Welcome to the third pet week post on how to use the Succubus!
Definitely the most pretty pet in our arsenal, but does the Succubus have a place in our Warlock leveling strategies? And where do they fit in group PvE, solo PvE and PvP? Keep reading & find out!
First up, most of us will do our leveling in a solo situation, so how do we use the Succubus to best effect in solo? Well… most of the time, you’ll find you won’t. The Succubus is great for damage output with her Lash of Pain, and will out damage the Voidwalker with ease… however, without the taunting ability of the Voidwalker, you’ll find you still cause too much damage with your curses (by some margin), and you’ll end up being the tank for the Succubus.
This actually has a name in WoW lore, “drain tanking”, in other words, you let the Succubus do most of your damage, and then you siphon life from the Succubus to keep your own health up. Not recommended, again since you can out damage the Succubus with your curses, and drain tanking is nowhere near as efficient as rolling with a Voidwalker who can heal himself after combat.
So my strategy recommendation is, in solo PvE, leave the Succubus at home unless you’re fighting mobs 2 or 3 levels lower than you, and you just want to clean them up as quick as possible.
For group PvE strategy, the Succubus becomes a bit more handy… You can send her out to cause damage without so much concern about her needing to hold aggro, since you’ll have a tank on board to do that for you. The Succubus can also do enough damage to “out aggro” your team’s tank at times, so soothing kiss in group PvE can be useful for ensuring she stays alive and the groups tanks keep taking the hits which the Succubus cannot.
In PvP the Succubus is a tricky beast, and using seduce can make an opponent fume with anger… but is it as good as the Voidwalkers sacrifice, or the Felhunters anti magic?
I personally don’t think so. Fire specced Warlocks can be great to use with the Succubus, and seduce can be very, very handy when a rogue hits you from the shadows, but for sheer survivability, I’d go with the Voidwalker… and for anti magic, anti caster duty, the Fel Hunter shines in a way the Succubus cannot.
So, if you’re into PvP, AND you have a good destruction build, then yes, roll with the Succubus, seduce, and burst damage all the way to the bank!
The Succubus – a great all around pet which can be handy in almost any situation… but your pretty Warlock pet will certainly be best used in group PvE, and in PvP for the destruction specced among us!
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