Enchanter 101
Enchanter Class Basics

This guide covers Enchanter basics up to the Omens of War expansion.

Enchanters are the primary CC class.  They have a enormous palette of CC tools such as Mez, Root, Charm, Pacify, Mana Drain, Memory Blur, Stuns, and Slow. They provide highly sought-after haste and mana regen buffs. They can illusion themselves and in later expansions other players as well. Enchanters are an intellect based class.

Enchanters are the by far the strongest grouping class in early EQ. Their ability to charm mobs allows them to create strong pets that deal massive damage when hasted. These charmed pets can also be used as a tank on any mob that doesn’t have MoTM (Mitigation of the Mighty). In many cases they can tank better than an actual tank, especially in early EQ.

Base Stats

Generally it’s best to focus on getting as much AC/HP/Stamina as possible. This is to survive your pet damage when charm inevitably breaks. In early EQ you’ll want to get Intellect and possibly Charisma as well. Intellect will increase your mana pool and increase your chance to raise skills. Charisma raises the success rate of charm and mez spells (although it’s impact seems to be small).

Mana and base stats get easier to obtain as more expansions come out so eventually they’ll all be maxed and you’ll be focusing on AC and HP.

Ideally you’ll have a shield in your secondary slot. Shields are not capped by the AC soft cap so this can be a huge AC boost if you have a good one. This can be hard/expensive to obtain at lower levels but eventually there are a lot of good/easy choices.

Be sure to get Flowing Thought (Mana Regen) max of 15 (before AA).

Focus Items

Focus Items become active in Luclin and Enchanters will need a few different ones. They have different names depending on the era and specific item, but the description will tell you what they do. If you have two of the same type they will not stack; the highest one will be used. You’ll want to get the following:

– Extended Buff Duration – Great for your Haste and Clairty line spells. People will often pay you to buff them with these so the longer they last the better service you are providing.
– Extended Cast Range – Allows you to cast from further away
– Mana Preservation – Lowers mana cost of spells by a %
– Spell Haste – Lowers cast time of spells
– Direct Damage Mod % (for Magic-based DD spells)
– Increased Detrimental Spell Duration – Increases mez, DoT, and tash line duration (Magic Resist debuff) duration, doesn’t work on charm.

Heroic Stats

These provide a boost once they are available in Plane of Time+. If you raid, your base stats will likely already be maxed out from gear and AA. Heroic Stamina and Agility will have the most noticeable impact because you will become much tankier. HIntellect is good too but not as good as HStamina or HAgility.

Heroic Stamina – Mitigation/Stun Resist –  This decreases your damage taken by mobs. This is important to mitigate damage and to resist stuns.

Heroic Agility – Avoidance – Enchanters will gain avoidance AC from this.

Heroic Intellect – Increases Mana Pool and spell shielding. You can get up to 35% spell shielding (1% per HInT). There is no cap on how much mana you can get from Heroic Intellect.

 

Spells

Buffs

Enchanters get two major buff lines: Clarity Line (Mana Regen) and Haste. Below you can see the spell line for each up to level 70. They also get Runes, Magic Resist, and Aggro Modifiers.

 

Debuffs

Enchanters main debuffs lines are Slows, Tash (-Magic Resist), Cripple (-Stats), and Mana Drain.

**Note – Some of the Enchanter DoT’s perform a stat debuff or mana drain as well.

Crowd Control

Enchanters have a huge amount of Crowd Control tools:

Other Notable Spells include:

1) Shielding – This gives HP/AC/Magic Resist.
2) Enchanting/Imbue – Enchanters can Enchant Metal and Imbue Gems
3) Pets – Enchanters get low HP pets (when not charming). Enchanter Pet Guide
4) Magic Direct Damage and DoTs – Low damage compared to other casters but better than nothing
5) Illusions and faction modifiers – Turn into different races and also adjust your faction with the “Alliance” spell line.

6) Invis, Invis vs undead, Levitate, and Underwater Breathing buffs
7) Enchanters get a damage shield spell (Spell: Feedback) at level 25. This is useful early game or to cast on low level players.

