Coming back and want to play an ENC almost 100% solo, any tips?

[Cribanox]

Right now I'm level 5 and running around misty thicket (bears, wolves, snakes) and using my pet.

Are there any guides or suggestions as to how I should solo and where? possibly until 30-40+

[loramin]

There are several class-specific guides, which you can find here on the wiki (http://wiki.project1999.com/index.php?title=Players:Adventure#Enchanter). However the best hunting spot guide (in my not-so-humble opinion) is the Per-Level Hunting Guide (http://wiki.project1999.com/Per-Level_Hunting_Guide).

This guide has more than a hundred different spots for people to hunt, either solo or in a group. I can't guarantee it has every spot, but it has most of them, and if you see one missing you can easily add it yourself (it's a wiki after all).

Also many of the spots with good charm-able pets nearby are marked with a http://wiki.project1999.com/images/thumb/Spellicon_U.png/25px-Spellicon_U.png icon, which should help you as an Enchanter ... although most of them are spots charm-able animals (ie. good for Druids or Enchanters).

[Estu]

Use your pet until you can charm, then charm and don't look back. Outdoor zones, especially early on, are good because they give you more space between yourself and the monsters you're working with, so when stuff breaks, you have breathing room to deal with it. Later on, you'll want to graduate to dungeons for the better loot and EXP, once you have the tools (better spells and gear) to deal with sticky situations indoors.

[Ando]

Once you get into your teens / low 20s it is worth your while to spend some time farming cash / CHA items. Charisma makes charm soloing so much more efficient and safe. A crude stein from oggok is 15 CHA and can be often found on merchants there once you get an evil race illusion.

Charisma player made jewelry is also another cheap option.

[Sadre Spinegnawer]

Having played an enchanter main on live, and in eq2, and on prog servers, and now here, I gotta say, while soloing can be fun, soloing an enchanter you will miss out on the fact that everyone loves you and wants you in their group. I might even want to argue, it is part of the class. You make others better, more powerful, and you enable them to go into places that are unmanageable without your skills (nerf bards).

Of course, have fun in this sandbox however you want :) But seriously, lots of people are making sad faces right now, at the thought of an enchanter who won't be in their exp group.

Always remember: as an enchanter, YOU ARE LOVED.

[gildor]

one tip, go dark elf...the faction sucks yes, but you have hide which can be very useful in charming

[Samoht]

one tip, go dark elf...the faction sucks yes, but you have hide which can be very useful in charming

yeah... no. dark elf racial is completely marginalized by Goblin Gazughi Ring. this is more important than gimping your stats.

[gildor]

because racial starting stats matter at all by the time you can afford the Goblin Ring? agnostic dark elf can walk anywhere with illusion, so..

for a starting player, who cannot drop the 6-8k on the ring, dark elf helps

[Samoht]

success rate of hide is trash, anyway. by the time it works, you could have already dispelled your pet or invised yourself.

not worth.

[Errakus]

one tip, go dark elf...the faction sucks yes, but you have hide which can be very useful in charming

Do not go Dark Elf. Hide is almost worthless, works <30% of the time.

[DrKvothe]

The charisma difference between high elf and dark elf means it's more expensive to hit your charisma target as a dark elf. You can break charm other ways.

[Errakus]

Stat wise you should be Erudite or High Elf, that's really it. Agnostic Deity.

[Sadre Spinegnawer]

success rate of hide is trash, anyway. by the time it works, you could have already dispelled your pet or invised yourself.

not worth.

hide fails a lot. i just sit, mem invis in my ffa slot, cast, done. takes 10 seconds. advising players to choose DE b/c of hide is misleading. It is a marginal racial skill, fails a lot, and if you class gets invis.... It's just a lot of eq woo, the de hide ability. Only slightly more powerful a racial ability than their native night vision ;P

[maskedmelon]

Do not go Dark Elf. Hide is almost worthless, works <30% of the time.

This. Also chanter solo sucks from about 3-12. The. It sucks less and becomes better ^^

[Kandykiss]

Yes. If at all possible literally beg someone for bone chips till like 10, and your life will be so much better. Those super low levels are no fun for any class, but out of the classes I have played at low levels, it's the worst on enchanter. The dark elf racial is nice, but not dependable. In the short run you will do better with a high elf ( which is much better looking that a erudite ) or an erudite. But if you go really far, once you get equipped with BiS in like 2 years, the starting stats don't matter and you will get GGR eventually and hide wont matter. So there are pros and cons to DE. I don't find it worth it for the most part, but everyone is different.

[Samoht]

Yes. If at all possible literally beg someone for bone chips till like 10, and your life will be so much better. Those super low levels are no fun for any class, but out of the classes I have played at low levels, it's the worst on enchanter.

really? because you can solo pretty much any blue/yellow con with choke + animation

[DrKvothe]

Just find a partner who isn't dumb before lvl 12. You can pull/cc. Get hit once so your animation goes in, let your partner do the rest of the killing, and you focus on using lull/mez/fear to fight one mob at a time.

You're going to either lose half your exp to downtime or half your exp to your pet, so you might as well partner up and split the exp with a buddy instead.