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IDK if these will get me banned

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A year - to a year and a half into EQ, some of the highest level Enchanters at the time made no mention of Charm. Enchanters were generally considered mez/buff bots. Enchanter was also a fairly rare class for those of you who don't remember.

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https://www.oocities.org/xymarra/Str...rStrategy.html

A website from 2001. They mostly viewed Charm as a form of CC, potentially high DPS, but not worth the risk in most situations. Definitely not something you would use in most groups. Contrary to what people on P99 claim.

I definitely did charm on my enchanter back in that era. However I feel like a) it broke more often, and b) it wasn't as easy to re-charm due to higher interruption rates.

Some could be player skill/ping back then too, of course. It was more feasible in groups with a druid for long snare. You could dual wield pets and haste them, as well.

Player gear was pretty bad back then also, so a lot of enchanter mana just went to CC and slow to keep the downtime to zero. Only in more healer heavy groups I'd say that I charmed on the regular. Typically not groups with one cleric as the only healer.