Yeah among the mobs that can currently be dictated are Stanos Herkanor and General V'ghera. It's just ridiculous (Stanos in particular is not not slowable and therefore should be immune to magic period). I don't know if dictate on Sirran is classic or not, but its such a huge gaping balance flaw that I would like to see it eliminated. But the charm immunity of the normal trash mobs in Sky is not a balance issue at all.
I still say based on Xornn's enchanter guide our current charm durations for normal xp mobs are quite reasonable. OP, but it's clear that charm soloing (even with hasted pets) is viable in classic and should be viable here. Just because you didn't do it personally doesn't make it impossible - in fact after Kanras' nerf quite a few people (including me hehe) were seriously bitching about the new charm. Most of the people that still charm solo are the ones who rolled our toons before the nerf and just gradually got used to it; i notice a lot of new enchanters who only charm LB pets in a group.
I'm much more suspicious of mob damage and channeling skill - if channeling percentage was reduced by 20-30% that would make a huge difference in charm soloing. I also know mobs in general used to hit for more. Get some of your friends on EQ Mac to test stuff out!
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