Druid Charm Soloing

[Kevlar]

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

To the comment about never snaring your pet? Terrible! Keep your pet esnared, or you certaintly won't be able to re-charm without being wrecked by your full run speed, hasted, stunning, w/e pet. Re-ensare (and glamour if you have it) after every time charm breaks.

The problem with snaring your pet is it makes aggro kiting impossibe. I have yet to find a mob that I can't get enough distance from to get off a grasping root unmolested. Plenty of time to recharm, then he is back to full speed in a minute or less.

If all you are doing is fear kiting snare will work, but for more difficult zones where there are lots of non-animals to deal with, aggro kiting is the way to go. Ensnare 4 or 5 victims and let your pet rape them from behind.

Pet tanking is a lot slower in the long run. Yes, you are going to kill two mobs, but if you just keep a single pet and aggro or fear kite your mana will never run dry. I waste about 500 mana on charm, haste, and chloro. Plus 4pp per pet for daggers. Then I don't use any more mana for 10-20 mins depending on how nice of a pet I have.

Your pet dps goes up possible 100 percent from dual wield, and an additional 70 pct from haste. Then you add in the fact that fear or aggro kiting takes away all of the target's mitigation, which is fairly significant since most of these mobs are high level warriors/tanks.