The power of a dru/enc duo is that the druid can keep the charmed pet perma-snared with the absurdly log duration of ensnare. This lets the enchanter safely charm much more powerful mobs and keep them hasted where this would otherwise mean automatic death on any charm break. This worked all the way up into fairly recent expansions - I remember doing it in Tipt and Vxed or whatever those GoD instances were called, charming mobs that quadded for 1100 per hit. Coupled with the decent healing and overall utility of the druid, it's a really solid duo. Cleric becomes better in Velious and onwards where you need CH to really heal the charmed pet noticeably, and you kinda need all three of these classes to truly exploit charm the way people did around 2003 or so. Technically you could just use enc/clr/rng which is what we did, but that's besides the point.
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