On and off and more recently as well, I have run into players that do not fully understand pets on W.P. and U.O. in general. After talking at length with our beloved owner, Lord GhostRiderGrey, I decided that perhaps some of this information would help new pet owners understand their responsibility to take care of their pets.
First, taming a pet is only the first step to owning and taking care of one. Lets take a White Wyrm as an example: it takes 96.3 taming to even have a chance of controlling them.
Since this is not about actually taming pets, but more about taking care of them, I will skip the effort of taming or maybe you where lucky enough to have a player give you one. Any way you chalk it up, if you have say 96.3 taming you can use the White Wyrm as a battle companion. But fair warning, it is not always that simple!
Every time you give a pet a command such as, “All follow me”, All Guard me”, “All attack”, etc. The U.O. game in the background does a check. A check of what? Your skills of course. However, it does NOT just check your taming skill. Animal Taming and Animal Lore are checked every time you give a pet a command! Each command that is obeyed has a random chance to raise a pets loyalty, however each command that is ignored can lower the pets loyalty much faster than obeyed commands raise it! The best tamer’s have learned to listen to the pet and know what sound it makes when it refuses to follow a command.
Keep in mind feeding a pet is the best way to raise its loyalty. Once a pets loyalty starts to drop it is also more likely to refuse commands and therefore the pets loyalty can drop very fast!!!
So what is the chance your pet will listen to you? Or the chance the pet will not listen?
If we are talking a White Wyrm that takes 96.3 to tame it. A player must have Animal Taming and 96.3 Animal Lore at 96.3 to have a 70% chance that the pet will listen and a 30% chance that the pet will not listen.
Keep in mind the 70% chance is only used with a pet that is at max loyalty the number becomes less and less on lower loyalties, so much so in fact that is very possible for a pet that is not very happy will not listen to an owner that 130 in both taming and animal lore.
A player with 100 Animal Taming and 100 Animal Lore has about 92.2% chance to control a white wyrm – Keep in mind just one disobeyed order can start that loyalty dropping fast!!
Another example is W.P. favorite pet the steel steed it takes a 119.1 Animal taming and animal lore to have a 70% chance that the beast will listen!!
For those of you curious a 120 Animal taming and 120 animal lore would grant you 75.4% chance to control the steel steed!!
* As a side note I have also noticed that pet loyalty often simple drops with time. Which is part of the reason our rules say: Do not AFK train your pets or leave them unattended anywhere on the shard.
If you want Staff’s advice on pets.
1. Check how happy your pets are regularly
2. A good rule of thumb feed your pets for every hour they are out in game (this is a minimum).
3. In champs or areas where you are issuing a lot of commands use Animal Lore on pets often (as much as every 15 mins or less) to make sure that their loyalty is not dropping fast! The more commands you give the higher chance loyalty will be dropping!!
4. Take your own Animal taming/Animal Lore ability into consideration. The lower it is the more you should check. But don't bank on because you have 120 in both that your pet won't loose loyalty.