Spell Specialization

Enchanters should specialize in Alteration (buffs, charms, debuffs) or Conjuration (Mez). You can even do Evocation if you nuke a lot. Your choice depends on how you use your character and what era you’re in.

AA Recommendations

An under-geared Enchanters biggest issue is going to be  survivability on charm breaks. In early eras you’ll also lose mana quickly if it breaks a lot due to needing to re-charm.

Some priority Enchanter AA are:
Spell Casting Mastery (SoL+) – Flat reduction to Spell Mana Cost
Combat Stability (SoL+) – Increased Mitigation AC
Combat Agility (SoL+) – Increased Avoidance AC
Innate Run Speed (SoL+) – Base Run Speed Increase
Natural Durability (SoL+) – Increase HP %
Quick Buff (SoL+) – Improved buff casting time
Spell Casting Reinforcement (SoL+) – Buffs last longer
Gather Mana (SoL+) – Gives player full Mana. On a long cooldown
Dire Charm (SoL+) – Permanently charm an NPC – Only works on NPC’s up to 46. Doesn’t get upgraded until after OoW.
Mass Group Buff (SoL+) – PBAE a group buff spell

Eldrich Rune (PoP+) – Big Self Rune, long cooldown
Total Domination (PoP+) – Decrease chance of charm break
Project Illusion (PoP) – Cast illusions on other players

Enhanced Forgetfullness (GoD+) – Increase chance to memory blur
Mesmerization Mastery (GoD+) – Increases Mez duration by 6 seconds

Color Shock (OoW+) – Chance to stun attacker when melee’d
Mind over Matter (OoW+) – Take mana loss instead of HP loss when taking damage, has a max amount of hits

 

Bonus Tips

– Get an invisibility item so you can break charm on demand. Some good options include:
–Goblin Gazughi Ring (Instant cast Invis vs Animals, you must target yourself, level 5+) – Lake of Ill Omen from a sarnak courier
– Ring of Stealthy Travels (2 sec cast Gather Shadows, req level 49+) – Chardok from Interrogator Gi’Mok
– Opaline Charm (3 sec cast Gather Shadows, level 55+ req) – Ssraeshza Temple from Vyzh’dra the Cursed
– Boots of the Mosquito (Instant cast self only Invis vs Animals, level 51+ req) a virulent mosquito from Temple of Cazic-Thule 2.0 revamp
– Blue Ceramic Band (Made with Pottery) is good for casting a small DD to break mezzes on demand. It is also good to do a few damage to a mob when killing with charms. If only your pet hits the mob you’ll get less exp.

–  The 1.0 Enchanter Epic isn’t necessary, but is nice as it has a clicky haste that can be cast on level 1’s
– Keep Spirit of Wolf and Heal potions handy in early EQ
– The 2.0 Epic isn’t super useful when compared to other classes, but is still BiS for OoW
– You can use AE short duration mez and/or stun spells to help control your charm pet when it breaks
– Use extended target window to help manage mezzing when a lot of mobs are in camp
– Your healer can put your pet your charm pet on their extended target window for easy healing
– Keep your self-rune up. It generates some aggro so be careful if your tank doesn’t have aggro
– Grab a Serpent of Vindication from Tallon Zek in Plane of Time. It has a fantastic clicky slow which is good for many expansions
– Get Elemental Pants from Elemental Planes and/or P3 Time – Has Haste clicky. Can click on others

There are several clicky Clarity items, these are good for when you just get rezzed after a death:
– Clarity (Rod of Infinite Thought) –  PoHate from Coercer T’Vala, also Velious quest pants
– KEI (Wand of Tranqulity) – Vex Thal from North Blob (Enchanter’s group only)
– Tranquility (PoP Ornate Pants) – Enchanter’s group only
– Aura of Quellious (Dusty Cap of the Will Breaker) – LDoN Prison Break raid (cast on anyone, even level 1’s). Same mana regen as Voice of Quellious (PoP Spell).