Hey, vanilla warlocks. Demon question

[Graff-nathrezim]

Silly warlock trick time.

If someone deserved a corpse camping I’d summon my succubus, put her invis and aggressive, then tell her to stand in a likely hiding spot for them to res. I’d go stand somewhere a bit obvious so they’d rez near her.

Sure enough, they see me over there so they rez near her, she seduces, I go over and kill them again.

@Sharmarli-steamwheedle-cartel

I liked to banish other Warlock’s demons instead of trying to outright kill them.

Second silly trick:

Drop an infernal on a huge group in the ol’ TM-SS PvP mashup. Initial stun and damage would de-stealth and interrupt heals. Then some fool was sure to banish it but the fire aura kept going, keeping everyone from stealthing, bandaging, mounting, and eating. It would also pushback on spell casts and heals. So funny to watch!

[Zonkabonk-blackrock]

I try not to provoke corpse camping as a lock because it sucks when we revive without our pet. In BGs you get your pet when you come back so that’s different.

[Graff-nathrezim]

I’d usually save corpse camping for the ones that really deserve it. On a normal fight where I win I’ll just move off and let them res and run off.

It really does suck to die as a lock though, especially in vanilla. Takes so long to get back into fighting shape.

[Sharmarli-steamwheedle-cartel (Sharmarli)]

@Nostalgicz-dalaran

For Hunters I tend to Fel-Dom an Imp because it’s the only ranged demon and usually my other demons get kited or easily trapped. The extra HP from Blood Pact and then Fire Shield aren’t negligible and with Improved Imp 3/3 and Improved Firebolt 2/2 (and being an Orc for the extra 5% demon damage) my little Karfip freaking turrets off nearly 200 damage Firebolts. He’s a monster.

Out of curiosity is there any utility to using the Pimgibs-collar trinket from Dire Maul (increases damage of Imp’s firebolt by 8) with that setup?

[Sharmarli-steamwheedle-cartel (Sharmarli)]

I’m always looking for tricks as I never really thought of myself as particularly good at PVP. I was just tenacious and annoying.

I don’t think I ever used a Infernal in a TM/SS fight but I did drop them on flags in AB/AV occasionally.

[Zonkabonk-blackrock]

@Sharmarli-steamwheedle-cartel

@Nostalgicz-dalaran

For Hunters I tend to Fel-Dom an Imp because it’s the only ranged demon and usually my other demons get kited or easily trapped. The extra HP from Blood Pact and then Fire Shield aren’t negligible and with Improved Imp 3/3 and Improved Firebolt 2/2 (and being an Orc for the extra 5% demon damage) my little Karfip freaking turrets off nearly 200 damage Firebolts. He’s a monster.

Out of curiosity is there any utility to using the Pimgibs-collar trinket from Dire Maul (increases damage of Imp’s firebolt by 8) with that setup?

It is actually common to use that along with the black book trink. If you do, and you spec properly your imp actually does huge damage and must be killed. Of course if someone targets your imp you can just kill them as the player yourself.

It is basically the warlock version of pom pyro but not instant.

[Livinshadow-skullcrusher (Livinshadow)]

Warlocks used pets when they were necessary usually or I did.

Seduction is ok when tank needs extra cc when no mage in group.

Seduction on warlocks when they cheap shotted you always felt nice, soul fire/seduce I used in later expansions seemed good.

Succubus was the demon I considered less used because I played dot classes…

[Jokel-lightninghoof]

@Zonkabonk-blackrock

@Sharmarli-steamwheedle-cartel

@Nostalgicz-dalaran

For Hunters I tend to Fel-Dom an Imp because it’s the only ranged demon and usually my other demons get kited or easily trapped. The extra HP from Blood Pact and then Fire Shield aren’t negligible and with Improved Imp 3/3 and Improved Firebolt 2/2 (and being an Orc for the extra 5% demon damage) my little Karfip freaking turrets off nearly 200 damage Firebolts. He’s a monster.

Out of curiosity is there any utility to using the Pimgibs-collar trinket from Dire Maul (increases damage of Imp’s firebolt by 8) with that setup?

It is actually common to use that along with the black book trink. If you do, and you spec properly your imp actually does huge damage and must be killed. Of course if someone targets your imp you can just kill them as the player yourself.

It is basically the warlock version of pom pyro but not instant.

This was a fun combo to use. The imp would burn through all his mana fast, but what good is unused mana, right?

[Ironsides-stormreaver (Ironsides)]

Succubus is the ultimate PvP pet for use in all pvp scenarios, except when fighting another warlock with a felhunter.

And even then it’s a toss up left to gear.

[Ponk-lothar (Ponk)]

Seduce was excellent in Strath, Scholo and BRS/BRD on big pulls that included humanoids. All those dungeons had plenty of them and it was a very reliable CC.

For PvP you can chain seduce someone while using soulfire/conflag combos to blow them up rather quickly.

[Åpocalypse-illidan (Åpocalypse)]

@Ironsides-stormreaver

Succubus is the ultimate PvP pet for use in all pvp scenarios, except when fighting another warlock with a felhunter.

Seduce the lock while casting banish on the felhunter.

Most warlocks can’t micro their pet well enough to counterspell you and dispell themselves (and in that exact order or the pet still gets banished and you can just reseduce)…

Soul link warlocks especially act surprised when you remove all their pet buffs from the universe via banish and then blow them up.

[Jokel-lightninghoof]

Yep. A warlock’s worst enemy is another warlock.

[Graff-nathrezim]

@Sharmarli-steamwheedle-cartel

I’m always looking for tricks

Get a group and summon everyone but do not accept the summon, just go off and PVP and let the summon chill. You’ll have a few minutes to accept the summon. Fight a ton of people and if you get in trouble accept the summon and escape.

Or, get them to chase you off a high cliff. Before you hit the bottom accept the summon and laugh as they all die from following you.