Getting a Pet
You use the Tame Beast ability to get a pet. It begins taming a beast to be your companion. Your armor is reduced by 100% while you focus on taming the beast for 20 sec. If you lose the beast's attention for any reason, the taming process will fail. Once tamed, the beast will be very unhappy and disloyal. Try feeding your pet immediately to make it happy. Only some beasts can be pets. You can cast Beast Lore on a pet before taming it to learn more about it or you can read some of the many Hunter pet guides.
Beast Training
As your pet becomes more loyal and you spend more time fighting with it, you gain points you can spend on pet abilities. But you'll have to get those abilities at a pet trainer, or by learning them from one pet and teaching them to another. People have written in depth guides on these topics. Check out our links sections.
Pet Name
You can name your pet! Only Hunters can name pets. Right-click on their portrait and pick rename. You can only do this one time.
Pet Happiness/Feeding
Your pet has a happiness rating. This is shown via an icon in the top left corner of the screen. As you continue to use your pet, it becomes less and less happy. However, if you feed your pet it increases its happiness. Happiness determines damage output, so the less happy your pet is, the weaker it gets. If you neglect your pet too much, it abandons you and may even attack you!
Pet Food
Always save food for your pet. You can see what types of food your pet eats by trying various foods, checking in your pet menu (hit C then select the Pet tab), or by checking in the Stable. Beast Lore can be cast on animals to see what types of food they prefer. You can also ask guild members and friends to save food for your pet and mail it to you! Awww how cute...
Pet Size
Pets scale to appropriate sizes. If you tame a pet, it will likely be smaller than the "monster" version. This was done because certain pets were very messy to play/group with at their default sizes.
Pet Customization
Passive abilities that are available include increased armor, stamina, Fire resistance, Frost resistance, Nature resistance, Shadow resistance, and Arcane resistance.
Pet Untrain
Hunter pets can be untrained of all their skills from any beast trainer in the major cities. Similar to talents, untraining a specific pet scales up as you do it more times: 10 silver, 50 silver, 1 gold, 2 gold, 3 gold, etc., eventually stopping at 10 gold.
Pet Experience
Hunter pets gain experience based on the level difference between the hunters, the pets and their target. Keep in mind that the Hunter must kill creatures from which he/she will gain experience.
Stables
You can house your pets at the Stables. Stables are located near Inns and Mailboxes. You can buy additional slots to contain more pets. If you want to switch pets and still keep both, do so at the Stables.
Pet Abilities
Beast Taming - Lets the hunter tame different pets.
Call Pet - Summons your pet to you.
Beast Training - Lets the Hunter train its pet with various abilities that it has learned. This opens up a menu where you can check out all of the pet abilities you've collected. Collect more pet abilities by taming different pets. You can then teach them to other pets.
Dismiss Pet - Dismisses your pet. Dismissing your pet will reduce its happiness by X.
Revive Pet - Revive your pet, returning it to life with X% of its base health.
Mend Pet - Heals your pet for X health over Y sec.
Pet Tips
If your pet is about to become very mad and you don't have food for him, put him in the stable until he cools off.
You can tame many special/cool animals out there. Go find them!
Pet Training
You can take the abilities you have learned from some pets and train them to other pets. The idea is that you have a main pet and other pets you use to gain abilities. You teach these new abilities to your main pet until you have what you want.
Other Pet Information
- Base pet speed is standardized for all pets, including legacy pets.
- All hunter pets will always deal Physical damage for their base attack.
