Is there an issue in Beta where collapsing start does not show up as a talent I couldn’t find the actual skill anywhere. Also completely disappointed with the class all the hype for another let down for DH.
I think Void Metamorphosis turns into CS when it’s active.
I just had a quick play with Devourer… and I must say I’m either having a completely awful talent setup, or the spec is that simple? I think the filler rotation was about 3 keys. 
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I was thinking the same thing, I had a look through and majority of it was passive talents. It’s deffo a one button class for that now.
Its like Void Erruption for Shadow priest. It turns the ability into it. You need to collect the right about of souls though.
I had a similar experience with Devourer on Beta.
I was hyping myself up for it and strongly considering maining it based on what I was seeing, but after playing it it felt extremely simple and boring to play. The rotation just isn’t interesting, so much of your specs power is built around Void Meta and once you’re finally in Meta it’s a race to spam as much as you can to stay in it for long enough to use Collapsing Star, which just feels awful.
I’m hoping it gets better by the time you unlock everything at level 90 but so far I’m having strong second thoughts on maining this.
Devourer is awful. It’s like a 3 button rotation with next to no utility? How utterly boring to play and I was looking forward to this spec.
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Playing it atm, it is that simple/braindead. The spec needs a ton of work.
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The whole reason I haven’t jumped on beta yet to play it, the spec is not even close to being done, I’m not wasting my time when they’re going to have to completely rework it before Midnight drops.
Love the dooming when beta isn’t even over.
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I’m torn on it. While on the surface I agree it feels like it needs more, in practice I do have the fear that frantically running around collecting soul shards (faster than reap can vacuum them) will actually be what makes the spec engaging, and therefore adding much more might be overload.
I still lean towards the spec might just need an extra something to break up Consume casts a little more, maybe Soul Immolation is supposed to be that or maybe it could use something similar to Sigil of Flame for Havoc. I don’t think it’s necessarily the “lack of buttons” but that the core loop is too linear and too focused in on Void Meta breaking up the basic rotation.
Maybe some kind of proc that allows for a Collapsing Star cast outside of Void Meta, even? Not sure if that would trample too much on the core premise.
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Wasn’t this one of the big problems Blizzard had with a past iteration of Shadow Priest? Around BfA or Legion I think?
Almost word for word what I remember reading about spriest years ago
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You’re exactly correct. The exact same issues they had with Legion Spriest are now the ones they’re doubling down on for Devourer. And there has been 0 iteration or changes on the Beta, except a flat 25% damage nerf for the spec. So we’ll see how things go.
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