Enchanter Gear

[Jmcwrestling]

Hey there, so I am looking at starting an enchanter soon and have decided to play either and Erudite or a Human. However I am not totally sure what gear I should be looking for. I have a decent amount of money to spend but just need some direction. I have gathered that CHA should be my main focus? I currently have about 70+ cha with random pieces I have grabbed/scavenged.

I will update later with exactly what I have since i believe that will be helpful!

But any advice on stats i should look for or any other insight would be appreciated!

[Pyrion]

For an enchanter the race is just a selection of base stats and a starting position. You can look like any race pretty soon.

Stat wise erudite and high elf compete for best. Erudite is best if you just add up int and charisma while high elf has better starting charisma (which is your most important stat). The starting position is not really great for erudite (although it got better with the warrens). Of course you can just travel, so its no biggie.

[Luminious]

My advice for stats is to focus on CHA, HPs and INT in that order.

Keep rune on yourself all the time when soloing.

Don't underestimate pacify and memblur spell lines.

[trite]

All starting points into CHA...

[-Catherin-]

A decent amount of money is ambiguous and can mean a lot of different things to different people. How much exactly are you looking to spend?

Ice silk armor is some of the best "twinkable" droppable stuff you will find though.

As far as stat focus I have always gone HP>CHA>AC>INT/MANA with cha and hp being given pretty equal value. you want to get your cha to at least 200 and start dumping as much into hp as you can beyond this. The other stats you just add in if you can without hurting the primary ones too much.

[Tuljin]

Buying a full set of Ice Silk I think crosses the line of "decent amount" of money into "pure twink" money but it is excellent if you can pony up for it. The robe alone sells for 20k+ and I saw a cap in EC last night selling for 8k.

There are a few odd pieces out there that are great for nub Encs and don't break the bank at all. A couple I can think of is the Loam Encrusted Veil which has some CHA and 20 raw HP. Another is the Spider Fur-Lined Boots which have 5 CHA and 45 raw HP yet sells for under 500pp because nub. HP/Mana jewelery is not a bad choice for wrists either and get yourself a set of HP rings and some swappable CHA rings.

There are a lot of options but really levels will help you way more than CHA for your calms, and pure HP is king for a very long time while you're leveling.

[Man0warr]

HP > CHA > everything else

Some cheap options for equipment (each under 1k plat, some are as low as 150-300plat):

55 HP rings (Platinum Fire Wedding Ring)
Opalline Earrings
Sarnak Arcane Fetish
Siryn Hair Hood
Elliptical Veil
Rod of Insidious Glamour (Quest for yourself in the 30s, but cheap if bought)
Stein of Moggok (can quest at level ~12)
A Crude Stein (free if you find someone killing ogre guards in Feerrott)
Drake-Hide Leggings
Gatorscale Sleeves/Embroidered Black Sleeves
Embroidered Black Cape
Spider Fur-Lined Boots
Robe of the Ishva
Braided Cinch Cord
Dusty Bloodstained Gloves
Woven Grass Bracelets

If you do have some money to spend, I'd get a J-Boots MQ before any of that except maybe the 55 hp rings.

[Malone88]

HP > CHA > everything else

Some cheap options for equipment (each under 1k plat, some are as low as 150-300plat):

55 HP rings (Platinum Fire Wedding Ring)
Opalline Earrings
Sarnak Arcane Fetish
Siryn Hair Hood
Elliptical Veil
Rod of Insidious Glamour (Quest for yourself in the 30s, but cheap if bought)
Stein of Moggok (can quest at level ~12)
A Crude Stein (free if you find someone killing ogre guards in Feerrott)
Drake-Hide Leggings
Gatorscale Sleeves/Embroidered Black Sleeves
Embroidered Black Cape
Spider Fur-Lined Boots
Robe of the Ishva
Braided Cinch Cord
Dusty Bloodstained Gloves
Woven Grass Bracelets

If you do have some money to spend, I'd get a J-Boots MQ before any of that except maybe the 55 hp rings.

Great list here.

A few items to add:

Incandescent Mask (quest)
Mystic Cloak (quest)
Loam Amice (Shoulders)
Loam Shoes
Loam Bracers
Blackened Crystalline Robe

[trite]

Don't get the jboot mq first that's bad advice, 200cha first !! you will be able to farm jboots yourself later. What you want to do is be a real enchanter who keeps a pet in group situations

all starting points into CHA or you will regret it at the end game and only makes your life easier in the mean time....

[Man0warr]

Nah, way faster exp by charm soloing than grouping. Jboots (or SoW potions) saved me a ton of deaths/travel/lost time.

Hell, the Goblin Gazughi ring may be an even better investment than Jboots.

[Vondra]

I'm coming back to this game pretty soon but I can tell you what I did a few years ago, because nothing has changed regarding leveling an ench.

My first char was a druid so I had some cash for my enchanter.

