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Thread: Long time vet, first time creature handler. Please help
to tame a baby you need to be near it (i use follow) and type /tame, and if all goes well then you have a new pet. they sometimes decide they don't want to be nice, and they attack you, so be prepared...what i usually do is run away without fighting back (no default attack on) so that the baby lives for me to try taming again when combat is over.
the levels thing is very confusing, i agree. my advice for right now is tame every baby you can (the CL you can tame will go up as you get more boxes, at novice you're limited to CL12 and lower), teach them every command that you can for more exp, and when your datapad gets full, and it will frequently with the limited storage at novice, let one go (/sigh) and get another.
keep in mind that exp you earn will be split if you help the pet...if you TK the mob, you earn bothunarmed and CH exp so your CH share is lower, same with if you use medic heals on yourself or the pet. you'll get a feel for what each pet can handle without backup from you, and sometimes killing is just so much faster with yourself fighting too that it makes up for the lower share in each kill.
the abilities are real fun but you don't *need* to worry about them right now. if you tame a pet that's a good CL for you to use, and has an ability, super...use it for levelling and eventually you'll learn the ability it came with (random chance how long that will take). but don't go crazy worrying over abilities yet, get the feel of CH and after a while, read those stickies again and more will make sense to you. good luck 
Once you've trained your pet in all available commands you simply have to say the shortcut you assigned to the command to make your pet perform it.
KMad wrote:keep in mind that exp you earn will be split if you help the pet...if you TK the mob, you earn both unarmed and CH exp so your CH share is lower, same with if you use medic heals on yourself or the pet.
Actually if you just heal your pet you will get full ch xp for it. You don't get med xp for healing your pet so it doesn't get split. If you heal yourself during the fight you will split the xp.
Also if you do fail in training your pet a command, just repeat typing the command until it learns it. You could also set up a macro to train the pet. You still need to do a little work, but it does make it easier.
Ex. You want to train the attack command.
Create a macro that has
Macro Name: TrainPetAttack
/tellpet kill;
/tellpet kill;
/tellpet kill;
/tellpet kill;
You can use the radial and train method to pull up the train menu. Double click the attack command.
Run your TrainPetAttack macro. Makes it super simple :-) Word of advice. Either train the store command last, only put one /tellpet store; in the macro and hit the button multiple times, or don't use a macro. The last thing you want is for your pet to go poof, and then you have to call it from the datapad again.
Message Edited by Thaumaturgist on 08-11-2005 08:58 AM
oh spiffy good to know, thank you!
Thaumaturgist wrote:
KMad wrote:
keep in mind that exp you earn will be split if you help the pet...if you TK the mob, you earn both unarmed and CH exp so your CH share is lower, same with if you use medic heals on yourself or the pet.
Actually if you just heal your pet you will get full ch xp for it. You don't get med xp for healing your pet so it doesn't get split. If you heal yourself during the fight you will split the xp.
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