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So you have found a pet that you would like to train up! Where do you begin? Ideally you should try and ensure that your new pet has high hit points and high strength (everything else can be fixed fairly cheaply). If you need to check out where your pet falls in the hit points and strength department I suggest using the Hunters Guide. Once you are satisfied with your current tame it is time to begin training.
Use the animal lore skill on your pet, you will notice a blue bubble at the bottom of the animal lore window. It should say, "Begin animal training". Click that button and you should see a red bar that reads "Pet Training Progress: 0%" appear.
You are now ready to train your pet up to the next level control slot. At this point you need to assess the strength of your pet. If your pet has decent resists and 250+ life my suggestion is to take your pet to the Crazed Mage spawn in Tram Shame Dunegon (picture). You should also have veterinary skills. The Crazed Mage does not do a lot of physical damage but can get very very bursty with his spell damage. Another positive is that he does not do any type of AoE. You should mark a rune to this area.
You will probably get your pet's experience bar to somewhere in the range of 50-60% after that point you will only see messages that say, "Your pet does not appear to train from that" when this happens you have one of two options. 1 - You need to kill the mage (probably have someone come and help you kill it) or 2 - You need to move to a new monster.
There are a number of options that you can choose to move to after your pet has stopped gaining on a Crazed Mage.
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Weaker pets I have found that its easiest to use the tanking method. Basically you get a 2 or 3 slot pet and have them attack the monster first, and as an added bonus I found out recently on the tamer forums is that if you use the tamer mastery "As One" the two pets will share the damage of the tank and the second pet will gain faster because it will be as if it is also tanking, you do need to watch the health of the weaker pet. So grab a decent HP/Resist pet and take your wimpy pet to any of the areas we have already discussed and you should have him to his first training level fairly quickly with very little danger of him dying. After they have reached their first training level and you even out their resists and life you should be able to train on pretty much anything.
A second option for weaker pets is to avoid the speed leveling and skip right to training skills, you will gain experience towards the next control slot level just at a much slower pace.
Which brings us to our A-Z training!
Anatomy- Anatomy, Tactics and Wrestling can all be trained up pretty much following the same method. If your pet started out with very low skill in any of these three (0-30 range) take your pet to the Sleeping Dragon Champion Spawn in Tokuno (picture). There you should have your pet kill all of the Deathwatch Beetle Hatchlings and Lizardmen until it gets to around the 50-60 range. A second option for lower level pets is Gregario the Brigand, pointed out by PlayerSkillFTW (Gregario can be found just outside of Skara Brae). Gregario is immune to damage unless you are on his quest making him similar to a low level shadow iron elemental. Next either have a miner farm up a Shadow Iron Elemental or goto Yomotsu Mines and fight one. Shadow Iron Elementals take no damage from pets and are a perfect way to train up, what is better is that as your pet levels up so does the elemental. This should get you to 100. From 100-120 just find any high level, high hit point monster for your pet to beat up.
Bushido- Trained by use, find a pet with a lot of HPs and let your pet attack it. Shadow Iron Elemental may work well for this.
Chivalry- A lot of the magical abilities can be trained up the same way. I recommend that you work on maxing out your magical abilities last, because they will have reached a decent level by the time your melee abilities are done. What training these skills comes down to is time and patience. There is a spot in shame that you can teleport across the water to a safe area, just lure up one corrupted blood elemental and let your pet cast to their hearts content (picture) when their mana has run dry, simply back up and let them regen, and repeat.
Focus- Focus will raise very quickly on its own and is usually the first skill to be finished.
Healing- Healing, Parry and Resisting Spells I like to train all at the same place. So I wait for my Wrestling skill to reach 100 so that parry opens up and then I take my pet to Haven and round up as many Spectral Spellbinders as I can. Just tell the pet to kill one, and stop immediately or you will probably one shot them. This method can get healing up to around the low 50s to mid 60s fairly quickly. After that gather up some snakes (the little ones) and have them attack your pet while your pet stands there or have your pet stand behind a fence and cast poison constantly on it ( works well with a discord too, but not necessary ). After 80 go fight rotting corpses.
Magery- As with Chivalry, I recommend that you work on maxing out your magical abilities last, because they will have reached a decent level by the time your melee abilities are done. There is a spot in shame that you can teleport across the water to a safe area, just lure up one corrupted blood elemental and let your pet cast to their hearts content (picture) when their mana has run dry, simply back up and let them regen, and repeat. ** I should note that if you have given your pet magery mastery, they will teleport to the other side and melee the elemental, so not a good idea in that case. **
Meditation- Meditation will raise very quickly on its own and is usually the first or second skill to be finished.
