Yeah the thing with charisma is that it doesn't really matter how much it effects charm duration, because it definitely effects lull crit resist chance massively, so as a solo ench (which is what the op was asking about I believe) you will always want to prioritize it over int or raw mana. Dying at efreeti and then having to lull your way back in with no gear (and thus no extra cha other than your self buff) is a rough time. You'll probably notice there aren't a whole lot of items in the game that offer both int\mana and cha, and when they do they're pretty valuable.
On the topic of dying I'll reiterate: get used to it. You are going to die, especially solo, a lot. The good news is that the times you don't die, the mob dies instead and you get crazily valuable items. And even the times you do die, you probably learned something about what not to do next time. No amount of reading can really substitute for just screwing around with the class and seeing what it can and can't do.
|