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Animal Taming

Mounts, dragon taming, rescue quests, and a modest combat edge.

Related in Skills: How Skills Work | Animal Taming | Smithing | Farming | Hunting | Seafaring

Animal Taming measures how well you understand and command beasts. Good-side characters see a light taming icon; evil-side characters see a darker variant, but the skill works the same.

What it is for

  • Mounts: Your mount level and travel comfort depend on animal care over time.
  • Animal Taming quests: Repeatable training on the Animal Taming screen raises the skill steadily.
  • City and group quests: Many city duties and some group flows also grant Animal Taming progress.
  • Dragon taming: At 90%+ Animal Taming, 90+ health, and 200 gold, you can attempt to tame a dragon in the Dragon Caves.
  • Group quests: High taming is required for rescue missions involving the legendary White Horse.
  • Dragonbreath crop: A supreme Dragonbreath harvest grants +10% dragon taming for one hour.

Dragon taming chance and timing

  • Where: Only in Dragon Caves.
  • Requirements: 90+ Animal Taming, 90+ health, 200 gold per attempt.
  • Base chance: Around 10% once you are above 90 Animal Taming.
  • With Dragon Food: Chance reaches around 40%.
  • With Dragon Food + Horseshoe: Around 45%.
  • With Dragon Food + Horseshoe + Dragon Taming buff (from farming crop): Can reach the 55% cap.
  • Attempt frequency: If taming fails, next taming attempt opens after 24 hours.
  • Dragon training cooldown: After training your dragon, next training is in 12 hours.

Dragon Types

Dragon taming can yield one of these six types. Each type has its own maximum stats (ATK / ARM / SPD), and all six are equally strong overall:

  • Blood Dragon: ATK 320, ARM 190, SPD 690
  • Earth Dragon: ATK 210, ARM 820, SPD 170
  • Frost Dragon: ATK 380, ARM 610, SPD 210
  • Inferno Dragon: ATK 380, ARM 440, SPD 380
  • Metal Dragon: ATK 715, ARM 385, SPD 100
  • Shadow Dragon: ATK 720, ARM 80, SPD 400

A freshly tamed dragon starts with low stats. It grows toward its type's maximum through training and experience.

Training

  • Every training session raises your dragon's stats.
  • Dragon Food makes training more effective, and the orc Drake-bond trait helps a little more.
  • Training may cost your dragon some health, but it always earns experience.
  • Next training opens after 12 hours.

Experience

Experience (0-100%) decides how far your dragon can be trained. The more experience it has, the higher its stats can climb; at 100% it can reach its type's maximum. Once a stat reaches its current limit, it waits for more experience, though training still earns experience.

Your dragon gains experience whenever it acts at your side:

  • Honour PvP fights (a little more for wins)
  • Murder attempts, whatever the outcome
  • Group quests when they complete
  • Training

Bond

Bond (0-100%) is your dragon's loyalty. A newly tamed dragon starts fully loyal.

  • Honour PvP fights wear its bond down a little, losses more than wins.
  • Murder attempts wear it down more, whether you attack or are attacked.
  • Bond slowly recovers on its own every day.
  • The Dragon Wars city quest (plains, needs a dragon) restores +0.3 bond per run, once every 30 minutes: about what one lost and one won Honour fight cost together.
  • If bond reaches 0, your dragon abandons you and returns to the Dragon Caves.

Dragon health

  • Fights, group quests, war, the Kraken and training wear down your dragon's health.
  • Lower health means a weaker contribution in combat, but a dragon never leaves you because of low health.
  • Heal it with gold on the Animal Taming screen. Resting in Illumara heals it fully, and Dragon Food restores its health over time.

Elite dragons

A dragon that eats a supreme Wyrmheart harvest becomes Elite:

  • It can be trained beyond its type's normal limits.
  • It shows a unique elite portrait and an ELITE badge on fight results and the Animal Taming screen.
  • Elite status lasts as long as the dragon stays with you. If it leaves or is released, the elite status goes with it.

Dragon Skill

An Elite dragon with 100% experience can grant its owner one special advantage. Choose it from the Dragon Skill box on the Animal Taming screen:

  • Giant Wings: your dragon's travel time reduction rises from 5% to 15%.
  • Dragon's Breath: your item upgrade chance at the blacksmith rises by 1%.
  • Stay in the Shadows: other players' chance to track you (and so to kill you) drops by 10%.

Rules:

  • Only one skill can be active at a time, and you can change it once per day.
  • The skill works only while your dragon is Elite and at 100% experience. If either condition is lost, the advantage pauses until you meet it again.
  • Every dragon owner can see the box; if your dragon does not qualify yet, the screen tells you what is missing.

Naming your dragon

Tap the pencil next to your dragon's name on the Animal Taming screen to give it a name.

  • Names are 2-10 letters; single spaces are allowed.
  • Each rename consumes one supreme Dragonbreath harvest from your bag.
  • The name replaces the type on the Animal Taming screen, in fight results, and on your profile.

Dragon obedience

As your Animal Taming skill falls, your dragon obeys you less, and its contribution in combat drops with it.

Mount Types

Mount visuals and names depend on faction:

  • Good side: Horse +1, Horse +2, Horse +3, White Horse +4
  • Evil side: Warg +1, Warg +2, Warg +3, White Warg +4

Mount bonuses:

  • +1 mount: +5 speed
  • +2 mount: +15 speed (total)
  • +3 mount: +30 speed (total)
  • +4 special mount: +60 speed and +10 brave (total)

The special +4 White Horse / White Warg can be obtained from the Rescue group quest instance.

Skill titles

Stable Hand → Herd Keeper → Shepherd → Master Veterinarian → Lord of Dragons (at the highest tier).

In combat

Animal Taming gives a modest but reliable bonus to your fighting power in PvP and murder. It is not as impactful as Hunting or Smithing, but experienced tamers still hit a little harder in close fights. Think of it as the reward for mastering the stables and the skies, not the primary murder stat.

Tips

  • Train regularly before attempting dragon taming.
  • Watch your dragon's bond: frequent murders drain it fast, and at 0 your dragon leaves you.
  • Prairie Clover supreme harvests grant permanent +5 Animal Taming.