Skill Details
- Animal Taming is the skill used for taming animals and
tamable monsters.
- The skill's secondary function is to determine your level
of control over a particular pet. It accounts for 80% of
your chance to control a pet (Animal Lore accounts for the
remaining 20%).
- The Taming skill is influenced by STR and INT.
- Not all animals and monsters are tamable.
- Your ability to tame a particular creature is based on
your displayed skill. At the minimum skill level
required to tame a particular creature you have a 1% chance
of successfully taming it.
- Taming is difficulty-based, this means you have to tame
creatures of increasing difficulty to keep gaining.
- The minimum requirement to tame a creature increases with
each additional person who tames it.
- Once you have tamed a creature, its taming difficulty
is reset to 0.0 for you and you will always be able to retame
it on first try. You can not gain skill from an animal you
have previously tamed, but you can gain skill from other
people's tames.
Taming & Retaming
Each time an animal is retamed by an additional person, the
minimum taming requirement is increased.While a creature can
only be tamed 5 times (provided the taming difficulty does not
exceed 120.0), there is no limit to the number of owners a pet
can have if it is transferred from one person to another instead
of retamed. The table below will give you an example why it
can be more effective to retame previously tamed creatures instead
of freshly spawned ones, especially at higher skill levels:
| Retaming examples |
| |
first |
second |
third |
fourth |
fifth |
General Values
(adjusted skill) |
minimum |
+ 4.8 |
+ 19.2 |
+ 43.2 |
+ 76.8 |
Example 1
a hind |
23.1 |
27.9 |
42.3 |
66.3 |
99.9 |
Example 2
a grizzly bear |
59.1 |
63.9 |
78.3 |
102.3 |
135.9 |
Example 3
a dragon |
93.9 |
98.7 |
113.1 |
137.1 |
170.7 |
Optimizing your gains
Tame creatures you have about a 50% success chance on, since
you will not gain from failed attempts. You can safely extend this range
to 40-90% for some variety, but don't focus on anything with a lower
success chance. If you routinely need more than 4-5 attempts to
tame a creature, you are wasting your time on something that is
still too hard for your skill level. If you want to tame a certain
creature that has a particularly good spawn (e.g. great harts, white
wolves, ridgebacks), you may find that adjusting your success chance
by using skill jewelry will help your gains. Always keep in mind, it's quantity
over quality - and don't lose patience!
What to tame at which skill level
To find out what to tame for the best gains at your skill
level, use the Tamable
Creatures List, enter your current Taming skill, choose "Sorted
by taming", set it to display "Success 0 retames"
and find the creatures that are closest to your 50% chance "sweet
spot". These numbers apply for "real" skill as well
as when using skill jewelry. Taming gains can vary quite a bit from character to character,
so experiment with the recommended range and see what works best
for you.
Taming Tips
Sometimes gains slow down to a crawl. Don't be alarmed, it happens
to almost everyone. Here are a few things you can try to get
your gains going again:
- Make sure you are taming creatures
that aren't too hard for your skill level. You won't
gain from failed attempts!
- Don't try to raise Taming for a day or two, leave it alone.
Work on a different skill or go out and have some fun hunting
with your pets. When you go back to taming practice, you
should gain again.
- Commit suicide. Dying seems to reset your skill counter,
and if you don't care about your fame this is also worth
a try.
- Switch to taming different creatures. Take a journey across
Britannia, look at all the interesting places to be found
and tame everything that crosses your path. In the old
times it was said only Tamers really traveled
all across Britannia and could say "I have seen it
all".
For more in-depth information consult the The
UO Tamer Forum
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