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Originally Posted by MaCtastic
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Since hitting 49, I've tried using an animation vice using a charmed pet. It may not be the most efficient XP wise, but with haste,slow,dot,stun... I can kill nearly as fast, way safer, and with much more mana afterwards. Any thoughts?
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I think you're just not using charm the right way.
As was discussed very recently in another thread here, the animation can be useful. Low levels, when there's nothing to charm, if you just don't like charming, if you're farming lower-level stuff, if you're on a corpse run (and went to get tiny daggers from your bank!), and more. It can even be used to xp, yes. But I think you're understating the XP difference by saying "it may not be the most efficient XP wise," instead of "it's bad XP but I don't mind it" or something.
IME using the animation to kill stuff, yeah, you need to buff him up, and debuff the hell out of your enemy, AND your enemy has to be very low blue con or else it'll still force you to be casting enough runes or nukes to help your pet that you end up using more mana than you would just killing two higher cons with charm in the same time and for full XP.
People who say that charming for XP is dangerous are, imho, just not charming in the right places/ways. There are so many places with tons of open space you can charm for XP. And when you have open space, charm is not dangerous if you're decently on the ball. When I leveled my enchanters, I hardly even used roots until I was up near 50 and pulling 4+ things at a time, because as long as you're not somewhere like sola or lguk or some other cramped dungeon, you have so much room that you can sit safely at max casting range and have PLENTY of time to get off a spell to keep you from ever getting hit after a charm break. Stuff happens sometimes... adds, resists... but that can happen with an animation too. Maybe charming still does end up being a bit more dangerous, but the payoffs are enormous if you're not really, really dead set on safety.
IIRC I leveled Noman in kerra, najena, paw, nurga (droga? i can't remember), cc, com, perma, hs that I can remember off the top of my head? Every one of those dungeons has room to be charming for XP at max casting range usually or always, and you're only ever very rarely forced to fight in tight quarters (as in, you're getting smacked the instant a charm breaks). There's almost no reason to die charming that you don't run into trying to XP with an animation also.