Seriously… Meta is just a blue color swap of Havoc’s meta. There’s no customization yet. Consume looks like the lamest spell in all of existence. The idle combat animation is non-existent, seriously it’s just the unarmed animation.
It’s like they slapped a bit of blue paint on some skills and kicked it out of the factory half baked.
I agree it hasn’t been fully realized yet, but there’s some aspects of it that are good.
Yeah I’m not saying it’s all bad it’s just not what I would call “Quality”.
To me it’s like a pseudo caster that’s a melee wannabe. I’d like to see some more aoe spells.
Yeah. They just need to brush up on the animations. It’s lacking some serious polish.
Melee talents portion needs a complete redesign, it’s just poor man’s havoc and the hero spec designed for it doesn’t even like taking melee talents. I think anni and caster portion is fine though.
No one cares about that crap. It cranks.
The concept is cool. The implementation needs some work.
Half baked is Blizzards motto.
The entire history of WoW disagrees, lol.
On top of all of that it’s one of the most frustrating and punishing specs to play in the entire game. It actually incentivizes you to ignore mechanics, chain pull instead of the tank and other bad behavior because otherwise you take a big DPS loss. It’s also perhaps the squishiest spec in the game. I have no idea why they thought a ramp spec would be good in this current state of the game. It’s mind boggling.
“We’ll fix it later™”
??? 
IDK but yesterday I saw a Demon Hunter in Voidstorm accidently glide into the abyss. I watched him jump and glide and jump and glide trying to fix his mistake and then he gave up turned around and glided away till his target dropped and I couldn’t see him anymore.
(dead)
I didn’t laugh not once.
If there was one class that was described as “doesn’t get good till max level”, it would be Devourer. Until you get the instant Collapsing Star with Meta Devourer is just terrible to play
I think I played it for 20 minutes and logged off. It’s so boring
It is. I can’t think of another squishy spec or class that has such a terrible defensive spell. The whole spec is a disaster right now.
To get your entire rotation in Meta off requires you to stand still for a total of about 8 seconds. If you don’t stand still and fail to complete your cast of Collapsing Star you’re hit with a 5 second cooldown on CS. This was done to prevent people from purposely cancelling the cast to stay in Meta (this shows you just how fundamentally half baked the spec is).
If you’re planning on playing devourer in high level content your choices are:
It’ll be in a working state one day. Maybe next expansion.
The entire point to Devourer is so that Demon Hunters can have both the extremely frenetic, complex spec (Havoc’s basic rotation is 12 abilities deep) and an easy to pick up, low skill ceiling spec (Devourer has either 4 or 5 abilities in it’s rotation depending on your timing) for the people who don’t want that.
The spec has lots of issues but this is absolutely not one of them. Has a 16% passive magic DR and 2 charges of a 25% DR defensive on a 1 minute cooldown as well as powerful leech, it’s not even close to being a squishy spec.
Devourer just feels bad to play with low haste.