Animal Taming

These tables describe the current server rules for taming, bonding and recovery.

Effective skill and exact taming chance

The hard requirement and success chance use effective Animal Taming. Beastmaster supporting power separately uses trained base Animal Taming, with a target of 120.

Eligible creatures, including Ferocious ones, can be tamed at full health. Giant Ice Worm, Giant Beetle and Fire Beetle retain their Ferocious classification, but it no longer imposes a health threshold on the tame attempt.

Kirin and Unicorn have no gender restriction. Cu Sidhe can be tamed and ridden by Humans. True tameable companions and mounts start at Level 1 unbonded and bond automatically at Level 2. A Level 1 death is permanent; Level 2+ bonded pets have Veterinary, Magery and Animal Trainer recovery paths.

Animal Taming can also increase after your real controlled pet damages an eligible PvM monster at least once, at most once per owner every 15 seconds. The pet’s original taming requirement does not limit this passive path. An eligible attempt outside the cooldown has a 50% roll for +0.1; you must be alive, visible and nearby at the kill. Monster level, your own damage and loot rights do not gate this skill check; pet XP keeps its separate contribution rule, while Codex XP follows solo or qualified party allocation. Animal Lore keeps its separate existing practice checks.

100–120 scaling

Below a creature’s exact requirement the chance is 0% and the attempt cannot begin. Extra skill does not grant follower slots. Eligible creatures, including Ferocious ones, can be tamed at full health. The Beastmaster support table applies against eligible monsters.

Examples and edge cases

A Dragon at 100.0. A Dragon requires exactly 100.0 effective Animal Taming and four follower slots. At 99.9 the fresh attempt cannot begin; at 100.0 a first-owner attempt starts with a 10% final success chance.

Passive progress at 119.9. With a 120 Power Scroll cap, an owned Reptalon or another eligible ordinary pet that damages an eligible PvM monster can provide the final normal check from 119.9 to 120.0. The monster can be weak; training and no-award targets cannot qualify.

A pet is not free space. A Greater Dragon needs all five follower slots. Raising Animal Taming does not create extra space; manage your existing companions before attempting another pet.

Rules and other skills

Effective Taming must meet the creature’s hard requirement before a fresh attempt can begin; even Ferocious creatures may be tamed at full health. A first-owner attempt starts at 10% there and gains 3 percentage points per skill point, reaching 100% at requirement +30. True tameable companions and mounts start at Level 1 unbonded and become bonded on the real Level 1 → 2 transition at 85 pet XP. A Level 1 death is permanent; Level 2+ bonded pets can be recovered through Veterinary, Magery Resurrection or an Animal Trainer. Passive Pet Combat checks eligible kills, uses a 15-second cooldown per owner and offers a 50% roll for +0.1 on an eligible attempt, independently of the pet’s original taming requirement. Monster difficulty, owner damage and loot rights do not gate this skill check; pet XP keeps its separate contribution check, while Codex XP uses solo or qualified party allocation. Players, controlled creatures, summons, training targets and no-award monsters are excluded. The follower cap remains five; pet level, Codex rank and Pet Mastery are separate progression layers.

• Fresh Taming uses eligible new creatures. Passive Pet Combat has a 50% roll for +0.1 outside its 15-second owner cooldown and cannot be multiplied by extra pets. Pet XP uses its separate contribution threshold; Codex XP follows solo or qualified party allocation.
• A Paralyzed creature can still be tamed. On its first tame, being Paralyzed changes ordinary skill retention from 90% to 86%; Frozen from Web Potion does not.
• Each previous owner lowers the fresh starting success chance by 5 percentage points, but does not raise the hard requirement above 120.
• A new companion starts at Level 1 and unbonded. It bonds automatically when it reaches Level 2 at 85 pet XP.
• A Level 1 unbonded pet is lost permanently on death. A Level 2+ bonded pet can be restored on site with Veterinary or Magery Resurrection, or remotely through an Animal Trainer for 5,000 bank gold.
• Pet resurrection preserves owner, bonding, level, XP, stats, skills and learned Pet Abilities. A dead bonded pet can still be abandoned after one day if the owner does not recover it.
• Kirin and Unicorn have no gender restriction. Humans can tame and ride Cu Sidhe.
• Taming, pet level, Codex rank and learned pet abilities are separate parts of progression.

Skills that work with Animal Taming: Animal Lore — Helps understand and manage the creature. Veterinary — Heals eligible animal companions with bandages. Bushido / Pet Mastery — Supports the combat role of a progressed pet.

Commands, transfer and travel

Ordinary transport mounts in the Mount / Utility family obey valid owner commands, including after a transfer. Combat pets such as Nightmare, Kirin, Unicorn, Hiryu, Cu Sidhe, Beetle and Swamp Dragon retain their normal Taming, Lore and obedience rules.

For supported teleport and travel routes, keep your companion within 3 tiles on the same facet and on Follow, Come or Guard. Eligible controlled pets and owned summons, including the Arcane Gargoyle, travel with you. A distant, stabled or Stay/Stop pet is not remotely recovered; event and destination restrictions still apply.

The Arcane Gargoyle follows your orders and assists in your monster fights rather than pulling an idle monster on arrival. If left out of sight or on another map, use Dismiss Gargoyle in the Arcane Spellbook, or type [ReleaseArcaneGargoyle without needing the book open. Only your current Gargoyle is dismissed and its follower slots are freed. Read the Gargoyle command rules →