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A few questions if you please...
1.) How do the skills go above 100 after training? Is there not a cap? The same doesn't hold true as does say, the runey with under 100's after taming going only to 100, etc?
2.) I havent tried taming yet (always late), but there is a dude on my shard that insists that they must be peaced to tame. I've seen plenty of evidence on these posts to the contrary. I've soloed everything I own one way or another. I've got alot of exp with lead taming hostiles (relatively),and can dig up a 70's suit, especially phys and fire. Any suggestions? Does the draggy need to be beat down (no easy task I'm guessing).
Thanks friends,
Maynard Keenan....Chessy
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1. Most pets when they are tamed suffer a skill drop of 10% on all skills. If after they are tamed they have a skill, or skills, that is over 100, that will be the cap for that pet. For all other skills the cap is 100. However there are two pets for which there is an exception, reptalons, and the new greater dragons.
On those pets certain skills suffer a 28% skill drop when they are tamed. For reptalons this is wrestling, for greater dragons, wrestling, tactics, and resisting spells. However, those skills will still train back to their original, untamed skill minus 10% or 100, whichever is higher. With greater dragons, the three skills that suffer a 28% penalty will always train back to over 100 because the lowest range of each of those three skills, X .9, will be over 100.
2. That person that says that all pets need to be peaced to be tamed doesn't know what he or she is talking about, or isn't expressing him or herself very clearly. If you paralyse then tame pets will suffer a 14% skill drop instead of a 10% skill drop after taming. For most pets this doesn't matter, but for pets that will have skills over 100 after taming this will lower their skill cap.
For greater dragons their resisting spells is so high that para taming (paralysing then taming) won't work anyway. Peacing them is also extremely difficult, although I've heard it can be done. For the most part you have to either lead tame these dragons, or use honour to tame them. Lead taming is extremely challenging, and if you use honour you will probably need at least level two honour, and even then, you may not get it tamed before your honour protection runs out.
As for beating them down. If you beat them down their fire breath will do less damage, however if you beat them down too much (10% health I think approximately) they will start to teleport like mad, and this can make lead taming extremely challenging as well. My advice is to not bother beating them down. Beating them down can take a very long time, they cast heal on themselves a lot, and they also seem to regenerate hits faster than normal dragons, so in my opinion, just make sure you have good fire and physical resists, and take your lumps.
If you weren't a skilled lead tamer before you start trying to tame greater dragons, you will probably be one before long if you stick to it...
