Another unhelpful anecdotal:
I played live from early 2000-2007. I played druid until right around Velious launch and switched to enchanter. Blew past my 35 druid to level 60 in like 3 months due to enchanters being highly sought in groups.
My wife was playing cleric but played significantly less than I did at the time. I remember PL'ing her in Chardok in the lev tunnel by CE using charm exclusively (50-60 for her). Just the 2 of us, and her mostly afk for the duration.
Shortly after this though was Luclin and then that huge nerf to enchanter charm pet damage but i cant figure out when that actually went live. That charm change 100% stopped my use of charmed pets (aside from some playing with dire charming in POP later).
The real skew with this perception in my opinion is that we are living in a very specific window that only existed for maybe a little over a year in live.
But also, my memory may not be entirely trustworthy on the entirety of this.
Jaladian/Jaladiun/Vekter
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