I’ve always wondered why this relatively new 3rd spec uses Intellect. I get that Consume has a long cast time but Hunters have similar abilities and they haven’t used Intellect for a very long time.
Why force Devourer to collect 2 sets of gear to tank and DPS when Havoc can just get a 2nd set of trinkets? (Yes, they won’t be optimal since tanking specs need different secondaries but they’ll be able to tank just except high-end keys and mythic raiding.)
Any insights?
Because boomkin was the only int leather dps before this and they felt like they needed another one.
Also you don’t have to collect two sets of gear. All gear swaps primary stats, the only thing you need different are trinkets, and only sometimes because sometimes trinkets have int and agi on them. If you plan around just using warglaives the whole time you don’t need a different set of weapons either.
Right now you can gear yourself in a way where you don’t need to swap a single piece of gear. Is that optimal? Not really, but using the same gear for all 3 specs never really was for any class, even with the same primaries. Look at mage, for example. Frost wants crit/mastery. Arcane wants haste/vers. Fire wants haste/mastery. You’d need different accessories for each spec if you wanted to be optimal.
Thanks for your post. I learned a lot!
One quick question: is it normal to have abilities that clearly don’t scale with your gear? I’m specifically talking about Vengeful Retreat and Throw Glaive for Devourer spec. These seem to not scale at all with Intellect. Granted, they’re not meant to be a major part of the rotation but it feels weird that virtually all my other attacks are doing 5 or 6 digits in damage and Throw Glaive does 3. Is it normal for leather Intellect DPS to have vestigial abilities that clearly weren’t designed with them in mind?
Throw Glaive and Vengeful Retreat aren’t there for their damage. They’re just utility. Throw Glaive only matters as a snare, and vengeful retreat is for mobility (and also a snare when talented).
Vengeful retreat is super important for Void-Scarred so you can quickly back out of melee after doing your melee combo.
Yeah, even as I typed that, I figured that’s what the answer would be.
I think I realize I kind of wish “Devourer” demon hunters used their weapons more. I’m not saying Devourer should do Aldachi Reaver damage when they cast Throw Glaive, but I wish there was a reason to use it beyond putting a snare on an opponent. Even if they just used them in their caster animations, that would be a huge plus IMHO.
Thanks for your time.