Many more tips for newbie enchanters

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Gonna be taking a break from P99 and wanted to pass on some things I learned which might help some newbie enchanters before I go. I apologize if some or even all of these are in the wikki!

How to plow through your early levels!:

Pets are broken/OP at early levels when you give them a 2hander! This basically almost DOUBLES their damage up to around level 20ish when it stops working. Keep at least 1 rusty 2hander dropped from mobs (any type works but it must be 2h) in a bag, and if you run out, when you go to sell to a vendor check to see if any rusty 2handers are for sale. They are usually pretty cheap if a vendor has one, it’s WORTH buying just for how strong it makes your pet. Don’t worry about losing 50% exp to the pet, the pet will have such a fast killrate it still is the absolute fastest exp/hour you can make for the early levels!

A spell line that might not seem that good but REALLY is:

Your berserker line of spells! Spells like berserker strength, rampage, berserker spirit, etc. This spell line sounds like it’s meant for melee chars or your pet, it buffs their melee stats at a cost of agi, and it can be good on them. But it’s best on YOU! It comes with a no-reagent damage absorb, this is huge! Your only other way to absorb damage is your rune line and these require a reagent which costs money, and becomes increasingly expensive. Enchanters have no easy way to get back HP and the berserker line has almost no recast, so it can be absorbing hundreds and thousands of damage that would have otherwise forced sit breaks and slowed you down. AND it gets removed first before your rune! So ideally the mob will only chew through your berserker spell (which u can just re-cast) leaving your rune as backup. Note: I didn’t start chain-casting berserker spells on self until after I had clarity so it may not be as feasible with just breeze

Different types of charming, and when to!:

Your pet will do as much or more damage than mobs (especially if you keep resummoning to get the highest level, just check their max hits to see what lev you got) until at least the mid-20’s. Any charming befor that is def not needed but can be good practice

When it comes to what to charm, go for stuff that is low blue, about to turn green con, nothing higher! Your charm break frequency goes up many times more frequent when you get even to dark blue cons, and anything like even or yellow con should be completely out of the question unless you like dying! Always tash the mob to lower its MR before charming. If you have a GCD reset device then you can (from a distance) tash + GCD reset + charm before it gets to you. If not, then the way to charm without taking damage is mez then tash then charm and wait for mez to fade

Different types of charming, and the advantages of each!

1. What I call “slow charming”. This is where you pick the highest (safe!) level mob you can find, and try to target mobs that are lower level than it. You use your slow spell (after root of course because slow has a decent amount of hate/aggro, and you should ALWAYS keep your charmed pet target rooted!!!) on the mob you are killing to ensure your pet wins the fight as easily as possible. If you pick the correct charm pet and targets, your pet should be able to kill 2-3 of these in a row before being below 20% health to where you can break charm and kill your charm pet. I personally do not recommend hasting your pet here. It’s a huge amount of mana, doesn’t increase the number of targets it can kill before it dies enough to warrant it, and is much more of a liability for you

Advantages: Fastest kill rate! This method is great for farming money, if you are killing something that drops good vendor trash. By the time your charmed pet has killed the mob you targeted, you should have regenerated the cost of root + slow back (assuming u have breeze or ideally clarity). And killing your charmed pet only costs 1 invis and 1 root/nuke if planned well, so this means you should be able to NON-STOP KILL! If you have a super strong pet you want to keep you can mez/blur it to heal it back up but I personally don’t do this much because even with blur it can take a while for it to get its health back. But at higher levels some chanters do this a lot

Disadvantages: Pet is stealing 50% exp! You only get full exp when you kill your charmed pet, the others are only 50% exp. So while this method is less mana intensive than reverse charming and should have a faster kill rate, it does come at an exp loss. Just like when you had a super strong animation pet in your early levels though, your kill rate should be high enough to where even with this exp loss you are still getting very good exp/hour!