Mysticism- (picture) **See other magic training tips under Chivalry**
Necromancy- (picture) **See other magic training tips under Chivalry**
Ninjitsu- Trained by use, find a pet with a lot of HPs and let your pet attack it. Shadow Iron Elemental may work well for this.
Spirit Speak- This is just a guess so please someone correct me if I am wrong, but Spirit Speak should act like Eval Int and follow your necromancy pretty closely.
Spellweaving- (picture) **See other magic training tips under Chivalry**
Parry- As I have said I like to work parry with healing and resisting spells at haven. Same method, gather up a bunch of spectral spell weavers 8+ and have your pet sit in the middle of them. Spellweavers can get you from 0-120.
Resisting Spells- Spectral Spellweavers in Haven! Surprise =)
Wrestling - See Anatomy *
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS:
- Can pets have more than one school of magic at the same time?
- Could you suggest some Tamer templates?
TIPS AND TRICKS:
Use the animal lore skill on your pet, you will notice a blue bubble at the bottom of the animal lore window. It should say, "Begin animal training". Click that button and you should see a red bar that reads "Pet Training Progress: 0%" appear.
You are now ready to train your pet up to the next level control slot. At this point you need to assess the strength of your pet. If your pet has decent resists and 250+ life my suggestion is to take your pet to the Crazed Mage spawn in Tram Shame Dunegon (picture). You should also have veterinary skills. The Crazed Mage does not do a lot of physical damage but can get very very bursty with his spell damage. Another positive is that he does not do any type of AoE. You should mark a rune to this area.
You will probably get your pet's experience bar to somewhere in the range of 50-60% after that point you will only see messages that say, "Your pet does not appear to train from that" when this happens you have one of two options. 1 - You need to kill the mage (probably have someone come and help you kill it) or 2 - You need to move to a new monster.
There are a number of options that you can choose to move to after your pet has stopped gaining on a Crazed Mage.
- Navrey Night-Eyes
- The Burning Mage - has a fire aura, only ranged healing. Also does a fireball for 120 occasionally
- Wind Elementals - best for lower level pets levels 1-3
- Allosaurus
- Pirates
- Night Terrors - pack a punch, but learn to cure and heal fast and you can train just as fast
).Weaker pets I have found that its easiest to use the tanking method. Basically you get a 2 or 3 slot pet and have them attack the monster first, and as an added bonus I found out recently on the tamer forums is that if you use the tamer mastery "As One" the two pets will share the damage of the tank and the second pet will gain faster because it will be as if it is also tanking, you do need to watch the health of the weaker pet. So grab a decent HP/Resist pet and take your wimpy pet to any of the areas we have already discussed and you should have him to his first training level fairly quickly with very little danger of him dying. After they have reached their first training level and you even out their resists and life you should be able to train on pretty much anything.
A second option for weaker pets is to avoid the speed leveling and skip right to training skills, you will gain experience towards the next control slot level just at a much slower pace.
Which brings us to our A-Z training!
Anatomy- Anatomy, Tactics and Wrestling can all be trained up pretty much following the same method. If your pet started out with very low skill in any of these three (0-30 range) take your pet to the Sleeping Dragon Champion Spawn in Tokuno (picture). There you should have your pet kill all of the Deathwatch Beetle Hatchlings and Lizardmen until it gets to around the 50-60 range. A second option for lower level pets is Gregario the Brigand, pointed out by PlayerSkillFTW (Gregario can be found just outside of Skara Brae). Gregario is immune to damage unless you are on his quest making him similar to a low level shadow iron elemental. Next either have a miner farm up a Shadow Iron Elemental or goto Yomotsu Mines and fight one. Shadow Iron Elementals take no damage from pets and are a perfect way to train up, what is better is that as your pet levels up so does the elemental. This should get you to 100. From 100-120 just find any high level, high hit point monster for your pet to beat up.
Bushido- Trained by use, find a pet with a lot of HPs and let your pet attack it. Shadow Iron Elemental may work well for this.
Chivalry- A lot of the magical abilities can be trained up the same way. I recommend that you work on maxing out your magical abilities last, because they will have reached a decent level by the time your melee abilities are done. What training these skills comes down to is time and patience. There is a spot in shame that you can teleport across the water to a safe area, just lure up one corrupted blood elemental and let your pet cast to their hearts content (picture) when their mana has run dry, simply back up and let them regen, and repeat.
- Another option for all magic skills as pointed out by Sturgismike is unguild your tamer, take 2 pets to tram, tell them to guard, then fight. They do no damage, but still cast and gain.
- Another option for all magic skills is Gregario the Brigand, pointed out by PlayerSkillFTW. Gregario is immune to damage unless you are on his quest. Just block off your pet so you can avoid using mana on any melee skills it may have.
