Charm, viable when?

[Landis]

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

In my experiences, this server's charm is not really that close to how it was on live back in early 2000. On live I decided to give an enchanter a try after playing my wizard (because I was addicted to clarity). What worked exceptionally well for me was charming griffawns in North Karana and sending them after Borer and Scythe beatles. I did this at lvl 14ish. I had no issues keeping charm on anything. I had an identical enchanter then as I do now.. (an Erudite Enchanter with the same stat points spent). When I hit 12 on P99 and headed to North Karana, I got my ass handed to me. I tried charming beetles instead and had the same bad failures. Added to this is that the beetles run faster than they should (this was brought up in a previous bug report). I used to be able to jump / run to gain some good distance but can't now.
This is exactly as Dersk stated.
So, I decided to skip on charm for now as it is most certainly not what it was on classic. IT's a shame really because I REALLY loved the charm aspect of playing an enchanter.

agreed charm is much more unreliable on P99 than it was on live with low charisma. it's basically unusable for an untwinked enchanter. the problem seems to be i either have an extremely long charm, or an extremely short charm, no in between. on live, increasing charisma seemed to increase the average length of the charm, but having low charisma did not mean all your charms lasted < 1 minute.