WoW: Devastation Demon Hunter DpS Guide (Update for 9.2.5)

WoW: Devastation Demon Hunter DpS Guide (Update for 9.1)

Source: buffed

Here are the changes from WoW patch 9.1:

• DEMON HUNTER
  • The Soul Ripper talent now increases Lifesteal by 10% (up from 5%) and an additional 20% (up from 25%) while Metamorphosis is active.
  • Fixed a bug that prevented the Night Fae ability The Hunt from hitting cloaked enemies on the way to the target.
  • Fixed a bug that prevented Imprison from being used on targets immune to Charm effects.
  • Fixed a bug that caused Demon Bite, Shear, and Fracture to generate 25% more irascibility for 30 seconds after using the Night Fae ability The Hunt when attacking marked targets.
  • devastation
    • Demon Bite damage increased by 15%.
    • Demon Blades talent damage increased by 15%.
    • Chaos Strike damage increased by 15%.
    • Annihilation damage increased by 15%.
    • Chaos Unleashed talent now increases the damage of your next Fel Rush by 500% (was 600%).
    • Netherwalk talent duration increased to 6 seconds (was 5 seconds).
    • The Emergency Instincts talent now triggers Blur with 50% reduced duration and 50% reduced cooldown when you fall below 35% health.
    • Unnatural Malice Medium now increases the damage over time effect of Night Fae ability The Hunt (was initial damage against the primary target).
    • Fixed a bug that was preventing the Relentless Charge medium’s second hit from triggering the Vicious Circle talent and its Fury refund.

Here are the only two changes from Patch 9.2:

• The Venthyr ability Sinful Brand can no longer be overwritten by a shorter duration of Sinful Brand when applied via metamorphosis.
• The Legendary Blind Faith now grants a maximum of 20% Versatility.

This is how powerful the Devastation Demon Hunter is in 9.2.5

While the revenge colleagues are among the best tanks in the Shadowlands expansion from launch day, the devastation demon hunter had a hard time at the beginning. The question now is: How positive are the various buffs in Patch 9.1 for the offensive style of play? And what else does the specialization offer? We’ll tell you!

solo
When it comes to questing and farming, there is hardly an opponent that Devastation demon hunters have to fear. Thanks to the good self-healing, your high mobility and the defensive and offensive cooldowns, you can easily take on stronger opponents. If necessary, you briefly switch to vengeance to knock out elite monsters who are harder to hit. Incidentally, in Torghast there are several anima strategies for devastators that allow you to have a lot of fun runs. We are thinking here of the almost infinite and extremely hard ticking firebrand aura or your eye beam, which you can knock out over and over again while you are immune to damage. In combination with your fantastic mobility, you can almost fly through the corridors of the tower.

dungeons

In the mythical dungeons of the Shadowlands, the Ravager is one of the more popular ways to play in patch 9.2. Thanks to his Chaos Brand, spellcasters deal 5 percent more magic damage. In addition, there are various, flexible cooldowns with short cooldown times, the chaos nova area stun, consume magic, interrupt, the emergency darkness, the high mobility and the very good (burst) damage against one or more targets. Compared to last season, however, some other classes are now much more popular.

raid
In the current Raid Mausoleum of the First, the Devastation Demon Hunter continues to cut a pretty decent figure. On the normal level of difficulty, he lands in the middle of the field across all bosses (14th place), it looks a little better on heroic (8th place). On Mythic, the offensive demon hunter hardly excels either. Here he is one of the average strong damage dealers (13th place).

PvP
Very high mobility, good burst damage, control skills, interrupt, dispell – you might think that WoW’s PvP was made for havoc demon hunters. Unfortunately, the windows in which they can deal high damage are quite predictable. They also lost good PvP talents like Manariss with Patch 9.1. It is therefore easier to achieve high ratings with other classes. But you can still have fun with your Devastation Demon Hunter in PvP.

About our author

This guide was written by Karsten “Creep” Scholz. Karsten has been actively playing WoW since Classic and loves to roam around in the raid challenges and PvP battlegrounds of Azeroth. He has been playing his villain since 2005, otherwise he prefers to go around the house with his demon hunter.