You will need to have a very well trained dragon, or be a bard/tamer (or have a bard friend that you work very well with).
Old school D&D players might remember the "Subdue a Dragon" rules, (If you remember those, your played toooooo much D&D!), but anyway lol it worked like this, you could use the blunt sides of your sword (or weapons) and beat a dragon into submission. Each hit counted against its full hit points, but unless you struck a killing blow, you had a chance of "subduing" the beast into being your "pet", all this was contingent on if you managed to Live of course....
In UO it works just about the same way, you still have to "tame the dragon" however its MUCH Faster, and easier if its been subdued.
The two best ways to subdue a dragon are:
1-Barding Just provoke 2 dragons into fighting each other. As a side note, newbie bards have a chance of getting two dragons to fight. Its actually not as effective as it might sound, and the newbie bard probably wont have "looting rights" until the corps goes gray, and after the winning dragon has gotten something. When the combat is over, you try and tame the winner.
2-Trained Dragons/Wyrms
Go into Destard with a TRAINED Dragon, (if the dragon is not trained odds are you will loose the tamed one because multiple dragons will "jump it") and have the TRAINED dragon beat the stuffing out of a wild dragon.Very well tamed dragons can beat wild dragons and still have almost 1/2 of their hitpoints left, see the chapter on animal Training for more info.
When the wild dragon is on its last sliver of health mark a rune, gate your dragon back to the stable the recall back to that spot and tame the new dragon.
Dragons fire breath damage is dependent on their hit points, dragons at 50% hit points do about 1/2 damage, dragons at 10% or less hit points only do about 5 points of fire breath damage on you, after the combat they are out of mana so they are not casting on you, they also are out of dex from the thrashing so they don't claw you as often, and they move very very slow.
Its a Cinch to tame a subdued dragon, the challenge in it is training up an existing dragon to the point that they can "Take" another dragon, and survive if things go wrong as they did in this series of pictures.
Wotan (My Dragon) was fairly well trained, and was in combat when a drake jumped into the combat, I mana dumped g-heals on Wotan and he killed the drake, then went to back to work on the new one.
It was a pretty good fight
But Wotan being Trained, beat the stuffing out of the other dragon.
After he got this one way way down I gated Wotan back to the stables, recalled to the spot, then laid down a paralyze field and started taming, I stepped too close to the para field and the dragon managed to claw me once, but other than that it didn't touch me while I tamed it. The actually taming, feeding, and gating (of the now tamed dragon) took about 90 seconds, there just isn't much that a subdued dragon can do to you unless you Lag out, or make a dumb move (like I did with stepping too close)
