I found the overthere... up against the western wall a good place to charm solo. The reason being that rather than keep killing your pet, you fear kite (yes without snare) and it works fine. The mobs tend to stay close to the wall and you dont get adds. Give your pet a couple of weapons so he dual wields, and haste and he will finish off the mobs in no time.
Dont worry about the 50% penalty or the crappy zem. You will mobs very quickly with no downtime. You will get plenty off xp. Cactus's seem pretty reliable as pets.
I suppose anywhere you can fear kite without adds is a potentially good place. It just depends on how the monsters tend to path and you need to experiment for that.
That said, I fond charming to be rather hit and miss at low levels, and extremely frustrating. To kill dark blues you need to be charming mobs reasonably close to your level, and you don't have a decent tash for either MR amount or duration. After you hit 20 and get a better tash it becomes much better, tho the fact that you still need to charm mobs relatively close to your level makes it unreliable. I guess some people will enjoy it. Me, I found it about as pleasant as hitting my head against a wall.
At high levels a charmed pet is great in a group. Charms regularly last for the full duration once you have the right spells and good charisma. MR debuffs from other classes help immensly too.
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