Hoonbaba recipe hunting.

[Baby need milk]

So I've been killing this guy a lot, and have yet to get the recipe to tame him. (lv 15)


It's really cool
I NEED HIM. I have checked the auction house, but I am poor anyways.


I read that killing him will get me the recipe for the thing-a-ma-bob to tame him, but I have yet to do it, do I just need to keep doing it?
As of Right now I am getting nothing but copper.

[Farah]

Me and my friend farmed Hoonbaba in order to get the recipe. The drop late is very low.

Which server are you in? Perhaps if you're in Akaldus, I could help you out.

[Baby need milk]

Originally posted by ⎛⎞lex:

Me and my friend farmed Hoonbaba in order to get the recipe. The drop late is very low.

Which server are you in? Perhaps if you're in Akaldus, I could help you out.

I am hankin or something like that, but now that I know I can get it I am good :D Thanks! I thought I had maybe did something wrong.

[Baby need milk]

GOT It OH THANK THE GODS

[Baby need milk]

Geez, now i need to know how to get a lot of familiar orbs...

[Farah]

You can buy them off of auction, or farm those in elite dungeons (from dungeon bosses).

[Arrrrrrre]

+1

[Baby need milk]

Okay . . . from what I've learned you have to be 16, when I was 15 I wasn't getting ANYTHING

Now as soon as I hit LV16 I got the recipes, then got the nettles from sages around the hoonbaba, then got the darkness broth thigns from the other bison things, THEN got the familiar things from the auction house...

THEN AFTER THAT I weakened him to VERY VERY VERY LOW health, then jumped on and tamed him.


(I just said this basically if anyone from google comes here, or somewhere else.)

[Farah]

That's great information! I'll make sure to hang onto it, should anyone else troubleshoot like you did. ;D

By the way, weakening ordinary (non heroic) creatures makes no difference. People made it up because you need to weaken Heroics to 10% health before you can attempt a tame, and this technique stuck with some, as they believe it increases tame chance.

What really increases tame chance is higher player level than the creature you're trying to tame.

So for example

Windrunner is Lvl 25
You're level 15
VERY low success rate in taming.

Or Hoonbaba is lvl 15
You're level 30
Guaranteed first try.

I've played without weakening since July 10th. I've tried weakening for a week, but the only thing it really does is, lower health (from attacks) and more of a risk to get murdered whilst you're doing the taming button-press game and your to-be-mount runs into some hostile creatures of its kind.

I don't weaken. Waste of time. Chance stays the same.

If people think otherwise, let them think so. :P This is Riders of Icarus. Not Pokemon~

[Ruse]

Originally posted by ⎛⎞lex:

That's great information! I'll make sure to hang onto it, should anyone else troubleshoot like you did. ;D

By the way, weakening ordinary (non heroic) creatures makes no difference. People made it up because you need to weaken Heroics to 10% health before you can attempt a tame, and this technique stuck with some, as they believe it increases tame chance.

What really increases tame chance is higher player level than the creature you're trying to tame.

So for example

Windrunner is Lvl 25
You're level 15
VERY low success rate in taming.

Or Hoonbaba is lvl 15
You're level 30
Guaranteed first try.

I've played without weakening since July 10th. I've tried weakening for a week, but the only thing it really does is, lower health (from attacks) and more of a risk to get murdered whilst you're doing the taming button-press game and your to-be-mount runs into some hostile creatures of its kind.

I don't weaken. Waste of time. Chance stays the same.

If people think otherwise, let them think so. :P This is Riders of Icarus. Not Pokemon~

Have fun trying to tame heroics and certain elites then. Since you need to bring down their HP before you can even tame.

[Farah]

@Theresa Barkskin

I have without trouble tamed Windrunner, Benthic, Scalleda, Lynic, Albino Ashtail e.t.c. without bringing the health down. Despite having stocked up 4 makrs per each familiar, I only ever had to use one, and I don't see what the fuss is about, but bringing health down or not the chances seemed always the same.

People who stick to bringing the HP down may, by all means, continue doing so if their belief is so strong in the matter.

I however, find the whole bringing health down thing made up. Heroics do in fact need their health down before they even meet the requirements (because, of course, they're Heroics).

Imo, level is what alters your taming chance most. If you really want an elite first try, go 3-5 levels above theirs and see your green bar swell up. I've tamed the lvl25 Windrunner as a Lvl28, first try without bringing the health down. Same thing goes to Benthic, e.t.c.

Again, this isn't Pokemon. My bf and I do not damage before taming, and our outcomes are near the same of the people who do indeed risk their hide trying to bring health down.

Give it a try first, then judge, Theresa. I do not 'NEED' to bring any health bar down, unless the familiar requires it to be so based on the bestiary. As for other familiars which do not neccessarily need less health, I can do as I please with those. And it saves time to just hop on and tame rather than circle your possible mount and bring their health down.

Unless it is required, of course, then it is a completely different story.

I carried out a countless series of tests, from bringing health down on an overlevel familiar before trying to tame, and trying to tame without bringing health down.

Taming outcome is altered by what you click whilst taming, and by your level. The health-reducing technique makes absolutely no sense. If you manage to provide evidence / a quote (With a link) from a game developer where it is clearly stated that bringing health down increases taming chance, by all means do so.

Do not take this as rude, or as an information challenge. I'm not forcing my opinion onto others'. I'm just stating the obvious.