Devourer Demon Hunter PvP Rotation and Playstyle — Midnight Pre-Patch (12.0)

Devourer Demon Hunter has one primary role when in an Arena match: do damage. Players should focus on maximizing their damage as much as they can. With strong mobility, you should be able to stay on a target for most of the game. Use your strong, consistent damage to force cooldowns and then punish the enemy team by using your offensive abilities.

Have a plan for who you will be mainly using your crowd control on. Devourer Demon Hunters have powerful crowd control with Imprison, Sigil of Misery, and Void Nova.

If the enemy team has a class that can stealth, use Spectral Sight to see them in stealth and disrupt their opener.

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.

Below is your typical burst sequence. Ideally, you will burst when the enemy healer is crowd controlled by yourself or your teammate.

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.

As of now, Collapsing Star is NOT viable in PvP due to the bugged interaction it has with CC. Anything that cancels the cast will consume the souls and remove your ability to cast it again.

Sustained damage is damage you do when your burst cooldowns are not available. You will have two priorities depending on if you are in Void Metamorphosis or not.

The first priority we will cover is when you are outside of Void Metamorphosis 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./li>
3. Next in priority is Vengeful Retreat with Voidstep from Hungering Slash./li>
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. And with the Beckon buff you will cast your instant Consume

The second priority assumes that you have collected your souls and are now in Void Metamorphosis. Similar to Havoc, during Void Metamorphosis Reap is replaced by Cull, Hungering Slash becomes Reaper's Toll, Voidblade turns into Pierce the Veil, The Hunt becomes Predator's Wake, and Consume becomes Devour.

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. Our highest priority is always Cull if you have 5+ souls.
2. After that we have Void Ray./li>
3. Next in priority is Vengeful Retreat with Voidstep from Reaper's Toll./li>
4. If everything else on cooldown you will use Pierce the Veil.
5. After that is Reaper's Toll.
6. Then you have Predator's Wake. This is a lower priority because it does not generate Fury.
7. Then you will cast Devour IF you have 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.

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.

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 attack from range.

It is advised to use Macros to use abilities on enemies or allies without having to target them. For this reason, we have a page dedicated to them.