Charm, viable when?

[Dersk]

I started charming at level 12 in lavastorm, and continued to charm off and on until the 30s when I gave up on groups and just soloed with charm exclusively.

The 2nd time leveling up an enchanter on EQlive, I knew enough to take advantage of some game quirks. Mobs don't automatically get magical melee attacks until a certain level, and willowisps span that level, meaning the higher level wisps can be charmed and sent to attack their lower level variants while remaining immune to damage. I remember white cons at twelve being immune to the blue cons, but allakhazam lists the level range as 9-11, which contradicts those experiences. /shrug. At the very least, they should be able to kill snakes and spiders without trouble.

Somewhere between 14~16 I started charming girffawns in north karana, which I believe are levels 14 to 16. I could solo scythe beetles with them, but the problem is they were so high level I couldn't do so much as one point of damage (all spell resists). The point there being you can easily kill things 6 levels higher than you, that's how effective charm is at that level. It was dangerous, but on EQlive the beetles ran slower than everything else, so I only had to worry about mezzing then charming the griffawn.