Level 17 druid: where and how to solo/duo?

[A1551]

not a druid (chanter) but some basic tips for charming, specifically solo. Generally you wanna keep things rooted or snared to reduce your risk of bad things happening when charm breaks randomly. That includes your pet. Druid is good at both obviously, and running away too.

Second, a big one, is managing the exp penalty. If you charm something you want two things to beat each other almost to death, then you want to kill your pet FIRST then the target mob. The reason is if your pet kills the target first, you'll lose half the exp to pet penalty (this only happens solo). By breaking and killing your pet, you get full exp for your pet, and then full exp for the target. It's a bit of added risk but well worth it.

Also, anything that reduces your pet's MR will increase your charm duration.

As a duo, things change a lot. If you're fear kiting with a necro you can keep the same pet perpetually or until it gets hurt too much (no pet exp penalty). You just want the DPS. With that in mind a pet that is easier to hold for long periods is probably your best bet. But again this is coming from an enchanter and I know my charm strats work differently from yours.

Finaly, as mentioned oasis is a great place as a druid to experiment with it. Good luck!

[Hobie819]

The other part not mentioned is the use of fear. If you charm a pet, attack a mob, snare it and then fear the mob, the pet beats down on it without recieving any damage. Meanwhile you're medding and will probably be at full mana or close to it. When the mob gets down below 20, back your pet off and continue pulling another mob. When it becomes too hectic to keep doing this, find a mob and do the above (let them both wail on each other, root the mob). When one gets below 20%, back your pet off, invis (to break charm), root (or snare depending of it's below 20) your pet and then nuke each mob you have snared to get half a bar of xp if not more with one bar of mana.

It took me awhile to egt the hang of this - have a zoneline handy and be prepared to initially lose some xp until you get the hang of it. Once you fo though, its amazing.