Devourer Demon Hunter Leveling Guide from 8 to 80 — Midnight Pre-Patch (12.0)

Welcome to our Leveling Guide for The War Within. This will help you in your journey to max level as a Devourer Demon Hunter, covering talents and abilities you should know about.

Pre-Patch Disclaimer

While in the Pre-patch, this page is still geared toward leveling up from 1-80. It will be updated closer to release with information on the 80-90 process.

Devourer Demon Hunter features periods of lower damage, before spiking into large AoE burst every time you have Void Metamorphosis available. Devourer is also incredibly mobile and has excellent self-sustain, allowing it to pull relatively large amounts of enemies. This AoE has a ramping damage component to it, which does cause some issues in the lightning fast pace of leveling dungeons. You may find it easier to level as Havoc or Vengeance if dungeons are your preferred content type for leveling.

When leveling up you should always choose the piece of loot with the highest item level. You will be replacing these gear pieces very quickly, so just equip whatever comes to you without worrying about secondary stats.

Unlike many classes, you start at Level 8 and enter into the Demon Hunter intro campaign on Mardum. Some abilities are unlocked as you progress through this story segment, granting access to your core Devourer abilities when you select your specialization at Level 10.

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To help with understanding what changes for your spec as you level up and progress through the talent tree, use the slider below to select your current level. Each time you level up, move it along, and the section will level up with you!

In this section, we will rank the PvP talents for leveling and doing solo or small-group PvE content. Below is a ranking of both General PvP Talents and Devourer Demon Hunter-specific PvE talents.

1. Armor of Souls is a significant increase to your armor, which is strong against all the melee damage you take while leveling. Additionally, it generates a lot of free Soul Fragments, making it a great pick
2. Beckon causes your next Consume after Reap to be instant and generate an additional Soul Fragment. This is a great increase to the speed of the rotation, and will cause you to use Reap on cooldown
3. Inevitable End increases the damage of Collapsing Star by 25% and causes it to be uninterupptable. While this is niche, it is still a minor damage gain, and may occasionally prevent your Collapsing Star from being interrupted by enemy abilities.

Detainment, Cover of Darkness, Cleansed by Flame and Glimpse all have very limited uses in PvE, due to then being very focused on crowd control tools or pressuring enemy players. A special note should be made for Surrender to the Void however. This talent causes Void Metamorphosis to cost 100 Soul Fragments, but to increase your damage by an additional 20%, and increasing all Fury gains while transformed by 100%. This should never be taken under any circumstances, as it more than doubles the cost of Void Metamorphosis for leveling builds, while having very little benefit since combat is so short.