[maegi]

I don't have great gear but at level 16 i had 167 cha and charm still blows to the point it's totally useless and unreliable as a soloing means. It lasts on average 3 ticks, sometimes 20 seconds usually less. As others have stated probably best to stick with the animations until 30. Chanters are very powerful 40+ , but you gotta be willing to die a lot to get there or play smarter and fight like a mage. Single pulls. Howver you can get single pulls a mage can't by using the Lull line of spells. So that part is easy. When whirl isn't such a mana hog, use that over anything else with singles. At 12 it's a mana hog so until 16+ you probably want to stick with root.