HPS! Not cha, hps. That's what will get you through your leveling experience. Cha is useful but that's more a stat you use for optimizing purposes. At lev 60 I have 255 cha and you should too, but you aren't level 60. You're going to get hit in the face a lot as a n enc and minor mez success/charm duration increases don't mean much compared to +hp on gear.

Also as an ench, be a dark elf. If you didn't pick dark elf, delete and start over, being able to hide to instant break charm is superior to all other races. I made my character a high elf and I have a really nicely geared level 60 high elf enc that I may reroll because dark elf is just better.

For perfectly optimized velious characters that are dark elf enchanters, roll up a DE ench with +sta +cha. Of course it doesn't mean shit because enchanters just stand around and buff people but bleah. I'm Veyrana and I remember carrying a bunch of really shitty TMO players that didn't know what they were doing through their levels in sebilis so their shitty magician players could somehow learn to do /pet back. I actually stopped grouping with people because I was tired of fucking magicians being garbage and not wanting to deal with them. Magician players are such shit. Don't be one, that's the symbol of ass.

[Samoht]

Also as an ench, be a dark elf. If you didn't pick dark elf, delete and start over, being able to hide to instant break charm is superior to all other races.

No. The Dark Elf hide is far from an "instant charm break" because the hide only works about 15% of the time or so. It can actually take several minutes to successfully break a charm. That's far from instant. The correct answer is the Goblin Gazughi Ring, even if you're a DE.

roll up a DE ench with +sta

Also a nope. Do not put starting points into STA. The return on HP per STA for a pure caster is basically meaningless. You'd actually be better served to put the points into STR than STA, but the best place to put them would be INT.

[-Catherin-]

Dark Elf Hide - Instant Charm Break, 25% of the time! :p

High Elf, all into CHA, 5 into INT. Goblin Gazughi Ring all the way.

[Crawdad]

Buying a full set of Ice Silk I think crosses the line of "decent amount" of money into "pure twink" money but it is excellent if you can pony up for it. The robe alone sells for 20k+ and I saw a cap in EC last night selling for 8k.



Just started seeing Ice silk gear pop up as well. Anybody know the state of farming ice burrowers? I imagine now that the combines are in game, these are fairly well farmed since they aren't particularly difficult. Rather farm some silk than shell out 20k for a robe.. that damn sexy robe.

[-Catherin-]

Just started seeing Ice silk gear pop up as well. Anybody know the state of farming ice burrowers? I imagine now that the combines are in game, these are fairly well farmed since they aren't particularly difficult. Rather farm some silk than shell out 20k for a robe.. that damn sexy robe.

Ice burrowers are a pain and the silks are rare. So hardly farmed at all. I'll solo them when im bored but getting the silk together is a long process. (robe needs 6 of them) And then with trivials in the mid 300s expect to need more than the minimum amount of silk.

The other materials will run you a lot per combine too. platinum thread and 4 rubies to create the proper enchanted vial.

Then there is getting proper tailoring, which really should be no less than 250

really nice chanter armor though.

[Man0warr]

Racial hide seemed closer to 50% for me. Was good enough to get to ~55ish via charm soloing.

Ring is obviously better. The difference between the enchanter races just isn't big enough if you pick Agnostic and allocate your starting stats correctly.

[kgallowaypa]

As a 55 DE enchanter, I will say that I didn't make any mistakes in my creation. I am actually glad that I decided to go for a dark elf as my first main toon on P99 for one reason:

No starting plat.

Sure the gaz ring is great...once you are high enough to camp it yourself or have another plat farming char, then roll a HIE or ERU chanter. (Coming up with ~7k plat as a main toon can be rough to amass considering enchanters are the most gear-dependent caster class.) That being said, having control to break charm when you wants it to break is essential, especially when you are starting to solo 46+ zones by yourself. As you will come to find really quickly, the unexpected break in root or charm when your not paying attention can have you seeing death really fast if you cant control your mobs. (See howling Stones Soloing)

That being said, acquiring plat can be rough until your late 40's, early 50's (And were talking about thousands of plat to get good full Loam gear and rare spells.)...Also don't focus on getting your epic unless you are in a guild that can help you with the major stuff. I started collecting my epic pieces once I hit 46 but even at 55-60, Verina and Vessel will be the bane of your existence.

My opinion on the core gear to get. Of course the goblin ring is invaluable if you don't have hide already on a DE, but forcing a charm break by swapping that extra spell slot for an IVU/invis is tedious..and it doesn't account for when charm or root breaks, which for some reason is always a 80%chance things don't happen as you expect when your playing as an enchanter past lvl 40 :)

TLDR -- Rolling a DE chanter if this is your first toon on p99 is a great thing because you have access to somewhat break charm while still medding. If you already have a money-making char, min/max your next enchanter make an ERU or HIE for the CHA bonus upfront.