2. reverse charming!: There’s a few kinds of this, and all are more mana intensive in my experience than the method above. Let’s go over each type

a.) The simplest type is where you try to get your pet and it’s target’s health down at the same rate, and one method you can try is to use /pet sit to make your pet take extra damage if it’s winning the fight, or do things like slow/stun it’s target if it’s losing. Then, always make sure the pet’s target is rooted, then break charm, kill your pet and its target. This will require at least 2 nukes and probably another root or 2, so it is more mana intensive

Advantages: you get full exp! Disadvantages: More mana intensive and I found my killrate suffers when doing this method due to having to stop and med

b.) Cycling weak or weakened pets. Here’s where you start by selecting a pet that you know probably won’t win the fight as your charmed pet, such as something lower level. Charm it then send it against something higher level, when it is sub-20% hp, break charm (making sure it’s target is rooted the entire time), kill your pet, then charm the hurt target as your new pet. Since the target is probably around 50% exp, it is probably going to lose the fight now, so send it against something full hp, and rinse-repeat. This is what people usually are referring to when they say “reverse charming”. The advantage is you always get 100% exp, the disadvantage is the nukes to kill your pet are really expensive unless you want to try to get its health super low to where you can downgrade your nuke but this risks the pet dying before it can be pulled back, and I find reverse charming is a bit slower than the first method I listed, but still probably the best overall exp/hour

UNLESS you do c.) Make a steroid mob and use it to reverse charm. This should be the fastest possible exp but is slightly more dangerous than reverse charming. This is where you find the highest level thing huh can safely charm, then charm it and HASTE it with your highest level haste spell. Here’s a good spot to talk about how to safely break charm in an area with room to move such as an outdoor zone. I would not recommend this method in dungeons! The way to safely break charm with a hasted monster pet is to use the /pet guard here command. Plant that steroid monster somewhere WAYYYY THE F away from you, then break charm and root it before it can close the distance to you. This way you don’t have to risk taking hits even with color spray/shift. Then charm something weaker and send it in to get wrecked against the steroid monster you created. And repeat. You better keep that other one rooted! You can use mez/blur to heal it back up. I personally don’t use this method often, there’s another variety you can do in dungeons involving rooting a group of mobs and sending the pet into those to almost die, killing the pet, charming one of the rooted ones, repeat. That’s the indoor version


** Ok before I leave off with charming I’ll just put a reminder, if you want to safely break charm indoors without taking much or any damage, you are going to need to get a GCD resetting device such as rod of insidious glamour or a spy scope and hotkey it. This way you can invis, GCD reset, color spray/shift, GCD reset, root, back up and safely nuke it down. I personally prefer to use root to gain distance rather than mez (unless against a caster which will begin to either nuke you or heal itself) because I’ve found mez can blur the mob when I don’t want it to, making it need extra nukes to kill it. At lower levels with faster casting nukes u might not even need to root, just color spray/shift, GCD reset, nuke it dead before it can move


Last part, how to safely dungeon crawl!:

You only need three things for this! One is the spell Calm (or pacify but calm works), the other is the spell illusion: gnome, and the last thing is your keyboard!

Use illusion gnome on yourself to gain “gnome vision” which is the ability to see through walls. Then as you explore the dungeon with invisibility on, mash your face into the walls outside a room to see what’s in there. If it’s multiple mobs, look at the name of the one closest to you and type /tar [it’s name]. You don’t need the full name, just like the first 2-3 letters. This will select that mob from outside the room. Now cast calm on it, which will work from OUTSIDE the room. Now drop target and try to move around outside the room to where a DIFFERENT mob is now the closest thing to you (the /target command always looks for the closest thing in a line to you) , and type /tar [it’s name]. Then cast calm on it. With some careful and clever positioning you should be able to select each mob from outside the room and calm each one. Then just decide which order they die in! [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]


I might add some extra tips as I think of them, but I was typing this all up on my phone and my fingers are tired. Best of luck to any newbie chanters