Did not do the beta, just started a Devourer DH yesterday sitting at level 24 and find it to be extremely weak. It’s squishy and has about as much survive-ability as the worst of the cloth wearers. Healing is virtually nil, damage is worse than Vengeance and it takes forever to get the breath skill up or metamorphosis. Am I off on this and does it get better later on because I’m at the point of dropping this.
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Not sure. I’m still leveling mine. But, I think it may be part of the decision to draw a new baseline. You know, one where healing feels more important, you see mana bars move, and stuff like that. That’s what some youtuber was saying, anyway.
shrug
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Survivability is pretty bad at low level. You pull 3 mobs and you are 95% dead.
In the Fel Hammer (DH discord) they recommended haste as a good stat to increase, so I made sure all the heirlooms have haste and it does make a bit of a difference.
Questing as a DDH is really slow
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My DHADHD brain couldn’t handle it ao on my baby DH I went Havoc by level 12.
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It’s a really bad spec and doesn’t really improve at higher levels.
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worst they dont do dmg as an low level….
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Survivability is horrible in crowded areas. I could tell it was an issue just going through the tutorial and frankly i think they’ve seriously undertuned all specs but this one feels particularly bad.
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I found at around 30, I’m seeing an increase of damage
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There’s a tutorial?
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Well, I have lowbie Hunter too. And the be honest, damage isn’t great there either. One Aimed shot and one arcane shot used to kill things. Now it takes more. So, it might just be a scaling thing they’ll fix later.
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Sorry misspoke I meant the starter quests, nearly died which has never happened in the past.
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Oh yeah you know what I think I did leave that new zone early. 
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On my devourer, I saw the broken armor icon … on retail… That hasn’t happened since I started playing Wow.
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Well I think ill give it a rest until i see some changes. It feels like it doesn’t fit as a DPS and by no means a tank, In fact it’s closer to a healer that can’t heal lol.
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The entire spec is out of place. The balance was off in beta. It doesn’t feel good at all. The only positive I found in this spec was voidstep. You pick up power pellets until you fart. There is nothing to make the class unique from any other caster except limitations. For leveling, just go havoc and save yourself the pain.
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Spec came out yesterday and people think they’re playing it well enough to assert that it’s undertuned esp considering we’re in preseason when numbers aren’t real and get tweaked 10-70% every now and again that’s just whack
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Its bad at high levels too.
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I have been playing it since the opening of beta. Everything theyre saying is as true 80-90 as it is now.
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When it takes 3 minutes to kill a few mobs while leveling up versus 15 seconds for the same mobs as Havoc, hell yes it’s undertuned.
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Mine is still at a low level, but as I’m slowly killing vultures in Hellfire Peninsula (haven’t been there in a while, gotta make sacrifices when you have an army of alts), a fury warrior comes by and is doing probably twice as much damage as I am, at roughly the same level.
Not helping is the lack of weapons for a low level int-based DH.
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