Animal Taming

Tamers wield awesome power

Animal tamers are a key source of mounts for the game both for themselves and others. While an animal tamer can trade the allegiance of horses and giant beetles, great skill is required to keep and control a magical beast such as a dragon.

Power scrolls

This skill can be raised above a level of GM up to 120 with the use of power scrolls.

Usage

To tame an animal, click the skill use gem for animal taming, and target the creature you wish to coerce. You will need to stay fairly close to this animal while your taming attempt is active. Monsters that are tamable have only a 1 in 20 chance of beginning your taming cycle, unsuccessful attempts will anger the creature and turn it upon you. Most tamers will attempt more difficult tames with peacemaking, magery, or a partner with those skills.  It should be noted that creatures tamed by multiple different animal tamers, will increase their base difficulty of being tamed. No animal may be tamed by 5 different masters.

Training

As you cannot gain skill from the same animal twice, most tamers will find themselves wandering the world in search of increasingly difficult animals to tame. This skill is impossible to macro or automate and quite difficult to train. As such, most choosing this skill for their template will start with this skill or train it with a NPC.

Player vs. Player

Magical beasts and mounts are powerful tools in this field of combat, but note that some magical creatures are limited in their damage against other players.

Complementary skills

Animal lore is a must, and Veterinary is often chosen to heal your pets. Common additions to taming templates are mage and bard skills. While fairly vulnerable due to the demand of many skills, warrior animal tamers can produce great amounts of damage.