- From another thread, "You can train Detect Hidden before taming, by aggro'ing the pet you want to tame and invising yourself. You just have to have the patience to get the future tame from whatever they start at to 100..."
- From a previous post about training discord, "Khaelor said, "Have your pet attack slimes in the underworld" (I've not tested this method, just compiling tips and tricks)
Focus- Focus will raise very quickly on its own and is usually the first skill to be finished.
Healing- Healing, Parry and Resisting Spells I like to train all at the same place. So I wait for my Wrestling skill to reach 100 so that parry opens up and then I take my pet to Haven and round up as many Spectral Spellbinders as I can. Just tell the pet to kill one, and stop immediately or you will probably one shot them. This method can get healing up to around the low 50s to mid 60s fairly quickly. After that gather up some snakes (the little ones) and have them attack your pet while your pet stands there or have your pet stand behind a fence and cast poison constantly on it ( works well with a discord too, but not necessary ). After 80 go fight rotting corpses.
- As Basara pointed out you can also go to Ilshenar spawns and work resist, healing and parry. "The best spawns for this purpose are Neira (undead) and Semidar (demon), as all the stages have spellcasters. However, the second stage of Neira (which has bone mages that cast blood oath) and the third stage of Semidar (which has lots of AoE burning gargoyles) can be a little rough on both the pet and the tamer, so try to be near the edge of the spawn when those levels hit, and work around the edges."
Magery- As with Chivalry, I recommend that you work on maxing out your magical abilities last, because they will have reached a decent level by the time your melee abilities are done. There is a spot in shame that you can teleport across the water to a safe area, just lure up one corrupted blood elemental and let your pet cast to their hearts content (picture) when their mana has run dry, simply back up and let them regen, and repeat. ** I should note that if you have given your pet magery mastery, they will teleport to the other side and melee the elemental, so not a good idea in that case. **
- **See other magic training tips under Chivalry**
Meditation- Meditation will raise very quickly on its own and is usually the first or second skill to be finished.
Mysticism- (picture) **See other magic training tips under Chivalry**
Necromancy- (picture) **See other magic training tips under Chivalry**
Ninjitsu- Trained by use, find a pet with a lot of HPs and let your pet attack it. Shadow Iron Elemental may work well for this.
Spirit Speak- This is just a guess so please someone correct me if I am wrong, but Spirit Speak should act like Eval Int and follow your necromancy pretty closely.
Spellweaving- (picture) **See other magic training tips under Chivalry**
Parry- As I have said I like to work parry with healing and resisting spells at haven. Same method, gather up a bunch of spectral spell weavers 8+ and have your pet sit in the middle of them. Spellweavers can get you from 0-120.
- See Healing for Basara's tip
Resisting Spells- Spectral Spellweavers in Haven! Surprise =)
- See Healing for Basara's tip
Wrestling - See Anatomy *
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS:
- Can pets have more than one school of magic at the same time?
- No they can not. Adding a new school of magic WILL remove the school that the pet already had.
- Not until you are 100% comfortable with the training process. I recommend going to test center and testing out whatever you are considering. Legacy pets will not spawn again, and it could wind up in a catastrophe if you make a training error. Character Copy Info.
- Yes there are.
- Nightmares 2
- Najasaurus 2
- Rune Beetles 3
- Greater Dragons 4
- Frost Dragon 4
- White Wyrm 3
- Reptalon 2
- Dragon Turtle 4
- Phoenix 3
- Frost Mite 2
- Dire Wolf 1
- Skree 3
- High Plains Boura 2
- Lesser Hiryu 1
- Dragonwolf 3
- Blood Fox 1
- Cu Sidhe
- Najasaurus
- Giant Beetle
- Lesser Hiryu
- Cold Drake
- Stone Slith
- Boura
- Reptalon
- Raptor
- Iron Beetle
- Saber-Toothed Tiger
- Lion
- Gallusaurus
- Wild Tiger
- Dimetrosaur
- Dragon Wolf
- Saurosauros
- Tsuki Wolf
- Skree
- Triceratops
- Platinum & Crimson Drake
- Fire Steed
- Frost Mite
- More linked examples will be added in soon-ish
- Could you suggest some Tamer templates?
TIPS AND TRICKS:
- The Discord Trick - A widely known trick to help stubborn skills and pets level their abilities faster. All you have to do is have a character with discord, discord your pet thereby lowering its skills. This will enable you to train your pet on lower class monsters even though your pet may already be above their level.
- The Pet Vendor Trick - For those of us who like to tame and train a TON of pets. If you feed pets before putting them on the pet vendor you can take them out in a week and bond them. Just have to hope no one buys them before then
- Activating Skills - Pets with skills other than Magery, may have to have them activated during a control slot level up. For example Tsuki Wolves have Necromancy, but its not activated until a player selects it during training.
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