Continuing from a previous post, we'll go over the pets worth taming. Unlike my other posts, I expect this will be a short one. Most of the custom tamables are for skill over GM. I currently have 110 Taming, so I haven't tamed them all. I won't cover pets I haven't had or haven't seen in play.
At GM skill, you have a few options. Dragons, White Wyrms, Rune Beetles and Nightmares are pretty much the best of them. These can get reasonably powerful, but don't expect anything more than what standard UO offers from them. They haven't been buffed in any way, so custom enemies on UOPF will make a mess of them most of the time.
Tutivillius is a custom tamable (92.0). It cannot bond to you, so you'll have to be a bit careful with it. It is a pretty strong pet to own, however. About at the 1K mark for Strength, 650+ health, high resists including 100% Poison and around 70% physical. He (somehow) deals 100% Physical, 25% in all the others. Skill-wise, nothing over GM, but high out of the gate. Three control slots.
The over GM pets aren't often as good as Tutivillius. The ones that I've gotten so far are the Silver Steed, the Phantom Steed, Frost Steed, Fire Steed, and Cu Sidhe.
Silver Steeds (103.1) are re-colored horses. Don't expect anything more from them than you would a horse. One control slot.
Phantom Steeds (105.1) are basically Nightmares; slightly higher strength scores, 450 health, about 35-/+ in each resist other than Physical, which is around 50~60. Three control slots though. I haven't trained one to high skill, so it's possible that they can go over GM skill somewhere but I doubt it.
Fire Steeds (106.0) are the same as UO Standard. Lower than Nightmare stats and resists. High Fire resist and skills. The do come with pack instinct Daemon. Two control slots.
Frost Steeds (110) are recolored Nightmares. They have a frost breath attack, but for all other purposes they're the same as far as I can tell.
Cu Sidhe (104.1) are easily the best tame I've ever had. The majority of it's skills are over GM, it has 1K strength, 550-ish health, resists very high (over 60 on all of them, 80's for cold and poison). It uses spells, bleed attack, and deals lethal poison. As if it needed to do anything else, it is also a mount. I'm unsure if you have to be an elf to tame and ride these like UO standard. Unlike UO Standard, it doesn't use Healing skill. Takes three control slots. (Note, as of Jan~Feb '11, this information is somewhat obsolete)
Clay Puppet: Grabbed one of these a couple days ago in Elysium. Not sure the tame skill required. They're weak pets, though. Over 100 hp, low resist, no magic. I haven't used it much, for the reasons mentioned.
Kodiak: Another Elysium pet that I'm not sure of the skill needed I'm estimating near the 110 mark because it took a lot of tries to finally get. A world better than the Puppet. Nearly 900 strength, high magic resist, decent resists, and solid health. It won't replace a Cu, but it's a good stepping stone to the Cu if you don't have one yet but want to see what one might be capable of.
New custom tames are added fairly often, including special limited-time tames. I can't comment on any of those. As I gain better skill and tame some of these new additions, I'll update this post.
As right now, I wouldn't waste my time on any tames other than Tutivillius at GM skill or a Cu Sidhe over GM.
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