I have to disagree with the above charm methods. Here's how I did it as a druid and IMO the most efficient way to do it if you have plenty of animals to work with (e.g. in EK):
1) Grab a pet. Should be the lowest dark blue you can find that isn't light blue. Only way to really tell this is from experience with the zone and knowledge of different mobs' levels.
2) Find any other mob. Can be dark blue, even con, or yellow. Doesn't need to be an animal. Experiment and see what works best for you, but the method below does not change.
3) Snare the enemy mob and send your pet at it. Manage aggro between your pet and the mob by using Flame Lick, Snare, or similar cheap, high-aggro spells. The idea here is that you want both mobs to be low HP at the same time. When you don't want your pet to be taking hits, you should be aggro kiting. This is preferable to fear because it is more reliable; there is no danger of your kite going somewhere you don't want it to go. Also, you don't need to worry about your spells being resisted because the aggro is the same regardless (I think).
4) When both mobs are low HP, break charm (Hide does the trick if it works, Invis to Animals is fine too) and kill both mobs with DoTs. Use the lowest mana cost DoT that still kills them; you generally don't need to waste mana on your best DoT at this point since their HP will be low.
Benefits of this method: 1) You only need one animal to charm. 2) You don't waste mana healing your pet. 3) Every spell you cast here is cheap mana-wise. 4) You have a lot of freedom in whatever mob you target to kill. 5) You get two kills every time you do this method, and generally speaking have very little downtime before you can go on to do it again. 6) It's safe and reliable.
Having charmed as both and enchanter and a druid, I have to say that a druid is a way better charmer, given that you can find a place with plenty of animals to charm, because you have tools like snare and SoW at your disposal allowing you to manage aggro between your pet and yourself. Enchanter charming is more versatile (in that you don't need to target animals), but much dicier in other ways: you need to worry about what mob dies first, what to do if one mob dies while the other has a lot of HP left, and so on. With a druid, you can guarantee both mobs die at the same time, which is a huge benefit.
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