I never played a tamer before and was graciously given a very good GD. I have been training him up and learning the ropes. I soloed Navery last night and came to the conclusion that I may need to add Disco. Then I realized I will also need Music. My question is how do you put Disco and Music on a tamer template? And at what level? Currently I have:
120 Taming (30 Jewels)
120 Vet (30 Jewels)
112 lore
100 Eval
100 med
100 magery
You want a wild template: How's this....
with equipment, my character has an all 70s/75 suit (and still is only 69/70/70/70/75 with protection cast), 100% LRC but currently he's near-minimal luck (I want to finish training him up before I try messing with the suit).
Elf race (for one piece of equipment)
Stats (max scrolled): Without equipment bonuses
STR 100 (for carrying loot home and decent HP; 95 if all you've got is the 230 base from 225 + the "6 month"/AoS bonus)
Dex 30 (you need more than 10, or sufficient stamina regen to compensate for running - if scrolled over 235 cap, put everything past the 100 STR & 125 INT into this)
INT 125 (for max mana and mana regen)
With Equipment:
120 Music (110 + Song-woven mantle)
120 Provo (106 + 14 that was originally on one jewelry piece before imbuing)
120 Disco (or will be, after I'm done currently at 90 real, +13 from jewelry)
120 Veterinary (all real, for the legendary title)
120 Animal Lore (102 real; +13 from one jewelry piece, +5 from birds of Britannia tali)
120 Taming (102 real; +13 from same jewelry piece as Lore, +5 from BoB tali)
115 Magery (70 real, eventually. +30 from jewelry (actually is currently a little less), +15 from Tome of Lost Knowledge - currently, is much higher, and that's where all the points being moved into Disco are coming from)
Yes, this IS a 835 skill point template. And, he's what I've been turkey hunting with, as a bard. And I might be able to squeeze him up to 7x120, if I play with the jewelry properties a little bit
While I'm using a general purpose jewelry piece with Peace, Provo, Disco and Magery on it (I swap out peace and Disco as needed for my purposes, and both are still in the process of training), eventually, I'll just have near-identical pieces with Magery, Provo, and EITHER Peace or Disco, along with one other property, that will be kept with (and swapped) with the soulstoned skills. The Tome works better than the conjurer's Grimoire, simply because you don't have to worry about repond attackers doing double to you.
Eval isn't really needed for a Tamer/Bard. You can use summons as temporary pets (no eval needed for any of them), and the Heal & Cure spell families are based on your magery alone (similarly, Eval has no part in marking, recalling or gating). If you have to finish up something with offensive spells, then you have Mind Blast (which is based on Intelligence, IIRC, not Eval). AS a result, you have no need for any SDI on your suit, as nothing actually uses it. In some ways, the ToLK is a waste, as you can't use its DI, so a really nice crafted spellbook with near-max Magery, LMC and a non-SDI property (LRC, FC or FCR) might work better, but getting one that fits might take a while.
With a high enough INT, the +20 mana for being an elf, and LMC from the suit and spellbook (where you can get it), med isn't much an issue, either. Just get some Mana regen on a few suit parts, and make sure the suit is medable (as you can still manage to actively med, sometimes, even at 0 skill - and INT is 1/4 the equation for stat/skill based mana recovery).