Charm and enchanter soloing....

[NirrtiXXX]

How reliable is enchanter charm? How often does it break with high charisma? I can deal with playing an enchanter and dying, but if soloing relys on using a charmed pet that breaks and kills me too easily.....

[Esheon]

Check out the enchanter guides on the wiki. There are several solid tactics for minimizing the risks of charming. I charm on my druid and I do just fine... and enchanters get a LOT more in the way of charming tools. Between roots, mez, stuns, fears, and memblurs, you've got everything you need except snare. Once you master it, it's an excellent soloing method.

If you want it to be even safer, team up with a druid, necro, or ranger for snares, or a shaman for mala. People tend to knock on the druid/chanter combo, but it's really effective... pull with tash, get your pet on it (charmed or animation, doesn't matter), druid snares while you fear, then dotdotnuke. Either of you can root if something goes wrong, and depending on the zone both of you can charm.

I did a chanter/druid duo in SK a while back... I had a bull elephant, and I can't remember what she had. We were burning stuff down like crazy without even having to dot or nuke... I pulled with snare, she feared, we sicced both pets and sat down. When one of our pets broke, the other rooted or mezzed, the chanter refreshed tash, and the broken pet was recharmed. Adds were rooted or mezzed until we were ready for them. There was almost no downtime.

[Estu]

If you target low blue con mobs and you tash beforehand, it won't break very often, high charisma or not. If you're outdoors and are able to distance yourself from your pet, and/or you have JBoots/SoW potions, then you don't even have to worry about getting hit; if not, you can rely on AoE stuns and rune spells to manage charm breaks.