Classes: The Enchanter
 | Enchanter - the game's traffic cop. When the enchanter yells stop, creatures cease what they are doing and just wait to die. A complex class, enchanters get a variety of spells as well as a pet, and can be played in a number of different ways.
What is the best way to develop and play an enchanter? What spells are most and least important? Can an enchanter be soloed, and if so how? What skills are the most important for an enchanter? How should an enchanter be played in a group? Post your strategies on how to best play and develop the Enchanter and read, rate and comment on what others have to say. |
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Anyone have any advice leveling these guys at low levels like where to go and where to solo at.
Not sure how low of a lvl you are talking, I only got my chanter to 20 before I decided to make a different toon. I would say stick to the hotzones. With temp on you and your pet, as long as you get singles, you stand a good chance of tanking some and pet tanking some. Might want to grab a few HoT potions for your lvl too just to make sure. Sometimes you will get lucky and find other people in the hotzones that want to group with you, in that case take them up on the offer and make it easier.
The most advised fun I have on leveling at low ages as an Enchanter (or any class really) is to follow the course, more or less, beginning with the tasks in the Mines of Gloomingdeep.
It has never been easier to get to level 11 or so and have decent newbie gear, than it is with the Mines. By the time you kill Krenshin and the Overlord, Ruga and his Guards are just for the hope of getting the last drop of any decent gear from the Mines.
Open all the barrels you can, kill all the casters that drop the 3 plat staves and have fun meeting new peeps in grouping together to get the harder tasks finished. Believe me, they are fun and challenging and I have made long term friends in the Gloomingdeep experience. I can get to level 11 and have over 600 plat in about 2 hours in the Mines now, no matter the class I am playing. The first focus is to have fun, whatever your approach.
After the Mines, there are some great areas in Norrath to solo and group (remember that 6-person groups grant an experience bonus these days) depending upon your ownership of all the expansions.
My very first character in Norrath is Abackus and he is still my favorite; a Human Enchanter with Agnostic philosophy toward dieties.
Grouping is sometimes frustrating yes, as there can be some people in them who may not be meant to group, ever! :) But, you will find these experiences are few and far between, thank Tunare. I have enjoyed my solo time, but absolutely loved the grouping I have done.
Just remember one thing, no matter what zone you are in or what level you are, the strength of the Enchanter class lies in one area: Situational Awareness. No matter how amazing our spells are, how uber we may be, this is the one thing that will allow us to save ourselves and our groupmates a ton of frustrating headaches.
Study all you can, play allot until you know what suits you best, set up those hot keys to cast correctly and use your /assist key. In my day I have taught more people how to effectively use that one hot key command more than any other. Pixelated Lives depend upon it.
Cheers,
It has never been easier to get to level 11 or so and have decent newbie gear, than it is with the Mines. By the time you kill Krenshin and the Overlord, Ruga and his Guards are just for the hope of getting the last drop of any decent gear from the Mines.
Open all the barrels you can, kill all the casters that drop the 3 plat staves and have fun meeting new peeps in grouping together to get the harder tasks finished. Believe me, they are fun and challenging and I have made long term friends in the Gloomingdeep experience. I can get to level 11 and have over 600 plat in about 2 hours in the Mines now, no matter the class I am playing. The first focus is to have fun, whatever your approach.
After the Mines, there are some great areas in Norrath to solo and group (remember that 6-person groups grant an experience bonus these days) depending upon your ownership of all the expansions.
My very first character in Norrath is Abackus and he is still my favorite; a Human Enchanter with Agnostic philosophy toward dieties.
Grouping is sometimes frustrating yes, as there can be some people in them who may not be meant to group, ever! :) But, you will find these experiences are few and far between, thank Tunare. I have enjoyed my solo time, but absolutely loved the grouping I have done.
Just remember one thing, no matter what zone you are in or what level you are, the strength of the Enchanter class lies in one area: Situational Awareness. No matter how amazing our spells are, how uber we may be, this is the one thing that will allow us to save ourselves and our groupmates a ton of frustrating headaches.
Study all you can, play allot until you know what suits you best, set up those hot keys to cast correctly and use your /assist key. In my day I have taught more people how to effectively use that one hot key command more than any other. Pixelated Lives depend upon it.
Cheers,
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I have a 27 chanter and have been curious what reverse charming is.
Thanks,
Thanks,
Well I guess this is as good a thread as any to discuss "reverse charming"
No matter what you refer to the process as, it goes a little something like this:
Background...
When us chanters charmed a mob way back when there were no nerfs on the pets. That is to say, a mob we charmed hit for exactly the same amount as if it were fighting a tank in your group. That equated into us being able to slow the second mob that our pet was fighting and maybe dot it down a little to get xp. Then the enc would park the pet and run away far enough to get a root spell off and then invis to break charm. The old beaten down pet would then run for its old master to promptly kill it, the enc in this case. We would root the mob and then dot or nuke it and get basicly 2 kills for the price of one and then rinse and repeat the process.
We enangered the EQ Gods, namely Sony and certain nerfs were placed upon the charmed pets. First was the damage issue, so if a pet did more than 50% of the damage to any mob the pet would get a majority of the experience rather than the master. Then there was the problem with us encs getting shifty in the face of the little nerf, and Sony decided that they would keep the KSing pet damage thing and tack on the damage mitigation, where our charmed pets would do roughly 50% of the average hit damage when charmed, and then return to full damage per hit if the charm broke. That enangered us enchanters and pretty much rendered our charm spell line useless.
So now Sony has lifted some of the charming nerfs, for reasons not so readily known, but the damage mitigation is still in place.
