Devourer Demon Hunter Gets Hit Hard in This Week’s PvP Nerfs

With scheduled weekly maintenance in each region, we’re doing some PvP tuning which will focus primarily on the Devourer Demon Hunter.

Player versus Player

Demon Hunter

• Developers’ notes: We’re applying several changes that were made to Devourer in the Beta, to reduce burst during pre-patch. These come along with an overall damage reduction to the specialization.
  • Fel-Scarred: Focused Hatred now increases Demonsurge damage by 10% (was 50%) when damaging a single target, reducing by 2% (was 10%) per additional target in PvP combat.
  • Fel-Scarred: Demonsurge damage reduced by 20% in PvP combat.
• Devourer
  • All damage reduced by 8% in PvP combat.
  • Consume damage increased by 100% in PvP combat. Does not affect Devour.
  • Devour damage increased by 30% in PvP combat.
  • Voidblade damage increased by 15% in PvP combat. Does not affect Pierce the Veil.
  • Void Ray damage increased by 30% in PvP combat.
  • Hungering Slash damage increased by 15% in PvP combat. Does not affect Reaper’s Toll.
  • Impending Apocalypse now increases the damage of your next Collapsing Star by 15% in PvP combat (was 30%).
  • Focused Ray now increases the damage of Void Ray by 15% in PvP combat (was 50%).
  • Inevitable End now reduces the cast time of Collapsing Star by 25% instead of increasing its damage done. Please note that the tooltip will not reflect this change during pre-patch.
  • Predator’s Wake damage reduced by 15% in PvP combat. This is the empowered The Hunt from Demonic Intensity.
  • Devourer’s Bite now increases the damage your target takes by 5% per application (was 12%).
  • Surrender to the Void now increases damage dealt while in Void Metamorphosis by 10% (was 20%).

Hunter

• Pack Leader: Boar Charge damage is now reduced by 50% in PvP combat.