Stat Priorities
Stat Ranking
Intellect > Mastery > Haste >= Critical Strike >> Versatility
Stat Outline
Stat priorities will change depending on equipped gear and talent builds. Both hero trees want fairly balanced stats when fully geared.
Mastery: Monster Within provides a massive increase to Cosmic damage dealt, further increased inside Void Metamorphosis.
Haste increases spell casting speed, and importantly reduces the channel time of Void Ray. Haste lets you extend Void Metamorphosis for longer, and effectively reduces Void Metamorphosis’ cooldown by allowing more casts, and thus higher soul generation.
Critical Strike is a good stat for Devourer, due to Critical Strike amplifiers such as Calamitous and Midnight.
Versatility provides a flat Damage and Healing increase, while also providing Damage Reduction at half the value.
Races
Demon Hunter has three playable races: Blood Elf, Night Elf and Void Elf.
The damage output between the races is more or less identical, so feel free to play whichever race you prefer.
Shadowmeld is a powerful tool in Mythic+, making Night Elf very strong.
Void Elf provides a great mobility tool which can prove useful in raid encounters.
Blood Elf has an AoE purge with Arcane Torrent, which is only really used in niche situations.
Enchants
Head: Enchant Helm - Empowered Rune Of Avoidance
Shoulders: Enchant Shoulders - Amirdrassil's Grace
Chest: Enchant Chest - Mark Of The Worldsoul
Legs: Sunfire Silk Spellthread
Boots: Enchant Boots - Lynx's Dexterity
Rings: Enchant Ring - Eyes Of The Eagle
Weapon: 2x Enchant Weapon - Rite Of The Hash'ey
Note: Always sim your own character to get a clearer picture on which enchants and gems to choose.
Gems
Indecipherable Eversong Diamond is a unique gem that provides primary stat.
Powerful Eversong Diamond is another option. While it increases your Critical Strike effectiveness by 0.15% per unique gem colour, it grants less primary stat.
There are four gem colours, the best ones for Devourer are listed below:
- Best Amethyst gem: Flawless Quick Amethyst
- Best Peridot gem: Flawless Masterful Peridot
- Best Lapis gem: Flawless Masterful Lapis
- Best Garnet Gem: Flawless Masterful Garnet
Devourer wants to use a Powerful Eversong Diamond, combined with three different gem colors: an Amethyst (Purple/Mastery), Garnet (Orange/Critical Strike) and Peridot (Green/Haste). The rest of the sockets can be filled with Amethyst gems.
Note: You want to use gems that give 2 different secondary stats since they provide more stats than the single secondary stat gems.
Always sim your own character to get a clearer picture on which enchants and gems to choose.
Consumables
Food: Harandar Celebration or Royal Roast
Flasks: Flask Of The Magisters
Potions: Potion Of Recklessness or Liquid Luster
Health Potions: Concentrated Silvermoon Health Potion
Weapon Oil: 2x Thalassian Phoenix Oil
Runes: Void-Touched Augment Rune