Having played a chanter on projectEQ and loving the 16min timer on Allure and then having to experience the higher level charms breaking after 4-7 minutes was not fun. I stopped using charm because it's NOT fun having to recharm a mob every couple minutes to use it. So I can understand the anger here. Also bare in mind that charms on projectEQ do not randomly break (at least not on my chanter they don't). Even with the Rune line of buffs it's not really enough to afford a recharm if you forget to plan ahead. And try staring at the timer every couple of seconds so you don't!!! (that's not fun) Higher level mobs pack a punch. My defense on projectEQ is low but I'm fairly sure that I could never make charming as useful and fun as it was with allure.
But I want to say something else. I played the Old Man Mckenzie missions in POK in 2009-10 on live. I loved playing the necro and chanter. In the OMM's you're level 50. I never charmed in the missions. But I made HEAVY use of blur and mezzes, something that I do not do on projectEQ (my chanter is 60+). So something happened between playing OMM's as a level 50 chanter on live in 2009-10 to playing a chanter on projectEQ. Playing a chanter in OMM's was fun because even though I never charmed I still felt useful and busy and it wasn't boring, but on projectEQ the only fun and useful part was the charming and when that was lost because allure couldn't charm above 55 then the class became a lot less interesting until I gained the pet aa commands at level 62.
If you're a chanter you should be mezzing and blurring. Without those things, you're little more than a buff bot. I am not sure why those things aren't important on projectEQ. Are they here? In OMM's it was very useful to be able ot mez and blur. I did that a lot as a chanter. The buffs were nice to. The pet was just a defensive thing that I barely payed attention to. The main thing was as a chanter I had lots of use in OMM missions.
Maybe it's just that the OMM's were well thought out. I wish the rest of the game was. I kid you not when I say that chanters were FUN in OMM's and very useful. So it's hard to explain what is wrong.
And btw... the chanter mezzed/blurred a lot in live/undead guk (the OMM missions). But even in nagafens lair I had to mes/blur sometimes and was still a big part of the group. Charming was rarely part of it. Of all the times I did OMM's, I only charmed a handful of times. I remember charming sonic bat in the lair because I was alone and needed its dps for a short time but not for regular use.
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