Enchanter race? Why Elves?

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

I always liked the look of dark elves the most as caster races go.

The enchanter class has the duality of being noticeably devious and subtly helpful so an agnostic dark elf makes all kinds of sense.

Always, always go agnostic as enchanter.

[Stonewallx39]

Thank you to everyone who responded. From what I've gathered there is not true min/max race for enchanter.

If you want max Cha you go High Elf. If you want max Int you go Erudite. For Dark Elf you get immersion from playing a race you like, and definitely some utility from racial hide ability and ultravision. Every other race is personal preference.

[caldiar]

I had a 22 dark elf enchanter that I made because hide is nice for going afk for extended periods of time.
I just rerolled her as a high elf for that charisma bonus since I have a goblin gazughi ring so hide has lost a little bit of it's worth for me. Plus like 90% of my characters are dark elves and I felt it was time to play a high elf again (havent played one since 2002)

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

Never played an enchanter but I'm considering it soon.

Immune to your own mez? I assume you're talking about AE mez. Do you get hit with that often?

I remember before lvl 55 mezzing myself was quite easy with the level 16 AE mez and i stuck to the lvl 4 mez when i needed a short duration effect but now at level 60, it's the spell I always use to set up charm fights between closely grouped mobs or retash / malo my pet.

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Originally Posted by Stonewallx39 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Thank you to everyone who responded. From what I've gathered there is not true min/max race for enchanter.

If you want max Cha you go High Elf. If you want max Int you go Erudite. For Dark Elf you get immersion from playing a race you like, and definitely some utility from racial hide ability and ultravision. Every other race is personal preference.

min/max race is high elf. Put all points into charisma. If you look at the Mana/HP and INT on NToV level gear in Velious you will have way more INT than you need raid geared and barely max CHA with overwhelming splendor on.

[curtischoy]

Didn't have time to read the whole thread so idk if anyone has mentioned this about the str thing...

If you are charming (which you always should be) you can give your pet tons of items to hold on to and then kill him when you are done with him and he will have every single item that you gave him.

This obviously doesn't work so well if you then have to run somewhere, but if you can give him all your crap and then kill/loot/gate to town it is awesome.

[Stonewallx39]

Another convenience of Dark Elf is the ability to AFK and med with reasonably lower risk of inadvertent death.