Preliminary Enchantress Guide

[WarBlade]

I criticisized the start of your guide.
Surprisingly, you agreed saying you didn't like it either. Then this . . .

This is the part of your discussion where I get concerned that you might not have read the guide but instead just glanced at the guide's titles and headings. Inferno, FO, Firewall, Hydra, and Meteor were only briefly mentioned as variations that people might like to try while 95% of the guide was spent discussing builds, tactics, equipment, and mercenaries for ranged and/or melee enchantresses. Whether you consider someone who casts a spell as a suplemental attack an "enchantress" or not is purely a matter of semantics. In the guide, I call any character who spends 62 points to fully power up Enchant and uses that Enchant to power herself and her party up an enchantress. Perhaps your definition of a player who never uses any suplemental spell (only powers up a cold armor, for example) would be best described by the more restrictive term "fighter mage" or "fighter enchantress."

Yes, there are obviously different interpretations as to what an "Enchantress" means to people. Is it not then wise to actually start at that point by posing the question of what she is and define the idea in as many interpretations as possible before explaining the rest?

My viewpoint is a far more purist viewpoint than yours it seems: A Sorceress who's entire being is based around the idea of enchantment, primarily focusing on the Enchant skill, with a secondary nod to those skills that operate in an enchanting fashion. eg. "She enchants her sword with fire and her armour with ice." Depending on how purist you want to go, "Some might also enchant their very aura to bleed off damage (ES) and call down bolts from the sky (TS)"
. . . all the while maintaining the theme of fire-and-forget spells.

You allude to definitions that present a generalist Sorceress that happens to put most of her points into the one skill highlighted by the name and move on to an "anything goes" philosophy. While I appreciate the move to an open-ended concept I also am left wondering why the potential result is even named in such a specific manner as "Enchantress".

So yeah, we quibble over the semantics, but that's a decent starting point right there IMO. Explore what "Enchantress" means and then role on with the guide.