Pet Profile Page: The Succubus (Feedback and Corrections)

[Akasha]

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The Succubus

Succubus Info:
(Level 70 Base stats - Unmodified)

Hitpoints: 2429
Mana pool: 2880
Armor: 4333 (29.1% DR)

Mana Regen: 108 / 5 seconds
Melee Damage: 121 - 162 (70.8 DPS)



In Western medieval legend, a succubus is a demon, who takes the form of a beautiful woman to seduce men, especially monks. They draw energy from the men to sustain themselves, often until the point of exhaustion or death of the victim. The appearance of succubi varies, but in general they are depicted as alluring women with great beauty, often with demonic bat like wings, and large breasts; they also have other demonic features, such as horns and cloven feet Occasionally they appear as an attractive woman in dreams that the victim cannot seem to get off his mind. They lure males and in some cases, the male has seemed to fall "in love" with her

The Succubus is probably the most loved demon by everyone and the most well known by those outside the warlock community. The sight of our winged, half naked, cloven-hooved demon spanking herself has become synonymous with the warlock class (and perverted little boys everywhere), although she eventually is replaced by other preferred demons depending on the specs. Unlike the the VW, who's purpose is to hold agro (or at least try to), the succubus is a DPS pet.

Where as the imp uses fireballs to deal damage until OOM, the succubus does a mix of physical and magical damage with melee attacks. Her auto attacks count as physical damage (hence are good against the mana worms in Kara). She also has the Lash of Pain ability wich is an "extra" attack that causes shadow damage. Yes this is boosted by CoS and is useless against mobs that are immune to magical damage (such as the mana worms in Kara). Unlike the VW she is extremely fragile. Although not quite so much as the imp but very near. Any elite will kill her in seconds so using her to tank one is out of the question, but her dps output makes her ideal for non elite trash.


Tips & Tricks

Tip - Get her Buffed: The ultimate tip when using any of your demons in a party/raid situation is to make sure to they always receive party/raid buffs. Important buffs for the Succubus include anything that improves health, attack power, and armor (assuming it is tanking or off-tanking) and spirit. Sporeling snacks are also a nice little pet buff food that will increase spirit, especially handy for the low mana Succubus...

Trick - The Crowd Controller: The succubus' seduce works only against humanoids, is very short, and generates threat from the mob, which will promptly one shot the succubus after the first seduce if the tank didn't take a swipe or 2 at it to generate some threat. Good groups know and understand her limits and other CCs such as the mage's sheep or the hunter's trap is preferred over the succubus. However, when push comes to shove and the need for CC is waranted, the group expects the warlock to break out the little sadist without a fuss. In fact, good management of the succubus' seduce is a sure sign of a good warlock. If done well, can earn you spots in further runs. Have a look at the Pet Macros page to make your life easier.

Tip - Sacrifice Her: For those specced with Demonic Sacrifice, this is usually the pet of choice to offer up to the gods. 15% extra shadow damage is not to be sneezed at.


The Instance Succubus

Instances are where the succubus shines the most. She provides one of our 3 types of Crowd Control in the form of seduce, which of the 3 is the most favored by groups. (Banish is situational and NO ONE likes seeing mobs running in fear). This here is where your succubus will earn her frequent flyer miles, even when the warlock might prefer to use another pet, such as the Imp or Felguard. The succubus' seduce works only against humanoids, and is very short, forcing the warlock to constantly change target while dpsing, and generates threat from the mob, which will promptly one shot the succubus after the first seduce if the tank didn't take a swipe or 2 at it to generate some threat. Good groups know and understand her limits and other CCs such as the mage's sheep or the hunter's trap is preferred over the succubus. However, when push comes to shove and the need for CC is warranted, the group expects the warlock to break out the little sadist without a fuss. In fact, good management of the succubus' seduce is a sure sign of a good warlock. If done well, can earn you spots in further runs.

The only other major use of the succubus is for the 0/21/40 raid spec in end game for the demonic sacrifice ability. Although long passed her glory days, and not directly used herself, the 15% extra shadow damage she confers upon sacrifice in conjunction with other talents in the Destruction tree make shadow nuking the highest dpsing spec in end game raiding.


The PvP Succubus
Sadly, in PvP pretty much everyone except healers will one shot your succubus once invisibility is down.

That said, some Warlocks choose to have her out in battlegrounds to help with Rogues... a well time seduce can be just enough time to Death Coil, Fear then kill.


Talents that will affect / improve the Succubus

• Improved Succubus (Demonology) will increase the effect of your Succubus' Lash of Pain and Soothing Kiss spells by 10/20/30%, and increase the duration of your Succubus' Seduction and Lesser Invisibility spells by 10/20/30%

• Dark Pact (Affliction) can be used to draw mana from the succubus.

• Fel Intellect and Fel Stamina (Demonology) increases its maximum mana/health respectively by 5/10/15%.

• Fel Domination combined with Master Summoner (Demonology) can reduce summoning time to 2/4seconds and 20/40% reduced mana; another 5.5 seconds and 50% reduced mana when Fel Domination is active (0.5 second cast).

• Unholy Power (Demonology) increases damage done by your succubus by 4/8/12/16/20%.

• Demonic Sacrifice (Demonology) will sacrifice your succubus to give you an increase in Shadow damage by 15% for 30min.

• Mana Feed (Demonology) allows your pet to regenerate 33/66/100% of the mana you gain from Drain Mana or Life Tap.

• Demonic Resilience (Demonology) reduces the damage your summoned demon takes by 5/10/15%.

• Soul Link (Demonology) your summoned demon absorbs 20% of the damage the caster takes and increases the damage done by both by 5%.

• Demonic Knowledge (Demonology) increases your spell damage by an amount equal to 5/10/15% of the total of your active demon's Stamina plus Intellect.

• Demonic Tactics (Demonology) increases spell critical strike chance for your succubus by 1/2/3/4/5%.

• Master Demonologist (Demonology) grants both the Warlock and the succubus increased damage caused by 2/4/6/8/10% for as long as the demon is active.
• Improved Lash of Pain (Destruction) reduces the cool down of your Succubus' Lash of Pain spell by 3/6 seconds.

Credits: Thankyou to Naxxaz, Debuff, Thralock, breena and Anij!

[Kherien]

when using succy for CC, one has to remember that lady is one hit away from death in any instance, so one should cast searing pain or any other spell without dot-tail to make sure you are topping mobs aggrolist when seduce breaks or is broken I cast them so that searing lands fraction of a second before seduce, so mob stays in arms lenght.
Otherwise mob will go thru her like hot knife thru butter, and then go for someone else that is in range, often healer. Lock is usually so far from fight that re-seduce can be applied while mob runs to you.

[Anij]

Once you get to Heroic level dungeons and beyond, the warlock is one hit away from death as well. Better to let the tank put a sunder or 2 on the seduce target mob first, as the succubus can always go back and receduce the mob. Also of note, at your gearing level for entry heroic dungeons, your succubus only has enough mana for about 3 seduces. That actually may not be long enough for the fight. Letting the tank hit the mob means after succy is OOM, she can dish out a little dps (with LoP off) while regening a bit of mana, then receduce the mob again later.