What's your weirdest template?

Most of us know sampires and all sorts of standard builds. What is your weirdest build? One of mine is one super mage with spellweaving, mysticism, necro and a bit of magery... I don't even know what I wanted him to do.. other than be a lord of magic.. and focus on non-magery spells. 

What weird builds have you created and for what purpose?

My favorite char is a stealth tamer with herding.

vortex said:

My favorite char is a stealth tamer with herding.

That's funny. My main fisher is a stealth fisher with camping.

Arroth_Thaiel said:

vortex said:

My favorite char is a stealth tamer with herding.

That's funny. My main fisher is a stealth fisher with camping.

That sounds like a interesting template too!

I can run a ninja/ stealth/pally/weaver/fisher/ plus?? I have suit that makes it so I only need 45 stealth to be at 120 plus it has stealing etc so it's limitless what I can be

vortex said:

My favorite char is a stealth tamer with herding.

What do you do with it?

Explain what you do with these chars, guys! I've personally never, not since 1998, used stealing.. except for way back in the early days.. to snoop people and lift something out of their bag. 😂

InLor said:

vortex said:

My favorite char is a stealth tamer with herding.

What do you do with it?

Was a fun template when taming greater dragons and rune beetles.. Can stealth around Loring them till I find a good one then herd it to another location to tame... Also can herd my pet to where I want it to go while in stealth with no commands revealing me.

Stealing was just needed for getting things in invasion cities there were hidden chest and there are still a lot of stealable items in game

Well, he has fishing because he's a fisher.

Hiding and Stealth because he is my dungeon fisher and protector for Felucca champ spawns. I find having Hiding / Stealth is hugely beneficial for both of those activities.

Magery, eval, and med to move about, invisibility, and for dealing with any creatures on the sea or in the dungeons.

Camping because he sometimes needs to log out in strange places, like dungeons, or near to Felucca champ spawns. 

These aren't "weird", but I enjoy these ones, which you don't see much --

Stealth ninja tamer
Mystic thrower

I have a mage with healing and anatomy. He relies on wraith form for mana.

I've tried numerous templates on test center. Some off the top of my head that I couldn't get to work:

A mage summoner who would have Animal Lore and Vet for healing summons
A pure stealth ninja
Anything decent that relies on poison mastery
A melee wrestler
A caster wrestler that uses wither or thunderstorm to benefit from Rampage
A "mana shield" tank, like the inverse of a sampire
Decent mage weapon PVM template
Melee spellweaver
Melee tamer
Melee bard

I'd like to try a few out like:

Mystic samurai -- Myst, Focus, Bush, Parry, Resist, Tact (uses Mystic Weapon, probably garg)
Garg mystic weaver -- Myst, Focus, Spellweaving, Resist, Mage, Med
Stealth Ninja mage -- Mage, Eval, Ninj, Poisoning, Med, Hiding, Stealth (80)

loop said:

These aren't "weird", but I enjoy these ones, which you don't see much --

Stealth ninja tamer
Mystic thrower

I have a mage with healing and anatomy. He relies on wraith form for mana.

I've tried numerous templates on test center. Some off the top of my head that I couldn't get to work:

A mage summoner who would have Animal Lore and Vet for healing summons
A pure stealth ninja
Anything decent that relies on poison mastery
A melee wrestler
A caster wrestler that uses wither or thunderstorm to benefit from Rampage
A "mana shield" tank, like the inverse of a sampire
Decent mage weapon PVM template
Melee spellweaver
Melee tamer
Melee bard

I'd like to try a few out like:

Mystic samurai -- Myst, Focus, Bush, Parry, Resist, Tact (uses Mystic Weapon, probably garg)
Garg mystic weaver -- Myst, Focus, Spellweaving, Resist, Mage, Med
Stealth Ninja mage -- Mage, Eval, Ninj, Poisoning, Med, Hiding, Stealth (80)

lol, some of these are hilarious... would love to hear more details about how these experiments went. 

InLor said: I've personally never, not since 1998, used stealing..

You really missed out. My thief temp has made some serious bank between spawners and VvV. 

loop said:

I've tried numerous templates on test center. Some off the top of my head that I couldn't get to work:

Decent mage weapon PVM template
Melee spellweaver
Melee tamer
Melee bard

I'd like to try a few out like:
Stealth Ninja mage -- Mage, Eval, Ninj, Poisoning, Med, Hiding, Stealth (80)

Mage wep pvm temp! (Mage-Tame-Lore-Vet-Music-Discord) You need to use a magical shortbow since it has more imbue points for slayer-mana leech. My old temp didn't utilize all the SS items so i had to skimp on SC and add more into SS. The shortbow is fast. With disco the slayer will hit for 80-90 per hit. Can also swap music/disco for weave/med or use mage heals and swap vet for Weave. 

Melee weaver-tamer and bard templates are also easier with ranged weps. The melee weaver you want to run in wraith form for the mana leech. Kind of like a half Whammy with weave.

