Devourer Demon Hunter DPS Spell List and Glossary — Midnight Pre-Patch (12.0)

Devourer is the all new ranged specialization for Demon Hunters added in Midnight. This page covers the tools available, how they work, and their applications in combat. It will also cover synergies, cooldowns, and core concepts to get to grips with.

This page explains the details of each ability, and assumes you are playing at max level or are interested in the details. For information on when you will gain access to each tool, check out our dedicated leveling page here:

Devourer has two primary Resources, Fury and Soul Fragments. Fury is generated by Consume, collecting Soul Fragments, and through either Voidblade or Reap casts, depending on talent choices. Fury is spent on Void Ray and during Void Metamorphosis. Soul Fragments are generated from Consume, and have a chance to be generated each time you deal damage through Shattered Souls.

After collecting 50 Soul Fragments (or 35 with Soul Glutton), you gain access to Void Metamorphosis. While inside of Void Metamorphosis, every 30 Soul Fragments you collect allows you to cast Collapsing Star once. Playing around both of these resources is incredibly important for Devourer, and should be the first thing you learn when getting started.

The two Hero Talent Trees available to Devourer are Annihilator and Void-Scarred, with their effects listed in the two boxes below:

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Devourer Demon Hunter Hero Talents

Annihilator Talents Void-Scarred Talents

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Annihilator Talents for Devourer Demon Hunter

These talents are available after selecting the Annihilator tree from the Hero Talent selection, unlocked at Level 71. At level 90, you will have access to all talents (not including choice nodes):

Ability	Description/Effect
Voidfall	Every time you cast Consume, you have a chance to generate a stack of Voidfall. Upon reaching three stacks, casting Reap will consume a stack, calling down a Voidfall meteor, dealing damage any enemy within eight yards of your target. You cannot generate stacks above three, except via Meteoric Rise.
Swift Erasure	Each stack of Voidfall you have increases your Haste by 1%. This is not affected by diminishing returns.
Meteoric Rise	Void Ray has its damage increased by 15%. Additionally, fully channeling Void Ray generates one stack of Voidfall. This stack of Voidfall can stack above the normal cap of three.
Catastrophe	Voidfall meteors deal 25% additional damage to enemies as a DoT effect over 8 seconds.
Phase Shift	Each stack of Voidfall decreases your damage taken by 2%.
Path to Oblivion	You gain one additional charge of Shift.
State of Matter	Each stack of Voidfall increases your movement speed by 3%.
Mass Acceleration	When you enter Void Metamorphosis, you gain three stacks of Voidfall and reset the cooldown of Reap. These stacks of Voidfall will overwrite any you already have, so try to spend Voidfall before entering Void Metamorphosis.
Doomsayer	When you enter combat, you gain the Doomsayer buff for 10s. When you cast your first Void Ray within those 10s, you consume the buff, and call down three Voidfall meteors. These meteors are affected by any buffs which affect normal Voidfall meteors. This effect is better suited to Mythic+ where you enter and leaving combat frequently.
Harness the Cosmos	Voidfall Meteor damage is increased by 15%.
Celestial Echoes	Consume generates 2 additional Fury, and deals 15% additional damage.
Final Hour	Swift Erasure, Phase Shift, and Path to Oblivion last for 8 seconds after being removed. Any effect that removes Voidfall will trigger this timer.
Meteoric Fall	Reap will now consume all three charges of Voidfall at once, rather than one at a time.
Dark Matter	Your first Collapsing Star each Void Metamorphosis causes a small aoe damage over time effect in the area around your target. This is affected by anything which buffs Voidfall.
Otherworldly Focus	Collapsing Star and Voidfall have their damage increased by 35%. This bonus is reduced by 5% for each additional target hit, reducing to 0% when hitting 8 or more targets.
World Killer	The final Voidfall meteor called down in each sequence deals 50% additional damage, has a 50% increased radius, and always generates one Soul Fragment.

