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Virvallen wrote:
Well, the truly lovely thing about the rod is.. Well, it doesn't take the ring slots. You can have electrum star ruby for insanely cheap, and the steins for insanely cheap, and then when you take up charm kiting, you have the rod. You really don't need int at all when charm kiting, except for perhaps spectres, where every little bit counts, and charisma isn't as much of an issue when you're breaking charm intentionally every 20 seconds or so anyway.
However everywhere else where an enchanter can go nuts on the charm kiting Overthere, Eastern Wastes, etc, the rod, in conjunction with the rings is insanely useful for keeping a pet for the full duration of the charm. Likewise when you venture into places like Kael where mez is useless, and you're just charming to do crowd control you will want as much charm gear as you can afford. The rod being very easy to come by, and a huge plus to charisma, makes it quite affordable for it's performance.
Best charm gear setup for insanely cheap:
Rod of Insidious Glamor 12
Crude Stein 15
Electrum star ruby ring 7
Electrum star ruby ring 7
Golden cat's eye bracer 7
Golden cat's eye bracer 7
That's 55 charisma for around a K, with just cost of gems if you do the quests and are a jeweler, with self buff and an item like the incandescent mask that most 'chanters wear all the time by default anyway you're well into the 200 charisma range.
However everywhere else where an enchanter can go nuts on the charm kiting Overthere, Eastern Wastes, etc, the rod, in conjunction with the rings is insanely useful for keeping a pet for the full duration of the charm. Likewise when you venture into places like Kael where mez is useless, and you're just charming to do crowd control you will want as much charm gear as you can afford. The rod being very easy to come by, and a huge plus to charisma, makes it quite affordable for it's performance.
Best charm gear setup for insanely cheap:
Rod of Insidious Glamor 12
Crude Stein 15
Electrum star ruby ring 7
Electrum star ruby ring 7
Golden cat's eye bracer 7
Golden cat's eye bracer 7
That's 55 charisma for around a K, with just cost of gems if you do the quests and are a jeweler, with self buff and an item like the incandescent mask that most 'chanters wear all the time by default anyway you're well into the 200 charisma range.
Should the triggered level of this item be more like level 10? Yes... or it should have benevolence (the higher effect) instead.
Note: some found this useful for PVP lagging people back in the day, though savvy PVP players just turned off particle effects. This was really only a factor when some were on bad dial-up.
We need a modern item window pic of this item.
We could use a pic of someone wielding it.