Umbrascale Ascendant training question...

29-35 base dmg and over 1k strenght? Doing magery, instead of ennemy of one? You ain't optimise.
Is it possible to go magery for more resist/stats? sure.. it kinda defy the purpose tho, but u could make it work depend for what, how u playing it, with whom.. etc.. (same answer as the pack of hound u wanted to roll with less than 5)

Just picture this pet with a rune beetle + a tanky pet (3 tamers team)

Personally as solo, I would start with a scrappy Juvenile (more all around) and optimize the umbra asc. in time as a one trick poney for a specific team composition or content.. cuz I usually hate the glass canon as a solo for most of the content.. Dead we dealing no dmg.

popps said:

Yes, I understand that the Umbrascale Ascendant comes with a good base damage of 29-35 ... but only Chiv+AI will make good use of this high base damage ? Innate Magery won't ?

Grab any pet with Magery.

Go All Attack something out of melee reach; a flying unit or water monster should be good for the test.

Look how much damage/spell your pets is doing/casting. Consider their Eval/INT/mana pool, you could try to add more using CAH tools to compare the data.
On top of that, consider a couple healing/cure/bless.

If magery was any good, we would all have Serpentine Dragons.  How many of those do you see?

And No, Magical pets were changed in the second week of Pub 97.  They melee first, do very little spell casting from afar.  They would need the AI adjusted for the player to be a tank and the pet fight behind him.

@popps ; let us know in 10 years when you get that thing to 100% and you have tested the different magics on TC.  We will have AI/Chiv everything until then.  Just like my melee toons...  I think we figured out the best damages many years ago.

The hammer ain't always the best solution. Without a good pet with magery I would have never been able to enter the underwater dungeon.. freaking black ancient wyrm perching outside the map.

Pawain said:

If magery was any good, we would all have Serpentine Dragons.  How many of those do you see?

And No, Magical pets were changed in the second week of Pub 97.  They melee first, do very little spell casting from afar.  They would need the AI adjusted for the player to be a tank and the pet fight behind him.

@ popps  let us know in 10 years when you get that thing to 100% and you have tested the different magics on TC.  We will have AI/Chiv everything until then.  Just like my melee toons...  I think we figured out the best damages many years ago.

Then, why on earth did the Developers choose to make the Umbrascale Ascendant come with Innate Magery ?

What is the point of introducing a new pet with an unwanted and useless Magical Ability, if I may ask ?

@Violet , any idea of why this new pet came with a useless Magical Ability ?

 😂  Its a Dragon. They are magical .

Many new NL pets are coming pre built with the base pet stats, and do not have Magery.

Get the new Dragon from the Egg!  It has nothing but healing!

The Mature Dragon egg.  It is rare tho. 

The worst era to be a Tamer on UO was the 5 slots "super" dragon under former BS; Mythic.

It was making everything else, almost irrelevant.
A glass canon pet is a breath of fresh air.. I hvn't test it but on paper it's cool.

They could use that glass canon and make different variation, with different base resist/dmg type, in the future.
Instead of making this dragon irrelevant when a stronger Glass gonna come out.. (what BS keeps on doing itemization wise with those temp events)


You could be critical on a lot of things. But u chose to demand for a pre-assemble pet. Overall Tamers have it REAL good on UO.
Can we criticize you tho? You are spoiled by those events, with those BiS piece for pre assemble full suit after x seasons.


Someone could come out with something brilliant to do with this glass canon; thinking out of the box.. If they come already pre-assemble BiS.. GL to find something better to do.. You killing the sandbox.


But yeah, they're glass canon and the actual dmg meta is AI/Chiv.
You wanted a simplier Berserker pack pet?.. u have it.. Enjoy.

so did anyone come up with any cool builds for these dragons? I just tamed a 94% with 960 str and did have the idea of putting Inferno on it as an fiery aoe pet , Ive got enough chiv/ai pets atm 

Mordeed said:

so did anyone come up with any cool builds for these dragons? I just tamed a 94% with 960 str and did have the idea of putting Inferno on it as an fiery aoe pet , Ive got enough chiv/ai pets atm 

Umbrascale Ascendants can make more use out of Chiv+AI than virtually any other pet, due to their extremely high STR and Base Damage. Inferno is single target, deals some Fire damage, and debuffs the victim's Fire Resist by 1/4 for a few seconds.

Ok i misunderstood inferno , what about explosive goo? It's a shame that chiv/AI is the only optimized option. 
And because we only have one round of training and will not be able to raise everything, what stats are must haves and others that can be part trained? I've seen players call these glass cannons so we leave them with fairly low health but maximise damage ?