Taming Guides

[Chuck]

I have read a few taming guides on here and I have a suggestion to anyone reading these. They all suggest getting peacemaking which I agree with. Then they suggest luring your tames to aggressive mobs to kill them. This works, but is slow as eff. What I did was get fencing and healing. Now I peace, tame, kill with fencing in like five seconds. It's fast, easy, and efficient as the things you tame die immediately allowing for a quick respawn. Not sure if anyone has suggested this before but I haven't seen it.

GET a weapon skill

PROFIT

Drop it for magery when you're ready.

 

[Lazenby]

Just as easy to get some magery and med instead, can kill the stuff, and you get a lot more utility out of it. Also, once you get a bit higher, can bring a tamed young or a meta with you to kill the stuff as you tame. My meta got 3 levels doing this=P Then again, most tamers don't get the meta before they start the tamer.

 

[Chuck]

Magery is viable but much less efficient. It takes 3x as long to kill something with magery than a spear, and requires you carry regs, as opposed to some bandages and a regular weapon. I am the only one running around with a spear and tame 2 scorps to everyone elses 1.

Edit to add: Also, when you get attacked by harder mobs, you can take them down while you are taming as opposed to kiting them around casting spells. That is a waste of time.

 

[Bromista]

You both make good points.

When there's nothing to drag spawn to closeby to make it worth the time I just rename and release, which is also annoying but sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do.

 

[Chuck]

I appreciate those that take the time to name and release. I am lazy and find the dexxer to be the easiest way to train taming.

 

[Lazenby]

you can cast *while* you are taming and you dont need eval to 1 shot a scorp. It is much faster, and reags cost barely anything. It takes like 12 seconds to cure poison, how is that even comparable to not getting poisoned because you 1 shot killed the scorp WHILE taming the next one?

Also, you can just EV and clear a whole area while taming...useful at Jhelom farm or any spot where people have left a lot of tamed. The biggest difference is the utility value...you can invis, para, cure, heal, ev, gate. etc etc...

Not having gate, you can't even easily travel with freshly tamed, unbonded creatures. Namely, I like to travel around and release packs of scorpions on people. Can kill macros and afkers almost anywhere, even in town like this. Cant imagine going around with tactics, anatomy, healing, and a weapon skill when magery and med is much more effective, and leaves room on the template for useful stuff=) That is my take on it anyway.

 

[Chuck]

Yeah I suppose this is the case if you want to use the character for other things besides just taming. As far as straight taming I think dexxer is easier but that's just one man's opinion. If one has the resources and will to macro gm magery I could definitely see it coming in handy, but most of the people I see are running around with much less than gm magery. They are definitely not one shotting anything. In the same time and effort they could have a gm weapon skill and be travelling back to re-reg much less. I have not restocked once on my tamer and I have over 20 hours invested. It's been pure taming with little to no distractions since I've started this character, no macroing, and I am moving very quickly.

edit to add: I should note that I tame 95% in the forest outside of dungeons. I find that with the amount of people taming in shame, it is faster to tame elsewhere. This is because more time is spent actually taming than trying to find scorpions. In the woods it is a lot easier to stay alive. A weapon, 20 cure pots from mage vendor, 200 bandages, and a couple instruments is all you need

 

[Lazenby]

Lol it is too bad you are too stubborn to listen to common sense, you would make it way easier on yourself. Just admit you are doing it the ghetto way haha. Should change it to "guide how not to tame" and you are clearly out of touch with the mechanics of the server if you are speaking of magery like this, then implying a bunch of stuff thats not true...gm magery? To kill an animal? Or a scorpion? They have no resist and you need no eval. Sorry man, you are just way wrong. You can try to be contrary and do it the ghetto way but lol you gonna be wasting a lot of time and energy and hurting yourself=P

Lol, if you were sensible you would make a dexxer, make like 10-20k and that is more than enough for all the reags you would ever need for your tamer. So instead of making a ghetto, nearly unplayable spec you would spend like roughly a half hour and solve all these "problems" you think you are avoiding by making taming way harder. Anyway, I am sure you will come around eventually! Best of luck with the taming!

 

[Chuck]

Thanks for participating in this discussion Lazenby. For your information I have a few mages on this server and have chosen dexxer for the ease of use and lack of overhead. I am sure you can one shot a scorpion with your mage. What I was saying is that most of the mages I SEE taming in shame are not gm, and are casting two to three lightenings to kill a scorpion while I hit it twice with my spear and run off.

