Animal Taming Question

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WidowMak3r813

Apprentice
I was checking out the guides forum and I saw a taming guide post. It mentioned using a boat. Having your tamer there on the boat and another account luring animals to the boat and having the tamer tame them. My question is this. Is this still a viable method for training taming?
 
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TheFallen

Grandmaster
Delivering pets is frowned upon by staff. But as long as you are attended I believe it remains legal. However staff will delete the trapped pets and you boat may be in jeopardy. Also you would need to tame the pets first to bring them there. So might as well just work it the old fashion way.
 
Bryce

Bryce

Adept
If you could direct me to this post, I'll gladly delete it.
@TheFallen is 100% correct in that we do not allow the transport of tamed creates to be released elsewhere in the world. This does a few things, first, people will sit and macro their taming skill afk, which we do not allow, and second it makes it so they no longer spawn in their specified regions, making things unfair for others trying to do it legitimately.
 
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WidowMak3r813

Apprentice
oh no no no that's not at all what I meant when I asked. Guess I should have rephrased it better. Okay say I plant a boat in the water off Ice Island. If I lure the polar bears to the shore and try to tame them from a boat. I'm not planning on taming them and relocating them in the least. That would make it 100 times more difficult and as stated illegal.
 
Malkraven

Malkraven

Grandmaster
wouldn't this kinda defeat the object of being on a ship?

  • SKILL GAIN BONUSES.
  • -25% in houses
  • -25% on boats
 
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Sarphus

Journeyman
Malkraven said:
wouldn't this kinda defeat the object of being on a ship?

  • SKILL GAIN BONUSES.
  • -25% in houses
  • -25% on boats
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This. Also, the server rules make it so there are much more efficient ways to raise taming.

I wrote a taming guide for tthe UOF Wiki but for whatever reason it created a link to my guide on the guides page but didn't create my guide page. Maybe it has to be approved before the wiki file is created or whatever.

The spawn map for this server is friendly to taming and it is much more efficient to roam while taming than to lure animals to a boat. You can also tame in dungeons to enhance your skillgains. Of course, stuff you find in dungeons will be aggressive but that's not a big deal when you're getting skill 50% faster.

My general recommendation is to roam the map taming things for your skill level. There are also some nice concentrations of specific skill lvl tameables in various places.

Buy taming to 50
look for a concentration of horses W of brit moongate. That's good at the 50 skill lvl.
Wander around and tame timber wolves, black bears, llama, polar bear and walrus also at that skill level.
next add brown bears, cougars
then add grey wolves, panthers, snow leopards, great hart, grizzly bear and snake


Once you're doing the great hart class you can cut out horses, timberwolves, etc.

I would be stunned if luring to a boat is more efficient for skill gains than just randomly going through the woods and taming everything at your general skill level. It's not that hard to follow an animal around while taming it.

Also, diversity seems to help with skill gains. If the skill seems stuck, tame something different.
 
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WidowMak3r813

Apprentice
Alright well I've taken your advice and I'm at 63.8. The gains on snow leopards is starting to get very sparse. At what point would you start the great hearts? From everything I've been reading it says you need to be a minimum of 64 to gain off the G Hearts. I've been taming pretty much everything in the range that you've listed aside from the hearts because I haven't been gaining on them yet.
 
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Sarphus

Journeyman
This is the taming guide I wrote for the wiki

http://www.uoforum.com/wiki/buliding-a-mage-tamer/?noRedirect=1
For whatever reason, the link on the main page redirects away from it fi you don't override that functionality.

I don't remember exactly what point I started doing great harts but it's somewhat subjective when it makes sense to do things. It will slow down a fair bit in the 60's and you will generally find the best gains with quantity over quality IMO. In other words, you could very well get great gains just running around taming bears, cougars, black bears, llamas, polar bears and walruses.

Taming is a brute force skill.
 
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