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Void-Scarred Talents for Devourer Demon Hunter

These talents are available after selecting the Void-Scarred tree from the Hero Talent selection, unlocked at Level 71. At level 90, you will have access to all talents (not including choice nodes):

Ability	Description/Effect
Voidsurge	Void Metamorphosis now empowers Voidblade and Hungering Slash. When you enter demon form, the first cast of each empowered melee ability causes you to explode for cosmic damage to all nearby enemies, reduced above 8 targets.
Wave of Debilitation	Void Nova slows enemies by 60% and reduces the attack and cast speed of targets hit by 15% for 5 seconds after the stun fades.
Pursuit of Angriness	Your movement speed is increased by 1% for each 10 Fury you currently have.
Focused Hatred	Voidsurge deals increased damage when it strikes a single target. Each additional target hit reduces this bonus.
Set Fire to the Pain	5% of all non-fire damage taken is instead taken as Fire damage over 6 seconds. Additionally, all Fire damage taken is reduced by 10%.
Improved Soul Rending	Leech provided by Soul Rending is increased by 2%, and an additional 2% while in Void Metamorphosis.
Blind Focus	All Cosmic damage increased. This effect is doubled during Void Metamorphosis.
Burning Blades	Your Reap/ Cull, Voidblade/ Pierce the Veil, Throw Glaive, and auto-attacks deal additional damage as Cosmic over 6 seconds.
Violent Transformation	When you cast your Void Metamorphosis ability, the cooldown of Voidblade and The Hunt are immediately reset.
Enduring Torment	While not in Void Metamorphosis form, your Mastery: Monster Within is increased.
Undying Embers	Your Soul Immolation effect has a chance to reignite when it expires.
Untethered Fury	Your maximum Fury is increased by 20.
Student of Suffering	Void Ray grants Student of Suffering for 6 seconds, increasing your Mastery and generating 5 Fury every 2 seconds.
Flamebound	Hungering Slash has a 2-yard increased radius and a 50% increased Critical Strike damage bonus.
Monster Rising	Your Intellect is increased by 8% while not in Void Metamorphosis form.
Volatile Instinct	Entering Void Metamorphosis causes your next Voidsurge to trigger again after a short delay.
Demonic Intensity	Casting your Void Metamorphosis greatly empowers your The Hunt, turning it into Predator's Wake. Additionally, Voidsurge damage is increased by 10% for 15 seconds for each time it was previously triggered during this instance of demon form. The Hunt has a separated cooldown from Predator's Wake, and will continue to countdown while inside of Void Metamorphosis.

These are the core skills you will gain access to during the Devourer leveling process and form the core gameplay loop.

Ability	Abbreviation	Description/Effect
Consume	-	A cosmic damage ability and your main resource generator for all builds. This generates fury baseline, and can be cast while moving.
Reap	-	An instant cast spell with an 8s cooldown, dealing Cosmic damage. This will also collect up to four Soul Fragments you have on the ground.
Throw Glaive	TG	Deals light Physical damage to your target and bounces to a nearby enemy. Free to cast, with a 9-second cooldown (reduced by Haste).
Blur	-	Reduces all incoming damage by 25% for 10 seconds, with a 1-minute cooldown.
Disrupt	Kick	Interrupts your target and, if successful, locks them out of the interrupted spell school for 5 seconds. Has a 15-second cooldown.
Torment	Taunt	Taunts your target, forcing yourself to the top of their threat table, causing them to attack you for 6 seconds. It has an 8-second cooldown and 30-yard range.
Spectral Sight	-	Allows you to see through walls, highlighting enemies, treasures, and similar things in bright colors for 8 seconds. Any damage taken or loss of control applied will end the effect, and has a 30-second cooldown.
Mastery: Monster Within	-	Devourer Mastery stat. Increases all Cosmic damage you deal based on your rating. It's power is more than doubled inside of Void Metamorphosis.
Shift	-	A targeted dash which moves you to your target location within 30 yards. It has a 20s cooldown. Important to note, this is not a teleport, and you will take damage from anything you pass through.
Double Jump	-	Allows you to double-tap your jump key to trigger a second jump while airborne.
Glide	-	Allows you to triple-tap your jump key (or use it while already airborne) to initiate a glide, slowing your fall rate and propelling you slowly forward. This can be used as a situational tool to generate forward momentum. Vengeful Retreat stops this from being activated for 1 second after a cast, so you cannot link them together on even ground.
Chaos Brand	Brand	Upon dealing damage to a target, applies a permanent 3% magic damage taken increase from all sources. This effect has a reduced 15-second duration in PvP combat.
Demonic Wards	-	Reduces all Magic damage taken by 10% at all times.
Shattered Souls	-	Every time you damage an enemy, you have a chance to shatter a Soul Fragment. Each Soul Fragment will grant you 4 Fury and heal you for a small amount when collected.
Grim Focus	-	Your Fury drain slows significantly during Void Metamorphosis when out of combat, or under the effects of a crowd control effect.

