Taming guide
How taming works in Forever.
Short version: you get Tame Beast at 10, you can tame anything up to your own level, and your pet keeps up with you all the way to 60. Longer version below.
The rules
- 1
You get your pet at 10
Same as Classic. Until then you have auto shot, plus Raptor Strike when something reaches you.
- 2
You cannot tame above your level
Blizzard's 24 September beta notes say Tame Beast no longer works on a beast higher than you. Early testers tamed two levels up, but that is gone. Coldrasp is 12, so you need to be 12 for him.
- 3
Pets scale with you
Every point of your Stamina gives the pet 2 health. It gets 30% of your armor, 10% of your attack power and all of whichever critical strike chance is higher, melee or ranged. Pets also benefit from your Expertise. Late game pets should stop falling behind.
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Attack speed is per beast
The base is 2.0, but single creatures can carry passives like Faster Attack 6 (+67%) or Slower Attack II (-20%). Two wolves from the same pack can swing at very different speeds. Check the pet's attack speed before you tame.
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Abilities still come from other beasts
Training points and ranks are still here. You learn a rank by taming a beast that knows it, then teach it to anything in a family that can use it.
Claw 3 needs pet level 16, for example. - 6
Feed it
Happiness and loyalty are still in. Every family has a diet. Bears and boars eat everything, and turtles take raw fish.
Attack speed
Pets start at a 2.0 swing. Some single beasts carry a passive that changes it, and you can see it on the beast before you tame. Hover it or check its attack stats after the tame. A faster swing means more damage and more focus spent on Bite or Claw.
These are the passives testers have found so far.
- Faster Attack 6+67%Rake (Mulgore), Slavering Worg (Shadowfang Keep), both at 1.2
- Faster Attack 5+54%A tester's tallstrider
- Faster Attack 3+33%Coldrasp, at 1.5
- Increased Attackspeed 2+25%Mystmane, at 1.6
- Slower Attack II-20%Urs'anah, a bear on Zephras Isle
To find fast beasts near you, open the tame finder sorted by swing speed.
Training abilities
This works the way it did in Classic. Tame a beast that knows the ability, use it for a while and you learn it. Then open Beast Training on any pet whose family can use it and spend training points to teach it.
Pet level gates the rank. Claw 3 needs a level 16 pet, for example. If you tame something that already knows a rank above its level, the beta currently strips it when you dismiss the pet or log out.
Family abilities are the exception. Swipe stays with bears, Savage Rend with raptors and so on. See every one on the abilities page.
What each family eats
A hungry pet loses happiness, and an unhappy pet does less damage. Carry food it likes.
Bear- Meat
- Fish
- Cheese
- Bread
- Fungus
- Fruit
Wolf- Meat
Cat- Meat
- Fish
Raptor- Meat
Hyena- Meat
- Fruit
Boar- Meat
- Fish
- Cheese
- Bread
- Fungus
- Fruit
Bird of Prey- Meat
Carrion Bird- Meat
- Fish
Crocolisk- Meat
- Fish
Spider- Meat
Tallstrider- Cheese
- Fungus
- Fruit
Scorpid- Meat
Wind Serpent- Fish
- Cheese
- Bread
Bat- Fungus
- Fruit
Crab- Fish
- Bread
- Fungus
- Fruit
Turtle- Fish
- Fungus
- Fruit
- Raw Fish
Gorilla- Fungus
- Fruit
Fox- Fish
- Fruit
- Meat
Core Hound- Meat
Beta bugs
Known problems as of 26 September, plus the fixes Blizzard has announced since. Plan around them until testers confirm.
A raptor listed as a Bird of Prey. Loses
Savage Rend 1 when dismissed or on logout and cannot learn Bird of Prey abilities.Fix announced Blizzard's level 30 notes on 1 October say every beast that came with an ability rank above its level is fixed, so pets should stop forgetting abilities. Testers have not confirmed it yet.
Tameable at 11 but comes with
Claw 3, which needs 16. Tame it early and it loses Claw 3 on dismiss or logout.Fix announced Blizzard's level 30 notes on 1 October say every beast that came with an ability rank above its level is fixed, so pets should stop forgetting abilities. Testers have not confirmed it yet.
Loses
Dust Cloud 1 on dismiss or logout.Fix announced Blizzard's level 30 notes on 1 October say every beast that came with an ability rank above its level is fixed, so pets should stop forgetting abilities. Testers have not confirmed it yet.
Vuldren foxes
Cannot be taught through Beast Training. Slydris only shows
Bite 2.Cannot learn Screech.