Enchanter animations, when are they preferred over charmed mobs?

[Striiker]

I used an animation for soloing up to the lvl 39 charm spell. Charm at lower levels was broken when compared to how live was in 99/2000 and I do not know if this was fixed yet.. Soloing was slower with the animation and I had to make some changes to methodology but it worked well. (my preference was always to group so soloing was for nights when I was on for an hour at most)..

At high level, the animation is limited in usefulness but they are still broken out for fights with some planar mobs and dragons etc. which can agro via an AoE (as others have pointed out).