Taming
Overview
To tame a creature, try to get close to it (some are shy and will run away from you) and use your Taming skill on the creature. Not all creatures can be tamed and some are easier to tame than others.
Once you have your new pet, you will have to follow some rules if you want it to stay loyal to you. First, it needs to be fed. If you don't routinely feed it (it will warn you in advance it is getting hungry), it will go wild again. This may not be a big deal for a pet cat or pig but if your dragon goes wild, you do not want to be doing something else and not notice as it stomps all over the place.
Pets are like henchman - you can only have so many. Because some pets are more powerful than others, you can have less of the more powerful ones or more of the less powerful ones. For example, dragons are quite strong and harder to control thus you can only have 1 at a time. On the other hand, cows and horses are easier so you can have a few. The maximum you can have is based on your taming skill. Summoned creatures do not count towards your allowed maximum.
When you are not around, it is common practice to stable your pets. When you stable them at an authorized stablemaster, they will keep your pet safe and well fed for a nominal fee, depending on the type of pet. If you log out without stabling your pet, they go into hiding and will wait for you to return. If you do not return for 30 days, your pet will pine away for you and die.
Using Veterinary
The Veterinary skill is the primary offset to Animal Taming. Veterinary skill gives you a greater understanding of the creature you are trying to tame. While it does not improve your chances to actually tame the creature, it will decrease your chances of angering the creature. The last thing you want to do is anger a dragon you are trying to tame.
The higher your veterinary skill is, the faster your healing on your pets takes effect. For every 15 points of veterinary you will reduce your healing time by 1 second. This means 60 veterinary skill will reduce your time by 4 seconds and at 100 skill you reduce the healing time by 6 seconds.
The Veterinary skill also allows you to determine a pet's hunger.
There is a discrepancy with veterinary and healing; in some systems the actual healing skill is used and in some the vet skill is used.
Taming and Bards
Trying to tame an angered creature takes time to calm the creature and get it to listen. If you are a bard and can pacify the creature with music, you can get it to listen to you faster. This can also be effective if your animal lore doesn't prevent you from angering the creature.
Provocation can also be used against the bigger creatures. For example, provoke a dragon defender on a dragon and then tame away. If you anger the dragon, run, heal and try again.
Pet Commands
Add ALL to the front of the command and all of your pets with you will do that command.
Add the NAME of your pet to the front of the command and only the named pet will do the command.
Add ME to the end of the command to follow yourself or it will give a targeting cursor.
For example: all follow me, all guard me.
| Command | Effect |
|---|---|
| Kill | Attack Tells the pet to attack the target that you select. |
| Stop | Your pet will stop all other commands. If in combat, you may have to repeat this command several times. |
| Follow | Your pet will follow you or the target that you select. |
| Transfer | Changes ownership of the pet. The new owner must have sufficient skill to tame the creature themselves. You can't transfer ownership of a totem animal while it is in animal form. You have to shrink it to totem form and hand it to the new owner. |
| Release | Allows a tamed creature to go wild. This command can not be a part of a sentence. If you release a high level creature, you will be prompted to make sure you really want to release it. |
| Guard | Your pet will guard the target and attack anyone aggressive towards that target. |
| Fetch / Get | Tells your pet to go and get an item and then come back. |
| Drop | Tells your pet to drop any items that they are carrying. |
| Speak | Your pet will say something if capable or make noise if they can't talk. |
| Stop | Tells your pet to stop at that location. |
| Stay | Useful only after the stop command is issued, stay prevents your pet from wandering around. Should be used as [all] stop and [all] stay to be effective. |
| Battle Orders [creature's name] | Sets the automatic combat decisions for the pet while they are fighting. For fire-breathing pets (such as male dragons), you will have the option to turn on or off their fire breath. Fire breath is an area of effect spell. Note: there is no way of knowing which dragon is male or female until you have tamed and set their battle orders. For all other pets, sets their aggro attempt: pets will attempt to pull aggro from their opponent every 10 seconds. |
Pack Animals
Tailors can make the bridles for packhorses and pack llamas. To get a pack animal, use the bridle on a tamed horse or llama. Other animals will refuse to wear it. The command "fetch" will drop what he is carrying and if you say "fetch" and open his pack, he will put the fetched item in his pack.
Taming List
This is a general guide only and not all tameable animals are listed.
There is a variance of about 10 skill points on most creatures. This means that at lower levels of taming you may get the chance to tame. However you will find it much more difficult and your chance of "enraging" the creature is much higher. For example, if you have 60 taming skill and the animal requires 70 skill, you will fail a lot, possibly angering him. Keeping your animal well-fed is important and if you are going to ride dangerous animals, you should ensure you have the appropriate food in your main backpack.
