Talk:Summoner/@comment-72.227.149.9-20150322081939

Actually, there is one very important thing that Summoning grants to the Daemon race in the original game (besides easy access to troops and mine fodder) - easy access to scores of Succubi. While the modded game shifts the focus of Summoning to Imps, in the original game higher levels of Summon Imp merely increased the summoned imp's XP, while higher levels of the Soul Harvest spell allowed the caster to summon multiple Succubi.

What this meant was that (as soon as battle began) a Daemon hero with Summoning could just quaff mana potions, summon succubi, and have the succubi attack enemy units or even random critters. Each soul generated from the death of enemy units/critters can then be attacked by Daemon heroes to generate around 25 mana. Repeat as many times as desired and your Daemon hero is casting spells like Armageddon repeatedly within the first few seconds of the game.