Voidwalker vs Succubus
At level 21 Maexyn was running around wetlands killing things. She tried using the Succubus but tackling mobs that were any higher level than her was a struggle as Maexyn would take a big beating and couldn't drain the monster's life quickly enough. However, with the voidwalker it was taking too long to kill things, more than twenty seconds per kill which is my boredom threshold.
Maexyn got to 22 by killing gnolls, carefully creeping around the outside of the camp and picking off stragglers, paladin style, except with a Succubus rather than a big sword. One interesting thing about the Succubus, probably a patch 2.3 change but when a monster is fighting Maexyn the Succubus lashes it from behind with her whip. Naughty monster...
At 22 Maexyn visited the Warlock trainer and, wonderful, got next rank drain life, 17 health/tick over 10, a 70% upgrade. She went back to wetlands and, again with the Succubus, still struggled against higher level mobs (up to 25). The mobs kept interrupting the Drain Life (I'm still working on the uninterruptability talents) and in recasting it all the time she would run into mana as well as health problems.
After a while, went back to the voidwalker and life improved a lot, could take out gnoll camps. Kill speed was improved by adding a bit of wanding to the fight.
Succubus may become more useful with better life draining and some more Succubus talents (I miss the Voidwalker's Consume Shadows and Sacrifice) but I will have to work on the Voidwalker vs Succubus strategy. I notice that you don't tend to see a lot of Succubii being used by other warlocks and it could be for a number of reasons:
- they are useless
- they are embarassing
- people can't be bothered to run to the Barrens to get them
They could be the Warlock equivalent of a spider pet. Since a hunter can solo the whole game with just a boar, does the Warlock really need anything other than the Voidwalker and the big armoured thing the level 60's run around with?
Maexyn got to 23. Since she did all level 22 without rest bonus I switched to Maezyn who had full rest bonus and hence is now 40 minutes from level 45. The hunter is so much easier: the pet holds agro like glue on multiple monsters! And she's not even a Beastmistress! Freezing trap! Feign Death! Aspect of the Cheetah! Gotta love it.
One Stop Shop for all your Tailoring and Enchanting Needs
Had a big profession levelling session and got Maexyn to 160 tailoring and 150 enchanting, not bad for an (at the time) level 22. Still can't use either for anything useful though. The nice tailoring recipes all appear to need spiders silk of some form which is interesting as it explains why there are so many spiders in the game.
Loving AutoDecline
Still loving AutoDecline. Some random guy in Wetlands was giving Maexyn grief, trying unsuccessfully to kill steal and then throwing up duel challenges. One wonders what goes through the guy's tiny mind when his challenge is instantly declined. This simple WTF probably automatically prompts a second challenge.
Peter's Moblog
I guess you've never done any instances with Locks who use Succubus as a quite effective crowd controller?