Dominate Vs Charm

[Vallar]

Well, I guess I have to pick Enchantment for the charms and maybe Evocation. That is about it, with heavy focus over the former and using the latter occasionally when in teams.

What is a respec though? Are those the re-incarnation items? Or you mean the feat change Dragonshards?

[Drekisen]

Not sure if ur human or not, if not and u want to focus on enchantment I would say ur must have feats are going to need to be spell focus and greater spell focus: enchantment, toughness, hieghten, maximize, and at least one if not both of the spell penetration feats......possibly only one if u want to take extend, which u will probably want.

Feat respecs are a way to redo your whole build for the most part with lesser and greaeter reaincarnations without releveling, while true reincarnations require u to relevel and have to obtain quite a bit more xp than your first run to cap...but you aquire 2-6 more build points depending on if u were a 28 or 32 point build and some nice passive past life feats. True Reincarnation requires you to get all the way to 20 before it is an option tho....while the other two do not.

All of the options are quite costly tho depending on your budget.

[Vallar]

I am an elf, not a human, sorry. I didn't know that humans are better until late in the game.

I already have an enhancement for Spell Penetration. I did take Enchantment for a feat too, however I choose wrong with Maximize, going to change that for Highten. Next level I should get another feat (level 11, you can see on my signature) probably then I will get the greater Enchantment.

Oh, and of course, thank you very much!

[Humperdink]

I have a 20th level human sorcerer. He's a nuker and enchanter with some insta-death where appropriate. For enchantment I took Heighten, Extend, Spell pen, Greater spell pen, and School of enchantment focus. I put action points into all 3 ranks of spell pen. I have a +2 or +3 spell pen on or in my hand. I have on an item that adds either +1 or +2 to the DC on my school on Enchantment spells (Reaver Napkin or Xaschioan Ear Dweller). I have a Shroud Greensteel weapon in my left hand which gives me +3 to Charisma bringing my primary stat to 38. I use Suggestion, Mass Suggestion, and Symbol of Persuasion. I only use these as they can be used in all situations and have a known lasting duration with no subsequent will save. At level 20 with Extend, that lasts for 4 minutes straight. With Dominate Monster they get a will save every 22 seconds on average. I also throw in Mind Fog, Otto's Dancing Sphere, Otto's Irresistible Dance and Mass Hold Monster for more crowd control options.

For nuking I took Maximize, Empower, Extend, and Toughness (to survive the agro generated). I put max ranks into the complete line of fire and ice. Anything that has to do with spell damage amplification, critical damage multiplier, and chance for critical percentage to land. I put a couple of extra points into Acid/Electrical damage amplification. I wear Rahkir's Ring and Rahkir's Sash. Together these two items give you the Archmage ability which adds to your critical damage multiplier and chance for critical to land. I use the blue dragon scale robe to get Greater Arcane Lore which gives you even more crit damage and chance for crit. I use the clickie belts out of Shavarath, such as the Singed Belt, for each element of magic to gain 9 minutes of 75% damage amplification (Normal superior potency is 50%). Combined with the Regalia of the Phoenix robe you can get 18 minutes of 75% fire damage amplification. With the Eardweller trinket you get 3 minutes of 100% damage amplification.

The point of all of the above is to show you can have both a quite capable nuker and enchantment sorcerer.

[Samadhi]

The only reason to keep charm spells is for the AOE ones (mass charm monster or mass suggestion). As you correctly surmised, Dominate is the superior spell, and the enchanter's choice for proper single-target control.

[Vallar]

Hmm... I see, this is quite an insight. I have acquired a club that gives 40% damage to 4th level spells and lower. This alone makes Fireball do about 45-97 per hit. I have maxed lore in Fire damage too. But I am thinking of changing the rest of my items for Enchantment thing then increase damage for spells and then Spell penetration.

Hopefully this will generate the results I am hoping for.

Really, thank you everyone for all the help, it really did open my eyes on a lot of things.

[Antheal]

The next feat you'll get will be at level 12, not 11.

Also, I notice your alignment is Chaotic Good, as you progress further into the game, you may find that an alignment like True Neutral may be more effective for you as a non-melee character. As there's no way to change your alignment without rerolling, don't worry about trying to make the "perfect" character and just use your current character as a learning experience so you know how to plan your progression to Level 20 on the next character you play.

As long as you remember to have fun, you're winning.

[Vallar]

I didn't even want it Chaotic good. I just followed one of the paths for Sorcerers, that about it. I learned the hard way that this allegiance isn't really any good. One of the quests had a golem in it that strikes you with some kind of holy or light cube, almost instant kills on hard.

But yeah, currently I am using this character to learn what all I could and have fun as much as I can, once I am done, I will probably either re-incarnate it or just use it as a bank character.