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Originally Posted by unsunghero
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That’s part of the appeal for me. It requires on the fly decisions about using what’s around to maximum effect. The first time I killed a cyclops I had to smash probably 6-7 different green and low blue mobs in succession with it because nothing around would have been able to tank and dps it, so I had to smash everything around me with it as a pet sometimes 2 mobs at a time until it was beat up enough that I could switch charm something else much weaker and finish it off
Sometimes you’ll discover a really underconned mob in the area, charm it and drag it across the map to another area with more targets where you can go on a killing spree with it. As long as you have high cha and are selecting the right type of mobs (light-dark blues ideally depending on your cha) charm lasts minutes minus the occasional unlucky break. And there’s no diminishing returns on charm. Eventually your Tashan will fade so you will want to break charm in a way you can control, then mez (which will heal the mob back to full if it blurred), then re-tash and re-charm. You can use the same mob for 4 straight hours if you are smart enough about re-charming
But yes there are situations where there aren’t 2 mobs close enough to be convenient. If you see just 1, it can be a pain, because this means whipping out the animation then ideally testing it against greens nearby to see what pet level you summoned, and keep reclaiming until you get at least the top 1-2 levels possible. This is what all the smart pet players do. Then buffing it with haste and ac then engaging the mob with it, slowing the mob, and doing some stuns as needed. It’s possible to solo kill this way, just a bit of slow setups that other pet classes with an already summoned pet wouldn’t have
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I have to admit that I'm getting more and more nervous, as the class is sounding more and more daunting, lol. Knowing of conditions upon conditions just to get kills, and having to succeed at that hundreds of times as you level...I'm not sure I can go through with it, lol.
It's a really cool class thematically, with all sorts of neat spell effects, and being that sinister manipulator playing with mind control is a neat fantasy, but I'm heavily doubting my ability to actually go through with this. It's just sounding really difficult to actually play and no one's really going to care or want to help if I end up dying over and over.