Honor taming rules for solo taming anything you need to get tamed *NOW*, or otherwise want to tame without getting attacked. You should expect to be follower or higher, and be quick with your keys, to make it work well. It's not for casual taming or cu sidhe farming, it's too laborious to build up honor to waste it on something like that.
My perspective on taming the superdragons is, are you trying to get a job done, or trying to be on foot and killed by a 2000 hp, firebreath-blowing, flamestrike-spamming, endless-mana monster standing within 2 tiles of you? At least for now, Honor tame is there for us to use, they didn't take it away or invalidate it when the superdragons came out.
Bunches of people don't use honor and tame superdragons as a team and I think that's great, seeing all the teamwork and cooperation and so-on, but that also doesn't mean that one well-prepared individual shouldn't be able to do it too. And that is how it happens to be, because of Honor.
Honor's provided in the game as a reward for the activity of killing lots of monsters in a hm, honorable, way. Putting honor on a tamer takes a bit of work, too. Things like the sphynx take forever to raise honor on for a tamer, more dangerous things like the succubus give increased rewards for their increased danger and trouble. Honor's not free, effort-wise.
I understand there are people who just work through it and lead tame. Yes that's harder to do than building up Honor and using it to tame your superdragon. I haven't deliberately set out to lead tame one, not counting one situation that just unfolded that way and I didn't have a choice. To me, the difficulty of these justifies just using honor and getting the dragon you want and then going on with your life.
What I do is:
BE ALONE or have people around go invis and stay that way. Peacing on top of honor taming gets in the way, it's redundant and when it fails, the dragon's going to want to bite whoever is standing there and that's just an interruption/interference that increases the chances of the job not getting finished in time.
I have a UO assist macro that causes an insured dagger in my pack to be double clicked, bringing up a targeting cursor.
When there's a superdragon I want, I honor myself (my macro is shift-h, and then I target my own bar), and then I come charging out of invis and go straight up to the dragon. I quickly get off my ethy and then fire my dagger macro and select the dragon's health bar. It gives a little error message, which is fine, I only used the dagger to set the the last target correctly. Then, I hit my taming macro, shift-Q. That's a macro which uses animal taming, and then waits for target, and then last targets.
I see anger cycle messages but the dragon does not actually attack. I quickly hit shift-q each time I see the anger messages. I practically spam the shift-q, actually, because it's a race against time, as your honor will only last but so long. When I see the blue taming messages start I slam the brakes on my macro spamming (its ok to accidently hit it an extra time, though) and then wait, making sure to follow the dragon closely.
When I see the fail message I go straight back to spamming the tame macro. And in the end, I get my dragon with no deaths or even interference from surrounding spawn.
When the tame is succesful and the dragon pops into tamed color, the surrounding spawn, if there is any, ignores me and attacks my newly tamed dragon. Superdragons are pretty tough at least, so that hasn't been a show stopper with any of the tames I've done so far. Gating straight out of the Tram dungeons isn't a bad idea because of how this happens.
Then, I have to go work honor to replenish the honor spent. It's a maintained thing, not a once-off deal.
I did manage to tame one as seeker and not follower, but I don't recommend it. I barely got it, my honor ran out right as the second tame attempt started, I was invissing and hoping for the best, pulling back in what had suddenly become a lead tame. Also, the one and only time I died doing this was when I attempted to do it as seeker. Follower is the correct honor level for this and at that, you need to be fast.
With follower of honor I can survive 3 or so anger cycle attempts/fails at taming a superdragon before the honor runs out, maybe more. With 120 tame 120 lore it's worked out well so far and I've collected every dragon I've gone for while follower.
Honor is there for us to use, as a reward for following a set of guidelines and maintaining 'honor', no shame on my part here.
It also works for taming other people's aggro-cycle pets that have gone wild in town. Without honor, the pet is guard whacked on its first aggro attempt on you, but with honor activated there's no guard whack because the actual attack never comes. Just hope to get it tamed before the honor runs out, and if it's about to run out, one might stop the tame attempts before the pet goes splat. You will be able to try honor-tame again in like 5 minutes.
If you've never honor tamed before and want to try, I'd suggest getting a feel for it on some cu sidhes (where you can be mounted) and then maybe try the superdragons. If you go too slow on the cu sidhes and get bit it's not as bad, as you can gallop clear and perhaps survive.
FYI I have 50% ecru ring on and if I get hit I drink a heal pot and one In Mani and im back to 100%hp
