from Moment of Craving and Soulshaper further. Eradicate's damage is increased by Burning Blades as well, making it an excellent pickup.

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Annihilator Void-Scarred Delves Build

In Delves, Annihilator is well suited to the frequent stop-and-start pull playstyle, allowing you to alter your pace based on your Void Metamorphosis state. Doomsayer also allows it to set up quickly between each area, while also taking advantage of Devourer's great defense toolkit. Unfortunately, it's just a little less versatile than its competitor, so serves as an alternative instead.

In Delves, Void-Scarred is perfectly suited to the pull cadence, and allows you to adjust how much you grab at once depending on your Void Metamorphosis state. Its high movement, frequent bursts of damage, and strong single-target built into its standard build makes it an ideal pick. Pair that with the strong defense toolkit of Devourer, and it becomes the recommended choice.

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New in Midnight is the Apex Talent system, a sequential group of talents which unlock as you acquire each specialization tree talent point on the journey from 80 to 90. These are grouped together in 4, with different effects at each level. Unlike other talents, they are all in one node, with each point invested enhancing the effect. The Devourer Demon Hunter Apex is Midnight, providing significant benefits to Collapsing Star:

1. Midnight — Your Collapsing Star will now always Critically Strike.
2. Midnight — Has two points, increasing all Cosmic damage dealt by 3%, and increases the Critical Strike damage of Collapsing Star by 50% of your Critical Strike chance per point. This bonus is additive with Calamitous.
3. Midnight — Upon entering Void Metamorphosis, instantly spawn 5 Soul Fragments and immediately gain access to one cast of Collapsing Star.

While not every build takes the Apex Talents, for those that do, it significantly increases the power of Collapsing Star, turning it into one of our strongest damage sources. The final point in particular also increases the access to up-front casts, making each Void Metamorphosis cast more impactful.

Beyond being a brand new specialization already, Devourer also brings with it a new Hero tree, Annihilator. This is shared with Vengeance, while Void-Scarred is functionally equivalent to Havoc's Fel-Scarred. In the two tabs below we've covered the major talents and key effects that influence your build depending on your selection.

Annihilator focuses on its keystone effect, Voidfall. A variety of Devourer abilities (most importantly Consume and Void Ray) grant a stack, and upon reaching three, your next Reap cast will consume them. Each stack consumed calls down a powerful Void Meteor, dealing heavy Cosmic damage to targets and generating 2 Soul Fragments. The playstyle is relatively simple, only requiring you to slot in additional Reap casts to consume stacks as they cap out.

For the offensive choice node, Harness the Cosmos provides a more general throughput increase to Voidfall, while Doomsayer is tailored to Mythic+ and situations where you can consistently leave combat to refresh the effect.

For defense and mobility, Phase Shift grants 2% damage reduction per stack of Voidfall present, with Final Hour allowing it to persist after you consume them. Path to Oblivion adds 3% movement speed on top of that, though adding a third charge to Shift with State of Matter is generally preferable.

Void-Scarred provides a variety of benefits during your Void Metamorphosis effect. Most importantly, Voidblade, Hungering Slash, and The Hunt are upgraded into more powerful versions while active. Additionally, the first cast of each of these trigger a Voidsurge for extra AoE Cosmic damage. This slots in over the regular Devourer playstyle, but heavily encourages using a hybrid melee approach, leaping in and out of range to activate these effects.

For the three choice nodes on the tree, there are the following options:

• Wave of Debilitation vs. Pursuit of Angriness - both are niche effects, with Pursuit of Angriness generally being better for the small amount of extra mobility vs. the extra CC utility of Wave of Debilitation.
• Set Fire to the Pain vs. Improved Soul Rending - this is a choice between passive damage reduction or self sustain. Generally speaking, staggering some damage with Set Fire to the Pain so you can leech it back up is the preferred choice, but it's quite minor.
• Student of Suffering vs. Flamebound - due to the current tuning state of melee abilities, the benefits of Flamebound focusing on Hungering Slash is pretty weak. Student of Suffering on the other hand significantly improves Fury generation while also buffing extra Mastery, making it the preferred choice.

"War Mode" is an optional feature that enables open-world PvP encounters that confer some benefits when active:

• Grants access to PvP talents in the open world.
• 10% increase in World Quest rewards at max level.
• 10% more experience gained while leveling.
• Earn Conquest Points which can reward gear every week.

With the benefits of War Mode for leveling and PvE content, it is an optional way to maximize your leveling speed and reward potential. However, you will open yourself up to open-world PvP, so be aware of hostile enemy players who could interfere with you; this is a risk you will have to decide on your own if you want to take.

Here, we'll only be looking at PvP talents that have use cases for aiding with leveling or open-world PvE scenarios, as their PvP benefits are discussed on our PvP page. Generally, the selections are made to optimize your ability to kill enemies faster, increasing your pace when moving through content.

1. Armor of Souls provides additional Soul generation when you're being attacked, ramping up the speed at which you can enter Void Metamorphosis.
2. Inevitable End increases the damage of Collapsing Star and, more importantly, prevents it from being interrupted by any effect.
3. Beckon allows you to follow up each Reap cast with an instant Consume, providing faster setup on targets.

Surrender to the Void however has a big impact on slowing down the rate at which you can enter Void Metamorphosis. While it does make these windows more explosive, the hit to frequency means it's not worth using.

Detainment, Cover of Darkness, Cleansed by Flame and Glimpse all have minimal uses in PvE, due to being more focused on crowd control tools, or pressuring enemy players, so aren't worth considering.