Another good tactic (if you have a friendly cleric) is to charm a caster,
they'll blast away, doing good damage, and hopefully depleting their mana.
I've had cleric lizards in cazic run out of mana from charming them and
making them work for me for so long.
However, if you get the timing wrong, you're going to pay a hefty price.
Bien
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kimes, Dean W. [SMTP:dean_kimes@...]
> Sent: Friday, June 02, 2000 4:15 PM
> To: 'eqbards@egroups.com'
> Subject: RE: [eqbards] Charming in the outdoors
>
> Most of my charming so far has been in a group as well. Both for taunting
> off overzealous casters and for allowing my pet to do real melee damage.
> Giants do more damage than an all-instrument attack btw.
>
> Kit
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lonnie Lewis [mailto:llewis@...]
> Sent: Friday, June 02, 2000 2:11 PM
> To: 'eqbards@egroups.com'
> Subject: RE: [eqbards] Charming in the outdoors
>
>
> If you're going to be solo charming, I'd say go for it. In that case,
> you're not going to be getting hit much (if you're doing it right).
>
> Most of my charming has been done in groups as a form of crowd control, so
> it's up close and personal, so I've tended to go with AC over CHA to some
> extent.
>
> Bien - the uncharasmatic.
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Kimes, Dean W. [SMTP:dean_kimes@...]
> > Sent: Friday, June 02, 2000 4:07 PM
> > To: 'eqbards@egroups.com'
> > Subject: RE: [eqbards] Charming in the outdoors
> >
> > Good info thanks. I suspected that but have never been sure
> > quantitatively
> > how much high charisma affects charming success. Would it be worthwhile
> > to
> > boost my charisma to 150+ for charm fighting? I have access to the gear
> > to
> > do it, but would lose a whole lotta AC in the process. I can get to 130
> > or
> > so easily without much AC loss.
> >
> > Kit
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Kevin L. Crawford [mailto:Lyrnia@...]
> > Sent: Friday, June 02, 2000 2:08 PM
> > To: eqbards@egroups.com
> > Subject: Re: [eqbards] Charming in the outdoors
> >
> >
> > I was able to charm them at level 30 but it's safer to do it at 32, they
> > resist a LOT at level 30 and 31. 32 it gets a lot better. I stuck to
> > Clopses and griffies and such till level 32.
> >
> > Lyrnia
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Kimes, Dean W." <dean_kimes@...>
> > To: <eqbards@egroups.com>
> > Sent: Friday, June 02, 2000 3:15 PM
> > Subject: RE: [eqbards] Charming in the outdoors
> >
> >
> > > What level should I start thinking about charming Hill Giants? Am I
> > really
> > > asking this question??? Never though I would before Kunark, but I
> > expect
> > to
> > > get deep into Hell#1 this weekend so I guess it is time to ask.
> > >
> > > Kitasi
> > >
> > >
> > > Hehehe you can charm up to 5 levels above you. Even with 200
> charisma
> > you
> > > would hit the 6 level cap. The 37th level cap is just the max that
> the
> > SONG
> > > can charm. You can only charm about 5 levels above you (and only
> about
> > 3
> > > levels above reliably)
> > >
> > >
> > >
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