Fodder to the Flame (Covenant ability)

Fodder to the Flame
	Fodder to the Flame; Demon hunter ability; Passive; Your damaging abilities have a chance to call forth a demon from the Theater of Pain for 25 sec. Throw Glaive deals lethal damage to the demon, which explodes on death, dealing (192.5% of Attack power) damage to nearby enemies and healing you for 25% of your maximum health. The explosion deals reduced damage beyond 5 targets.;
Properties
Class	Demon hunter
Related buffs
	; Fodder to the Flame ; Battling a demon from the Theater of Pain... ; Duration: 25 seconds ; ; ; Empowered Demon Soul ; Dealing 30% increased damage.; Taking 15% reduced damage. ; Duration: 20 seconds ;
Related debuff
	; Unstoppable Conflict ; The demon is fixated on you and cannot be stopped. ; Duration: 25 seconds ;

For the demon hunter talent, see [Fodder to the Flame].

Fodder to the Flame is the demon hunter class ability of the Necrolord Covenant. It's available to all demon hunters who join the Necrolords.

This ability is also temporarily available during the Maldraxxus portion of the Shadowlands campaign; it's given by the quest [53-60] Champion the Cause and lasts until you finish the Maldraxxus storyline.

Notes and trivia

Using this ability will summon a doomguard, felguard, felhound, infernal, shivarra, ur'zul, or wrathguard. All of them have only a basic melee attack.
[Throw Glaive] deals about half the demon's health in damage.
While Empowered Demon Soul is active, you glow a pale green. This is a good way to quickly tell whether you picked up the demon's soul after defeating it.
The demon's corpse will remain for 2 minutes, allowing ample time to use [Fleshcraft] on it.
Empowered Demon Soul benefits from the duration increase of [Demonic Bias].
In its initial form, Fodder to the Flame was seen as one of the weakest covenant abilities overall, due to the fact that the buff only lasted 5 seconds, the demon had a large amount of health, and the demon's attacks meant that this ability could actually kill the player rather than help them. Patch 9.0.5 attempted to remedy this by making the demon go down in one use of [Throw Glaive] and increasing the ability's duration.

Patch 9.0.5 (2021-03-09): Redesigned as a passive ability. Your damaging abilities have a chance to call forth a demon from the Theater of Pain for 25 seconds. [Throw Glaive] deals lethal damage to the demon, which explodes on death, dealing damage to nearby enemies and healing you for 30% of your maximum health. The explosion deals reduced damage beyond 5 targets.
Old: Commission a duel to the death against a Condemned Demon from the Theater of Pain. Vanquishing your foe releases its demon soul and creates a pool of demon blood that lasts for 30 sec. Fighting within the pool increases your attack speed by 20% and reduces the damage that enemies deal to you by 10%. Fleshcraft treats the Condemned Demon as a powerful enemy.
Patch 9.0.2 (2020-11-17): Added.

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Doomguard	Felguard	Felhound	Infernal	Shivarra	Ur'zul	Wrathguard
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