Overview
There are 6 basic abilities that a Pet can learn: Bite, Claw, Cower, Growl, Dash and Dive. Version 1.8 added eight more and v1.9 added 3 more.
All pet types can learn Cower, Growl and Resistances, but not all species of pets can learn the others.
There are now several new abilities specific to the species of pet:
- Greater Stamina (all),
- Natural Armor (all),
- Resistances (all),
- Furious Howl (wolves),
- Screech (bats, owls, carrion birds),
- Lightning Breath (wind serpents),
- Scorpid Poison (scorpids),
- Prowl (cats),
- Charge (boars),
- Shell Shield (turtles),
- Thunderstomp (gorillas).
All except Growl must be learned by taming a pet that has the ability innately.
Training Procedure
You get the Pet Training skill from the Pet Trainer NPC along with the Feed Pet ability (the 2nd piece of Taming the Beast quest). It goes on your main character skill screen not on the beast mastery screen. The icon looks like a slingshot. Using that ability brings up a skill pane with a list of things you know how to teach a pet to do.
You should first stable your current pet (if you wish to retain him) at a Stable master before setting out to tame a new pet to learn a new pet skill.
Once you tame a beast which possesses a desired pet skill or ability, you can learn the ability and afterwards train the new ability to other pets (that can learn the ability). It takes a little while after taming a pet to learn their special ability. The pet has to use the ability a few dozen times for you to learn it, so its recommend to fight in melee close to your new pet.
- Untargeted abilities (Furious Howl, Dash, Dive, Prowl, etc.) can be learned outside of combat by simply clicking the skill icon every time it's available as you go about your other business.
Once you have learned an ability from a pet, you can train it to any other pet capable of learning it, once the pet has built the required training points, which they get with increasing loyalty and by leveling up. Some pets can only learn certain abilities.
Low level beasts have no innate special abilities. Level 8-10 beasts start to have the Level 1 abilities. 'Strider' class mobs have Cower, 'Cat' type mobs have bite, 'Bear' type mobs have claw for example.
You can teach your pet growl level 1 as soon as the pet has gained some loyalty, and level 2 as soon as it has reached level 10. Pets which have skills already start with negative training point values, so it takes a bit longer to get them to positive training points. Keep feeding them and they will get there (by increasing their loyalty). Once your pet reaches level 20 you can teach it growl 3. Starting with growl level 3, you need to buy levels of it from the pet trainer.
Skills
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Also see
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