Devourer DPS

Classes Demon Hunter
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My ilvl is decent. I’m doing +10s where everything has enough health to kinda live for a little while…but my damage doesn’t seem to be there.

I don’t have four piece yet, but I can’t imagine it being the difference maker.

In a 12 pit last night, I finished up at 85k overall, with an ele shaman at 120k overall being the highest. It was a scuffed run that we barely timed, but that is a serious gap. Seems that I usually don’t have meta until the first pull is half finished or better most runs. How much of this is user error?

Consume until I can void ray, reap, keep doing those things til I can meta. CS into reap into eye beam into reap then consume spam until CS rinse/repeat. Are yall holding Meta between pulls? I typically just send it.

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It’s pretty normal not to have Meta for the first pull of the dungeon. I almost always hold Meta for the 2nd pull.

The thing about Devourer is that you want to send your Void Meta when people are not using their CDs.

You rely on ramped damage and sticking to packs for a somewhat long time in order to do your potential damage.

If you are sending your CDs with other people on a 10, you will naturally not do as much damage as they do.

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At a quick glance of the PoS log, you’re casting reap/cull way too much which means you aren’t going to be generating as many souls/voidfall stacks. You also have an agi only trinket on

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Yea fixed the trinket this morning. So reap after eyebeam and consume more? Oh derp…yea fishing for stacks. That was an insanely helpful tip tysm <3

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Yeah 85k is pretty low.

Your “meta opener” has two slight variations.

If you go into it with about 85 or less fury then you wanna meta-> void ray-> cstar->erad(first vray always gives voidfall) then you just follow that same priority.

If your fury is above 85 i would suggest void raying before meta to smuggle eradicate, in this case you cstar in meta first to not overcap souls, then eradicate then void ray then eradicate into a second near instant cstar, then go back to normal priority.

Also, if you dont like the ramp on the first pull (especially lust pulls like windrunner) you can run regular soul immolation and double pop it before pull starts, just understand you will get less value later in the run.

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The bottom line with reap is it doesn’t generate souls, it only collects them. If you reap over consume you’re down net 2 souls long term and this adds up.

The only times you press reap are.

  1. If moment of craving is about to expire
  2. When you have voidfall
  3. If doing so will net you an extra star thanks to the short term soul / fury gain from collection.
  4. In AoE to eradicate if the mobs will die before you meet the above conditions.
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This is what I’ve been running. The rule for soul immolation is press it on cd outside meta / between pulls. It’s basically never worth inside meta at all. Even if that means leaving both charges off cd.

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I just did this pull in an 11 on my DH.

My gear isn’t great for 258 ilvl. No 4 piece and still using 259 weapons but I was able to finish it at 450k dps and was fully rolling in meta within a couple seconds. Was still climbing on damage too, mobs just died before I could get a 4th star.

130k overall for the key.