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

Tamed Abilities

Each pet has unique Follower Abilities, categorized as:

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

Main article: Taming Bestiary

• The Taming Bestiary allows tamers to unlock upgrades for different pet classes.
• It is crafted via Inscription and is Blessed.

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