Returning UO 5 Year Break Help Questions.

[Brookex3]

Been reading a lot about patches since I've been gone trying to get an understanding been roaming the forums for past 2 - 3 days sharpening up on the game a little bit.

Question how much do Dread Mare sell for? I'm just wondering cause I remembered you cannot get them anymore and before I took a break from the game I was in the middle of making 2 templates a pvp dread mare mage build and messing around with a necro tamer sw template.

The worst part about getting back into the game is relearning the game and the new stuff on top of that and talk about new stuff... holy crap! so many things have changed I didn't think it would have been this drastic haha. So I was wondering how is profitable is gathering and crafting skills because I saw some of the mods you can get from drops and was like holy crap!!! Also, is fishing worth it for money or is it kinda a waste?

I also, so some cool new idea that been floating around in my head for a support char if I wanted to ever do that, for example, Archery mastery and discord maybe even parry and thrower! They got some cool passive does anyone make support char to heal or use them in pvp or pvm to boost each other.

So I decided to step into PvM then slowly work my self back into pvp just to get my hands use to keybinds and the new mech also, do you know if they may add a new shard once the next expansion hits so new player can start fresh and I'm sure some of you older players wouldn't mind hopping on to help and enjoy that feeling again you can always keep playing on your home shard.

I'm trying to think of some type of build to start roaming and killing stuff maybe weak spawns mobs maybe doom.. new stuff but, I do not have a sampire to do this and I know there are other builds and specific build to do certain things if you tailor it but throw some templates at me that is hot I saw some on one forum but it seems rather weak and is this a good thread to be posting this on or do I need to move it?

Also, I've been trying to find mega thread on some of these things but I fail at forums if you could maybe post links to big up to date threads about PvP build PvM Build maybe sampire or anything else that is going on crafting mining money making fishing discord pvp build discord pvm build anything that big tread that is up to date currently would be also I found one on sampire but I don't know if it the most up to date one, also any other useful info like website anything! friend & I are trying to get back into the game would be very appreciated

P.S. Sorry about wall of text :<

 

[Basara]

For taming, ask around on the Taming sub-forum in Professions. There have been radical improvements and they can help out.

Sampires (and a variant called a Whammy. that uses ranged weapons such as throwing or archery, and wraith form) are still as popular as ever. The new skill masteries have added new life to some skills, especially Spellweaving (and taming has some neat ones for pet buffing). The Shadowguard roof in Eodon is primarily a tamer's game (most other templates tend to cause sub-spawn that can wipe a party, let alone a soloist), though there are people who claim to use other templates (not sure if I believe them). The Roof is where some of the best loot comes from (both off the last of the 4 bosses, and in the form of arti drops). Doom Guantlet has some new stuff, but its difficulty has been made absurd out of a misguided attempt to nerf certain playstyles, that didn't effect them at all and shafted everyone else.

No chance of there ever being new shards. As it is, Atlantic is choking the life out of many smaller shards, as people go to the smaller shards, dominate spawns, then export everything to Atlantic via the shard shields.

Crafting has some uses (and there's now BODs for 8 skills, not just BS & Tailor), mostly for some of the BOD rewards. You can only craft stuff equitable to the new loot using Reforging, which requires runics and an Imbuer. There's always room for more resource gatherers - especially if you sell somewhere other than Atlantic (most shards you can't even FIND leather or colored ingots for sale, anymore).