By easier I mean this: I have a macro looping peace and tame that heals if my hp drops below x amount, and I literally run around using nothing but my mouse to tame and kill stuff. Magery may be better in some ways but as far as ease of use it is not. You have to cast spells, avoid interruption, and heal/cure yourself while my macro auto heals me with bandages and I don't worry about interruption. I have trained taming with both mage and dexxer and find the dexxer to be easier. Have you tried both? I doubt it.

My intention with this post was to give all the other newb tamers I see running around another idea for how to train. They seem to be struggling while I scoot right on by, and I would like them to have an easier time. As far as I have seen I am the only one running around with a weapon, and seem to be moving faster than the rest. That is all. Take it or leave it. Unless you have actually done what I speak of, don't act like you know how "bad" it works.

 

[Renevati]

something else the guides forgot to mention properly.. the gains are fucking slow.. every post should focus on that for the major part of their "guide", then 5 lines on what mobs are best... the rest of the 200 lines.. just telling the truth, its a boring ass grind.

 

[Bromista]

And don't forget it's not even as bad as it used to be back in the day!

At least we had powerhour until GGS made it annoying as fuck to skill past GM. Took me five or six months to get from 100-115 on Chessy lol.

.1 at a time...GG GGS

Taming here isn't incredibly time consuming, especially with dungeon bonus to speed things up, and considering SS are 250k a pop that's a pretty good gold per hour average when you are getting a whole point of taming in an hr. Or up to several points an hr when you first start.

If you're a brand new player with a bard/dexer/mage or whatever and are already plotting your next level PvM path consider that meta dexers can make better gold faster but in the long haul nothing beats a tamer for earning consistent gold.

 

[Chuck]

I don't know if this is the case for you guys but since I reached 77ish the gains have doubled in appearance. I am easily getting 2 pts an hour doing the same things I was doing before. Honestly it seems like 60-70 was slower than 70-80. I can only hope this trend continues!

 

[Weland]

There is a macro on UOSteam script library that tames, renames and releases. It wont tame anything with that name and by not killing the tame you could be helping a higher level tamer out with some re tame gains. Just remember though unattended taming will get you banned but it does stream line the process for you.

 

[Chuck]

Very good call Weland. I just want to give anyone reading an update. It has taken roughly 50-60 hours to get from 50-87 by mixing and mashing all of the guides on the forums. I would say I went from 70-80 in half the time it too to get from 50-65 just because of the level of what I was taming. For all you new tamers out there, listen to those that tell you to tame everything.

The more time spent actually taming animals, the more gains, period.

 

[GluttonySDS]

I still never understood why the grind for making a tamer takes 200+ hours...especially when the class is OP in PVP... wanna play the dominant class in PVP, hopefully you dont have a job!

 

[Chuck]

Well folks, I have about done it. I have finally gmed taming. From my experience 60-75 was slow as eff, but it sped up until about 85. 85-92 was also slow as eff, but after 92, by taming already tamed bulls and another high level overland animal (I wont say which because that's for new players to discover on their own) I saw my gains after 92 speed up again all the way to 100. Overall I did 90% of my taming outside of dungeons and I would estimate it took about 80-100 hours to gm. At 80 I discovered UO steam and the auto-pilot taming macro which sped things up significantly. (Probably about 3x as fast as my razor macro).

TLDR: Gm taming took me about 90-100 hours. I think it could be done in a little less time by someone who is dead focused on it. Cheers and good luck to all you new tamers out there!

 

[Mert Dedeji]

I've been taming for a week. Today is my 7th day and i'm 95. I'm gonna gm today and i can tell you that many things about hours was completely gone wrong with me. There was a guy who said that he came 90s at 37 hours. That's what i experienced. If you do it right, it takes 50 hours around. 100 hours completely shows that you are doing something wrong

 

[Nakor]

Just started my 3rd acct. Any suggestions for my new tamer? Go right to Shame?

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[Josh D]

Nakor, Id recommend taming wolves, hinds, and bears (not grizzly) around North/East brit to 60. Then Shame scorpions to 76. THen delucia pass hell kitties to 85, then mix in lava lizards to gm+