To help break the talent trees into more manageable chunks, we have grouped abilities into active and passive effects, and separated them into Class and Specialization tree offerings. If you would like to know more about which of these talents to select for your own Devourer Demon Hunter, refer to the builds and talents page of our guide.

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Devourer Demon Hunter Class Tree

Active Abilities Passive Effects

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Demon Hunter Tree Active Abilities

Ability	Abbreviation	Description/Effect
Vengeful Retreat	VR	Removes all snares when cast, vaults you back 15 yards, and deals a small amount of Physical damage around you. Has a 25-second cooldown.
Voidblade	VBlade	Deals moderate Cosmic damage to your target. If you are out of melee range, this will charge you up to 25 yards toward them. It has a 30-second cooldown and also has a 0.5-second GCD. This talent is augmented by multiple talents in the Devourer tree.
Sigil of Misery	SoM	Places a sigil on the ground that detonates after 2 seconds, disorienting any enemies hit for 15 seconds when it goes off. Any damage taken will end the effect, and has a 2-minute cooldown.
Imprison	-	Incapacitates the targeted demon, beast, or humanoid for 1 minute. Limited to 1 imprisonment, and any damage taken cancels the effect. 45-second cooldown and 20-yard range.
Void Nova	Nova	Deals light Void damage to your target and nearby enemies around them, stunning targets hit for 3 seconds. It has a 45-second cooldown.
Consume Magic	-	Removes 1 beneficial magic effect from your target. Has a 30-yard range and 10-second cooldown.
Darkness	-	Creates a pool of darkness at your feet for 8 seconds, causing any damage dealt to you or any ally stood within to have a 15% chance to miss. 8-yard radius and 5-minute cooldown. Chance to avoid damage increased to 30% when not in a raid group.

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Demon Hunter Tree Passive Effects

Ability	Abbreviation	Description/Effect
Vengeful Bonds	-	Causes Vengeful Retreat to also reduce the movement speed of all enemies hit by 70% for 3 seconds.
Unrestrained Fury	-	Increases your maximum Fury by 20.
Shattered Restoration	-	Increases the healing done by all Shattered Souls by 10%.
Improved Sigil of Misery	-	Reduces the cooldown of Sigil of Misery by 30 seconds.
Bouncing Glaives	-	Causes Throw Glaive to ricochet to an additional target.
Charred Warblades	-	You heal for 3% of all Fire damage you deal. The only Fire damage Devourer deals is to itself with Soul Immolation.
Improved Disrupt	-	Increases the range of Disrupt to 10 yards.
Aldrachi Design	-	Increases your parry chance by 3%.
Focused Ire	-	Casting Chaos Nova will stun your current target for an additional 2 seconds.
Master of the Glaive	MotG	Grants Throw Glaive a second charge and cause targets hit by the ability to be slowed by 50% for 6 seconds. This also applies to Reaver's Glaive.
Champion of the Glaive	CotG	Grants Throw Glaive a second charge increases its range by 10 yards. This also applies to Reaver's Glaive.
Disrupting Fury	-	Successfully interrupting a target with Disrupt generates 30 Fury.
Blazing Path	-	Your Shift gains an additional charge.
Swallowed Anger	-	Successfully removing a beneficial Magic effect from a target with Consume Magic generates Fury.
Aura of Pain	-	Soul Immolation grants 5 additional Fury over its duration. This causes it to generate 6 Fury every second.
Live by the Glaive	-	When you parry an attack or have one of your own parried, restore 2% of your maximum health and generate 10 Fury. This effect has a 5-second internal cooldown.
Pursuit	-	Causes your Mastery also to increase your Movement speed based on rating.
Soul Rending	SR	Grants 5/10% Leech, increased to 10/20% while in Void Metamorphosis.
Felfire Haste	-	Casting Shift also increases your movement speed by 10% for 8 seconds.
Infernal Armor	-	Soul Immolation also increases your Armour by 10/20%, and causes melee attackers to take light Fire damage when striking you.
Burn It Out	-	Soul Immolation also removes 1 Disease effect from you when cast.
Soul Cleanse	-	Soul Immolation also removes 1 Curse effect from you when cast.
Lost in Darkness	-	Spectral Sight has a 5-second reduced cooldown.
Illidari Knowledge	-	Reduces all Magic damage taken by an additional 3/6%.
Guile	-	Increases the range of Voidblade, Consume Magic, and Disrupt by an additional 20 yards.
Will of the Illidari	-	Increases your maximum health by 3/6%.
Internal Struggle	-	Increases your Mastery by 2%.
Furious	-	Attacks and abilities that generate Fury deal 3% increased damage. This only buffs Consume, and either Reap or Voidblade, depending on your choice in the Spec Tree.
Remorseless	-	Attacks and abilities that spend Fury deal 3% increased damage. This only buffs Void Ray and Hungering Slash.
First In, Last Out	-	Casting Shift grants a small shield, which rapidly decays over the next few seconds.
Erratic Felheart	-	Reduces the cooldown of Shift by 1/2 seconds.
Final Breath	-	Fully channelling Void Ray increases the damage of its final tick by 300%.
Demon Muzzle	-	Interrupting a spell with Disrupt reduces all magic damage you take by 15% for 12 seconds.
Soul Splitter	-	Any time you generate Soul Fragments, you have a 2/4% chance to generate an additional Soul.
Wings of Wrath	-	Your Glide speed is increased by 10%.
Long Night	-	Increases the duration of Darkness by 3 seconds.
Pitch Black	-	Reduces the cooldown of Darkness by 2 minutes.
Demonic Resilience	-	Your Blur gains an additional charge.

