charming puzzle

[gprater]

I have read many of the posts about CHA affecting charming ability. I have many alts among them a 22 druid and 18 enchanter. Back in the spring I bought my enchanter some gear in order to raise his CHA to better charm. I imimediately picked upper guk heart spiders in which to test my new 198 CHA. To briefly summarize the experience, I had very few instances of the charm lasting more than a minute. At first I thought it was conicidence that they broke so soon but after an hour and a couple of deaths and even more chase-aways. I finally gave up. The next day i tried again with one of the 3 frogs just past the spiders thinking that maybe the spiders are more Magic resistant. I got similar results.

Skip ahead to this past Monday. I started playing my then level 20 druid with 75 CHA in OT charming sabertooths. I can normally kill 2 or 3 mobs before running out of mana and hiding to break charm then killing the pet. Sometimes the duration for this was approaching 3 minutes. It has only randomly broke 4 times that I recall in 2 levels of killing this week. All the other times I broke it.

So, the puzzle is why is easier on the druid when CHA is Loads lower? 75 vs 198?


Thanks for your time.