Cu Sidhe
Cu Sidhe
Cu Sidhe are one of the top beginer pets that a tamer can have in Ultima Online. Although greater dragons are more popular, Cu Sidhe are also great pets that serve tamers well as both damage dealers and tanks. Cu Sidhe are riding wolves that can also be used as mounts. Cu Sidhe have the ability to heal themselves and their owners and have the special ability to bleed opponents. In certain situations, Cu Sidhe can work better for a tamer than a greater dragon and Cu Sidhe take only four control slots.
Cu Sidhe can only be tamed by elves but can be mounted by humans if a human character has the Mondain’s Legacy artifact boots, Pads of the Cu Sidhe equipped. If your tamer is a human, someone else can tame a Cu Sidhe for you and transfer it to you. If you are an elf, you can catch and ride a Cu Sidhe without any help.
Cu Sidhe spawn in the Twisted Weald in Ilshenar. Head north of the Shrine of Spirituality and enter the mushroom cave, near the entrance to the Twisted Weald you will see sparkles. Once you walk into the sparkles you will be transported to the area where the Cu Sidhe spawn.
Cu Sidhe spawn in fourteen different colors, some of the rare colors such as ice and blaze are in high demand as vanity mounts. If you plan on getting a Cu Sidhe in a rare color plan on spending a long time hunting!
When tamed Cu Sidhe lose half of their stats and hit points. The ideal wild Cu Sidhe has 1200 hit points, 65 physical resistance, 85 cold resistance, 45 Fire Resistance, 50 poison resistance and 85 energy resistance. Once your Cu Sidhe has bonded, you can begin the process of training it.
Thrasher, a named alligator, in the Blighted Grove is an excellent choice for training your Cu Sidhe. Even an untrained Cu Sidhe should be able to kill Thrasher quickly and heal itself. As your pet trains, you will get a lot of fame and karma with each kill 1,500 gold and high quality magic items including Mondain’s Legacy artifacts. Another option for training Cu Sidhe are shadow iron elementals, you can find shadow iron elementals in the Yomotzu Mines in Tokuno.
The advantage of using a shadow iron elemental for training your Cu Sidhe is that the shadow iron elemental will take no damage and your Cu Sidhe will heal itself completely, making your role as the tamer, effortless.
After your Cu Sidhe reaches 85 healing, gains slow down and in order to keep you Cu Sidhe gaining in healing, you will need to fight rotting corpses or creatures that use lethal poison. Some tamers like to train their Cu Sidhe on Miasma, the named scorpion, in the Labyrinth because the Cu Sidhe can heal through mortal strike and lethal poison when it heals itself. Cu Sidhe do not resurrect players with their healing abilities.
Cu Sidhe are great pets for tanking due to their overall hardiness, great resists and ability to self-heal, even with less hit points than a greater dragon, Cu Sidhe may be more desirable for certain situations. For example, in many Mondain’s Legacy dungeons one cannot use a pet summoning ball and it is necessary to get deep into a dungeon in order to get keys for a peerless or to get to a certain area.
If a tamer uses a greater dragon, it can be extremely difficult to get deep into a dungeon because the tamer will be on foot; the greater dragon will attack and be attacked by everything! A tamer riding a Cu Sidhe can skillfully ride through the dungeon and pre-cast invisibility and not have to stop to fight anything!
A Cu Sidhe is a much better tank than nightmare, hiryu or dread nightmare and still deals out a respectable amount of damage. Skilled tamers often use Cu Sidhe to solo Bedlam and are able to defeat the monstrous interred grizzle solo by standing a short distance away to veterinary heal.