| Creature | Avg. Difficulty | Food |
|---|---|---|
| Abyss Minion | 135 | veggie |
| Alligator | 55 | raw meat |
| Amazon War Horse | 75 | raw meat |
| Bird | 5 | veggie |
| Black Bear | 55 | raw meat |
| Blood Llama | 60 | raw meat |
| Blood Ostard | 60 | raw meat |
| Blood Steed | 60 | raw meat |
| Brown Bear | 50 | raw meat |
| Brute Minion | 135 | veggie |
| Bull | 70 | veggie |
| Bullfrog | 10 | veggie |
| Cat | 20 | raw meat |
| Chicken | 10 | veggie |
| Cloud Giant | 105 | raw meat |
| Cow | 25 | veggie |
| Cranky Minion | 135 | veggie |
| Dark Minion | 135 | veggie |
| Dark Ostard | 60 | veggie |
| Deamon Steed | 95 | raw meat |
| Deer | 33 | veggie |
| Desert Llama | 60 | veggie |
| Desert Ostard | 55 | veggie |
| Desert Steed | 60 | veggie |
| Dire Wolf | 80 | raw meat |
| Dog | 1 | raw meat |
| Dragon | 95 | raw meat |
| Drake | 80 | raw meat |
| Drow Steed | 88 | veggie |
| Dwarven Pony | 88 | veggie |
| Eagle | 33 | veggie |
| Elven Steed | 88 | veggie |
| Emerald Steed | 60 | veggie |
| Fey Steed | 88 | veggie |
| Fire Giant | 105 | raw meat |
| Fire Lizard | 75 | raw meat |
| Fire Ostard | 55 | veggie |
| Fire Steed | 60 | veggie |
| Forest Ostard | 55 | raw meat |
| Frost Drake | 90 | raw meat |
| Frost Giant | 105 | raw meat |
| Frost Wolf | 70 | raw meat |
| Giant Flaming Spider | 75 | raw meat |
| Giant Frost Spider | 80 | raw meat |
| Giant Rat | 45 | raw meat |
| Giant Rock Scorpion | 80 | raw meat |
| Giant Rock Spider | 80 | raw meat |
| Giant Scorpion | 63 | raw meat |
| Giant Serpent | 80 | raw meat |
| Giant Spider | 60 | raw meat |
| Goat | 25 | veggie |
| Golden Phoenix | 60 | veggie |
| Gorilla | 40 | veggie |
| Great Dragon | 105 | raw meat |
| Great Hart | 60 | veggie |
| Gremlin | 55 | raw meat |
| Grizzly Bear | 57 | raw meat |
| Grotty Minion | 135 | veggie |
| Grumpy Minion | 135 | veggie |
| Hellhound | 77 | raw meat |
| High Elf Steed | 88 | veggie |
| Hildisvini | 62 | raw meat |
| Hill Giant | 105 | raw meat |
| Horse | 45 | veggie |
| Howling Minion | 135 | veggie |
| Ibn'Najm | 88 | veggie |
| Imp | 75 | raw meat |
| Indigo Llama | 60 | veggie |
| Indigo Ostard | 60 | veggie |
| Indigo Steed | 60 | veggie |
| Lesser Wyrm | 80 | raw meat |
| Llama | 47 | veggie |
| Mongbat | 47 | raw meat |
| Nightmare | 95 | raw meat |
| Panther | 62 | raw meat |
| Phase Spider | 77 | raw meat |
| Pig | 20 | veggie |
| Polar Bear | 57 | raw meat |
| Praetorian War Ostard | 65 | raw meat |
| Purple Haze Ostard | 60 | veggie |
| Purple Haze Steed | 60 | veggie |
| Rabbit | 5 | veggie |
| Rat | 17 | any |
| Rock Lizard | 75 | raw meat |
| Royal Fey Steed | 88 | veggie |
| Shabooli War Horse | 70 | raw meat |
| Scourge Minion | 135 | veggie |
| Sheep | 20 | veggie |
| Snake | 15 | raw meat |
| Snow Leopard | 55 | raw meat |
| Snow Pony | 88 | veggie |
| Storm Giant | 105 | raw meat |
| Sun Ostard | 70 | veggie |
| Swamp Steed | 60 | veggie |
| Tarn | 60 | veggie |
| Underdark Ostard | 55 | veggie |
| Walrus | 50 | raw meat |
| War Tarn | 90 | raw meat |
| Wolf | 55 | raw meat |
New Rideable Mounts
These mounts are not obtained by finding them in the wild. All are available through events, crafting or questing. The Unicorn and Kirin are only obtainable by special events or festival tokens. The Ethereals are available through festival prizes. The Warhorse is obtainable through crafting. The rest can be found during a guild event or while doing an event master. They will either spawn during the event or at the beginning of the event.
| Creature | Avg. Difficulty | Food | Restrictions |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ridgeback | 75 | raw meat | |
| Savage Ridgeback | 95 | raw meat | |
| Unicorn | 80 | veggie | Only ridden by females and elves |
| Ethereal Ostard | 70 | raw meat | |
| Ethereal Horse | 45 | veggie | |
| Ethereal Llama | 50 | veggie | |
| Giant Beetle | 80 | veggie | |
| Skeletal Horse | 80 | raw meat | Only ridden by Necromancers or 100 Necromancy skill |
| Kirin | 80 | veggie | Only ridden by males |
| Swamp Dragon | 80 | veggie | |
| Armored Swamp Dragon | 80 | veggie | Only ridden by Fighters, Knights or Paladins |
| Warhorse | 80 | veggie | Armored horse which has more health than a normal horse. |
| Chimera | 80 | veggie | |
| Cu-Sidhe | 80 | veggie | |
| Mondain's Steed | 80 | veggie | |
| Hiryu | 80 | veggie |
- If you are attempting to get a fire-breathing pet, such as a dragon, there are two genders for these animals. The male dragon is a fire-breather while the female dragon is a spellcaster. You cannot tell the difference until the dragon is tamed and you set its battle orders.
For more information about where to get these mounts, check the Mounts Guide
