Devourer Demon Hunter DPS Best Gems, Enchants, and Consumables - 12.1.5 - World of Warcraft

On this page, we list the best gems, enchants, flasks, potions, and food you can get for your Devourer Demon Hunter, based on your stat priority. We also give budget alternatives. This page is updated for World of Warcraft Patch 12.1.5.

Table of Contents

Recommended Gems

The recommended choices for all content are:

Use Powerful Eversong Diamond in your first socket.
Place one of each coloured gem types ( Flawless Masterful Lapis, Flawless Masterful Garnet, Flawless Masterful Peridot, Flawless Deadly Amethyst).
Fill any remaining sockest with Flawless Masterful Garnet.

However, it is generally advised that you simulate your character for gems, as individual gear pieces have a big influence on which gem might be your best ones. The above one-size-fits-all approach will serve you well in all types of content though.

Devourer Demon Hunter - Not satisfied with standard recommendations? Jump to these two guides to find out more about what your stats do, and how to fully optimize them.

Optimizations

Stats and Simulations

Not satisfied with standard recommendations? Jump to these two guides to find out more about what your stats do, and how to fully optimize them.

Stats Raidbots Guide

Best Enchants and Weapon Augments

Your weapon enhancement consumable of choice is Thalassian Phoenix Oil Icon Thalassian Phoenix Oil to provide additional Critical Strike and Haste.

Slot	Best Enchantment
Main Hand	Rite of the Hash'ey
Off Hand	Rite of the Hash'ey
Helm	Empowered Rune of Avoidance
Chest	Mark of the Worldsoul
Shoulders	Amirdrassil's Grace
Legs	Sunfire Silk Spellthread
Boots	Lynx's Dexterity
Rings	Eyes of the Eagle

Helm, Shoulder, and Boot enchants are personal preferences as they have no direct impact on performance, but we recommend Avoidance and Stamina for the extra survivability.

Devourer Demon Hunter - Before applying gems and enchants to your equipment, make sure to check whether
there might be an easy-to-get item that is better than the one you're currently wearing!

Gear Information

Best in Slot Gear and Where to Get It

Before applying gems and enchants to your equipment, make sure to check whether there might be an easy-to-get item that is better than the one you're currently wearing!

Gear

Optimal Consumables

Consumables substantially increase the power of your character for a limited time. Any time you are challenging yourself with difficult content, it is advisable that you buff yourself with Flasks, Food, Potions, and Weapon Oils.

3.1.

Flask

There is only one real choice for flask in 12.1.5, Flask of the Magisters Icon Flask of the Magisters, although Flask of the Blood Knights Icon Flask of the Blood Knights can be used if your haste is incredibly low.

You can also obtain a flask of your choice from Cauldron of Sin'dorei Flasks Icon Cauldron of Sin'dorei Flaskss provided by Alchemists.

3.2.

Potions

Potion of Recklessness Icon Potion of Recklessness is your best option, and should be paired with major cooldowns and Bloodlust Icon Bloodlust / Heroism Icon Heroism. You can also obtain temporary Potion of Recklessness from Voidlight Potion Cauldron Icon Voidlight Potion Cauldron provided by Alchemists.

Concentrated Silvermoon Health Potion is the current best healing potion. Using this has a 5-minute cooldown, but multiple can be consumed in an extended boss fight should it go on long enough. Additionally, Warlock's Healthstone Icon Healthstones do not share a cooldown with other healing consumables. Remember to use it as well if you are holding one!

3.3.

Food Buff

In Season Two, secondary stats from food have started to outweigh the value of Intellect. As such, seek to eat Feast of Knowledge Icon Feast of Knowledge when it is available, or Champion's Bento Icon Champion's Bento when it is not.

3.4.

Augment Rune

In addition, if you can afford it, you should use Void-Touched Augment Rune Icon Void-Touched Augment Runes to increase your primary stat. These can be obtained through the weekly housing quest, but remember: Augment Runes are expensive and disappear on death, so use them wisely!

3.5.

Other Consumables

Alongside standard buff consumables, there are a handful of other items worth keeping hold of - especially in Mythic+:

Gateway Control Shard — allows you to auto-interact with nearby Warlock Demonic Gateways.
Void-Touched Drums — grants a weaker 15% Haste Bloodlust effect on your party when used. These are still affected by Sated, so should only be used if you have no party member that provides it naturally.
Emergency Soul Link — can be used as a combat resurrection on your target, and does not require Engineering.
Void-Shrouded Tincture — Midnight's invisibility potion, which can be used to skip certain trash pulls in Mythic+. Bear in mind this does share a cooldown with your offensive potion Light's Potential.

Professions

Create and Craft Your Own Consumables

While you can simply buy all these items from the Auction House, you may want to craft them yourself and sell the leftovers instead with our Icy Veins Profession Guides!

Midnight Professions Guide

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This guide was written by Wordup and Voodoo.

Wordup has been writing high-end WoW Class Guides for almost a decade, with extensive theorycrafting experience across multiple classes. He raids in the Top 100 guild Echoes, and you can follow him on Twitter.

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