FC Taming and the Gain Pain!

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Orion

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Feb 22, 2024
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Hello Everyone,

I am working on taming and wanted to provide some perspective for training this skill. I used this Uoguide 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.


LocationSkillAnimalAttemptsSuccessesFails
Moonglow (Fel)Animal Lore: 100 Animal Taming: 56.7Hind20146

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

LocationSkillAnimalAttemptsSuccessesFailsSuccess GainFail Gain
Moonglow (Tram)

Animal Lore: 100 Animal Taming: 56.9
Hind201190.10.2

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

LocationSkillAnimalAttemptsSuccessesFailsSuccess GainFail Gain
Moonglow (Tram)

Animal Lore: 100 Animal Taming: 56.9
Hind201190.10.2

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!
 
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?
 
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 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.
 
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 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.
 
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,

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.
 
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.
 
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.
Awesome, well, it was coincidental lol. I think I am going to lower my taming down to like 5 below my Taming and see what I get. Thank you.
 

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