scout or tame

[Wholesale Johnson]

Should I practice scout or tame? I have two practices left, and I'm not really sure which one I would have more fun with, or whether either would be useful.

[Davairus]

Gee, practice a skill that can unrage a berserker, or one that improves scan distance by 2 rooms. That's a tough question.

[Slade]

You can't scout all like you can scan all either. Useless.

[Wholesale Johnson]

'TAME'
Syntax: tame <target>

Rangers are able to employ their knowledge of creatures in the realm to
find the best tactics that could calm the creature down. They know that
many times a creature attacks because of fear or misunderstanding. Thus,
even if a creature is in an angry rage, rangers may be able to tame them
so that a peaceful solution can be found. It has been known that even
in the middle of fights, beasts have been tamed by the skilled ranger.
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Didn't know that. Guess that I'll be practicing tame. Thanks.

[Slade]

Its decent crowd control where you can use it actually.. Ex: you could tame hellhounds in a basement mansion group, tame a lot of those aggro mobs in Redhorne group, etc. Success rate isn't bad either.

Haven't tried it in a pk though.

[Smotpoker]

so tame can unrage a berserker? never seen that happen nor did I even know it could.

[Smotpoker]

so tame can unrage a berserker? never seen that happen nor did I even know it could.

[Mandor]

well the description says frightened animals who are angry, maybe davs just making a joke about the type of people who play berserkers?

[marsd]

Just use it.

[Davairus]

Its been in the game a while - I don't know why the helpfiles aren't right , but the change was posted at some point. It was working the whole time Naiirok and Jalkut played their characters, and I am sure I reminded them especially to use it. The specifics were changed along with the calm spell change, which should also be posted on the forum sonewhere. If it isn't posted, I guess Burzuk couldn't get around to that for whatever reason. But its definitely an intended part of the ranger class.

The reasoning is fairly straight-forward :- Rangers have had their herb kind of 'gimped' (can miss, and toned down a bunch for low int) while other fighters still have berserk for hp/damage/saves. So the rangers, still lacking berserk, can tame the opponent to get rid of that effect. And obviously rage makes bows pretty worthless, so there's an even greater need for a counter there.

Since the helpfiles are out-dated and all, you'll want to play with it to find out how it works, doubt you'd want to leave it 1% though even if my memory is fading about what it does.