Your friend is wrong. Enchanters are called upon for CC with mez and/or color slant line of spells all the way to the end game. We may not be able to CC that named but we can CC those 10 friends that named just came with. Enchanters are often called upon to slow mobs. With current end game charms and the right AA (Total Domination), enchanters can charm pets fairly safely that can do more melee dps then anything or anyone else. Enchanter runes can save not only the enchater's life but the whole groups or raids (circle and wall of alendar). With the proper aa's and ID items enchanters can crit nuke for over 4K damage (Ancient Neurosis). IMO Enchanter is argubly the most powerful class in game in the hands of the right player.

Enchanters still have an idiotic mezz gap up to 62 or 63rd level. Your friend is probably using his/her knowledge gained from the Planes of Power expansion where we couldn't mezz mobs due to a mezz spell level restriction.

Buffing is important for a group, but using an enchanter for only that is stupid and the group should be left just out of principal. There is now content in the DoDh expansion that requires an enchanter or a really good bard to complete progression missions.

I would say your friend is a half-wit and cannot give convincing evidence to prove that an enchanter class is useless in the high end game. Perhaps his/her attitude is what keeps his/her toon from playing in a group with a truly awesome enchanter.

Props to everyone else who replied to this post.

PS - Tell your friend to go and break the IZ of the Plane of Fear solo at full spawn. I know I can and have done it.

I play a level 65 chanter and my Wife a level 63 druid, we make a pretty good team with her snareing a mob so I can charm it, then we turn our new found tank loose and watch the fun. Next I root the new mob while she dots it as our tank beats it to death. I usually dont nuke because sometimes the charm breaks and we only have to deal with one angry mob not two. This strategy has worked anywhere I can charm something, which is just about every zone in the game. Last night we duoed in POI using this style and found only one mob I could not charm. POV is fun since we both have Dire Charm and can grab a frog. Noble Causeway is a really nice place to grab exp and most of the times my charms hold for the duration. The downside is when we group I usually have to quit charming because people have not seen this very much. Very scary when a cleric heals the charmed pet as you scream to them NO, dont! We are gonna kill it next!
I find the higher my chanter gets the better I get at playing him. I solo in several of the higer end zones as well but I love having that charmed pet snared, a real life saver it is. Chanters above 60 useless...that is real laughable from my perspective. One of my friends who plays a chanter solos in BoT by using the charm method all the time, so as with any class in the game...learn how to make it work with what you have.

Post 60 enchanters are indespensible in many progression fights. To make it into Tacvi someone really had to do damage to Zun Muram. Immune to weapon damage and highly resistant to spell damage while having an outrageous regen rate who does that DPS? It is usually done largely by the mastrug chaosslayer who has to be charmed. Uqua can be beaten without the spectral trushar worshipper, but it takes a LOT larger raid if you are going to do without a pet that quads for 1200. Xxerics is a fun fight, but would be much harder if the manasipper had to be offtanked instead of mezzed until after the main fight is won. I don't know of any recurring succesful RS royals raids without enchanters on feran control. Remember the MPG Raid Adaptation? I hope you didn't off tank the mote of frost instead of charming it and sending it back after the mob that called it. There are instances where every class shines. Buffing is a chore which everyone in a raid sees an enchanter work at from raid forming to rezz/rebuff to buffing in the guild tub after raid so others can get back some of their lost experience. If you are playing an enchanter and the buffing and nuking are all you are doing, then you are missing most of the fun.

I would have to disagree Larsbien, For any guild and enchanters that have done the Corruption of Ro, raid would know that enchanters are key to that raid for keeping certain adds mezzed till tanks can grab them. Enchanters are key to several raid kills in Demiplane, The sisters event and redfang come to mind. If not for the enchanters holding the vampire bats that almost instantly respawn on death during the sisters event mezzed you'd end up losing almost every time due to having to keep killing those bats. And redfang Enchanters are ae tashing, and stunning the bats that spawn at redfang's despawn while the rest of the raid is AE burning them to keep the raid from getting wiped out.

Amnesiaa Corruption
70th Season Enchanter, Dragon Council, Bertoxxulous Server

IMHO I believe that SOE needs to make more higher end mobs mezzable/charmable, however in keeping game/classes balanced they are not going to make Chanters a needed class in every event obviously, But I do agree that a few more Raid encounters that could get more use out of our class needs to be considered.

Edited, Aug 29th 2006 at 11:04am EDT by Comey