I understand the desire to make this wonderful new pet have a high requirement. I agree, in fact. It should have a higher minimum taming requirement than the legacy dragons, for sure. No brainer.
However, I seem to remember reading that shortly after the introduction of powerscrolls, the devs assured the playerbase that no action, spell or tameable would ever require skills over GM. They've already gone back on this with Cu's and Fire Steeds, and I seem to remember reading more than one disgruntled post by tamers about this fact.
Every time I see a request for something "special" for 120 tamers, I cringe... but this idea makes me more than a little mad. For a few moments, put your apparent superiority complexes aside and have a little thought for those of us that play under conditions like mine.
98% of the time, I play a tamer. A "true" tamer - I have taming, lore and vet as high as I can (all over GM, base), while still being able to defend myself without my pets. I love the taming profession, and aim to eventually take the taming skill itself to Legendary, though there is no room on my template to follow suit with lore and vet.
My char's template looks like this:
Taming 105.1 (+15 brace for active taming)
Lore 110
Vet 110
Magery 100 (+15 Tome for reliable spellcasting)
Med 100 (have had this lower, but as it is I fail more often than I'd like at medding)
Hiding 100
Stealth 80 (+20 Shadows)
It has taken me close to two years to get to 105 base taming on this, my primary char. Granted, I know it can be done much, much faster than this, but when I started playing I was an Honours student writing my research paper, and since then I have shifted countries, gotten married and started my own business while also working 2-3 nights a week at a part time job. And regardless - even if I had the time to work from 105 to 120 over the next few weeks, I couldn't...
my account is only 24 months.
At the moment, my GGS is approximately once every 48 hours. Even if I had the skill points available, it would still take me almost a year to gain the 10pts in taming to get my char to the level more than one person in this thread has suggested.
That's three years. I'm all for putting in the hard yards and not getting things handed to me on a silver platter, but Christ people,
three years?
The "reward" for 120 is added control, a higher success rate, a fancy title and a nice big stroke to your e-peen. Make the required taming for the super dragons GM, no higher. The "boy's club" of Legendary tamers really does sicken me sometimes. Just because you've done it umpteen times doesn't mean everyone who loves the profession has the ability to make a Legendary tamer at the drop of a hat.
And to anyone who tells me I should set one of my other skills to down and just suck it up and work taming, I refer you to my comment above. Introduce a mage spell that requires 115 magery, a crossbow that can only be used with 115 archery, or a dungeon that only Legendary players can enter, and maybe then I won't complain about a 115 requirement for taming. But you won't be able to hear yourselves think on these boards for the screaming.
/rant.
*edit* Just realised I should point something out - I replied to your post, Fluffi, because I agree wholeheartedly with everything you've said, and I was going to comment on your arguments, but I believe you say all that is necessary as far as skill + items and PvP are concerned.
