Game Mechanics: fix charm

[guineapig]

There are two different but related things being discussed in this thread.

Ghesta for example is having an issue with charm breaking almost immediately with low charisma regardless of the fact that the magic resistance of the mob has been significantly reduced.

The other issue is about enchanters who can hold charms with full durations on a fairly consistent basis.

I will add one more part to this. When I got my first charm spell I too was experiencing the same issue of charms instantly breaking even after I tashed them. At the time my charisma was in the 130's. Now that I can get my charisma over 200 I don't have such issue.

I however, always make sure to ditch pet/stun/tash/recharm the mob the very moment that the original tash fades and I always keep my charisma buff on as well. (I am fairly meticulous about it.) On numerous occasions I have had charm break unexpectedly while tash was still on the mob. In nearly every instance it ended up being right after I changed out of a charisma gear item or my charisma buff dropped thereby lowering my charisma under 200.

As others have stated the issue is not with the spell itself (be it low level charm, high level charm, bard charm, chanter charm, druid charm, etc). The issue is how the game is calculating the importance of charisma over other things like magic resistance and mob level. The charisma check is taking precedence over everything else and 200 seems to be some sort of hard cap.


I'm curious if this is something that is related specifically to P1999 or if it's EQEmu wide?
has anyone played a charm class on any other emu servers that could shed some light for us?