Devourer Demon Hunter Midnight Playstyle and Rotation Guide

Devourer doesn’t have a set rotation, but follows a priority system, which can change in Void Metamorphosis.

• Void-Scarred
• Annihilator

Openers

Devourer doesn’t have a set opener due to not being able to cast Void Metamorphosis instantly. However, I’ve provided examples of how an opener should look like in the beginning of an encounter.

Void-Scarred:

1. Cast Consume 1 second before pull
2. Cast Consume until you have 46 souls
3. Reap if it gives enough souls to grant access to Void Metamorphosis
4. Voidblade
5. The Hunt
6. Void Metamorphosis + On-use trinket + Tempered Potion
7. Cull
8. Void Ray
9. Cull
10. Reaper's Toll
11. Vengeful Retreat
12. Pierce The Veil
13. Reaper's Toll
14. Cull
15. Vengeful Retreat
16. Predator's Wake
17. Reaper's Toll
18. Vengeful Retreat
19. Devour
20. Devour
21. Cull

Annihilator:

1. Cast Consume 1 second before pull
2. Cast Consume until 100 Fury or 3 stacks of Voidfall
3. Reap at 3 stacks of Voidfall
4. Void Ray
5. Repeat
6. Reap if it gives enough souls for Void Metamorphosis
7. Void Metamorphosis
8. Cull to proc Voidfall
9. Void Ray
10. Cull
11. Devour
12. Devour
13. Cull
14. Collapsing Star when available

Core Gameplay

Soul Fragments are a core part of Devourer’s gameplay loop, they generate Fury, increase damage done through Feast Of Souls, and grant access to Void Metamorphosis.

Consume generates Fury and Soul Fragments, and can be cast while moving.

Reap is an instant cast ability that collects souls from the ground.

The general gameplay loop outside Void Metamorphosis revolves around generating Fury and souls with Consume, and then spending Fury on Void Ray. Hungering Slash is another tool for generating resources, but currently only gets picked for Void-Scarred builds.

Inside Void Metamorphosis the goal is to keep generating Fury, while getting off as many Collapsing Star, and empowered ability casts off as possible. Void Ray should be pressed on cooldown, if possible.

Since both Void Ray and Collapsing Star have long cast times and require you to stand still when casting, they can be quite punishing. Being positionally aware, and using Shift proactively is important. If cancelled, Collapsing Star doesn’t refund the 30 souls, therefore being an enormous damage loss.

Defensives

Devourer has solid survivability with two Blur charges, passive self-healing with Soul Rending and consuming souls, and passive magic damage reduction in Demonic Wards.

Demon Hunters have access to Darkness, which historically isn’t the best raid defensive cooldown due to the RNG nature of it. However, with Midnight introducing more rot damage encounters than what we’ve seen in recent times, Darkness becomes slightly stronger, as the likelihood of it proccing is higher when there’s more damage events happening.