Grouping with enchanter typesFollow

Yeah, you've been grouping with bad enchanters. Any enchanter class who, outside of extreme examples, is mezzing in-encounter mobs doesn't know what they are doing. Mezzing should only really be used for out-of-encounter adds that are beyond the ability of the tank/healer to maintain control over. In-encounter control should be handled by dazes and stuns and stifles. In fact, using a properly timed combination of these abilities can allow a good enchanter (or coercer at leat) to keep a mob harmless through the entire fight. I've taken in the case of a really efficiently played coercer, for example (pats himself on the back), an enchanter can even sometimes replace a healer slot in a group, as they lower incoming damage so greatly and add so much to overall group DPS.

There are a lot of poor chanters out there because its a tougher-than-average class to play properly. If you want to play with a good chanter sometime, look me up and I'll log in my coercer. I'll make you jealous.

Edited, Oct 31st 2007 3:40pm by Stugein

I guess I shouldn't blame the class, just the people who play them. The way eq2 is made they are not anywhere near as important as in eq1 (once again IMO).
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you are correct.

while that may have been a particularly bad enchanter, they really are not as important in EQ2 as they are in EQ1. another tank would work just as well. in raids they may be handy, but not really needed in a dungon group. better off tanking the add and shaving some hitpoints off it while you wait to get to it.