If I had a chanter at 12, I'd prove to you that you're wrong. Even at that low of a level, charming works better overall. Don't get me wrong. It's NOT fantastic like it is in the 40s+. Charm durations are wonky and outright resists happen because of level ranges of blues at that point, and your mana bar and regen are so low that casting a root or a mez is painful, let alone a recharm or an extra nuke. But it's still better than using an animation.
The 12 animation is about as tough as the dark blues you'll XP on at 12. But you don't have any debuffs worth casting to help him. Blurring and nuking to snipe XP isn't really viable at this low of a level, your pet can hardly live through two fights if he is going toe to toe (and then you're likely not getting full xp anyway), your pet doesn't do much damage if you pull aggro with nukes so you'll be burning extra mana to get kills, using runes pre-fight is a huge mana hog that'll force you to med a lot without helping you get full xp kills, etc.
And as you get higher, even when you start to get a slow worth casting and feedback and whatever else, the mobs just grow in power so much faster than your animation that it's just never faster XP to use it than it is to charm and watch two mobs beat each other down while you med 50 yards away. Watch my video I did in CT at 31, charming gators. I was killing 2-3 dark blue gators per fight, on less than a full mana bar, for full xp, in fights that lasted like 90 seconds. There's just no way you can do that sort of thing with an animation.
The animation has its uses. But getting xp faster than you can by charming isn't one of them, at 12 or at 60 or anywhere inbetween... unless you're charming wrong.
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