Similar to the class tree, we have broke Devourer specific talents down into active and passive tools. These are much more important, and have a significant impact on the overall playstyle. If you would like recommendations on how to build your tree, refer to the builds on our talents page.

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Devourer Demon Hunter Spec Tree

Active Abilities Passive Effects

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Devourer Tree Active Abilities

Ability	Abbreviation	Description/Effect
Void Ray	Vray	Deals heavy Cosmic damage to all enemies 25 yards in front of you in a line, dealing reduced damage above 5 targets. This can be used once you have 100 Fury, and will drain 100 Fury over 3 seconds (reduced by Haste) while channeling.
Soul Immolation	Immo	Deal minor Fire damage to yourself, and generate 30 Fury and 3 Soul Fragments over 5s, on a 1-minute cooldown. This is one of Devourer's primary resource generators.
Void Metamorphosis	VMeta	Your main cooldown, transforming you into a Demon, greatly increasing your damage. This can be used after collecting 50 Soul Fragments, and lasts until you run out of Fury. The rate at which you lose Fury increases the longer you're transformed. In this form, the following changes: Consume becomes Devour. This casts faster, deals more damage, and reduces the cooldown of Cull when cast. Reap becomes Cull, increasing its damage. Void Ray deals more damage, pauses your fury drain, no longer costs Fury. Instead, it has a 14-second cooldown, reduced by Haste. Your Mastery: Monster Within more than doubles in power. Your Fury bar is filled. You gain access to Collapsing Star, if talented.
Collapsing Star	Cstar	While inside of Void Metamorphosis, every 30 Soul Fragments you collect grants you the ability to cast Collapsing Star. This deals heavy damage, increased to your primary target, but is reduced at 8 or more. While casting, your Fury drain is paused.
Hungering Slash	HS/Hslash	After using Voidblade or The Hunt, your Voidblade is replaced with Hungering Slash for 6 seconds. Hungering Slash deals Cosmic damage in an 8 yard radius around you, generates 10 Fury, and shatters 2 Soul Fragments. Additionally, it grants a free charge of Vengeful Retreat, and causes your next Vengeful Retreat to deal additional cosmic damage in an 8 yard radius around you.
The Hunt	Hunt	Charges up to 50 yards to your target after a 1-second cast, dealing heavy Cosmic damage to your primary target, while also applying a Cosmic damage DoT to your target and up to 5 enemies in your path. Has a 1.5-minute cooldown.

