An extremely recent introduction to the game, the Swamp Dragon first appeared on cheaspeake shard, along with he new chaos dragoon and dragon scales. Swamp dragons spawn as the chaos dragoons mount, and in order to get the dragon the rider must be killed.
The dragon is non-aggressive and causes karma loss if killed. It takes an estimated 93.9 to tame. When killed, they give green dragon scales and die extremely fast to magery from players or melee.
After their dismal fights against players, it's interesting to note that swamp dragons ARE indeed special. They only do 1-2 HP of melee damage, but theyexcel at absorbing damage from monsters. I'll let the pictures speak for themselves.
The acid ele wasn't much trouble.
by far, the hardest monster for the swamp dragon was the lich lord, because of its eval int and my warrior didn't have a silver weapon at her disposal. but for a swamp dragon to be effective, it MUST have a competent healer at hand (these take healing skill, not veterinary) and that warrior MUST be dealing damage to the warrior as well.
This thread can be added to as the scenario changes things, or new features about this new rideable are added.
addendum: dragon armor gives you a message that your armor absorbs some of the damage from an attack. Dragoons give 150-200 gold, a gem, and 1 dragon scale that is the same color as their tunic. Even wearing dragon scale armor, dragoons can do considerable damage against a warrior, and their mounts will firebreathe and do a sort of stomp attack that gives the animation of you falling from your mount.