Animal Taming

Summary

The path of an Animal Tamer is long and often challenging, but mastering it allows players to control animals and monsters, making it a lucrative profession for those with patience. The skill enables taming and commanding various creatures, which can be used in both PvM and PvP.

• Complete list of Tameable Creatures and their stats.
• Complete list of Pet Abilities.

Skill Gain & Passive Taming Gains

• Players gain Animal Taming skill from taming creatures where the success chance is below 100%.
• Players cannot gain skill from taming a creature that has been released by themselves or another player.
• Taming skill gains do not occur when standing inside a house (though taming itself is still possible).

Passive Taming Gains

• Each time a player gains 0.1 skill from taming a creature, they bank 0.5 passive taming points (max of 5 points banked).
• Passive taming gains are consumed by killing monsters with tamed pets.
• The harder the monster, the greater the chance to trigger a skill gain.
• Players can assist their pets in combat; as long as the pets contribute damage, they are eligible for gains.

Direct Taming Gain Limits Per Creature

Each creature has a maximum pool of taming skill points available before skill gains stop:

Skill Level	Max Points Per Creature
0-50	5.0
50-70	1.0
70-90	0.5
90-119.9	0.2

Taming Creatures & Pet Bonding

• Taming a creature requires both Animal Taming and Animal Lore.
• Players must be within 3 tiles to begin taming and within 6 tiles to continue the process.
• Pets bond with their owner after reaching Level 1.
• Pack animals cannot be bonded.
• Bonded pets recall, hike, teleport, rope, or gate with their owner.
• When a bonded pet dies, it turns into a ghost.
• Pets can be resurrected by a player with 80 Veterinary, the Resurrection spell, or an NPC Healer.
• Pets that are left out in the world without receiving a command from their owner for 24 hours will become untamed, unbonded, and deleted.

Taming Success Chance

• Players always have a minimum 5% success chance to tame a creature if they meet the required taming skill.
• Using a Shepherd's Crook provides a bonus to Taming Success chance based on its Accuracy and Damage (Tactics as %).
• Example:

 An Exceedingly Accurate (+20% Accuracy) Shepherd's Crook of Power (+20% Damage) increases taming success chance by +40% 
 Using this, a base chance of 50% will become 70%.  

• If a pet is taking damage, it cannot be tamed and will display the message: "It is too angry to tame."
• A common taming method is to command another pet to attack the wild creature, then use "All Stop" or "(petname) stop" before attempting to tame.
• It is possible to have a number of pets with you GREATER than the number of control slots (eg. You have 5 control slots filled and you tame another creature) however once this occurs the only orders you will be able to give to them are to follow you, until you are at or under your max number of control slots again.

Abandoned and Released Pets

• Pets must be interacted with by their owner at least once every 24 hours to prevent abandonment.
• Players remaining in-game for long periods should either:
  • Use the Stables to protect their pets.
  • Return to refresh their pet’s abandonment timer.
• Released pets are now Hindered for 60 minutes instead of being Pacified.
• Recently released creatures display the "*released*" text above their head.
• Abandoned pets can be recovered from an Animal Wrangler in Prevalia or Corpse Creek stables.

Stables and Control Slots

• Players can speak with a Stablemaster to access their Stables.
• A mounted pet does not count toward Control Slots (See: Mounts).
• Stabled pets do not accrue fees after 60 days.

Stable Options

• Retrieve Lost Followers: Allows players to retrieve lost pets for a fee.
• Reset Follower Level Selections: Resets all Stat/Skill/Trait selections for a pet (usable anytime outside of combat).
• Reset Follower Name: Resets a pet’s name back to its default untamed name.

Pull Followers

• Players can use [pullfollowers to retrieve any follower within 5 tiles (cooldown: 5 minutes).
• Cannot be used if recently engaged in PvP.

Tamed Stats and Skills

• Tamed Creatures will automatically receive scalar bonuses to Stats and Skills applied at each level
• Followers only use one form of combat, Melee or Spells, each follower's combat type is listed as either "Melee Damage" or "Spell Damage" in their Animal Lore page to indicate this

Stat	Increment Per Level	Up to a Maximum of
Hits	+10%	+100%
Attack Speed	+2.5%	+25%
Wrestling	+5.0%	+50%
Armor	+2.5	+25
Magic Resist	+5.0	+50
Poisoning	+2.5%	+25%

Tamed Abilities

All creatures have specific abilities linked to that creature type and each ability is split into three categories:

Category	Description
Innate	Always active for that creature.
Passive	Has a chance to trigger on hit or damage taken.
Cooldown	Activated once and requires cooldown before reuse.

