When to cast Slows

[Nisse]

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

Besides keeping haste and clarity up, would you be casting suffocate each mob?

Keep clarity and haste up and try to maintain a charm pet if at all possible, you'll be the largest contributing group member at that point no one can really bitch. If you have spare mana I would use it to maintain rune and berserker strength to cushion your charm breaks to make the healers life that much easier.

[Pope Hat]

Forget slows at that level. Just use a weaponized charm pet, tash, root, and keep everyone buffed.

[Troxx]

Unless it's a resistant set of mobs or real ass-beaters, I slow on incoming, often before the mob hits camp. Most all mobs are pansies once you slow em 70-75% and I don't mind taking a few hits.

At low levels unless solo/duo or maybe trio, slowing is not worth it. Mobs die to fast and your slow % isn't as large for the amount of mana it takes.

Bear in mind this is coming from the shaman perspective. We can take the hits a lot better than an ench can.

[LostCause]

common sense imo.

[Jimjam]

also worthy of note, while levelling up you may as well take a few hits anyway. It's gonna be better raising defense sooner than later!

[Ivory]

Slow it right away to get agro!!! Then run around so the archers can snare and shoot it!!!! Pew pew pew pew.

[Pyrion]

Only slow mobs that take at least a minute to kill.

For charming: Tash helps and don't forget your charisma. Charisma is a big bonus for charming. Always cast your self buff + always go for charisma when looking for gear. Charisma is the number one priority for chanters (and those items are usually quite cheap).

[Ordrek]

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

For charming: Tash helps and don't forget your charisma. Charisma is a big bonus for charming. Always cast your self buff + always go for charisma when looking for gear. Charisma is the number one priority for chanters (and those items are usually quite cheap).

Not trying to be a jerk, but what is the evidence for this? I've looked around and have only been able to find anecdotal evidence of no statistical value. Are there any...

A) Statements from the devs about how CHA impacts charm?
B) High test count data sets of CHA effect on charm break?
C) Someone looking at the code and seeing exactly how CHA affects Charm?

Without one of those, I don't think we can make conclusions about the effect of CHA on Charm.

[Daldaen]

Devs have explicitly stated CHA directly effects Enchanter and Bard charm durations. Necro and Druid charm durations are not CHA dependant.

http://www.project1999.com/forums/sh...Charisma+charm

Haynar: Adjusted charisma check for charm, based on new 255 resist caps. Charm should be more dependable now.

[iruinedyourday]

Dald, this weekend I did the bear pits for the first time (finally). I was browsing the web trying to find any info about getting down there on my own (which was a cinch) and found a thread of yours from 2011 trying to learn how to do exactly the same thing.

It was nice to read a thread that indicates that you are human afterall and at one point didn't know how to do everything [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]