No one likes fighting groups of 4 or 5 tamers.. especially when there is no risk of losing pets or reward for killing them.[/QUOTE]
In all reality Mark, I dont think anyone likes facing ONE tamer with his mares, let alone four or five sir. For one, facing a tamer alone already puts you at a seriouse dissadvantage. You not only have to face a gm mage or fighter, but you have to do this while being attacked by two mares which can do more damage then the mage ever could. In this sense Mark, it is almost rediculouse how unbalanced it is in fighting these tamers.
However, I could care less if tamers didnt have it rediculously fucking easy on this shard. You could do "one" thing to balance taming out or you could do small amounts of multiple things. For instance lets look back on the Hay day of UO. Taming used to be a skill that took months of hard work and dedication to gm. With this hard work you had great rewards. Pets could not recall with you, they couldnt bond to you, and they coudlnt be leveled up, but taming was still more usefull then almost any other thing on UO. The mere fact that you could go to a dungeon and farm with these things was reward enough.
Now however this shard has turned taming into a joke! Not only has it ruined pvp, but it has helped destroy the UO economy. Wtf is the difficulty of making money when you can tame a few ww or mares and go to a dungeon to farm your ass off without consequences.
COMON NOW taming has to have some kinda skill attached to it! Not only do they not have any drawbacks to their pets dieing, but it takes only a day to gm that skill.
Revisioins:
Of course if you took off pet bonding all together it would fix the problem, but im realistic and know thats not gona happen.
Now if you did a little of everything on that poll then you will have a winner. The lil bastards with lack of skill who play tamers will still be happy they still have bonding and the taming skill will be more at par with the rest of the UO world. First of all if you just simply slowed the animals when attacking it would emmensly help. Therefore some fuck cant bola you then sick his mares on you and you are being mowed down by e bolts and flamestrikes without any chance of escape. Second pets HAVE to have some kinda loss for dieing if you want to keep bonding. Like Mark said there is no real point to killing a tamer, its just too much risk for little reward. I mean christ some newb pk can just sit in bucs with two mares and some aids from him bank res them and take down atleast a few people newly ressed. Recalling with pets is one of my huge pet peeves as well. For fucks sake they are pets you ARENT riding wtf kinda realistic shit is that. If you want to keep that you might as well make it so I can recall two of my friends whenever i want.
Well my networking class is over so im gona stop short
