Charm

[madha]

I would hope this has been posted about 100 times, but whats up with charmed pets being so gimped they cant go toe to toe with a even con solo mob.  Is there any way for our charmed pets to be as good as say necro or conj pets, i mean those pets are about 100 X's stronger then most of the junk we can charm.  I understand that some mobs absolutly rock as far as DPS, but im in SOS with Adp 3 pet and what i do is let my pet get killed by the mob as i stand there and charm the mob that killed my pet. So far the only mob i like having charmed is the corpse candle, besides that charm is a waste of a spell in every zone. 

[redde]

If you could literally charm, stand back and watch the pet beat the "brains" out of another one, coercer would be totally overpowered. Charm generally gives you added dps not a free tank. Your pet will never be equivalent to that of a conj or a necro, but by no means is charm a wasted spell in a zone. If you charm the right pet (normally best to pick a caster) and you get yourself a master charm spell, you will find your overall DPS at least doubles. If you have a fragile pet that accures a lot of aggro (eg corpse candle) the best tactic is to charm, then type /pet ranged and use root&nuke. Mitigate your pet with stuns and dazes, you have plenty of them. You are thinking of charm in the wrong way, and should re-think your solo strategies. P.S. the mobs in the zone determine how well you can solo. There is one zone in particular that you can charm a pet that will do in excess of 3k DPS regularly.

[Life777form]

The only part that bugs me is our good spells require something to get hit, but you generally can't let you or the pet get hit, just bugs me.