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March 9, 2024 at 8:43 AM

Taming and the Gain Pain!

Hello Everyone,

I am working on taming and wanted to provide some perspective for training this skill. I used this Uoguide (‘https://www.uoguide.com/Animal_Taming’) as my foundation. So, from Animal Taming: 50-60, I have been focusing on hinds, timber wolves, and cougars. Please bear in mind that this thread is not a perfect or unflawed attempt to illustrate my return on investment (ROI), but I plan on capturing my successes and failures so that everyone can modify their training tactics and techniques. I always love constructive criticism or suggestions, so please don’t hesitate to chime in or even offer the latter. I plan on attempting 20 timber wolves and then 20 cougars to get a basis for ROI between 50-60 Animal Taming.

Location
Skill
Animal
Attempts
Successes
Fails

Moonglow (Fel)
Animal Lore: 100 Animal Taming: 56.7
Hind
20
14
6

First, all of my training is done with a full belly. I also bring plenty of food with me or cast “Create Food”. I was not in my Power Hour, so that may or may not have a profound affect on these results. As mentioned, this isn’t a perfect attempt to illustrate my ROI, but I will modify my attempts moving forward.

I started out with Grand Master (GM) Animal Lore, a.k.a. 100+ Animal Lore. Additionally, I started this project with 56.7 Animal Taming.

***NOTE*** Some people have mentioned a correlation and benefit to having a lower Animal Lore Skill than taming, but because I have GM’ed Lore already, I will not be testing it that way.

I made 20 taming attempts on Hinds only, the results of which are shown in the table above. I started in Moonglow (Felucia), SE of the Moongate below the Graveyard.

***NOTE*** Be careful because you are outside of town guard limits and are subject to player killers (PKs) and hostile Mobs, including a Lich that will kill you quite easily if you are new.

Of the 20 attempts, I succeeded in taming 70% of the time and gained 0.1 taming upon success. Likewise, I failed 30% of the time and gained 0.1 taming upon failing. So, my overall ROI was roughly 10% gains from attempts.

Final Thought:

This skill sucks to gain! Just kidding, I will stick it out and continue to post my progress and failures!

~Felurian (DiJ)

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  • orion

    March 9, 2024 at 10:27 AM

    Update
    I ran the same scenario listed above, but I decided to try it on the Trammel side instead. The results are as follows:

    Location
    Skill
    Animal
    Attempts
    Successes
    Fails
    Success Gain
    Fail Gain

    Moonglow (Tram)

    Animal Lore: 100 Animal Taming: 56.9

    Hind
    20
    11
    9
    0.1
    0.2

    So, interestingly enough, succeeded less, failed more, gained more from said failures, but gained more overall.

    Final Thought:

    Taming still sucks! I am going to run the same scenarios again for an average, and then I am going to run the same experiment on timber wolves and cougars. I will let you know what I find out.

    ~Felurian The Demoralizer (DiJ)

  • Anonymous

    March 9, 2024 at 3:18 PM

    >
    Update
    I ran the same scenario listed above, but I decided to try it on the Trammel side instead. The results are as follows:

    Location
    Skill
    Animal
    Attempts
    Successes
    Fails
    Success Gain
    Fail Gain

    Moonglow (Tram)

    Animal Lore: 100 Animal Taming: 56.9

    Hind
    20
    11
    9
    0.1
    0.2

    So, interestingly enough, succeeded less, failed more, gained more from said failures, but gained more overall.

    Final Thought:

    Taming still sucks! I am going to run the same scenarios again for an average, and then I am going to run the same experiment on timber wolves and cougars. I will let you know what I find out.

    ~Felurian The Demoralizer (DiJ)

    Thank you for the information Orion. I’ve never had a tamer, but was considering one sometime, this will come in handy!

  • demonite

    March 9, 2024 at 3:51 PM

    I have been taming Snow Leopards on Ice Island with moderate success in getting gains. I have gotten to 65.1 which now I am able to tame white wolves, which I will tame for a while till I can tame higher creatures.

