Animal Lore

Description

• Animal Lore is required alongside the Animal Taming skill to tame and command tamable followers. Animal Lore improves the effectiveness of healing followers using the Veterinary skill. At 60 skill or higher for Animal Lore and Veterinary players can attempt use bandages or veterinary supplies to cure poison on tamed followers, and at 80 or higher skill in each can attempt to resurrect dead, bonded tamed followers. Players of any level of Animal Lore can use the skill on a creature to view its stats, skills, and other details.

Summary

The Animal Lore skill is a necessary skill for anyone looking to control the animals and monsters roaming the Outlands. It can be used actively to open an information gump about the target as well as passively to increase the amount healed with the Veterinary skill and the difficulty of monsters a player can control.

• Players must have Animal Lore and Animal Taming equal or greater than the minimum Taming skill required for a tamed creature in order to issue commands.

Tamed Stats and Skills

• Followers only use one form of combat, Melee or Spells, each follower's combat type is shown by their damage range stat, i.e. "Melee Damage" or "Spell Damage"
• Tamed creatures will automatically receive scalar bonuses to Stats and Skills applied at each level
• Tamed creatures can gain experience up to level 15, the first 10 levels giving twice as much bonus as the last 5 as shown in the table below

Level 1-10				Level 10-15
Stat	Increment Per Level	Level 10		Stat	Increment Per Level	Level 15
Hits	+10%	+100%		Hits	+5%	+125%
Attack Speed	+2.5%	+25%		Attack Speed	+1.25%	+31.25%
Wrestling/Damage	+5.0%	+50%		Wrestling/Damage	+2.5%	+62.5%
Armor	+2.5	+25		Armor	+1.0	+30
Magic Resist	+5.0	+50		Magic Resist	+2.0	+60
Poisoning	+2.5%	+25%		Poisoning	+2.35%	+31.25%

Details and Abilities

• Players with the Animal Lore skill can see the Details and Abilities of tamed creatures.
• The Details page shows which Class a creature belongs to in the upper right corner.
  • Creatures can belong to Attack, Utility, or Tank class. (see Taming Bestiary)
• The Animal Lore "Abilities" menu displays the Type of each ability listed (Passive, Cooldown, Innate)

Discovering Slayer Type and Difficulty

• All players, even at 0 Animal Lore skill, can use Animal Lore on a creature to view its Slayer Group and Difficulty Value (determines loot and barding difficulties)

Miscellaneous

• Players can view the Tamed Creature PvP Damage Scalar for creatures in the Animal Lore gump at the top of the Abilities Page
• The Animal Lore gump will always display a player's correct Passive Animal Taming Remaining amount, unless they are at current 120 Animal Taming skill (at which point it wont display Passive Taming at all in the Animal Lore gump)
• The Animal Lore gump window for Pack Horses and Pack Llamas does not display their Experience or Level (since they cannot be leveled)
• View the Mounts page to see how Animal Lore affects them
• Players can use the Animal Lore skill on creatures up to 12 tiles away
• Players can make an Animal Lore skill gain check each time they "speak" to an animal while taming it (essentially grants bonus Animal Lore skill gain checks)
• Various tamed pet combat tactics such as melee/ranged and aggro/reduced-aggro can be toggled on/off from the animal lore window. patch April 2, 2020

Training

Skill	Activity
0-50	Train from NPC
50-60	Colossal Frog in the New Player Dungeon
60-70	Cave Bear in the New Player Dungeon
70-75	Scarab
75-80	Drake Whelp
80-85	Deep Crawler
85-90	Drake
90-95	Husk Crab
95-100	Dragon
100-105	Snowdrift
105-110	Earth Drake
110-115	Sphinx
115-120	Earth Dragon