I would be very curious to see AC logs in general from EQ mac, preferably from a low level player who is not subject to the various AC caps that Verant implemented because they suck at itemization. My gut feeling is that AC is not implemented properly here. I did some AC tests and my enchanter mitigated within like 20% of my warrior. The big difference is that the enchanter got hit way more. 1000AC vs 650AC.
The charm data from EQMac is worthless though IIRC. AFAIK Charm was revamped (and actually made stronger!) in PoP and then eventually charmed pet damage was nerfed because it was getting out of hand.
Realistically I think it's impossible to say much concrete about classic durations unless someone has logs. Nirgon says charm is too good in the planes, yet it's easily possible to dig up posts of people doing just that. My personal opinion (based mostly off of Xornn's Enchanter Guide) is that charm is probably weaker here than live. It would be interesting to try and measure channeling skill though.
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