04-09-2005, 07:53 PM
Drasca,Apr 9 2005, 08:54 AM Wrote:Poly is not equivalent to seduce. Not by a long shot. Poly has a lasts longer, doesn't reduce the player's dps, can be prebuffed (recast on top of itself). Seduce has none of that. You remove the succubus from your damage pool (accetable), and she can be interrupted, and is a lot less reliable because you have that interrupt delay. As it stands now, you could keep an enemy polymorphed nigh-on forever. If you're skilled and lucky enough to have enough time, proper range, and pet not disabled, you *might* be able to charm/fear chain a humanoid enemy.
Less reliable, sure. A lot less reliable? I don't think so. I've seen a seduce resist as often as a poly resist, which is to say nearly never. When it breaks, the mob usually pops out and gets one hit on the succubus before it's reseduced. I've never seen a mob that a warlock didn't want to keep seduced fail to get reseduced or break out and cause havoc.
Seduce is one of those things that's less reliable on paper, but works out more or less the same in practice. As long as you don't try pulling with it, the difference between it and poly is really negligible, in my experience. I've done virtually every instance in the game multiple times with a warlock, and seduce has never been of less value than poly.