They feel a bit vestigial. There’s only.. two?, skills that use them and the battle-ready stance for devourer is putting up their dukes. So.. idk, lets update some animations at least? Maybe they can channel their spells through the glaives? Just feels wrong somehow.
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They’re casters. Casters don’t use their weapons in this game.
From Blizzard:
“Introducing the Devourer Demon Hunter, a third specialization that utilizes the power of the Void instead of Fel, like other Demon Hunters. This glaive-wielding, soul-harvesting, and planet crushing spellcaster operates from mid-range with the full suite of mobility you’d expect from Demon Hunters. Use specialization and Hero Talents to augment your playstyle, enabling you to dive into melee and unleash devastating combo attacks.”
They don’t do that, and they’re never described as pure casters.
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They should just eat their Warglaives.
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They should just give them access to scythes. No reason not to. It fits with the spells and theme very well.
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Us elemental shammies get a really sick animation for Stormkeeper though.
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I agree… Devourer should cast their spells through their weapons… just imagine how much more enjoyable the spec would be if Consume launched blades of void energy from their warglaives instead of being a standard long cast… also, Throw Glaive should be more integral to their rotation…
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I think there should be a “hide warglaives” option or something… They feel totally pointless on Devourer. Or have them use the warglaives somehow.
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if you want them hidden.. just transmog them into a fist weapon… since they don’t even draw them for combat anyways, and fist weapons are hidden when sheathed… there you go hidden warglaive built right into the system already…
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Brilliant!
Thank you.
Personally, I’d prefer they used them… but since they currently don’t (sigh… just one more major fail on Blizzard’s part), I’ll just hide them…
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Good for him, but I’d rather see a defining feature of a class utilized, not hidden because the devs were too lazy to do anything with it.
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I still can’t believe we got Int warglaives before we got warglaive exclusivity for demon hunters ended.
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Yeah… warglaives need to be re-classified as just a type of sword.
So many playable races use warglaives (troll, night elf, high/blood/void elf, nightborne). They shouldn’t be a demon hunter only weapon…
OR
Make them like tier sets, where sometimes other classes can get the full non-tier set that looks identical.
Have some warglaive be DH only and others be up for anyone else to grab who can use one-handed swords.
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I don’t think Blizz would do that, but it would be awesome. Honestly a lot of animation needs to be refreshed. I just don’t understand why the glaives are dangling appendages.
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I’d just expand their equip proficiency to more classes, my picks being warrior, rogue, shaman, and hunter.
As you say, plenty of non-demon hunters use warglaives throughout WoW lore, particularly among elves and trolls, including night elven sentinels, blood elven spellbreakers, and troll shadowhunters. Those NPCs best correspond in my estimation to the above classes, who also all have the appropriate dual wielding capabilities.
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Just to point out… I already agreed with you just 2 posts earlier:
I was simply pointing out that if he wants to hide his glaives, that’s technically already possible with how the spec works… Obviously the most desired outcome is for the devs to actually make the spec utilize their glaives more…
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No, I know, lol. No offense intended.
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Yeah the visuals for Devourer are terrible. Consume looks like you’re watching someone else play a virtual reality game. Reap sends a tiny wave at the enemy (hits like the wave pool at waterpark, too). Soul Immolation is a weak baby blue squiggly line around the DH. They need to do better with the visuals (and gameplay: remove CD for reap).
*Also, should be able to use a 2h polearm. You know, like Scythes? 
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Yeah for real, I don’t know what happened with this one. Seems like there was so little thought put into it.
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Do devourer scale off weapon damage for their melee attacks? Just wondering since any non warglaive int weapon have less damage compared to str and agi.