Most owners have these as Twilights remain the fastest dragons to level

Benefits: Dragons can be good hunting partners. For some classes (ex. healers) it would be better to have the dragon take the archeage gold damage than you.

You can use the dragon to control your XP gain thus keeping a scavenger or bounty hunter within range of good spoils a bit longer without delivering on town guards.

At level 55 a Hatchling can become a Strider. After this you can ride your dragon all over the map. If you enjoy pulling several mobs for your group hunt (or if you want to train others), then the additional speed of a Strider under you can turn the tide when running from possible death.

On the same token, you can jump on a Strider to get out of harms way during PvP or to get to a PvP situation a bit faster. If money is your objective then you can sell dragons and make millions in adena.

On Gustin you could sell a Dusk Strider for about 20-30 million; the flutes went for around 1-1.5 million. It was RARE to see a Star or Wind Strider for sale in C3, but flutes usually sold for a mere 100k-250k.