Combat Pets
Tamer & Combat Pets Guide
🐾 UNLEASH THE POWER OF BATTLE PETS & ENDGAME BEASTS! 🐾
The custom Pet Leveling and Battle Animal system is fully active on New Hope UO! All tamed combat pets and mounts gain experience points (XP) from combat, leveling up to Level 10 and unlocking massive stat, damage, and skill boosts.
Additionally, tamers with 100.0 Taming, 80.0 Animal Lore, and 80.0 Veterinary automatically empower wild creatures upon taming, assigning them specialized Tank or Damage (DPS) roles with heavy baseline stat increases.
| ⚠️ IMPORTANT: Non-Tameable Draconic Creatures & Bosses |
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Some legendary monsters encountered in dungeons and champion encounters cannot be tamed under any circumstances. Attempting to tame them will notify you that the creature cannot be tamed:
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📈 Pet Leveling System Benefits
As your pets gain XP and level up (up to Level 10), they receive permanent boosts based on their assigned path:
- 🛡️ Tank Path (e.g. Grizzly Bears, Polar Bears, Black Bears, Bulls, Greater Dragons)
- Max Hits (HP): +30 per level
- Raw Strength: +10 per level
- Armor (Virtual Armor): +3 per level
- Resistances (All elements): +2 per level (Capped at 70%)
- ⚔️ Damage (DPS) Path (Default path for aggressive creatures, White Wyrms, Drakes, Wolves)
- Max Hits (HP): +15 per level
- Raw Strength: +8 per level
- Raw Dexterity (Attack Speed): +4 per level
- Base Damage (Min/Max): +1 per level (Directly boosts overall DPS)
- Resistances (All elements): +1 per level (Capped at 60%)
- 🎓 Combat Skill Upgrades (All roles)
- Every level, skills like Wrestling, Tactics, Anatomy, and Magic Resistance cap and base increase by +1.5 (up to a maximum cap of 120.0).
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🐉 Dragon, Drake & Wyrm Hierarchy (Draconic Beasts)
The table below details all tamable draconic creatures, ordered from lowest requirement to the ultimate apex apex beasts. Maximum follower limit on New Hope UO is 5 Control Slots.
| Creature Name | Min Taming | Slots | Mount? | Primary Role | Combat Stats & Special Abilities |
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| Drake | 84.3 | 2 | No | Damage | HP: 1200–1800. Fast flying physical attacker with fiery dragon breath. Excellent starter dragon. |
| Crimson / Platinum Drake | 85.0 | 2 | No | Damage | HP: 240–260, Str: 400–430. Specialized elemental variants. |
| Swamp Dragon | 93.9 | 1 | Yes | Armored Mount | HP: 120–180, Str: 200–300. Can be equipped with craftable Dragon Armor (absorbs 10%–20% incoming player damage). |
| Dragon (Classic Red/Brown) | 93.9 | 3 | No | Hybrid Tank/DPS | HP: 2000–2800, Str: 796–825. Heavy Fire Breath, high physical power, and Master Magery. |
| Cold Drake / Frost Drake | 96.0 | 3 | No | Cold DPS | HP: 450–500, Str: 610–670. Breathes freezing cold breath, effective against fire-weak monsters. |
| White Wyrm | 96.3 | 3 | No | Caster / Hybrid | HP: 2500–3500, Str: 721–760. Devastating Magery spellcaster, high cold damage, very high Magic Resistance. |
| Fire Drake | 100.0 | 2 | No | Damage | HP: 300–350. Heavy melee damage (34–40) and high fire breath. |
| Greater Dragon | 104.7 | 5 | No | Ultimate Apex Tank | HP: 4000–5500, Str: 1025–1425. Bleed Attack + lethal Fire Breath. Occupies all 5 follower slots; the tankiest tamable beast in Britannia and Hopelands. |
| Frost Dragon | 105.0 | 5 | No | Apex Cold Beast | HP: 2050–2250, Str: 1300–1400. Freezing aura, Bleed Attack, cold breath, and high Magic Resistance. Occupies 5 control slots. |
| Shadow Wyrm | 105.0 | 5 | No | Endgame Hybrid | HP: 4200–5500, Str: 898–1030. Casts GM Magery/Necromancy, strikes with Deadly Poison on melee hits (~33% chance), and unleashes Dragon Breath. Occupies 5 control slots. |
| Bane Dragon | 107.1 | 3 | No | Poison Caster | HP: 550–650. Toxic dragon breath and dark magic attacks. |
