The FAQ is a work in progress right now, which means that there will be info about taming in it, but the whole thing really needs to be written or updated. I think you can appreciate that it's not a 5 minute job to do that, and that RL sometimes screws up a mod's spare time when she had things to do.
In the meantime this should get you started.
First, get some good resists on your armour if you can so you're well protected from a wild critter trying to eat you. It's down to preference how you tame from here. I tame in a very basic way without using honor, peace etc. [If you search for honor taming you'll find a stack of info about building it up and using it so I won't cover that ground again.]
Unless the pet is safe to tame at full health, beat it down to a sliver of health first. This slows it down and in most cases will reduce the damage it deals out. Some casting pets will heal themselves back up again, in which case try to keep them below half health. You don't
have to beat pets down, but if you're out of practice it makes it safer if you make a mistake.
I then precast invis, run up to the wild pet and target myself when I'm right beside it. I do this because it takes the critter a few seconds to notice me and start attacking. In that time I can hold down my taming macro [use taming skill, last target] and walk so there's a tile between me and the pet which prevents melee damage. This is when it helps to have a spawn free area nearby so you can retreat and heal up if you get low on health. Sometimes you're fortunate and start a tame attempt quickly, other times it's awkward.
You'll get messages telling you that you've angered the beast when you hit that macro, but if you hold the tame macro key down eventually you'll see the blue text telling you that you've started to tame the pet.
When I start a tame I usually try to cast invisibility on myself again, to break target with the pet. You will become visible again a second later, it just distracts the pet for a moment until it "sees" you. If you repeatedly cast invis on yourself you should manage to tame without sustaining damage.
I'd suggest if you're recently returned that you practice on something less dangerous like a dire wolf until you get the hang of using the macros and invising yourself. You won't get any angering messages with dire wolves, but you'll be able to practice walking out in front and gauging how fast you need to cast invis etc.
Depending how rusty you feel, it might be worth popping onto test centre and refreshing your skills there - at least if you die on TC you don't have to worry about the insurance gold
Wenchy
