Legacy:Taming

Taming an animal is a long process that involes having HQ Armor, Rope, Animal Husbandry, and finding the animals.

How to Tame

Equip a rope and the attack "Quell the Beast" is available so you can attempt to tame aurochs, boars, or mouflons. Basically, you need to do three things when taming:

• Gain initiative
• Gain 3 combat advantage
• Set battle intensity to 0
• Execute "Quell the Beast" attack

The most common and safe method of taming consists of separating one or two animals (you can tame two at a time if you have two ropes equipped) from the rest of the herd, positioning yourself in so they cannot attack you (gates blocked by a branch work miracles with this) and then using Call Down the Thunder until you have about 25-30 initiative. Sidestep 3-5 times (if they can hit you, you'll lose advantage, so more is better if you have bad unarmed/armor) for combat advantage, then use either Sting like a Bee (costs 6 initiative) or Consume the Flames (take half of your SHP) to reset intensity to 0. Then, immediately leave the animal's range of attack and wait until cooldown is gone. Finally, Quell the Beast and the animal is tamed.

Quoting Jorb:

"The prerequisites for using this attack, are as follows:

• Full combat advantage.
• Less than one (i.e "0") combat intensity
• Two initiative points.

Once this attack has been successfully performed versus an Aurochs, the beast is quelled, and the aurochs will now follow you around. The aurochs is however not yet tamed. Within the span of about ten minutes, it will try to break its shackles. When this attack comes, you must again quell its beast. If you hit the aurochs, at this point, it will lose some of its tameness. Each quelling of the beast renders 20 tameness points unto it. Once a grand total of 100 tameness points hath been bestowed unto the beast, it willth... Metamorphose! ...into a cow, or a bull.

You can now, via right clicking, leash or unleash the cow (or bull), and it will follow you around."

Retrieved from "Rope"

See Also

32012323's "Overview of Taming"