Charm Animal


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Description
Charm target animal. Once charmed, your animal companion will travel with you whenever you have Charm Animal equipped.

Usage Notes
While accompanying it's owner, a pet will also acquire Experience points and eventually level up. In the beginning this will go very fast, until the pet reaches it's owners level, from then on it stays close behind him. When a pet's level increases, it will also slightly grow in size. If a pet isn't renamed (see below), it's name may chance when levelling up (i.e. a Melandru's Stalker will become a Playful Stalker). Maximum level for pets is 20.

In combat a pet will attack the same opponent it's owner targets (with a delay sometimes). When a pet dies it can be resurrected with Comfort Animal or Revive Animal. While pets can be healed with Monk skills, they do not work for resurrection. Upon a pet's death and it's resurrection all of it's owners skills are disabled for 8 seconds.

It is not possible to charm a new creature while one already has a pet. The only way to get rid of a pet is to speak with a Tamer NPCs (like Jarrel the Tamer right in front of the gate of post searing Ascalon City, or the tamer next to ranger Nente in pre-searing Regent Valley). The tamer may give a small amount of gold in exchange for an experienced pet (100 gold pieces for a level 20 pet). Giving up a pet at a tamer is final. There is no way to get it back.

A pet can be given an individual name with the command "/namepet ". A pet's name can be up to 12 characters long. Note that an individual name will also carry over to a new pet.

Acquisition

 * Pre-Searing Regent Valley: Quest, The Ranger's Companion
 * Old Ascalon: Quest, Endangered Species

Charmable Creatures
Note: It is currently not known for sure whether one charmable creature is actually "better" than another of the same level. It may be possible, though, that features like attack speed, height of damage or damage type are varying.

Pre-Searing
Black Bear
 * Found in: Wizard's Folly, Regent Valley
 * Initial Level: ?
 * Note: The Black Bear possesses a "Brutal Mauling" attack, which will interrupt any attempt to charm it. To make it work you need a party member who either does distract the Bear by attempting to charm it himself or interrupts the Brutal Mauling with a Hammer Bash.

Melandru's Stalker
 * Found in: Regent Valley (see also: The Ranger's Companion)
 * Initial Level: 5

Strider
 * Found in: Lakeside Country (Ashford village and near the gate to Ascalon city)
 * Initial Level: 1

Warthog
 * Found in: Lakeside Country (near the gate to Ascalon city), Northlands (Across the Wall quest)
 * Initial Level: ?
 * Note: The "prize winning hogs" that can be found in Ashford village cannot be charmed.

Wolf
 * Found in: Lakeside Country (fields near Ashford village, Regent Valley
 * Initial Level: 2

Note: Both versions of the Moss Spider (the peaceful as well as the aggressive one) cannot be charmed.

Post-Searing
Black Bear
 * Found in: Southern Shiverpeaks region
 * Initial Level: 5

Black Widow
 * Found in: The Underworld
 * Initial Level: 20

Elder Wolf
 * Found in: Spearhead Peak
 * Initial Level: 15
 * Note: There are both aggressive (red) and peaceful (green) Elder Wolves in Spearhead Peak. Only the peaceful ones can be charmed.

Dune Lizard
 * Found in: Crystal Desert region (Prophet's Path)
 * Initial Level: 5

Lynx
 * Found in: Kryta region (Gates of Kryta mission, North Kryta Province)
 * Initial Level: 5

Melandru's Stalker
 * Found in: Old Ascalon (see also: Endangered Species)
 * Initial Level: 5

Moa Bird
 * Found in: Ascalon region (Old Ascalon, Eastern Frontier)
 * Initial Level: 3

Snow Wolf
 * Found in: Traveler's Vale
 * Initial Level: 5

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