Arroth_Thaiel said:

Well, he has fishing because he's a fisher.

Hiding and Stealth because he is my dungeon fisher and protector for Felucca champ spawns. I find having Hiding / Stealth is hugely beneficial for both of those activities.

Magery, eval, and med to move about, invisibility, and for dealing with any creatures on the sea or in the dungeons.

Camping because he sometimes needs to log out in strange places, like dungeons, or near to Felucca champ spawns. 

The trouble with warriors is that they boil down to single target vs multi target, and you undoubtedly need multi target, so you’re not left with many options and you end up approaching everything in basically the same way. 

My mystic paladin and my bard are probably my weirdest builds. 

Mystic Paladin uses Bows to Start and switches to sword and shield after. I use the mystic mastery for the bow and use the event bow. Add hit lightning for the spell channeling and the additional damage. Rising colossus and Stone form help a lot, I use animated weapon if I want to remain mounted. Mass sleep and sleep come in handy. I really dislike Sampire builds as I actually want to use sword and shield and I don't want to use necromancy with Chivalry. I wouldn't mind doing a Bushido Necro kind of like a death knight build, but my paladin should use shields. This was what I worked out that seems semi consistent for PvE content for my Paladin. The new Paladin weapons and shields from the upcoming event should all be useful for this build.

120 Chiv
120 Mystic
120 Focus
120 Swords
120 Tactics 
120 Parry

My bard tamer is a 900 point build. 

Mark of Travesty +10 Taming/Lore
The Codex from last event for +20 Magery/meditation
Spell Woven Britches for +10 meditation 
Ring and Bracelet I made with +15 Taming/Lore/Magery and LRC 20 each
Cloak from recent event for +10 Meditation 
Birds +5 taming/lore
Music Skills are all real skill 120

I end up with

120 Magery
  60 Meditation 
120 Taming
120 Lore
120 Music
120 Discord
120 Provocation 
120 Peace

I can tame anything, I use peace mastery for most things, against bosses I switch to discord mastery. I never run out of mana so Mastery's stay up. I used the Discord masteries for big damage. Magery and Peace mastery for healing pets. I usually use this in a duo with my wife (full mage tamer) she does the pet resurrection when needed. 

These are the only combat builds I enjoy really. 

Galadar said:

My mystic paladin and my bard are probably my weirdest builds. 

Mystic Paladin uses Bows to Start and switches to sword and shield after. I use the mystic mastery for the bow and use the event bow. Add hit lightning for the spell channeling and the additional damage. Rising colossus and Stone form help a lot, I use animated weapon if I want to remain mounted. Mass sleep and sleep come in handy. I really dislike Sampire builds as I actually want to use sword and shield and I don't want to use necromancy with Chivalry. I wouldn't mind doing a Bushido Necro kind of like a death knight build, but my paladin should use shields. This was what I worked out that seems semi consistent for PvE content for my Paladin. The new Paladin weapons and shields from the upcoming event should all be useful for this build.

120 Chiv
120 Mystic
120 Focus
120 Swords
120 Tactics 
120 Parry

My bard tamer is a 900 point build. 

Mark of Travesty +10 Taming/Lore
The Codex from last event for +20 Magery/meditation
Spell Woven Britches for +10 meditation 
Ring and Bracelet I made with +15 Taming/Lore/Magery and LRC 20 each
Cloak from recent event for +10 Meditation 
Birds +5 taming/lore
Music Skills are all real skill 120

I end up with

120 Magery
  60 Meditation 
120 Taming
120 Lore
120 Music
120 Discord
120 Provocation 
120 Peace

I can tame anything, I use peace mastery for most things, against bosses I switch to discord mastery. I never run out of mana so Mastery's stay up. I used the Discord masteries for big damage. Magery and Peace mastery for healing pets. I usually use this in a duo with my wife (full mage tamer) she does the pet resurrection when needed. 

These are the only combat builds I enjoy really. 

I can tame anything, I use peace mastery for most things

Someone with a lot of taming experience in UO can perhaps comment on this ?

I have a mystic stealth herder that isn't very profitable, but I enjoy playing her anyway.
She's great for herding ossian rams and fire damage crimson/platinum drakes to a quieter spot for my tamer, she's handy for gathering Medusa eggs, herding the stygian drake out of the way a bit or even clearing reptalons away from Miasma if they're too close.  One of the most fun, and totally pointless, things I've done with her is herd a greater dragon from Montor, all through Ilshenar to finally leave it near Valor champ spawn. 
(story of that here if anyone wants to read it: https://uo2.stratics.com/skill-guides/skills-and-professions/herding/herding-essay/ )

popps said:

Galadar said:

My mystic paladin and my bard are probably my weirdest builds. 

