With the nerf, I think charm is more of a crowd control thing than ever before. Soloing is now a much riskier, long term venture than before because you have to stop, target a mob, command it -- switch back to your pet and run every 12 seconds or so. Those extra commands eat into your charm time and your mana.
What I try to do for crowd control is to charm something not attacking me. it takes out the "charmee" and whatever is pounding on me atm. Meantime, I am singing Verses of Celerity (which I like better than Berserker Frenzy) and psalm of cooling (I am in Velius and damage shields take on a whole new significance there). Party buffs are never resisted and you are taking out two mobs with half the chance of a resist. You can keep the one mob targeted all the time as well.
Drawback to charm-crowd control tho is yellows and above are unaffected -- so be sure to con before you charm or you'll have yet another angry mob pulverizing the bard.
"Cranfill, Wendy" <
Wendy_Cranfill@...> wrote:
Hmm, I'm not exactly sure what my cha is, but I'm pretty sure its under 125,
and I dont have too much trouble messing something. I SUCK at charming,
find it annoying and frankly not worth the time and effort (or the healers
mana). But messing seems to work fine, can keep 2 things off pretty
reliably and still manage to sing haste. However if I'm in an area where
I'm getting high resists I usually just suck it up, sing haste, regen and
nivs and try to mitigate damage. But thats just me, maybe I need to learn
the right way to charm.
Tani, 51st Bard
Halana, 60th Shammy
Solusek Ro
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