Tell the rest of the story about taming your new pet.
As you know, when you tame your first pet, you are level 10. Your pet has to be the same level as you are or lower, therefore your pet can't be more than level 10. The problem is, this means it only has low level skills.
In order to get better skills as your pet levels up, you have to find another wild animal that has higher level skills, tame it, and use it long enough to learn those new skills from it. After you do that, you can then train other pets with those skills.
I wanted to do exactly that with my alt Renkun. The problem is, he's a Horde character, and the only animals with upgrade skills for his pet boar are far, far away in Lakeshire. (That's the city where you drowned in the lake.) In order to get from Silvermoon (the blood elf capital city) to Lakeshire, he had to run through Alliance (enemy) territory. Getting through Westfall wasn't so bad, but when he got to Elwynn Forest, he got killed by some high level guards.
When you are killed, your ghost goes to the nearest graveyard. In this case, he died on the far west border of Elwynn, while the graveyard was at the far east border, in the direction he wanted to go anyway. Rather than run all the way across the zone as a ghost, resurrect, then run all the way back across enemy territory, I decided to resurrect in the graveyard. This saves time, but the problem is that it reduces all of your stats (such as the amount of life and strength and magic you have) by 75% for about ten minutes. This is known as "resurrection sickness."
Since he was on the east border now, I took him across to Lakeshire and located the animal I wanted to tame. However, I had forgotten that my life was reduced by 75%, so before I could finish the taming spell, the animal killed me. ;_; I had to wait for the resurrection sickness to wear off before I could tame it.
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Date: 2007-03-15 02:40 am (UTC)As you know, when you tame your first pet, you are level 10. Your pet has to be the same level as you are or lower, therefore your pet can't be more than level 10. The problem is, this means it only has low level skills.
In order to get better skills as your pet levels up, you have to find another wild animal that has higher level skills, tame it, and use it long enough to learn those new skills from it. After you do that, you can then train other pets with those skills.
I wanted to do exactly that with my alt Renkun. The problem is, he's a Horde character, and the only animals with upgrade skills for his pet boar are far, far away in Lakeshire. (That's the city where you drowned in the lake.) In order to get from Silvermoon (the blood elf capital city) to Lakeshire, he had to run through Alliance (enemy) territory. Getting through Westfall wasn't so bad, but when he got to Elwynn Forest, he got killed by some high level guards.
When you are killed, your ghost goes to the nearest graveyard. In this case, he died on the far west border of Elwynn, while the graveyard was at the far east border, in the direction he wanted to go anyway. Rather than run all the way across the zone as a ghost, resurrect, then run all the way back across enemy territory, I decided to resurrect in the graveyard. This saves time, but the problem is that it reduces all of your stats (such as the amount of life and strength and magic you have) by 75% for about ten minutes. This is known as "resurrection sickness."
Since he was on the east border now, I took him across to Lakeshire and located the animal I wanted to tame. However, I had forgotten that my life was reduced by 75%, so before I could finish the taming spell, the animal killed me. ;_; I had to wait for the resurrection sickness to wear off before I could tame it.