Enchanters animation user

[BradZax]

Originally Posted by deviltiger [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Playing through EQ for the first time. Went with enchanter and mostly play solo. I don't feel comfortable charming while in a group until I've had more practice as I've died plenty of times to charm breaks.

That is awesome! There is a ton of strategy you can dig through on these forums, and it's an incredibly unique gameplay experience that is super challenging and rewarding to master!

[BradZax]

If you haven't watched Tecmos Deception the old school dudes videos on youtube, give them all a watch, he taught literally everyone on p99 how to play enchanter.

Before him it was an elite skill only cool people knew about.

[Goregasmic]

There's plenty of reasons to use it and plenty of reasons not to. You just have to know when.

A good example I see is a lot of people sweating over the ghost of kindle kill, charming a possibly 54 undead with lots of MR and lulling the whole room and all.

You can summon an animation in the corridor and pull her with a crit fail lull, she's on a different faction. Zumaiks will handle her if you stop her from CHing.

Use it when it makes sense. And if someone wants to use it when it doesn't, who cares.

[DeathsSilkyMist]

Originally Posted by Goregasmic [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

There's plenty of reasons to use it and plenty of reasons not to. You just have to know when.

A good example I see is a lot of people sweating over the ghost of kindle kill, charming a possibly 54 undead with lots of MR and lulling the whole room and all.

You can summon an animation in the corridor and pull her with a crit fail lull, she's on a different faction. Zumaiks will handle her if you stop her from CHing.

Use it when it makes sense. And if someone wants to use it when it doesn't, who cares.

Indeed. People underestimate the power of these kinds of pets. Enchanter Animation and Shaman Doggo aren't as powerful as a Mage or Necro pet, but Enchanters and Shamans have utility to make up for this. Slow by iteself is a huge boost to pet survivability.

https://youtu.be/umuVBewCNgY?si=KSx0wS_K5U700DQ5

Shaman Doggo can tank a Cliff Golem for the entire fight. Zumaik's is stronger than Shaman Doggo. You can't easily control it, but Enchanters can control everything else.

[branamil]

You can use it for various things like killing Felia Goldwing, farming low level dungeons, or XP groups before your 20s. If you're in an XP group with your animation after 30 then it's next to useless.

[TomisFeline]

Originally Posted by Goregasmic [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

There's plenty of reasons to use it and plenty of reasons not to. You just have to know when.

A good example I see is a lot of people sweating over the ghost of kindle kill, charming a possibly 54 undead with lots of MR and lulling the whole room and all.

You can summon an animation in the corridor and pull her with a crit fail lull, she's on a different faction. Zumaiks will handle her if you stop her from CHing.

Use it when it makes sense. And if someone wants to use it when it doesn't, who cares.

secret tip, don't tell anyone, but you can land lull on her from outside the undead tower. There is a spot you can stand on top of the building that you go in to to start climbing tower where you have 0 adds.

from there, you could run around and get her pulled even further away with 0 adds...

but all the solo instructions on GoK talk about going up the tower to that tiny hallway

[WarpathEQ]

I just assume if a chanter is grouping then they don't have the capability of charming successfully/safely and therefore at best case is going to use their animation in group.

And as pointed out animation is better dps/tankier than a shaman pet so its pretty legit for tanking slowed mobs. A lot you could do for 1 on 1 fights where a chanter is normally not as ideal of a class due to lack of charm options compared to a necro/shaman.

[cd288]

Originally Posted by WarpathEQ [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I just assume if a chanter is grouping then they don't have the capability of charming successfully/safely and therefore at best case is going to use their animation in group.

And as pointed out animation is better dps/tankier than a shaman pet so its pretty legit for tanking slowed mobs. A lot you could do for 1 on 1 fights where a chanter is normally not as ideal of a class due to lack of charm options compared to a necro/shaman.

On my Ench I would group occasionally when I wanted a break from charm killing. I mostly soloed because my goal with the Ench was to use it to EXP in places I'd never really done before, including very random out of the way places such as the Yetis in TD. But occasionally I would group to mix it up and would happily charm a mob for DPS.

Grouping on an Ench is just more annoying as an adult because I have other obligations where I may need to go AFK. And going AFK as the Ench in a group is kinda difficult. Need to kill the charmed pet and then you're not available to CC, mana regen, slow, etc. while you're gone so it hampers your group mates.