| Serpentine Dragon | 108.0 | 3 | No | Support / Caster | HP: 286–340, Str: 111–140. Ultra-fast movement speed, healing and defensive utility spells. |
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📊 General Tamer Combat Pets Directory
Sorted from lowest minimum taming requirement to endgame combat companions:
| Creature Name | Min Taming | Slots | Mount? | Primary Role | Special Abilities & Combat Notes |
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| Timber Wolf | 23.1 | 1 | No | Damage | Pack instinct (gains bonus damage when fighting with other wolves). |
| Slime | 23.1 | 1 | No | Utility | Poisonous melee attacks; useful early-game support. |
| Boar | 29.1 | 1 | No | Damage | Basic physical melee damage. |
| Black Bear | 35.1 | 1 | No | Tank (Low) | High hit point pool for beginners. Eligible for Savaş Hayvanı Tank bonuses. |
| Polar Bear | 35.1 | 1 | No | Tank (Low) | High HP and cold resistance. Eligible for Savaş Hayvanı Tank bonuses. |
| Brown Bear | 41.1 | 1 | No | Tank (Low) | Well-balanced defensive pet for young tamers. |
| Cougar | 41.1 | 1 | No | Damage | Fast attack speed, pure physical damage. |
| Scorpion | 47.1 | 1 | No | Utility | Injects deadly poison, excellent early-game support. |
| Alligator | 47.1 | 1 | No | Damage | Heavy melee bite damage for low-level players. |
| Grey Wolf / Panther | 53.1 | 1 | No | Damage | Fast movement speed, high attack frequency. |
| Giant Spider | 59.1 | 1 | No | Utility | Poisonous attacks and web slowing effects. |
| Grizzly Bear | 59.1 | 1 | No | Tank (Mid) | Excellent health pool. Highly popular as an empowered Savaş Hayvanı Tank. |
| White Wolf | 65.1 | 1 | No | Damage | Pack instinct, deals cold-elemental physical damage. |
| Bull | 71.1 | 2 | No | Tank (Mid) | Massive strength and good health pool. |
| Iron Beetle | 71.1 | 1 | No | Utility | Reduces target's physical resistance (Armor Corrupt) and can mine ores. |
| Blood Fox | 72.0 | 1 | No | Damage | Fast attacks. Inflicts Bleed Attack and Grasping Claw (-resistance debuff). |
| Bake Kitsune | 80.7 | 2 | No | Damage | Casts high-level magic, duplicates itself (cloning), and uses illusions. |
| Hell Hound / Ice Hound | 85.5 | 1 | No | Damage | Fire and Cold elemental bites. |
| Nightmare | 95.1 | 2 | Yes | Elite Mount | Fast-moving mount capable of casting Magery and breathing fire. |
| Rune Beetle | 93.9 | 3 | No | Damage / Debuff | Highly Recommended. Uses Armor Corrupt (halves target's armor), deadly poison, and Magery. |
| Triton | 96.0 | 2 | No | Anti-Mage Tank | Inherits extremely high Magic Resistance (up to 120+), ideal for fighting spellcasters. |
| Tsuki Wolf | 96.0 | 3 | No | Damage | High speed physical strikes with berserk rage capabilities. |
| Phoenix | 102.0 | 3 | No | Hybrid | Flying magical bird with heavy fire spellcasting and self-resurrection mechanics. |
Herding Combat Bonus
Your Herding skill boosts your pets and summons:
- +(Herding / 100 × 15)% damage (+15% at 100 Herding).
- +5% more if you hold a Shepherd's Crook (maximum +20%).
Pet Slot Reduction Bottle & Training Reset
- Pet Slot Reduction Bottle:
* How to Obtain: Sold by Animal Trainer NPCs for 500,000 gp or dropped by Paragon monsters (2% chance). * Effect: Permanently reduces a pet's required Follower Control Slots by 1 (limit 1 reduction per pet, minimum 1 slot). * Unlock 5-Slot Apex Pet Training: Reducing a 5-slot apex pet (such as a Greater Dragon, Frost Dragon, or Shadow Wyrm) to 4 slots allows it to enter the Pet Training system and advance up to 5 slots!
- Pet Training Reset:
* Context menu option on any Animal Trainer NPC (50,000 gp). Completely resets a bonded pet's training points and progress so you can reallocate its build.
- Pet Recovery Command (
[ClaimPets/[GetPets):
* Instantly retrieves any stabled or lost pets back to your side.