Another Druid Charming Thread

[sixteenmiles]

I could use some tips to improve my charm kiting.

Picked up Befriend Animal at 14 and was excited to try it out. Looked up details for Charm Kiting using this guide. Guide suggested Elephants in South Karana which was an absolute joke because when I made my way out there they all conned red. But I'm a new player who hasn't played since classic so I trust the guide as I'm sure it knows better than I do. That lost me a bunch of experience in deaths trying to get Elephants to work. Gave up and moved to East Karana instead.

East Karana was also a hellish experience because charm didn't last long enough on most mobs to finish a fight, resulting in a lot of aborted attempts. Also, if any roaming mobs decided to join in the fight it pretty much resulted in a run for the zoneline and/or death. I lost a lot more experience than I gained for the first day of trying. It took about two more days to get level 16. I probably would have done better mass farming green orcs in crushbone and turning in belts.

Anyway, things are starting to get easier but it's still not quite the experience that I see other people make it out to be. I've heard charm kiting being referred to as "Endless Killing" but for me it seems the opposite.

At the moment I'm casting "Befriend Animal", which costs about 20% of my mana. I'm putting my pet on a mob, sitting to med, and then rooting it at low life which costs about 10% of my mana. The health is usually mismatched between the two mobs, so when I break charm I put Stinging Swarm on the highest health opponent, which costs about 30% of my mana, and then I beat the other enemy to death with my sword to try and conserve mana. I take a bunch of damage getting beaten on by two mobs until they die. Then I get my 2% experience.

I can probably repeat this one more time before being completely drained of mana and having to sit and heal for 10 minutes. If another mob joins in the fight it's still a case of aborting and running for the zoneline. If charm breaks, same thing.

So it's taking me about 10-15 minutes to make 2%-4% experience, if I don't have to waste time running for my life (which I do... a lot!). Is this normal? Is this considered "Endless Killing" or am I doing something wrong?

Cheers for any advice.