Veterinary skill allows you to heal, cure, and resurrect pets by using bandages.
Skill Details:
- Veterinary works on all tamable creatures.
- The complementary skill for Veterinary is Animal Lore, like Anatomy for Healing.
- The amount of hitpoints healed is not a percentage but a range determined by your skill levels of the Veterinary Skill and Animal Lore. The formula is the same for Veterinary/Animal Lore and Healing/Anatomy.
- The delay for healing a pet with the Veterinary skill is 2 seconds, regardless of a player's dexterity.
- You need a minimum of:
- 60.0 skill points in Animal Lore and Veterinary to be able to cure poison.
- 80.0 skill points in Animal Lore and Veterinary to be able to resurrect a bonded pet.
Veterinary will always cure the poison first. In order to heal damage you have to apply another bandage. You can not heal a pet before it is cured.
Optimizing your gains:
While the Veterinary skill itself is difficulty based, skill gain is not - you don't have to heal increasing amounts of damage or cure poison as your skill goes up in order to keep gaining. Attempt to apply as many bandages as possible, regardless of the amount of damage. Just avoid applying bandages to nearly undamaged pets, the message "you heal what little damage your patient had" tells you that it was not enough to get a chance at a gain.
Amount of Hitpoints Healed:
Primarily, the amount of hitpoints healed is determined by your skill levels in Veterinary and Animal lore, but you also get a small bonus which is derived from the total number of hitpoints of the pet you are attempting to heal.
Resurrection:
When a bonded pet dies, it will turn into a pet ghost, which will still obey the movement commands (follow, come, etc.). The pet ghost will not dissipate or lose loyalty, but cannot be stabled. Any player can attempt to resurrect the pet with bandages if they have at least 80 Veterinary and 80 Animal Lore. The pet owner or a friend of the pet must be nearby to confirm they want the pet to be resurrected. Bonded pets suffer skill loss each time they are resurrected. The skill loss percentage is higher if someone other than the owner resurrects the pet.