Talk:Pet Training

Training Greater Dragons

Besides the Greater Dragon any pet that spawns with less than GM 
in a skill can only be trained up to GM, skills that start over GM 
will not go any higher; Greater Dragons maximum skill is based on 
their skill when tamed (the higher the better) you can work out 
maximum skills using the UOCraft Pet Power Calculator

Actually the rules concerning the Greater Dragon are vague at best. Wouldn't mind seeing them clarified. Saying the dragon is different but not saying how only adds to my confusion, and that calculator certainly doesn't say anything about the matter! I suspect the only reason people think there's some difference is because the GD has so many skills in excess of GM (and WAY in excess at that).

My dragon had 144 Wrestling prior to taming (which that pet calculator reckons is outside the limits, by the way). After some deaths and training I determined the new cap to be 129.6 (which is exactly 90%), so I used that as my example here.

But this suggests that would only be possible with Greater Dragons. So my question is this: If you tame a Rune Beetle which had 120 Poisoning, is it's new maximum 108? If so, then all pets are the same... My bug currently has just over 120 poisoning, but given that it was probably pretty close to the 140 max when I first tamed it, this doesn't prove anything "definitive".

Can't test this out at present as I currently don't have access to a game client, and probably won't for some time.

On the other hand, the Magery score of my dragon was a lot lower - above GM prior to taming, below GM after. GM became the new cap. I know this to be standard for all pets.

- Bomb Bloke 01:39, 4 January 2009 (UTC)

Training Order

ShadowSpinner, are you absolutely sure a Sphynx can raise the Wrestling/Tactics of a pet at 50 all the way to GM? It has the exact same skill levels in those areas as Arctic Ogre Lords...

I pinpoint these two skills specifically because they follow special rules as opposed to all the other skills a pet has (except maybe Healing, but that's not exactly trained by hitting things). Basically if your pet doesn't have skills comparable to your target, you don't get gains. The closer you can match the skills, the better off you are.

My point is if you're too low to gain off an AOL, then you should also be too low to gain off a Sphynx... 'Cause they're exactly the same.

I've generally used AOLs to train my pets when they hit about 80, and they give great gains all the way to GM (and a little higher, in some cases).

However, I'm asking, 'cause I've only "fully" trained about a dozen pets so far, and I know some people do pet training as a full on passtime...

I've also removed your spellbinder guide as the page already had one, and I recommend people follow that before doing any other pet training anyway... By all means make changes to that if you think they're needed.

Be aware that training by blocking your pet from damage is technically illegal and a banable offense if someone pages on you (regardless of whether you're AFK or not). Not a rule I agree with, but that's the way it is.

- Bomb Bloke 01:39, 4 January 2009 (UTC)