Devourer Demon Hunter DPS Spec, Builds, and Talents — Midnight Season 1

Annihilator is very competitive relative to Void-Scarred in Raids, being the preferred option due to bugs affecting Void-Scarred, and it's easier ability to flex into a cleave build.

Void-Scarred is tuned similarly to its competitor, benefiting from more use of the Devourer's Bite talent. It provides strong single-target, while bringing some free cleave. Alongside that, it maintains higher damage when outside of Void Metamorphosis through both Enduring Torment and Monster Rising, but can run into issues if an encounter makes weaving in and out of melee difficult. It is currently hampered by a bug to Blind Focus, as well as losing more damage to flex into Eradicate for cleave.

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In Single-Target, Annihilator builds dip slightly into a melee toolkit, making use of Devourer's Bite to empower its Collapsing Star casts. 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 Voidblade and Pierce the Veil to amplify its hardest hitting abilities, neglecting to use both Hungering Slash and The Hunt outside of niche builds. 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.
• Spontaneous Immolation is always taken over Tempered Soul, due to the GCD efficiency benefits of triggering it passively.
• Some of the Reap talents ( Umbral Blade, Scythe's Embrace and Second Helping) are dropped in favour of picking up the Devourer's Bite package. Should you desire to not play with Voidblade, you can drop Devourer's Bite to pick up Voidglare Boon or Second Helping.
• Since Doomsayer only activates a single time during single-target encounters, it opts for the raw Voidfall throughput provided by Harness the Cosmos.
• In cleave scenarios, drop Devourer's Bite in exchange for taking Eradicate.
• Due to the current tuning of the melee talent suite, the full package is not taken, with single target builds instead focusing on utilizing them for Devourer's Bite. In heavy cleave situations, drop Devourer's Bite, and one point in Demonic Instinct for both Hungering Slash and Eradicate.
• 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 makes use of the powerful apex talents to amplify its Collapsing Star damage. Should you desire to not play with these talents, the best alternative is making use of the full melee talent suite on the left. Due to this being more niche, it's not included currently on this page.

Annihilator pulls 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 trees is close in AoE, 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 to trigger Burning Blades, 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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Annihilator leans heavily into AoE tools in AoE, foregoing all melee talent options to focus on it. Now that we are in the season proper, the larger and longer pulls lend well to Emptiness on the final choice node. This provides longer extension for Void Metamorphosis, 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. The recent buffs to Eradicate also give some strong damage both outside and inside of Void Metamorphosis. Some additional notes are:

• Due to frequent combat drops giving opportunities to reset Doomsayer's availability, it's preferred in most AoE content to set up at the start of pulls quickly.
• 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.
• Devourer's Edge is taken over Demonic Instinct due to the buffs it provides to Eradicate. Taking this node also allows pathing to the powerful Calamitous, increasing the damage of all of our critical strikes.
• 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 benefits also apply to Burning Blades as well, making it an excellent pickup.
• The Hunt is dropped in AoE in favour of more buffs to Eradicate, as well as grabbing the powerful Calamitous talent. While this seems counter-intuitive, the damage you gain is significant, and the talents leading into The Hunt are fairly weak in AoE. Additionally, while you lose one Voidsurge trigger per Void Metamorphosis window, you will be in Void Metamorphosis for less time, allowing you to cycle these three Voidsurges more efficiently.

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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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.