Charm Time and Setup

[Goregasmic]

Been soloing in charasis lately on my 55 chanter with 243cha self buffed and in the vast majority of fights I'll get zero charm breaks but sometimes I'll get 3 in a row. I've seen a 60 chanter charm the same mobs dropping 2 adamantite bands on it and he still got more breaks than I would have thought. Charm breaks will happen no matter what but you have some control on minimizing them and outside of tashing (which should be automatic) and dropping -mr gear on them (which you'll rarely do), the other variables you don't really have any control on.

I started fresh on p99 in january so I had zero twink gear and I was perma broke until the 35ish so most of my cha gear was self found up to that point. I'd say charming stabilized around level 28ish and about 150ish cha. Getting to 180 after that also made a visible difference. But like others said, the mob level gap is tighter at lower levels so it is hard to fight something that is lower-end-of-blue. At 55 stuff is still blue level 41 while when you're 30 you'll only have 8 levels to play with and depending on the mob's possible level spread a blue con could be like -5 levels or -1 and the -1 will break often but you don't know until it is already charmed.

Best advice I can give you is:

1- check the p99 consider wiki then the p99 leveling guide and cross reference the mobs level in the suggested areas. Try to find something that is a "lighter" shade of blue.

2- with your extra money go to EC and grab the low hanging fruits for charisma. The 9cha bracers and 7 cha rings shouldnt cost you much. Crude steins often rot. Get a gypsy medallion and some loam boots, opalline earrings and drake hide leggings. All this can be bought for less than 1000pp and most of them you can camp yourself in your 30s. Go quest rod of insidious glamour and incandescent mask ASAP.

3- keep your berserker like rune up at all times. Mana is much cheaper for a chanter than HP. It is a mana hog but you'd much rather med than wait for the hp bar to refuse going up. Speaking of which, getting bandaging to 100 is absolutely worth it.

4- use your color stun line. Truth is if you solo outdoors and hang out at max range you'll be fine with mez/root only until your 50s but when you get a simultaneous charm/root break, stun into AE mez will save your bum. AE mez will require you also keep resist magic up at all time and skew gear choices a bit toward MR until 56 but there will come a point where this becomes mandatory. So might as well get used to it right away.