Hi all, I used to play UO back around 97-2000 and used to love my GM Tamer and mage. I also ran a fisherman with archery and that was good fun when I just wanted to chill out. I would love to get a tamer back up to usable ability but I remember back on the official servers this was a massive grind getting the skill points. I've read the server rules and FAQ it says there is no adjustment to skill gain on location or time, so I guess there is no power hour type skill bonus? So it's just a flat rate no matter where or what time I train, is there an adjustment to the speed overall? Whilst I loved my tamer I don't think I could be bothered to spend a couple of months getting GM again lol. Also is starting a mage tamer viable as a first character? will i struggle to be able to afford reagents for spells etc? If the above is not viable what would people recommend I start as just to get some gold to be able to afford the mage? Sorry for the wall of text. I'm hoping to find a good home here as I've longed for a UO fix and none of the newer MMO's have ever captured what UO did.
I think on OSI it was likly that if you gain on a specific location you would not gain there again. So its a improvement for skillgain here so you can gain without 8x8. You find a good macroing taming guide here in forum in the guide section. Have a look to "one guide to rule them all" I just GM'd taming. All you need for this is 2 chars (one best already has 50 taming) and 1 boat (~15k gold costs) While one char (50healing 50hiding?) lures all tameable stuff on the deceit island to your boat your tamer just runs a macro in razor. Oh also lure 1 non-caster monster there - so this one kills your tamed stuff. I think i did this about 8 hours - maybe less - to reach 71.2 taming. Now comes the easy part. With a bull taming macro just macroing 1-2 days and you may reach 85.x - so you could tame hell hounds. I macroed hell hounds about 24h to reach 97 taming. Well... you also can GM by taming bulls but it may be slower. All together i needed 6-7 days (mostly macroing) from 40taming to now GM (just reached it 30min ago )
If you loved UO back in 97-2000 Era than you won't be disappointed here. There is a great "Young" player program here that will help get you re-acquainted with things. Specific to taming, there are two excellent guides in the forums that I would suggest you check out. http://uorforum.com/threads/a-youngs-guide-to-animal-taming.4446/ http://uorforum.com/threads/fast-track-guide-to-taming.2165/#post-13265 You can get from 50-95+ taming in just a couple days here. My advice for a starting character to farm gold is a peace dexxer or a provo bard. Once you are established you can create a tamer. Just my 2 cents though. Welcome to UOR!
Thanks for the info guys, I will check out the guides for taming. I'm glad that skill training isn't the slog it used to be on the official servers, I loved it back then but doing it again now im a lot older and less patient (already going bald lol) is less appealing. I'll probably start a bard like Miller said just so I can farm some gold to get my self established.
There are some great guides for macroing bard skills in the Guide section of the forums as well. You can pretty much GM a bard AFK in a couple days as well with just a short walk from Moonglow to the zoo. If you get in a jam, hop into IRC and ask for help. Many of the veterans there are more than happy to answer questions or buy resources from characters just starting off.
The biggest game changer here compared to the old days is Razor. If you're not familiar with it, it's an application that can macro and do other menial UO tasks for you. If you have a slight interest in scripting/coding, this part of 'modern UO' is actually pretty fun. Someone once called Razor the 'game within the game' in irc - I think that's pretty accurate. It makes training most skills pretty painless, even taming. If you're not into that, you can still of course play the 'old school' route. Also to note, you can have 3 accounts running simultaneously here. Get one account 'cooking' (macroing skills somewhere) while you actively play another account. A good starter income is grabbing cotton or shearing sheep and selling the cloth to other players (use IRC).
Thanks for all the welcomes and advice, I've been playing now for about an hour and I can already feel UO sucking me back in lol. I've even got the music turned on (which I used to hate) just for that 100% nostalgia feeling. I think I'm going to like it here
Welcome aboard matey! If you need a safe place to train up until you get your own I could co-own you to one of the new player houses in Stormhold!
Welcome Rainy! I agree with Basoosh, get three accounts running. Let two macro while the third supports your macroing toons!
Welcome home Rainy. Soon it will a come back and you'll be in the swing of it all. There's tons of new content here to keep you "sucked In".... you'll see
Just a little update on my progress, I decided to the hard route of tamer first, this is only hard because it's hard raising magery with no gold to supply the regs but with the handy [young] status I've not had much reason to kill everything in site, only killed my own tames to force a respawn. Anyway I've managed to get animal lore up to 94.4 and taming just hit 80.0 This is all from actual playing and no macroing. I'm hoping I can GM from the giant toads in the sewer of occlo. It's a long slog but I'm dedicated
Keep going I did my first tamer here by hand too! If you need a break soon you can swithc over to taming Smaug once you hit drake level I think!
Well I hit drake level and went off to tame Smaug, however Smaug didn't seem to believe me when I was telling him how caring and understanding I am as a drake slave master, erm I mean caring pet lover. He thought it would be far more interesting to roast me with a few fireball and then remove my limbs one by one. You can see my corpses scattered around smaugs spawn as I went back for more punishment lol. Managed to tame him once. With no back up skills (magery still at 55ish) it does not seem time effect to bother with him. Unless I'm missing a trick to make this easier on my self lol.
