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Originally Posted by loramin
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C'mon man! That's patently not true!
Charming requires knowing how to chast charm, and how to break it. Effectively charming just requires understanding how pet XP distribution works (something people did in fact understand back then), and adding that knowledge in.
That's it! You charm mob A, break charm before you kill mob B, and your off getting decent solo XP. Pretty quickly anyone even trying that would figure out how to optimize it by killing off the charmed pet too.
Goblin Ghazughi Rings and everything else is nice, but the core of an Enchanter charming is Charm + Break Charm. And again, if Shaman could figure out Cann-dancing, Enchanters (AND Druids, Bards, and Necromancers!) could have figured out charming ...
... BUT THEY DIDN'T. So there's only two possibilities. The intellectually dishonest one, "they were dumb", or the honest one, which is "even if we got 99% of the mechanics around Enchanters right, something here isn't classic."
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If being able to charm solo means you're an effective charmer, then knowing how to sing hymn of restoration makes you an effective bard.
Of course, both those things are untrue. There is a lot more that goes into truly being "an effective charmer" than knowing how to kill 2 mobs at a time with charm in a safe area, just like there's more to being "an effective bard" than knowing how to sing one useful song while you go afk.
You're not being consistent anyways. You're claiming that charm soloing for exp is effective charming, then you're claiming that enchanters didn't figure charm out. What? Obviously chanters were charm soloing for exp on live. It's in era-appropriate guides and in comments and in logs. Either you have to admit that chanters did figure out charm back then, or you have to admit that charm soloing isn't the same as "having figured out charm." Both options support my take on things, not yours.