Enchanter - charm questions
 

Hello,

I'm level 21 at the moment and haven't done much charming yet, mainly because my CHA is relatively low. But, at 20 we got Sympathetic Aura which raises CHA so I've been trying it out. I am fighting only in groups at the moment and had a few questions. Note, I'm trying to keep the same mob charmed right now, not killing them so not sure if that has any bearing on my questions.

1. Does my CHA only matter when I first cast the charm spell? In other words, if my sympathetic aura buff runs out while the mob is charmed, does that affect the charm duration?

2. Since Tashani only lasts 5 minutes max, will it keep them charmed longer if I re-tash after 5 min or is it a one-time thing?

3. How do you know the best weapons to give charmed pets? For instance in Oasis, the orcs have all sorts of weapons so when I charm one, I can give it a sword, club, spear, staff, 2 swords etc. Not sure which combo will inflict the most damage.

Thanks in advance!

1.) I believe charm has periodic CHA checks throughout the duration. So if your CHA buff does fade, you'd want to refresh it.

2.)If tash fades, usually a safe bet just to wait for the next break and re-tash, no need to waste mana breaking too early in most situations.

3.)Weapons generally to force duel wield and for some procs at the highest level. What you use should not effect the damage. There may be an exception to this, I know mage pets can wreck early on with such items as an oggok cleaver with high dmg. I haven't studied this extensively.

I'm not 100% on #1, maybe someone will come into this thread and science the shit outta it. There's a bunch of threads on pet weapons and stuff and getting an optimal setup at the highest level with all the different pet toys. But generally speaking early on you're best off with just torches to force duel wield. Stick with charming as low of blues as possible to get the best possible charm duration. There's a huge -MR set you can build if you're serious about group charming:

2x Adamantite Bands (-20MR)
Rusty Spiked Shoulderpads (-10MR)
Riptide Spear (-5MR)
Tome of the Eternal (-10MR)
Astral Legs/Cloak of the Titans (-10MR)

1- every few seconds the pet tries to break. Your charisma has a small chance to stop it from breaking, Along with the Pet's magic resistance and level. So if your CHA wears off it is slightly more likely to break.

2. Re-tash whenever you can. The pets magic resistance plays a part in charm duration just like your charisma.

3. The weapons don't matter unless it has a proc, they all do the same amount of damage. Just give it two 1-handed items instead of a 2-hander so that it dual wields.

2H + torch should still dual wield. Good for stuff like staff of undead legions, mithril 2h sword, etc.

I hadn't heard of the torch thing. So if you give a mob a sword and a torch, the torch becomes a weapon and it dual wields?

It doesn't need a sword. Just a torch, a shield, a bard instrument, a lantern, anything that is only secondary equippable will force mobs to DW.

No one else mentioned it but if you're talking about soloing it will almost always be a pointless hassle to gear and buff your pet unless you for some reason are keeping the same pet which will not maximize xp. You generally shouldn't be keeping pets for longer than 5 minutes 1v1 mob soloing. If you have 1 mob and are waiting several minutes for a respawn just keep it mezzed until like 30 seconds before the spawn.

It will.

That's correct. Any secondary only weapon, like a lute or drum also. It used to be that a torch alone would force dual wield. There was a patch in 2015 that supposedly changed this to where 2 weapons of some kind were needed. My enchanter had already reached 60 at that point, so I never really was able to test after that.

Did Haynar's patch notes in June of 2015 not affect this? Torch alone wasn't supposed to force DW anymore.

Almost positive that is only about summoned pets, probably intended to prevent low levels from forcing their pet to DW when the pet wouldn't equip 2 weapons and DW. Otherwise the patch didn't work or was reverted. Any 60 Enchanter on this server will tell you a torch or whatever will force DW, you can visually see the mob DWing and see the large jump in DPS in parses.

Says nothing about summoned only. Hmmm