THE PROCESS:
You pull a mob to your camping/solo area and root it. You then charm the mob and make it a pet. Tell the pet to /guard and go get another mob. You pull a second mob and run it straight over your pet and push the /petattack command and watch your pet get beat up. You then root the second mob, so if charm breaks you don't get eaten. Your pet only puts out 50% damage compared to the second mob you pulled, so use it as an advantage.
When your pet gets to about 15% life you invis a safe distance away and break charm. Then you charm the second mob you pulled which has more life than your old pet. You then make your second pet attack the first uncharmed pet and cast a damage spell on it to tell the game you have worked for the XP. When your pet kills the mob you get full xp and he is roughly at about 30-40% life. You then go and pull another mob and repeat the process.
So you charmed a mob and then used the mob. You then "reversed" the charm on a new mob to kill the first pet. This form of charm soloing is dangerous, but following the premise of Risk v. Reward, it can be very instrumental in gaining experience in a solo setting.
Summoning mobs should be avoided; however, I have no problem using the process with summoning mobs, mostly because I am a wee bit crazy.
No matter what you refer to the process as, it goes a little something like this:
Background...
When us chanters charmed a mob way back when there were no nerfs on the pets. That is to say, a mob we charmed hit for exactly the same amount as if it were fighting a tank in your group. That equated into us being able to slow the second mob that our pet was fighting and maybe dot it down a little to get xp. Then the enc would park the pet and run away far enough to get a root spell off and then invis to break charm. The old beaten down pet would then run for its old master to promptly kill it, the enc in this case. We would root the mob and then dot or nuke it and get basicly 2 kills for the price of one and then rinse and repeat the process.
We enangered the EQ Gods, namely Sony and certain nerfs were placed upon the charmed pets. First was the damage issue, so if a pet did more than 50% of the damage to any mob the pet would get a majority of the experience rather than the master. Then there was the problem with us encs getting shifty in the face of the little nerf, and Sony decided that they would keep the KSing pet damage thing and tack on the damage mitigation, where our charmed pets would do roughly 50% of the average hit damage when charmed, and then return to full damage per hit if the charm broke. That enangered us enchanters and pretty much rendered our charm spell line useless.
So now Sony has lifted some of the charming nerfs, for reasons not so readily known, but the damage mitigation is still in place.
THE PROCESS:
You pull a mob to your camping/solo area and root it. You then charm the mob and make it a pet. Tell the pet to /guard and go get another mob. You pull a second mob and run it straight over your pet and push the /petattack command and watch your pet get beat up. You then root the second mob, so if charm breaks you don't get eaten. Your pet only puts out 50% damage compared to the second mob you pulled, so use it as an advantage.
When your pet gets to about 15% life you invis a safe distance away and break charm. Then you charm the second mob you pulled which has more life than your old pet. You then make your second pet attack the first uncharmed pet and cast a damage spell on it to tell the game you have worked for the XP. When your pet kills the mob you get full xp and he is roughly at about 30-40% life. You then go and pull another mob and repeat the process.
So you charmed a mob and then used the mob. You then "reversed" the charm on a new mob to kill the first pet. This form of charm soloing is dangerous, but following the premise of Risk v. Reward, it can be very instrumental in gaining experience in a solo setting.
Summoning mobs should be avoided; however, I have no problem using the process with summoning mobs, mostly because I am a wee bit crazy.
I reverse charm slightly differently
Tash mob A.
Charm mob A.
Haste mob A (current pet).
Umbra Mob A (current pet).
Put Pet on hold and back up. Break charm via invis. Root Mob A (ex-pet).
Reroot as needed.
Slow Mob B.
Charm Mob B.
Have mob B attack Mob A.
When mob B get low life back it off, break charm, and kill Mob B.
Slow Mob C.
Charm Mob C.
Have mob C attack Mob A.
When mob C get low life back it off, break charm, and kill Mob C.
Slow Mob D.
Charm Mob D.
Have mob D attack Mob A.
When mob D get low life back it off, break charm, and kill Mob D.
With a hasted Mob A and slowed Pets Mob A should last several pets. When Mob A is low life just let what ever current pet you have kill it when the time comes.
Rinse. repeat.
Tash mob A.
Charm mob A.
Haste mob A (current pet).
Umbra Mob A (current pet).
Put Pet on hold and back up. Break charm via invis. Root Mob A (ex-pet).
Reroot as needed.
Slow Mob B.
Charm Mob B.
Have mob B attack Mob A.
When mob B get low life back it off, break charm, and kill Mob B.
Slow Mob C.
Charm Mob C.
Have mob C attack Mob A.
When mob C get low life back it off, break charm, and kill Mob C.
Slow Mob D.
Charm Mob D.
Have mob D attack Mob A.
When mob D get low life back it off, break charm, and kill Mob D.
With a hasted Mob A and slowed Pets Mob A should last several pets. When Mob A is low life just let what ever current pet you have kill it when the time comes.
Rinse. repeat.
Thanks for the clearification. I think i will practice down in the warrens before I try this with blue cons and also get faction hits to boot.
Thanks,
Thanks,
Keep in mind there is NO need to reverse charm anywhere before the OOW exspansion.
Untill then is better to just charm and haste your pet and send it in against slowed, rooted mobs.
Once you get to the OOW nerf (not effect on exspansions before it) then you need to reverse charm to be effective.
Personally I rarly bother, I just rune tank and nuke however I am in the top 10 geared chanters on the server.
Untill then is better to just charm and haste your pet and send it in against slowed, rooted mobs.
Once you get to the OOW nerf (not effect on exspansions before it) then you need to reverse charm to be effective.
Personally I rarly bother, I just rune tank and nuke however I am in the top 10 geared chanters on the server.
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