Creature Handling Context 5
Creature Taming
it's unfortunate that the "taming" skill tree contains the "max level of pets" attribute, it results in much confusion about taming vs controling. your tame mod and max level mod are different things. tame effects your sucess rate at taming creatures and teaching them commands. max level is a hard cap on the level of the pets you can use. taming also effects what you can use, in that if you can't tame it, you can't use it, but what the actual formula for clvl vs tame mod is not really clear, I've never seen a formula posted, and I don't think anybody actually knows. besides, thats changing in the upcoming patch.
so the answer is, there's a hard cap on pet level based on your "max level of pets" mod. you taming skill cannot raise this, and there are no skill enhancements for this skill. your taming mod can limit you from using big pets, but it can never extend the strength of your pets past what your "max level of pets" would allow.
incidentally, the highest possible mod you can get from skill enhancements and BE clothing is +25, even if you have three itmes that are +16 to tame your total bonus is only +25. this is not just for taming, but for all skill mods. this ensures that you still have to master professions to be really good at them.
the kimogilas you will be able to use in the next patch will not have the same stats as wild ones. they'll look like a wild kimo, but that's it. their stats are based off what DNA the bio engineer uses. what skin they choose for the pet is somewhat arbitrary (other than the fact that certian skins have a minimum creature level associated with them).
What exactly does this mean? I am at Taming 1/Training 1 and I use a GSP at the moment. Now, figuring I can tame a CL25, I assume I have a 100% chance of taming a creature of cl25. So what is this 15% thing?
Sorry if I misunderstood something that was supposed to be blatantly obvious....if I am at taming 1 do I have a 15% chance of taming a GSP or a 100% chance?
Ok I understand, and I have been thinking about it. But this 15% is confusing. If you don;t have 100% chance to tame anything, what about all the percentages between 15% and say 50%? Explain that....so your'e telling me its either a 15% chance or No chance.....nothing else.
So why do they word it like this...shouldn't it be "you cant call a creature you cannot tame" rather than "you cannot call a creature you don't have a 15% chance of taming?" This is the same thing afterall isn't it?
The 15% means that 85% of the time you would fail to tame that creature. Not purely based on its CL but other variables as well. Below the 15% mark they just deny you the option to attempt it. This could be due to the creature being Agro and you cant tame those yet, or it is to high a CL for you etc.
At any other higher percentage it is just like any other game of chance, you either succeed or fail, and how often you do is based on your skill. Your skill effects your % chance to tame the creature.