Mystic Paladin uses Bows to Start and switches to sword and shield after. I use the mystic mastery for the bow and use the event bow. Add hit lightning for the spell channeling and the additional damage. Rising colossus and Stone form help a lot, I use animated weapon if I want to remain mounted. Mass sleep and sleep come in handy. I really dislike Sampire builds as I actually want to use sword and shield and I don't want to use necromancy with Chivalry. I wouldn't mind doing a Bushido Necro kind of like a death knight build, but my paladin should use shields. This was what I worked out that seems semi consistent for PvE content for my Paladin. The new Paladin weapons and shields from the upcoming event should all be useful for this build.

120 Chiv
120 Mystic
120 Focus
120 Swords
120 Tactics 
120 Parry

My bard tamer is a 900 point build. 

Mark of Travesty +10 Taming/Lore
The Codex from last event for +20 Magery/meditation
Spell Woven Britches for +10 meditation 
Ring and Bracelet I made with +15 Taming/Lore/Magery and LRC 20 each
Cloak from recent event for +10 Meditation 
Birds +5 taming/lore
Music Skills are all real skill 120

I end up with

120 Magery
  60 Meditation 
120 Taming
120 Lore
120 Music
120 Discord
120 Provocation 
120 Peace

I can tame anything, I use peace mastery for most things, against bosses I switch to discord mastery. I never run out of mana so Mastery's stay up. I used the Discord masteries for big damage. Magery and Peace mastery for healing pets. I usually use this in a duo with my wife (full mage tamer) she does the pet resurrection when needed. 

These are the only combat builds I enjoy really. 

I can tame anything, I use peace mastery for most things

I might be wrong (maybe @ Violet could answer this ? ) that using peace or the paralyzing spell to tame pets ends up in getting a tamed pet with worse stats as compared to only using lead taming ?

That is, it is best using lead taming without any way (like peace or paralyzing) to make the pet that one is taming less aggressive because the tamed pet gets better stats, after getting tamed ?

Someone with a lot of taming experience in UO can perhaps comment on this ?

100% incorrect. Peace taming has no effect on stats. I don't use paralyze or Discord for taming, and I use honor taming in situations where peace isn't working well. Honor and Peace do not effect the stats/skills of the tamed pet in any way, shape or form. I've had multiple tamers over the decades, My Wife is actually playing one of my other tamer accounts. I have a lot of tamer experience lol. I take breaks, but I've been around since the late 90's. 

popps said:

Galadar said:

My mystic paladin and my bard are probably my weirdest builds. 

Mystic Paladin uses Bows to Start and switches to sword and shield after. I use the mystic mastery for the bow and use the event bow. Add hit lightning for the spell channeling and the additional damage. Rising colossus and Stone form help a lot, I use animated weapon if I want to remain mounted. Mass sleep and sleep come in handy. I really dislike Sampire builds as I actually want to use sword and shield and I don't want to use necromancy with Chivalry. I wouldn't mind doing a Bushido Necro kind of like a death knight build, but my paladin should use shields. This was what I worked out that seems semi consistent for PvE content for my Paladin. The new Paladin weapons and shields from the upcoming event should all be useful for this build.

120 Chiv
120 Mystic
120 Focus
120 Swords
120 Tactics 
120 Parry

My bard tamer is a 900 point build. 

Mark of Travesty +10 Taming/Lore
The Codex from last event for +20 Magery/meditation
Spell Woven Britches for +10 meditation 
Ring and Bracelet I made with +15 Taming/Lore/Magery and LRC 20 each
Cloak from recent event for +10 Meditation 
Birds +5 taming/lore
Music Skills are all real skill 120

I end up with

120 Magery
  60 Meditation 
120 Taming
120 Lore
120 Music
120 Discord
120 Provocation 
120 Peace

I can tame anything, I use peace mastery for most things, against bosses I switch to discord mastery. I never run out of mana so Mastery's stay up. I used the Discord masteries for big damage. Magery and Peace mastery for healing pets. I usually use this in a duo with my wife (full mage tamer) she does the pet resurrection when needed. 

These are the only combat builds I enjoy really. 

I can tame anything, I use peace mastery for most things

I might be wrong (maybe @ Violet could answer this ? ) that using peace or the paralyzing spell to tame pets ends up in getting a tamed pet with worse stats as compared to only using lead taming ?

That is, it is best using lead taming without any way (like peace or paralyzing) to make the pet that one is taming less aggressive because the tamed pet gets better stats, after getting tamed ?

Someone with a lot of taming experience in UO can perhaps comment on this ?

Also the mana, stamina, and health regen you add to your pet during training stacks with the peace mastery regens giving you some very nice regens to go with the damage reduction and etc. I prefer it to running consume since I don't run out of mana running the peace mastery and helps them in more ways than consume does. Though this only works if you have all the bard skills at 120 for the mana cost reduction and effect enhancement. Hence why the build is a 900 point build. My Mage tamer on the same account runs mage mastery for death ray while the pet tanks, but requires the right pets, currently the bear is my go to for that build as it has life leech. AI/Chiv for that pet making it pretty universal in most situations.