Devourer Demon Hunter Leveling Guide from 8 to 90 — Midnight (12.0.1)

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

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. If levelling from The War Within, your Tier Set and Reshii Wraps will be disabled starting at level 85, so keep this in mind as you level!

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!

With the release of Midnight, it means it's time for everyone to level again to 90. To help speed this up, there's a few optional consumables you can pick up to speed things up.

To be as prepared as possible, look to acquire at least some of the following items and enchants:

• Charged Phial of Alacrity — A Phial from Dragonflight which persists through death, giving bonus Speed for 30 minutes. If you're already geared, it's often about moving between pulls rather than a bit more damage.
• Exquisitely Eviscerated Muscle — A food item from The War Within, grants a large boost to Speed for 1 hour, but is lost on death.
• Elusive Blasphemite — If your gear has plenty of sockets, switch to this Algari Diamond and each of The War Within's gem colors for extra speed.
• Enchant Boots - Scout's March / Enchant Chest - Stormrider's Agility / Enchant Bracer - Chant of Armored Speed / Enchant Cloak - Chant of Burrowing Rapidity — Switch all of your armor enchants over to extra Speed effects if you were previously using Avoidance or Leech.
• Gunshoes — A tried and true pickup for leveling, these are always nice to have to get through areas where you can't mount, and even work across water. These can't be activated while in combat though, and are cancelled when taking damage.
• Shimmerscale Diving Suit / Shimmerscale Diving Helmet — These consumables from Battle for Azeroth can help with any sections that involve going underwater - though in Midnight's zones that doesn't happen very often.

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.