Charm works extremely well against killstealers. I truely consider this song
revenge for the 26 levels of killstealing I had to endure from Druids and
wizards (and clerics vs. undead) before I got it.

My best example of revenge is when a friend and I were in Runnyeye camping the
warlord so we could get him a BI crown. We were the only two people in the zone.
In comes a L28 druid and a L25 cleric, who decide they also want the warlord.
They however, were not willing to take turns alternating the warlord. I have
seen this so many times, especially at Derv camps in my teens - wizards and
Druids are notorious for "taking" simply because they can. Not all, mind you,
but too many. The druid declares that we will "free for all" the warlord since
she is not going to wait for a L29 Bard and L26 Cleric to take a turn. Goblin
Warlord spawns, and I easily charm it. The druid casts lightning 7 times on a
charmed warlord, and manages one hit. She then goes to melee it, with her below
average melee ability and manaless. I simply melee dual-wielded and bellow
constantly. I easily got the kill. After this demonstration, she apologized for
being rude, and agreed to take turns. *smiles at such a happy ending*

The charm song is simply one of our most powerful combat related skills. The
other day late I pulled a barkeeper and a dry bones came. Again it was a friend
and I fighting, and both monsters together were too much. I charmed the
barkeeper and ordered him to guard me. We then saw:

"an undead barkeeper backstabs a dry bones skeleton for 154 points of damage"

The barkeeper went on to completely destroy the dry bones in under a minute, and
we got the exp since he was a pet. Charm is outstanding also for pulling
something off a wizard or cleric because if the charm works, they are out of
danger. I have yet to see any other song of ours that works so well against
monsters that con red. There was nothing quite so satisfying as being in Cazic
Thule and charming a justicar, and having it go from casting Greater Heal and
Daring on the other lizards to Smite Smite Smite Smite.

One thing I have noticed, is that ordering the pet to attack a specific target
does not always work properly. Sometimes it will attack a member of our party
that hurt it, even though it is still charmed. For this reason I use Guard me
and Guard Here. Guard Here is great if you will have to zone, Guard me is what I
use in combat.

Ariell Thunderwolf, Karana