I'd recommend you go High Elf, as enchanters have the ability to take on any appearance (so you can go gnome for wall-peek). HEF also look pretty cool as enc.

I went ERU because the raw INT attracted me, and ENCs get CHA buffs earlier on - but I do think I would have preferred HEF.

It's worth noting that, if you intend to solo in dungeons as an enchanter, you will eventually find yourself doing a naked CR. Even the most careful enchanters with WC hats will have an whoops or two now and then.

You'll be very glad you went High Elf with a bunch of CHA - my base is 110. With the self-buff to CHA that's 160. Some enchanters bank a bit of CHA gear to help with CR's; you'll need less of it and it makes a HUGE difference on lulls as you're trying to get back to your body. Howling Stones comes immediately to mind.

High Elves get more CHA
Dark Elves get innate hide

play what you have fun with :)

not a good idea to base your charisma on ring slots imo. Those slots are the easiest slots to get magic resists or hitpoints. I'd be sticking to the 5/55 rings or djarns there and swapping in MR rings when needed.

Loam shoes and shoulders are great for their slots for charisma.

You are correct about planar gear. That's alot of charisma for a non-planar enchanter, as you get planar gear you would want to start swapping out cha items for int/mana/hp. I'd lose the opaline earrings for crafted hp/mana immediately out of that setup.

Remember at high levels the self charisma buff is very large at 40, and the shaman cha buff is even bigger at 55 if you're in a raid.

i chose human because ive always wanted to be one irl. lol, jk... str is a high commodity though, and human shouldnt be overlooked.

one down side to this, though, is that night-blindness isnt around and this could ruin your experience

All you high elf fans make me feel gross. Dark elf is the true king of norrath

Raev is an erratic, hare-brained whacko who has been run off and dismissed by so many people it's not even funny at this point. He's tried to guild hop so many times and burned so many bridges along the way, one can not help but feel sorry for him. Truly one of 'P99's Finest.'

I wouldn't even pay attention to anything he says.

Yikes. But you told me you liked playing with me? Lol.


High elves are the best enchanters.

Hide is a small convenience for going afk safely in the spots here or there in the game where nothing sees hide... but soon we will get fixed-duration invis too for those. Hide for breaking invis works but is unreliable and not a big benefit.

The other races don't offer benefits that you can't get by just casting illusion, really.

High elves have the best charisma, and charisma is king. In Velious everyone will max int without raid gear, but short of uber gear, you won't find much more charisma than you have in Kunark, especially without making big sacrifices on other stats. That's the biggest reason I like high elves, though the extra charisma for CRs is pretty great too.

No way, man. None of that stuff should be more than a small annoyance.

Strengthen spell, earth elemental illusion, bedlam line, and WR bags make strength the least important stat, imo. More strength is just a small convenience that eventually is entirely a non-issue. Night blindness is handled with illusions or infravision/ultravision, if your client is even dark enough to worry about it in the first place.

High elves are the best!


No race should make a big difference though.

Rings should probably be AC, HP, or MR at high levels or when you are in very tight quarters. But a lot of enchanters level in outdoor zones or in dungeons like CoM or KC where there is enough room that you can stack the hell out of charisma for better lulls and charms and just keep distance between yourself and pets/mobs so that you're not getting hit in the first place.

My new chanter will be rocking charisma rings from the time he can afford them until he starts fighting summoners.