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Old 02-17-2014, 07:57 PM
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What level do you think an enchanter needs to reach to give it an honest shot? I know they increase in power dramatically as they increase in level.
You'll have the first versions of most of your signature tools by level 16 (Breeze, haste, charm, mez, root, slow, Tash, etc). But what makes Enchanters so powerful isn't the tools per se, but rather how they scale. The best example, which I'm shamelessly paraphrasing from Loraen's guide, is with slows: a 25% debuff on a mob that hits for 40 is barely worth the mana. A 70% slow on a mob that hits for 120 turns Rangers into viable tanks.

By 20 you can charm a mob that hits half again as hard as a mage or necro's pet. By 30 everyone you group with will love you for your buffs. By 40 you start to see the gains in mana efficiency (how many other classes have a level 4 spell that costs 20 mana that they never stop using?). By 50 everything at your fingertips makes you feel like a god. By 60, you pretty much are one.