[Uteunayr]

EDIT: This is long, I am explaining the logic to my guide and why I selected the spots I did, and left charming to the end.

Correct.

There's a very specific path I took in writing the guide, as I wanted things to be heavily segmented. Even though there are places to charm in the first 55 levels, they are not too significant a gain, and there is still more to learn about the basics of soloing.

The guide is not simply a directing path, but an increasingly difficult educational tool for the new player. You start off relatively easy with Misty, making some cash, and basically learning about the pathing of fear kiting, especially in the presence of higher level mobs (that red guard that patrols). It leads into Kurns Tower, where you get the first feel for indoor fear kiting where you have to manage pathing when there are large numbers. It also introduces you to the earliest parts of root rotting, as well as stocking you up on bone chips for the rest of your leveling career.

Then you get dual aviak guards, which are about fear kiting by a zone line in which your fear can go behind the zone line, but in which you always have an escape. In other words, how do you pull two guys when you only mean to grab one? So this introduces fear juggling, maintaining eyes of two mobs. From there, it leads into the weakest part of my guide, and the part I am working on fixing currently, the bards from 24-31. This is simply a placeholder because I have not had a necro in those levels for some time, and it will be changed in the near future.

When you get to 31, you start learning how to pet pull, and you are again fear kiting in an area with an incredibly high level toon (that fucking halfling that runs right next to the wall). Additionally, it is good for monetary income. At 34, you get one of the most important spells, Screaming Terror, and you start to lose HP with the Lich spell line (if you're an Iksar), so it is around this time that the player will start learning about managing respawn timers. This is easier for Iksar, but for non-Iksar, you dont want to drag too far away or you lose too much mana, but stay too close, and you'll aggro the repop if you do not time them correctly.

Then it leads into Spectres, in which you get unparalleled efficiency, and should now be stretching your ability by seeing how far you can go with it. How many spectres can you pull in a 16 minute respawn? Can you handle the close quarters, the numerous spawns in the area, are you efficient enough to take 5? Can you pet pull to grab a number 6? Are you managing to keep track of all the respawn timers?

Lastly, you work on Bloodgills, which is fear kiting in three dimensions. Easy to see how that is the next stage of progression.

Then you get into Root Rotting, and start with the familiar, bloodgills. But from there, go into close quarters root rotting which pushes the abilities you learned at toll booth and introduces new ways to manage the split of 2 mobs, and how to stretch your mana pool to take more than that, such as with spectres, by stretching into multiple camps (bards, upstairs noble, front gate guard, etc).

Finally, if you've mastered all of this, you get to charming, which incorporates just about every skill discussed here, especially in Charasis Basement. If you've mastered the root rot, the fear kite, managing pathing, keeping track of respawn timers, and all that, then you are in a much better position to start charming.

Of course, that's not the only route. I simply have come to believe that charming is the most complicated of the forms, and so an introduction into each different situation a necromancer can encounter while soloing is essential.

My hope is it will make more Necromancers who are self-sufficient, who understand the core fundamentals of their class, and that the camps my guide recommends will put them into a diverse number of situations which will develop and hone their skills for use at 60 to solo just about anything a necromancer could.

There are other routes, this was just the most clear to achieve the aforementioned goal.