To preface this, I have only reached level 70 so far on my Devourer DH. To me, it was definitely a unique experience within the open world.
Left to level something else before thinking about coming back, my question regarding this class is does it get better?
Do the hero/apex talents bring this class together and actually make it viable? In all my time questing in the open world, I’ve hit collapsing stars about three times. It required very staggered mob packs, and I used the ability more to actually see it in action than the damage was worth.
The Beckon talent that makes consume instant after reap should be baseline imo. It makes the class far more fluid than having to spam DH’s version of incinerate. Going into a dungeon just to remember that I spend majority of my time spam casting really took away from the fun of it.
But I digress. I wanted to hear the opinions from more experienced DDH players if the spec’s hero/apex talents bring the whole class together rather than what I’ve experienced in open world 10-70.
You’re better off just leveling as havoc, and playing dev in group content. You can do it, but why not just easy mode leveling. Dev is set up for group content. Similar to druid, you can level as anything, but you’re just gimping yourself by not leveling as guardian.
Wait until you try M0 and Raid with your Dev. You’ll hate it. Slow, clunky, and low dps. Everyone that has it as A-A+ tier were dead wrong about it. It’s reliance on an extremely long ramp up time and spamming one ability to build onto to others such as collapsing star which has a very long cast time just makes it not viable in a lot of fights. The only time it feels good is when lust/hero is popped and you are in void meta form. But leveling it, as you’ve read already, level as Havoc, or better yet, stay Havoc and be happy.
It gets a little better at 80+ but I’d ignore CS until then. It fares a little better in dungeon/raid type content than open world. CS in any content is difficult to pull off.
Level 24 devourer. What a godawful leveling experience; I think it’s the worst experience I’ve ever had on any class in WoW. The damage is so bad, and the gameplay - at least at 24 - complete dogcrap. I have no idea how the spec plays at end-game, but whoever designed the leveling experience for the spec needs to be transferred to a different team.