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Devourer Passive Effects

Ability	Abbreviation	Description/Effect
Predator's Thirst	-	Increases the damage of Consume/ Devour and causes it to always shatter a Soul Fragment. This can still proc Shattered Souls.
Tempered Soul	-	Grants Soul Immolation an additional charge, and reduces its cooldown to 30s.
Spontaneous Immolation	-	Replaces Soul Immolation with a passive proc, giving each of your abilities a 5% chance to proc a Soul Immolation. This removes the ability from your spell book, and is a flat proc chance on each ability used rather than a RPPM system.
Feast of Souls	-	Each Soul Fragment you consume increases your damage done by 1% for 6 seconds. Multiple applications of this buff can stack, with each stack having its own independent timer.
Scythe's Embrace	-	Causes Reap to generate 10 Fury when used. This will cause Reap to be buffed by Furious.
Duty Eternal	DE	Voidblade generates 20 Fury when used, and also deals 100% increased damage.
Moment of Craving	MoC	After fully channelling Void Ray, the cooldown of Reap is reset, and your next Reap will collect up to 6 additional Soul Fragments. This means it will now collect up 10 Soul Fragments in total.
Gift of the Void	-	Increases your Critical Strike by 2%. This is not affected by diminishing returns.
Entropy	-	You now spawn 1 Soul Fragment on the ground every 8s while inside of combat.Additionally, you generate 1 Soul Fragment a second outside of combat, up to 25. When entering boss combat or starting a mythic keystone, you are automatically set to 25 Soul Fragments.
Waste Not	-	Damage from Void Ray has a 100% increased chance to generate a Soul Fragment. This doubles the chance to generate a Fragment, and turns Void Ray into one of your best soul generators.
Soulshaper	-	Each Soul Fragment collected by Reap increases its damage done by 8%.
Singed Spirit	-	Soul Immolation generates 12 additional Fury over its duration. This causes it to generate an additional 2 Fury every 0.5s
Sweet Suffering	-	The duration of each stack of Feast of Souls is increased by 2s (1 Point)/4s (2 Points).
Second Helping	-	Reap gains an additional charge.
Umbral Blade	-	Causes Reap to have a hasted cooldown.
Improved Consume	-	Improves the damage of Consume/ Devour by 15%, and causes it to have a 0.25s reduced cast time.
Sweet Release	-	Increases the chance that Shattered Souls generates a Soul Fragment by 2%/4%.
Voidpurge	-	The cooldown of Void Ray is reduced by 2s while inside of Void Metamorphosis. This brings it down to a 12s cooldown, reduced by Haste.
Voidrage	-	Increases your Mastery: Monster Within by 2%/4%. This is not affected by stat diminishing returns.
Soulforged Blades	-	Your Voidblade and Hungering Slash have a 15% increased chance to Critically Strike.
Singular Strikes	-	Voidblade deals 25% increased damage. Additionally, Hungering Slash deals 50% increased damage to your primary target.
Demonic Instinct	-	The damage of Void Ray and Hungering Slash is increased by 10% (1 Point)/ 20% (2 Points).
Devourer's Edge	-	The damage of Consume/ Devour and Reap/ Cull is increased by 10% (1 Point)/ 20% (2 Points).
Voidglare Boon	-	Fully channeling Void Ray generates 10 Fury.
Rolling Torment	RT	When you exit Void Metamorphosis, you generate 5 fury and gain a 0.5% damage done buff for 12 seconds for each Soul Fragment you collected inside of Void Metamorphosis which did not get turned into a Collapsing Star. This counts based on the stacks of Soul Fragments you have as Void Metamorphosis ends.
Voidrush	-	Voidblade and The Hunt now briefly pause your Fury drain inside of Void Metamorphosis. Additionally, casting Collapsing Star reduces the cooldown of Voidblade by 10 seconds.
Devourer's Bite	Dbite	When you damage your target with Voidblade or The Hunt, you leave a 10s debuff on the target which increases their damage taken from you by 12%. Multiple applications of this debuff can overlap, but each will have its own independent duration timer.
Impending Apocalypse	-	Collapsing Star deals 30% additional damage for each Collapsing Star you have previously cast in this instance of Void Metamorphosis. This counter will reset when you leave Void Metamorphosis.
Calamitous	-	Your damaging Critical Strikes now deal 240% damage, instead of 200% damage.
Star Fragments	-	Casting Collapsing Star now generates 3 Soul Fragments.
Emptiness	Empti	Each Soul Fragment you collect during Void Metamorphosis increases your Haste by 0.25%, up to 25% total. This is not affected by stat diminishing returns, ans is reset when you leave Void Metamorphosis.
Soul Glutton	SG	You now only need 35 Soul Framgents to enter Void Metamorphosis, but you start at a 25% higher rate of Fury drain.
Eradicate	Erad	When you fully channel Void Ray, your next Reap/ Cull is upgraded into Eradicate. Eradicate causes the affected spell to deal its damage as a 25 yard cone infont of you, dealing reduced damage beyond 5 targets. This is affected by any increase which would normally affect Reap or Cull

Since Devourer has a lot of synergistic effects within the tree, knowing how to manage your rotation in regular gameplay is essential. Trying to work out each interaction and priority can be difficult, but now you are equipped with the knowledge of what each thing does; so you can put it into practice using the details provided on the rotation page: