I farmed SWs for a long time. It's not really feasible anymore, beyond about 3 SWs, they animate too many skelly dragons, once they have SW corpses to work with. Level 2 Destard, I farm the horned, but the SWs aren't worth the trouble and insurance costs, and that is with 2 Legendary provokers working together. Give them a wide birth, or drown in animates.
A greater dragon kills a regular dragon before the skill timer wears off.
After over 20 million lost in insurance in Doom, and no artifacts at all, I don't go there anymore. I am willing to ghost along and follow to test your theory on barding onto the DF.
A ten second skill timer, 41% chance RC onto DF, 60% LL onto DF, and a DF kills either on in two hits. 10 of either one of these is hardly realistic on a DF. Comparing any Legendary dexers damage here to provokes is fantasy, honestly bro. Watch the little red 1 damage points go up and get depressed along with me.
I will make a char and follow you on your shard for an education, if you are willing to show me how your provoker rules DFs. Teach me this please.
A provoker/bard is useless in felluca without bodyguards or archery. Without room for resist or a mele defense, they might as well be miners against a pk.
In a tram spawn, tamers and archers kill the champs, or any spawn lured to provoke onto the champs before a provoker can get enough damage for anything more than minimal looting rights. Dreadhorn? - provokers are good for getting keys, then log them off and get the tamer for the island trip. Same thing with Mel, the Gauntlet in Doom, Travesty. Proxomus? The only good champ for a provoker is Shimmering, and that isn't for looting rights or damge, it's to control the brutes.
Building disco sux. At least when I was building provoke I could go hunt anything, I could "play UO". But difficulty based skill gains in barding make building bards pathetically boring.
Work my disco up from 30 doing what, if not imps, cattle?
My Legendary provoker is good for one thing, lesser hiryus onto rev lions. Other wise he is just a mage missing defensive skills, best suited to intermediate spawn levels.
All I'm saying is this - a Provoker char which requires 2 X 20+ skill scrolls to make feasible deserves more than intermediate level content and reward. And what led to this is the realization was that I can't use my favorite play style to resupply my wife's tailoring habit and barbed leather supply. Heck, since her tailoring friend died irl, why should we even bother doing BoDs or farming leather for them anyway, if all it's going to do is remind me of how little power I have, and how I'm now barely scrapping by when 5 years ago I was flourishing in a bustling economy.
The more I think about what these developers did to my favorite bard, the less I feel like logging on, and the more I think about canceling my accounts and going back to the gym.