I usually animal lore them first. That way I don't waste the time taming them if they aren't worth taming. If they are worth taming (to sell, pass to an alt or keep) then I'll beat them up enough to where their firebreath doesn't do significant damage and then work on taming them. If they aren't worth taming I'll kill them for the gold, items and barbed leather. Repeat that over and over (banking when needed) and hopefully end up with some nice dragons in the process
Well now my tamer will go red for u posting such details of the stratagy lol. Yall better just keep it moving if u see me near dragons lol. Nah thats exactly how its done. Its pretty amazing how many awesome dragons I have and the damn things are pretty hard to sell. Im loving how many great dragons im seeing posted on here