Devourer without MS and spammable CC is gonna be dead-on-arrival.
I’m a rank 1 AWC competitor. The class has nothing going for it, whatsoever. Unless it deals broken amounts of damage then it will bring nothing to any team comp.
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It does broken damage on the beta right now, but still won’t be good for PvP unless they fix losing souls from forced movement or a CC while casting Collapsing Star. It would be like having a destro lock lose all their soul shards while casting chaos bolt and getting CCed.
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They’ll fix it, they have too. It’s beta for a reason 
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I can’t tell if you are being Sarcastic or not?
Oh right.. it’s World of Warcraft I’m not allowed to be positive, my bad lmao.
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This spec will be a balancing nightmare with it’s limited kit. Like you said, it’s either one tapping you when it can get off a Collapsing Star or it’s not, and that’s the gist of the balance.
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You guys are so negative, it’ll be fine in time 
halfway through the expansion or for the next one XD
I think it would make sense to give it some kind of channel CC since the melee version of DH has anti heal. I think if its going to be a burst spec it prob should have Spammable CC, but its gotta have either spammable CC or anti heal or its basically only going to be viable if it does stupid OP damage.
I have a bad feeling it will basically be frost dk, which means the pvp spec will always just be havoc. Because that is what frost is, its only strong when it can one shot stuff in a burst window, has no anti heal, no utility outside of burst one shots
Every Collapsing Star will be ccd or kicked. With it’s current design it’s wayyyyy too easy to stop.
Well if you take the pvp talent it can’t be kicked but it can still be CCed or knock backed etc. with the amount of damage it currently does it’ll be the priority kick and forget arena play. Guess we will find out on the 20th of January when it’s released.
Collapsing Star isn’t even the specs most powerful ability, in fact it doesn’t even hit that hard. Playing as Void Scarred is how you effectively one shot players. All the footage I’ve seen people don’t even touch Collapsing Star, they just wait for their Meta window then blow up their opponent with a short melee combo.
It deals ridiculous damage, but it’s a gimmick…outside of that window you’re hitting like an overcooked wet noodle.
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The likelyhood that one shot gimmick burst still exists when season 1 releases is pretty low unless they do zero pvp balancing. The whole spec plays around collapsing star and you basically never use it in PVP which tells me its highly unlikely they will leave it as it is now since you dont ever use that ability basically currently.
The likelihood is actually pretty high when you consider Blizzards track record of making a new class/spec overpowered as hell for the first season, and the first season is always a crash dummy.
They would have to completely redesign how Collapsing Star functions as a spell to make it viable for PvP, and unfortunately they don’t care enough about PvP for that to happen.
What you’re saying is true, but if you imagine it in ranked PvP, whether in arena, RBG, or solo play, it will hardly work, since that Void Scarred combo is dependent on “The Hunt,” which is extremely predictable and countered.
Oh I agree completely. When I say they will be OP I’m only talking about their short burst window they have with the Hunt. In its current state I don’t think Devourer will perform well in PvP at all.
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They killed this class…rip.