Demonic Instinct
Void Ray and Hungering Slash damage increased by 10%.
Tree position
In the Devourer Demon Hunter talent tree, Demonic Instinct sits in the Devourer specialization talents, row 8 of 11. It takes 2 points to fill. Its row opens once 20 points are spent in Devourer Talents.
Connected above
The tree draws a line into Demonic Instinct from Hungering Slash and Voidrage.
Hungering SlashAfter dealing damage with The Hunt or Voidblade, Voidblade is replaced with Hungering Slash for 6 sec. Violently slash your scythe around you, dealing (247.5% of Spell Power) Cosmic damage to nearby enemies and generating 10 Fury. Shatters up to 2 Soul Fragments from nearby enemies. Damage reduced beyond 8 targets. Hungering Slash grants a temporary charge of Vengeful Retreat and causes your next Vengeful Retreat within 6 sec to deal an additional (150% of Spell Power) Cosmic damage.

Connected below
Demonic Instinct leads on to Voidrush, Soulforged Blades and Impending Apocalypse.
VoidrushCollapsing Star reduces the cooldown of Voidblade by 10 sec. Voidblade and The Hunt briefly reduce your Fury drain while in Void Metamorphosis.
Soulforged BladesHungering Slash and Voidblade's critical strike chance is increased by 18%.
Impending ApocalypseEach Collapsing Star you cast increases the damage of your next Collapsing Star by 20%.
Same row
Also on this row: Singular Strikes, Devourer's Edge and Rolling Torment.
Singular StrikesVoidblade damage increased by 25%. Hungering Slash deals 50% increased damage to its primary target.


Talent trees
Demonic Instinct is in the talent tree of 3 specializations. Demon Hunter: Devourer (DPS), Havoc (DPS), Vengeance (Tank).
Demonic Instinct Changes by patch
Tracked changes to this talent between game data builds, newest first.
- First tracked in the game data (patch 12.1.0)