Pet weapon questions

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Originally Posted by Crede [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Enc gonna have more options with not relying solely on undead. And c2 + ToT(if casters around) can keep pace with lich, maybe even better? I don’t feel like doing the math. Both phenomenal classes though and imo everyone should play both.

I recently played my friend's Necro for a night, and after having played 60 Enchanter on p99 for years, I was blown away by how smoothly charming on a Necro goes.

Necro has a few tools that Enchanter doesn't that help with charming. The two biggest ones I've seen were the ability to Feign Death while your pet is charmed to reset it.

On my Enchanter: I will break charm, stun the mob, mez it, pacify it, and then repeatedly cast mem blur to blur it, for a total of 4 spells cast minimum, with maybe 2 mezzes and 2-3 mem blur casts. Once I see the 5% uptick in HP, I know it's reset. It costs about 200-250 mana minimum. (Or I will just Pacify my pet and /camp if there is no competition around).

On a Necro, I was able to just Pacify my pet and then Feign Death. Two spells cast, for less than 150 mana.

Another really neat thing about a Necro with epic is that you don't need mana to finish your pet when it's time to kill it. Once charm is broken, you just click your epic and the pet dies in a few ticks. If impatient there are some great undead nukes that are mana efficient to finish off Mobs, and of course Deflux.

Enchanter is still best at charming, obviously, but after having also played Druid, there are some tools that Druid have for charms that Enchanter could greatly benefit from. On an unintentional charm break for druid, it's really simple to use a short duration root, or use Panic Animal for 10 mana (while its Ensnared) to recast charm. Additionally, the damage shield clickie from the Tunare gloves works wonders. And of course clickies like Elder Spiritist Greaves for self-heals or pet heals without mana.

The more I played this game, the more I realized that power comes from not having to use mana in regular play, so that you can save it for "Oh Shit" scenarios. In that regard: both Necro and Druid have much better clickies available than an Enchanter does, but its balanced by the fact that Enchanter has many spells, including PBAE Stun, Slow, Mez, Boon of the Garou, etc.