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Originally Posted by Puskara
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When starting on P99 I tried to do my homework since I wanted to play something entirely new. I rolled a Erudite ENC and followed the advice of Loraen's Enchanter Guide regarding stat point distribution (Thus 25 into CHA & 5 into AGI).
I recently hit 21 and decided to start practicing charming and the first evening was a real bear. I was with my regular partner (19 Cleric) and we spent most of the time with our mana bars low and with my health bar swinging pretty wildly. Its not even that charm breaks too often it is just that between keeping charm up, debuffing mobs, and keeping our little party buffed I was chronically low on mana.
I read stories of people charming blues and chain killing whites and yellows and this seems to defy all possibility. Mind you we were in Najena and as such could not necessarily choose which mobs we would be engaging like we would if we were outside in a wide open area.
I know there has been loads of debate regarding CHA and its usefulness. I am wondering if I am overreacting or if I should have put some/all of those 25 CHA points into INT. I'm not keen on the idea of re-rolling but I am also not thrilled by the idea of struggling because I made an error in character creation. Thoughts? |
Basically all chanter charming before 40 works best when you are VERY particular about the level of the stuff you're fighting. Even with tash, stuff that's level 20 is going to be quite annoying to XP on when you're level 21. But at 23, it'll probably be a cakewalk.
And like has been said, trying to keep a single pet healed and buffed and using it to kill stuff is going to be hard on mana and slow XP compared to using 2-3 mobs at a time, rooted, to beat each other down, recharming if needed, and finishing off stuff with a nuke after you break charm when they are low on HP. Communicate with your cleric partner so you can time stuns, roots, nukes so you aren't both casting the same spell and wasting time and mana.
I'm kicking myself for not doing videos sooner, cause I spent most of 20-30 in Najena (albeit solo, not duo) back near Najena killing goblins, spiders, and skeletons, and you could have seen how I was making it work back there. It has been my favorite XP spot so far with my new chanter
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