Animal Taming

Description

Animal Taming is a skill that allows you to tame pets to become your allies. These pets will follow your commands. Higher levels in taming allow you to train much tougher creatures such as Dragons while lower level taming allows you to tame basic animals such as horses. Clicking on an animal once (if it's tamable) will bring up a "Tame" button, you will attempt to reason with the animal or monster until you either fail or succeed. If you succeed, the animal or monster will now listen to your typed commands (Listed below)

Your Animal Taming and Animal Lore skills affect your ability to both tame the creature as well as command it. If your Animal Lore skill is too low, the creature will ignore your commands and get upset. Animal Taming allows you to acquire Meta Pets.

Notes

• Power Scrolls and Skill Scrolls are available for this skill.
• For a complete list of tameable creatures you can refer to the Taming Charts

Recommended Training

As one of the famously hardest skill to level, it is recommended to follow guides in order to maximize the Taming gains during training. Taming gains are difficulty based, meaning that you will not gain skill when Taming something that is considered too easy or too hard. Taming can also be passively trained whenever a tamed pet, or pets, kill a creature. The chance to gain is based on the relative strength of the pet used, the damage the pet dealt, and the tamers skill level. The Tamed Creature's Minimum Taming Requirement must be within 5 skill points of the Tamer's current skill level. Relative Strength of your pet is based on the following:

• Armor
• Maximum Hitpoints
• Strength
• Dexterity
• Skill levels
• Special Abilities such as Relics or Boss Abilities

Notes:

• You cannot gain taming from gated mobs.

Guides

Basic Guide

Gaining Animal Taming skill through battle is the fastest route to grandmaster. Employing five pets of an appropriate skill level to defeat stronger enemies will yield much faster skill gains than wandering Sosaria and making friends with every animal in sight. The Bard skills Peacemaking and Provocation will aid in this endeavor, as will careful attention to which of your pets are dealing damage. When a monster of the appropriate difficulty dies, there is a chance for each of your pets that hit it during combat to grant you 0.1 skill. More pets hitting an enemy means more chances to gain skill. Thusly, using this method, you can acquire up to 0.5 skill per kill. It's crucial to ensure that each of your tames lands at least one blow while fighting to maximize skill acquisition.

Appropriate level pets for this method are pets whose taming difficulty is within ten skill points of your Animal Taming skill, and the monster being defeated must be a monster stronger than the pets being used. Some examples of this that have been used in the past are Scorpions, Grizzly Bears, Frost Spiders, Lava Lizards, and Hell Hounds being used to kill Earth Elementals. Finding good pet and monster combinations can help you to reach grandmaster in less than a weekend!

Detailed Guide

Hello, here's a quick and simple 50 - GM taming guide, no actual taming required! "All Kill" and collect those shiny gold pieces and taming points. [GMed 27.Nov.2024]

Below were my starting skills before I started taming/killing. I was going for the Tamer Bard template. Note:(You don't have to have these skills at 100 to start. I leveled them up ahead of time, you can always level them up later.)

100 Magery (Recommended. Used for gating my pets back and forth from the bank and healing/curing pets.) 100 Meditation (Recommended. Mana Regen after healing.) 100 Music (Helped, but not necessary.) 100 Provocation (Helped, but not necessary.) 100 Veterinary (Recommended, mainly for last phase.) 100 Animal Lore (Recommended.) 50 Animal Taming (Recommended.) GM+ tamer friend (Required)

Info:

• Your skill setup can be different, I really didn't need provoke and veterinary until the last phase. I used provoke when I accidently aggroed too many mobs, other than that I used it here and there. It's helpful, but not necessary. Play it safe and learn to kite.
• I got a tamer friend to help tame all the pets for me. Find a buddy or guild member with GM+ tame to help.
• I mainly used Magery to heal and cure my pets during the first 3 phases.
• I used 5 pack instinct pets for the first 3 phases for faster kill/skill gains and to get the most gains possible.
• I never saw a 0.5 skill gain from a kill using 5 pets, mainly 0.1 - 0.2. The highest I've gotten was 0.3 here and there. Maybe I'm not lucky like some of you will be.
• I didn't include the time it took to tame the pets used because by the time I was done with one phase, my buddy had the other pets ready for the next phase.

Phase 1

50-69.2: 2 hours, 45 mins

• 5 Grizzly Bears (Pack Instinct) (Found in the wilderness/jungle or around Moonglow Moongate. 59.1 required to tame from wiki.)
• Kill everything Shame 1.

Phase 2

69.3-87.3: 3 hours

• 5 Frenzied Ostard (Pack Instinct) (Found East of Hedge Maze, Spawns 2 at a time. 77.1 required to tame from wiki.)
• Kill everything Shame 1 & 2. (Go to 2 if 1 is full of people, if not stay on 1. Resist on the frenzied ostards aren't great, had one die to a couple air elementals targeting it. Its doable you just have to be quick on the heals.)

Phase 3

87.4-95.6: 2 hours, 15 mins

• 5 Hell Hounds (Pack Instinct) (Found in Fire Dungeon. 85.5 required to tame from wiki.)
• Kill everything Shame 1 & 2.

Phase 4

95.7-100: 1 hour, 45 mins

• 2 White Wyrms (Found in Ice Dungeon. 96.3 required to tame from wiki.)
• Kill anything with high HP 800HP or above, I selected dragons. (Destard, Dragon Island, Cove Dragons, Daemon Temple Dragon.)

Summary

• Total Hours 50-100: 9 hours, 45 mins
• Total Gold Made: 388,589gp (Including paragon chests gold and selling weapons and armors back to NPC. I kept the gems, regs, tmaps, statuettes and cloth drops. I left the ores and fertile dirt/misc items on the corpse.)

Contributors

The community would like to thank the following brave adventurers who contributed their time and experiences for others to enjoy:

• Kodobema (developed the detailed guide)

See Also

• Animal Lore
• Controlling Pets
• Peacemaking
• Discordance
• Pets
• Protecting Your Pets
• Stables
• Tameables
• Veterinary