  • orion

    March 9, 2024 at 7:36 PM

    >
    Thank you for the information Orion. I’ve never had a tamer, but was considering one sometime, this will come in handy!

    It’s not a problem at all; I figured I could go through the pain for others’ gain! It is still slow going, and I will post different scenarios as well.

  • orion

    March 9, 2024 at 7:38 PM

    >
    I have been taming Snow Leopards on Ice Island with moderate success in getting gains. I have gotten to 65.1 which now I am able to tame white wolves, which I will tame for a while till I can tame higher creatures.

    Demonite,

    Thank you for the input, can I get a rune for the Island? I need it for my collection or I have to take a boat. What taming did you start attempting Snow Leopards at?

  • drifts

    March 10, 2024 at 3:35 AM

    I also have been working on a tamer. I just have gotten my taming up to 88.5. I have a tamer all whilst playing UO and this is the 3rd tamer I’m going for. I have noticed if you stick with the suggested animals on https://www.uoguide.com/Animal_Taming (‘https://www.uoguide.com/Animal_Taming’) the gains come pretty good. For what I do I tame a good 8 of the suggested animals and then I take a few lower-skilled animals which seems to reset the gains. By doing this method I can gain a good .5 skills in about half an hour.

  • orion

    March 10, 2024 at 8:03 AM

    >
    I also have been working on a tamer. I just have gotten my taming up to 88.5. I have a tamer all whilst playing UO and this is the 3rd tamer I’m going for. I have noticed if you stick with the suggested animals on https://www.uoguide.com/Animal_Taming (‘https://www.uoguide.com/Animal_Taming’) the gains come pretty good. For what I do I tame a good 8 of the suggested animals and then I take a few lower-skilled animals which seems to reset the gains. By doing this method I can gain a good .5 skills in about half an hour.

  • orion

    March 10, 2024 at 8:05 AM

    Drifts,

    Thank you for the input and I am going to give this a try; I hit a wall last night and it took 32 attempts of the 3 suggested animals in random order with various successes and failures to gain 0.1… I might have cried a little lol.

    Are you the person taming bulls and naming them “D”?

    I am going to try your method and I will report my progress again. Thanks again and happy taming!

  • demonite

    March 10, 2024 at 10:36 AM

    >
    Demonite,

    Thank you for the input, can I get a rune for the Island? I need it for my collection or I have to take a boat. What taming did you start attempting Snow Leopards at?

    I started taming Leopards as soon as I had the skill to be able to tame them.

    When you are on sometime I can gate you there.

  • orion

    March 10, 2024 at 11:41 AM

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    Just a little cleaning up after taming everything in sight for gains lol.

  • orion

    March 10, 2024 at 11:42 AM

    >
    I started taming Leopards as soon as I had the skill to be able to tame them.

    When you are on sometime I can gate you there.

    I am normally on in the evening EST (-5,00) what time zone are you in?

  • demonite

    March 10, 2024 at 2:22 PM

    I am also in EST time zone and usually on in the evening.

  • orion

    March 10, 2024 at 4:24 PM

    >
    I am also in EST time zone and usually on in the evening.

    Are you on discord and if so, I am on under Orion as well. If you have time we could link up soon and I can mark a tune and continue about this slow grind.

  • orion

    March 10, 2024 at 9:19 PM

    Nevermind Demonite,

    I got motivated and sailed a ship out to it. Thank you, and I hope you GM soon. I am sure I will be working on this for a while lol. Take it easy.

  • drifts

    March 11, 2024 at 11:49 AM

    >
    Drifts,

    Thank you for the input and I am going to give this a try; I hit a wall last night and it took 32 attempts of the 3 suggested animals in random order with various successes and failures to gain 0.1… I might have cried a little lol.

    Are you the person taming bulls and naming them “D”?

    I am going to try your method and I will report my progress again. Thanks again and happy taming!

    I am the one who names animals D when I tame them lol. I forgot to add that I do keep my lore under my taming as well. I have tamed before with gm lore first and it seems to me it is a big difference and takes a lot longer to gain.

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