Lower my Taming?

[N49ATV]

Hey guys, just wondering what templates you are running. Im thinking I might lower my taming for a few things. Its 120/120/120 right now, was thinking going 110s or 115s, to give a few more points to put ninja on my stealth template, and make room for herding (which I was hoping would work on monsters for me, but only tameable ones :/)

What do ya think is really needed for tamer lore? and how much control of my GD will I lose if I run 110s? I could always imbue a +10/10/10 jewel

[Goodah]

I have 110 Taming, 102.2 Lore, and 100 Vet on my tamer and have no problems controlling a GD or a Cu Sidhe.  If I didn't need the stable slots, I would probably bring Vet down more to the min needed to res a pet. 

[Sir Morder]

If you are a tamer and plan on usin a pet for anything other than monster farming i would recommend stoning vet all together. If you are gonna use a pet in pvp and still want some sort of vet skill i would run just 50 vet. You can then put a pair of jewels (imbued to +15 vet skill each) in the bank and if your pet dies and you dont, then just go to a bank, put on your jewels and res pet. This will free up 70 points for you for pvp. If ya wanna put taming at 110 and lore at 110 then you would have 90 points for a skill like ninja (no fail llama form i think).

[N49ATV]

I wont be PvP with pet. Ill stick to mage. Though im gonna need the pets to farm silver (if price is right at interview this morning, and I take the local job). And do spawns, or farm gold. Im gonna need vet for the few places I farm. Just looking to lean out my template a bit.

[Tjalle]

Lea runs 120/120/120 also and still has ninjitsu. She´s just that awesome...  

[N49ATV]

lol, yeah currently i got...

120/120/120
115 mage
100 hide
75 stealth

made a 10/10/10 throw away brace, gonna drop to 10s, leave everything else as is, and make room for 100 heard, 100 fish, 100 detect or track, scribe, whatever.

[Bruin]

Does herding serve any purpose other than being able to like herd those orange beetles to a safe area of the dungeon before taming them?

[N49ATV]

well when I ran it up, i didnt read up enough on it. was gonna use it for farming, but then I realized its only good for tamables. So I guess if you are getting bugs, or drags to tame. Another one I saw it used for was to protect against raiders on riktor. Herd 5 or 6 drags to entrances, and keep them at bay. I really wanted to use it to farm in bedlam, but alas that idea is shot

[Eowyn]

I hope you already know if they aggo on anything including you you lose the herding and have to re target and you can only herd aggressive things while hidden and stealthing. I will reactivate my ninja herder in the next 2 weeks.

[N49ATV]

Oh, its fine, I got that sorted out. To be honest I wanted to herd RCs away from spawn for me, but they cant be herded :/ sucks. Not sure ill keep it.

[Troop]

Wow. Now I want to train herding too.  It seems like it may be of limited use but maybe you can still have a lot of fun with it.

Question: Can you herd up a whole bunch of things at once? Like 100 Gamans or something?

[N49ATV]

There is no limit to the number of "tameable" creatures you heard. If they are agro creatures (that will attack you) if they decide to go after something (say a blue NPC, or any other char) then you have to re-heard it.

So yes you could have 50 gamans follow you. And it doesnt break stealth. Its used to grief a bit, such as luring 5 GD to the entrance of Destard, to kill anyone who enters. Or lure all the lessar and greater hiryus to the gate in tok.

It has its uses, although I think it should be upped a bit.

[Troop]

More questions! Can you herd up things and run them through moon gates?

I was thinking that it might be fun to have like two or three people herd up a whole mess of stuff and run a stampede.

[Ian James]

No to the moongates. Otherwise, we could create all sorts of havoc, it would be a blast.

[N49ATV]

No moon gates, no magical gates