Druid Charm Soloing
 

Hello everyone,
I recently came back to p99 and found a few changes to druid solo... mainly the reduced DoT damage on moving targets, making kiting extremely slow. I did root rot for a while and it works pretty well, but I heard that druids now are charming/fear/snare soloing now.

What level does this become ideal for druids to do? I'm level 34 now and I'm wondering which zones I should start at, with what mobs to charm and which to grind.

And I charm an animal type, then grind on other animals with my beast fear?

Thanks for the advice. I searched around on the forum but I didn't have much luck with finding locations for my level. Thanks!

quad kiting dwarfs at the butcherblock dwarves until u are like 48-49ish is your best bet for xp at your level. u can start charming raptors in TD at like 51, until about 55. then u can charm bears/wolves in the permafrost pits until 60.

hope that helps.

I've been quad-kiting in OT the last few nights (35-39). A Lot of fun. A little afraid to kill that many dwarfs. Isn't there a big faction hit? Been curious about this.

Thanks for the info. What are you killing in OT? I'm not very familar with Kunark.

Just some of the trash. Mostly the cacti n birds. Rhinos get tricky if the snare runs out.

Is animal / undead only charm hurt as bad as enchanter charm?

Are there any quading guides around? I've never done it and am not even sure which spells to use for efficiency. Thanks!

You simply find 4 mobs that don't cast, and who are generally the same (HP wise), and ensnare all of them. Run them around with SoW on in a semi-circle until they are "packed" together. Then just run out a bit, cast Lightning Blast (I think that's the 34 one), run again, cast again, repeat till dead.

Really quadding is your best bet till 51. After 51, you can quad raptors a bit ( I didn't find charm holding well until I was around 52/53), then at 54/55 you will want to flop down and bind in the bear pits, and just freeze to death down there until you hit 60.

If you are a woodelf druid you can easily quad spirocs in TD til 52 when you get the new charm spell (they aren't KoS to woodelves but seem to be KoS to halflings, not sure why, but this allows you to look around and pick out the dark blue ones (they still assist each other tho)). Then charming raptors is great. Bring plenty of rusty daggers or w/e you can find for pet weaps, snare the pet first for safety sake and root the mob u r fighting for added safety and so you do some damage and get the kill. I find it worth my time to DS/haste my pets and then break charm with invis v animal before they die so i can get a new pet to kill em (this part is much like charming for any class, so a chanter guide is basically the same, just with different spells).

You can start quadding spirocs really well at 49 when you get the new spell, but if you have a lumi staff hit em up sooner. They backstab, so watch out, but you can lumi them without getting hit. Otherwise before 49 they take a ton of mana to kill.

There are lots of places to quad, oasis works, FV along the coast and in the dvolrog village around 45 was nice for me and no one is ever there, DL/OT should work (never done it myself), if you search there should be other threads that give quading guides. if these places aren't in your lvl range

Ok, thanks for the info! Will give it a go once I hit 35. I'm sure as I try it out I'll have more questions.