Abilities can be viewed using Animal Lore on the creature.

Tamed Classes

All tameable creatures fall into one of three classes:

Class	Description
Attack	Focuses on dealing damage.
Utility	Specializes in poison, disease, or debuffs.
Tank	Designed for survival and maintaining aggro.

Players can view a pet’s class in the Animal Lore menu.

Taming Bestiary

• The Taming Bestiary is an item which lets tamers earn experience to unlock upgrades which apply to creatures of the various tamed classes.
• The Taming Bestiary is crafted by players using the Inscription skill and is Blessed

Underdog Bonus

• If a player uses Tamed Creatures where the player's Animal Taming and Animal Lore skills exceed the "Min Taming Skill" needed for that creature, the Tamed Creature will receive a number of bonuses
• The bonuses from the Underdog mechanic are designed to offset the player choosing using a "weaker than normal" creature
• Players can view the Underdog Bonuses provided to a creature on the Detail page of the Animal Lore menu for the creature
• Creatures will receive a Damage bonus of (50% * (Player Taming Skill - Creature Min Taming) / 70) upwards to a maximum of 40%
• Creatures will receive a Damage Resistance bonus of (10% * (Player Taming Skill - Creature Min Taming) / 70) upwards to a maximum of 20%
• Creatures will not receive a Healing bonus
• Note: A player's Animal Taming skill is capped by their Animal Lore skill for the purposes of Underdog (i.e. players will need both skills)
• Players can optionally disable the Underdog bonuses for all of their Tamed Followers by unchecking the "Enabled" button, as some players may wish to disable Underdog Bonuses for testing purposes

Zoology Guild

• The Zoology Guild is a network of Zoologist NPCs that work behind the scenes to collect data on the frequency at which different Tamed Creature Types are being used by players to tackle content across Outlands
• Players will automatically receive Combat Bonuses to their Tamed Creatures based on this data collected, with higher bonuses granted to Tamed Creature Types that are being utilized less frequently by players on the server
• Players will also be rewarded with unlocking additional Stable Slots for their character by utilizing a variety of Tamed Creatures (similar to the old Taming Bestiary handling)

Follower Creature Specifics

• Player pets can be pushed through freely for movement by all players
• Player pets move at 80% speed while attacking a player target
• Tamed pets will no longer use abilities within 1 second of performing a melee attack against a player. The behavior of special abilities is unchanged when fighting other creatures.
• When a player dies in a dungeon, their Pack Animals and creatures with the Mule trait will now drop their backpack's contents into the player's corpse (rather than onto the ground)
• Tamed/Summoned follower PvP damage scalar has been increased to 30% (previously was 25%)
• Tamed/Summoned follower maximum melee hit chance in PvP is now 66%. (previously was 50%) They may get up to 100% chance to hit other creatures
• Tamed/Summoned followers now have a 60% reduced chance in PvP to trigger abilities against players (previously was 90% reduction) For example, an untamed ember drake has a 25% chance to trigger a Flamestrike against any target after a melee attack. A tamed ember drake has a 15% chance to trigger a flamestrike against a creature. A tamed ember drake has a 6% chance to trigger a Flamestrike against a player.
• Tamed/Summoned followers now have a 25% reduced chance in PvP to use a special ability when attacking a player (previously was 40% reduction)
• Tamed/Summoned follower ability cooldowns in PvP are now only increased by 50% (previously were increased by 100%)

Follower PvP Damage Caps

Damage Type	Description
Melee	Capped at inflicting at most 10 Damage Per Control Slot over a 3 second window to individual players in PvP
Range/Spellcasting	Capped at inflicting at most 7 Damage Per Control Slot over a 3 second window to individual players in PvP. Capped at 8 tiles distance.

Other Notes

• Tamed Creatures who are teleported (via Recall/Gate/Moongate) will default to "Follow" mode
• Tamed and Summoned followers cannot have their damage reduced by more than 90% for any damage they take (unless specifically for an ability or effect that reduces damage to 1)

Player Made Guides

• All-In-One Taming Guide and Scripts by Khal Draco and Zell
• Animal Taming FAQ by Ahamkara
• Pet Abilities and Traits

Training

Skill	Training Method
0-50	Train from NPC
50-60	Colossal Frog in New Player Dungeon
60-80	Cave Bear in New Player Dungeon
80-85	Deep Crawler
85-90	Drake
90-95	Husk Crab
95-100	Dragon
100-105	Snowdrift
105-110	Earth Drake
110-115	Sphinx
115-120	Earth Dragon