From a lot of the threads I read about this issue, there was the idea that lower charisma would increase the chance of fear landing. That was credibly debunked by a few studies with posted results (I only refer to studies with posted results b/c otherwise you have no data to make a concrete conclusion. I guess there is always a chance that somone would post false data but posting pages and pages of boring data to do so would require an awkward persona)
I do believe that on p1999 that necro and druid charm does not check charisma b/c some of the forum posts referring to a patch that changed it. I just want to read the patch notes myself because I am interested in the wording of it and also hoping to locate who worked on the patch. But, in original EQ live a few druid testing with charm did show a DRASTIC change in resists of the initial cast of the charm landing or not (seriously, it went from about 30% of the time resisting to almost 0% and sometimes 0% in some studies) and also about a 7% extension of the duration of the charm. Which sounds like that would make a lot sense because as the charm continues, the checks become more and more difficult to make. Henceforth, the checking order of Creature LVL, MR, and finally charisma would mean that in terms of duration, the charisma shouldn't extend it too much when it did play a role. (Extra Note: For enchanters it was around 10% extension because charisma had more of an effect on charms than druid/necromancer charms)
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