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Originally posted by Maegril
Lessee.. bard, mage, druid, warrior, cleric, enchanter.
Just a humble suggestion: Proving that charm doesn't completely invalidate the need for melee or, in fact, provide the complete melee output of a full group anyway, might be easier if you used example groups which include melee.
Of the mage/druid/enchanter, how many of y'all were using charmed pets, out of curiosity? |
First melee adds to the advantage of charm. Having a war, sk or pal (tbh it doesn't matter which) tanking the mob does several things.
1) allows the pet to hit from behind, thus hitting for max damage more often, making stuff die faster
2) prevents the pet from taking a lot of damage, thus not having to recycle the pet or worse trying to heal it
3) keeps our warrior friend happy b/c he gets exp and well he has been know to save our asses from time to time by being there
If you notice I did say that full group can get the same amount of aa's in the same time period as an ench soloing. For that to be the case there has to be more than just the pet doing damage. More simply put shit has to be dying a helluva lot faster than it was w/ench pet solo to give 6 ppl the same amout of exp in the same time period.
As for your how many pets question... The ench was really the only one charming. Mage typically used water pet i think and the Druid would charm a piggy everyonce in a blue moon till charm broke and we keeled it (btw - the druid's piggy was usually slowed by the time it got charmed). tbh i don't think i would want 3 charmed pets running around, way too much shit could go wrong.
edit - since you want a better example... Back when HoH was the place to be we would do our typical trio of Druid, War, Ench on a regular basis, filling in with whoever was lfg. When we added 2 Rogues and a Ranger the Warrior had to turn attack off at 30% or die to enrage, he didn't have to do that with just the pet.
