Druid charm animals

[Sedanis]

I think I remember doing this on my Druid in live back in Velious on the Walrus's. I thought I'd keep the mob the pet was attacking snared, and always be prepared to snare my pet when charm broke in case I wanted to kite.

It's nice because you can damage shield on your pet, so even a blue con can be useful to attack white con mobs.

Isn't there a risk of your pet dying or you not doing enough damage to it to get exp?

[Orov]

I'm not certain but I think when that happens its like the same thing as a monk taking something down to 1% and FD'ing. I did have a pet earlier go down below 30% before charm broke and I deffo got exp when I killed the former pet.

[Scrooge]

Charming opens up so many doors, it's one of those abilities you really must reinforce until you feel comfortable with it in any situation.

[insum]

Charm was never this bad on live, I know this because its all I ever did in NK for a lot of my levels past lvl 24, this was before Kunark too. (It got even easier in kunark and there were new zones to charm in, I spent a lot of time in EJ)

I also used to solo in Permafrost at around lvl 28 charming the wolves near the archeologist but on p1999 its imposible as charm lasts 5 seconds if your lucky. Even charming a lb or green mob charm only lasts a few seconds, all charm does right now (at least the lower/mid level charms) is waste mana. Your better off not bothering with charm till your lvl 50 by the look of it.

[Taluvill]

For charm to be viable, you need to be 50 with 165ish unbuffed cha so that the shaman/chanter buff brings you over 200.

Its kind of stupid as it stands because 165 will not let anything worthwhile last for more than a minute or two.

[Scrooge]

If you always "play safe" you'll never realize your full potential.