Anyone know how long it takes a pack animal to go wild?

[johttenn]

Using a pack lama guarding me to macro with. When I set it up last night in the morning it was wild. Had to retame it, which is not such a problem, but it causes a lot of missed macroing time. So how long will they stay tame and guarding before they go wild?

Thanks for your time.

[Downs]

i believe its 24 hrs, but some 1 else might know better.

If you wanna macro stealing without worrying about that, 2 clients running is usually better. Have ur 2nd character guilded or go grey to you to start macroing

[Mikel123]

Definitely less than 24 hours; I have had them go wild in 8 or less, after setting up a macro in which they fully obeyed every command and "seemed" happy.

Part of it depends on the loyalty level of the animal, which ranges from "Wonderfully Happy" down to "Content" and then wild.

If you feed it to "wonderfully happy" before you begin your macro, I'm sure you can make it through the night without it going wild.

Stay visible if you can; we seem to have code on this shard that makes loyalty drop quickly if an owner is out of sight. I don't think this was era accurate, but it's not too big of a deal.

[johttenn]

Will indeed feed it...and see if that works any better. Had it go wild after only three hours again.

[zzyzx]

Utilize a for loop in your steal macro. Feed the animal once ever 30 minutes or so (apples are cheap).

Assuming your pause after a stealing is attempt, do something like this...

(For 1 to 180)
Steal
Pause 10.0 seconds
If successful, drag item back into animal's pack).
(End For)
Drag an apple to pack animal

This will loop stealing for approximately 1800 seconds which is 30 minutes, then feed the pack animal. This will ensure they do not go wild. This is how I GMed stealing.

[johttenn]

Thank you for the info on the for loop. Wasn't sure what that function of razor did. Trying it out now.

[zzyzx]

I separated all the apples before leaving my macro to run and then just did a drag by type. If you have them in one lump it will drag them all I believe, not entirely sure on that though. Maybe try it with 2 and see what it does?

[johttenn]

Actually, got a stack of 280 pears...why in the world was someone running up the stock of pears at the Brit provisioner?

Anyway set the macro up with one pile, dragged one when recording, converted to by-type...and it only takes one from the pile each time...been three hours or so and at 273 pears...