My son is interested in this and now I'm interested lol. He wants to be a mage but also would like to ride and control something like a nightmare. Is this viable? Sounds like a lot of skills, but never played a tamer so I'm not sure. Help please!
Since I'm doing this on a Dread Lord that's good info, lol. It's my son's account and I don't normally think much about negative karma. Although I did have some pixies (or something, can't remember) kick my butt with this character. Mostly cause I had no idea they were gonna go bat crazy on me, lol.I should note that my template requires that you keep your karma very high, or the chiv won't be much use for curse removal, which is what I use it for.
I have a mage/tamer very close to these temps and they are a lot of fun. Key to my suits are SD, LMC, and MR. All 70's and throw in some MI and Int and you should have a pretty solid suit. It is tough to finish off the template without topping off some skills with jewels or other items but for a PVM template you will be able to deal damage yourself and have your pet tank/damage for you and use vet to heal your pet reserving your mana for mage spells and bardsongs.Mage/Tamer is basically the original Tamer template. I have 2 old Mage/Tamers on Napa.
Zeus is 120 Taming/120 Lore/GM Vet/GM Magery/GM Eval/GM Med/80.0 Resist.
Aries is 110 Taming/110 Lore/GM Vet/GM Magery/GM Eval/GM Med/GM Resist.
Both use Swords of Prosperity for -0 Mage Weapon and 200 Luck, and Aries uses the Birds of Britannia Talisman to bring him up to 115 Taming/Lore. The build is very solid, capable of using the pet for damage, while being able to dish out some damage yourself with Slayer spellbooks.
Another build i like using, is the Disco Tamer. Taming/Lore/Vet/Magery/Med/Music/Disco. Discord makes opponents alot easier for your pet to tear through, but you yourself can't deal much damage, asides from Despair with a Slayer instrument.
Lol ya like that will go well on a tamer forum...lol trollDrop the vet