Misc

Herding

Animal Taming gets you a companion; Herding is what makes it worth having. Every bonus your active companion grants — damage, gold, drop chance, spell power, whatever its particular talent is — grows by one percent for every point of Herding you hold, so a Grandmaster gets exactly twice what an untrained handler does from the same animal at the same level. It changes nothing about the creature itself. It changes how well you two fight together.

How you train it It trains itself while you fight, as long as a companion is out with you. Every blow you land is a chance to gain, on the same curve the weapon skills climb — a miss teaches you nothing, so it comes in a little slower than the blade in your hand.

What you need A companion out with you, and something to fight. The three fetchers — the mole, the beaver and the otter — will train it, but Herding adds nothing to what they do: their work is the trip, not a percentage.

Other Misc skills

Lockpicking Hiding Tracking Forensic Evaluation Animal Lore Animal Taming Taste Identification