Devourer Demon Hunter PvP Rotation and Playstyle — Midnight (12.0.1)

The opener refers to your team's opening crowd control chain and damage done as soon as you get out of the gates. The main goal in the opener is to force your enemies to use their cooldowns. If the enemy healer uses their trinket in the opener, they are in trouble. In the opener, Devourer Demon Hunters should focus on sticking to an enemy and dealing large amounts of damage to the target.

Your opening burst will be fairly weak as you don't have access to Void Metamorphosis immediately out the games

1. Use The Hunt to proc Hungering Slash.
2. Use Hungering Slash.
3. Use Vengeful Retreat. After Hungering Slash, Vengeful Retreat is empowered.
4. Use Voidblade to proc Hungering Slash again.
5. Use Hungering Slash.
6. Use Vengeful Retreat.
7. Use Reap to trigger Beckon.
8. Use Consume and alternate between Reap and Consume until you reach 100 Fury.
9. Use Void Ray at 100 Fury.

This list serves as your sustained damage rotation priority.

Sustained damage is damage you do when your burst cooldowns are not available. You will have two priorities depending on your hero talents.

The priority will cover when you are outside of Void Metamorphosis as Void-Scarred and are working to building 35 or 50 souls depending on your talents.

1. Our highest priority is always Voidblade as this is how we trigger Hungering Slash.
2. After that we have Void Ray when you have at least 100 Fury.
3. Next in priority is Vengeful Retreat with Voidstep from Hungering Slash.
4. After that is Hungering Slash. You want to always prioritize your procs and Void Ray over Hungering Slash.
5. Then you will cast Reap to trigger Beckon
6. Use Soul Immolation to generate souls.
7. With the Beckon buff you will cast your instant Consume

This second priority will cover when you are outside of Void Metamorphosis as Annihilator and are working to building 35 or 50 souls depending on your talents.

1. Our highest priority is always Void Ray to stack Voidfall. Note that this can stack Voidfall over the 3 stack cap.
2. Next is Reap when it will proc Voidfall.
3. Use Soul Immolation to generate souls.
4. After that is Consume with a Beckon proc.
5. Use Voidblade.
6. Finally, you have Consume with no Beckon proc.

Below is your typical burst sequence. Ideally, you will burst when the enemy healer is crowd controlled by yourself or your teammate. This assumes you are now in Void Metamorphosis.

Void Metamorphosis has infinite duration as long as you can maintain your Fury. Your goals will be to generate as much Fury as possible using Cull to grab your souls to constantly replenish your Fury.

1. With Void-Scarred you want to always use Predator's Wake first.
2. Then use Reaper's Toll to proc Voidsurge.
3. After that use Pierce the Veil.
4. Into another Reaper's Toll.
5. You want to avoid using Void Ray as this slows down your Fury drain and your goal should be to exit Meta as fast as possible to get to the next Voidsurge burst.

Below is your typical burst sequence as Annihilator. Ideally, you will burst when the enemy healer is crowd controlled by yourself or your teammate. This assumes you are now in Void Metamorphosis.

1. Our highest priority is always Collapsing Star since we want to fit in as many as we can during our Meta windows.
2. Then you have Cull if you have 5+ souls on the ground.
3. After that we have Void Ray. This will help you stack Voidfall
4. Use Soul Immolation to generate souls.
5. Then you will cast Devour. Ideally with a Beckon proc from Cull.

Blur is your main defensive cooldown. This reduces the overall damage done to you. On a 1-minute cooldown, this is very powerful and should be used when your healer is struggling to keep you alive or is in crowd control.

Given that you have two charges of Blur, you can use it when the enemy uses cooldowns. This will line up with almost every go in the game, which should simplify the usage.

Darkness is a great defensive for not only yourself but also for your teammates. If the enemy team is using their offensive cooldowns on a teammate that has no defensive abilities left, using Darkness where they are could help keep them alive.

Darkness is a team defensive, meaning you get the most value when it can protect both you and a teammate. Darkness should only be used for yourself when you don't have any Blur charges left or you know Blur will not be enough.

Vengeful Retreat can be used in times when you will need to run away from the enemy team. This lets you get distance, and you can still do damage given your 25-50 yard range on most abilities.

With the Glimpse talent, Vengeful Retreat becomes one of your strongest defensive abilities, making you immune to crowd control and granting damage reduction while you are in the air. With practice, you can extend this duration for several seconds by using Glide.

One of the most common and highest value uses of Imprison is peeling during the enemy's offensive cooldowns.

When you see an enemy commit their cooldowns, you can immediately use Imprison on them.

This can buy your team critical time to recover, especially if you do not have defensives available.

You can also use it aggressively to secure a win by using Imprison on the healer when you have damage.

Sigil of Misery is one of your most flexible tools. It can be used defensively to peel for your team during enemy cooldowns or offensively to set up a kill window on a target. Knowing when to use it effectively is key to maximizing its value.

Because it is a disorient, you need to track diminishing returns carefully. When playing with classes that rely heavily on disorients to win, like Balance Druids, you may not want to fear the healer. Overlapping DRs in these situations can waste your CC and reduce your overall chance of winning.

Be intentional with Sigil of Misery. Proper planning and timing matter far more than simply casting it whenever it is available.

The most basic way to use Void Nova is to press it when you actually have damage available. Most of the time, that means pairing it with your Meta window so you can stun the healer and push your cooldowns. If your teammate already has the healer crossed, though, then you can use Void Nova on the DPS instead.

You do need to be careful when you use Void Nova on DPS. If the healer is not crossed, the debuff can just be dispelled. If the healer is in line of sight and not in crowd control, you should fully expect your stun to get removed.

Just like Imprison, Void Nova can also be used defensively. This is a bit more advanced because giving up your stun makes it harder to set up kills, but it can absolutely save the game. Any time you see the enemy team about to secure a win condition, Void Nova can be used to completely deny it.