This is actually going to be my first tamer build on a production shard, I've toyed with them here and there on test centers but I havn't been playing for ~4/5 years now. Now what I wanted to do was a peace or provoc tamer. However I was wondering how "nessecary" it is to have 120 Taming/Vet on a tamer. What I'm most concerned about is if I will need 120's to effectivley tame/control a greater dragon and bond it. I have a almost finished mage/bard template with Music at 100% and Provocation jewled to 116.something. I'd like to have music and provocation 120'd for sure. The problem I'm having is that if I have these four skills at 120 that only leaves me room for 100 Vet 100 Mage 30Meditation. 710 Cap
Any suggestions to make an effective peace tamer? Really I just want something to bring to champs other then my bard because I can't afford the gear to bring my melee up to snuff..
Ok, 120 taming will, as Lady Arwen rightly points out, get you more stable slots. It will also help you to tame new high-end pets. But for that extra boost, you can simply eat the 120 scroll on a 110 skilled tamer and add a jewel whenever you need to fetch a new pet.
How I'd work a single skill bard tamer would be like this:
110 Tame
110 Lore
110 Vet
110 Music (song woven mantle arms can give you another 10 skill to hit 120)
120 Peace, Disco or Voke
100 Magery
40 Med, or 60 if you have 720 skill cap. Or use the +15 skill spellbook and steal some points from your magery skill.
Now, depending on what you have, you could add barding skill items to the character and free up more skill points. I would always use items on the barding side rather than taming side as that ensures you don't have any control issues if you command pets when newly resurrected. If it's clinging on to life, you don't want your pet saying "no" when you call it back
I would suggest disco over peace, as it is great not just for hunting, but also speeding up the training of your pets. You basically disco a pet and that enables it to gain faster when fighting the right opponent etc.
But there is nothing stopping you from soulstoning peacemaking for times when you wanted to tame with it. Quite a few tamers do exactly that.
My favourite bard template is a lot tighter, because I put disco and voke on it for some crowd control and targeted disco. I wanted a character that could function with or without pets as I don't have a "pure" bard char.
This is my bard tamer:
110 tame
110 vet
100 lore
110 music (with song woven mantle to 120)
105 disco
105 provo
80 magery
Her skill cap is 720.
I have skill items for the disco and provo so they can go to 120, but I tend to just boost the disco most of the time. Often I use neither, it just depends what the barding difficulty of my target is and how much the pets cope with by themselves.
I haven't quite hit her lock point on the barding skills yet, so I'm still debating whether I let disco hit 120 real skill and lock real voke at 90, boosting that with items as required. But anyway, that's roughly the template, and so far it's been workable and fun!
Wenchy
