Taming Help

Technically, you only have to hit it once, but getting a mob's HP down to half or less gives you an even bigger chance. It's not hard once you get used to it. And in the future, just a a safety thing, you might want to have your pet out. Some mobs give lots of damage, and they can interrupt the taming skill channeling. So, if your pet deals 5% damage to the mob every time it hits it, it would be safe to just let your pet attack it when you tame it. But if it hits it and takes away, lets say, 20% of the mob's life, well, it'll kill the mob before your channeling is even done halfway.

There's also another way to not take damage while channeling but not hitting the mob. You can just keep your pet out and have it on the manual setting, and also have it on Halt (the collar icon), and not Follow(the paw-print icon). While your pet is attacking it, just click the Halt several times when you think that the mob has lost enough HP and your pet will just sit there while the mob attacks it, not you. That keeps you from dying, from your channeling being interrupted, and gives you more security just in case a mob might start attacking you in the middle of channeling. (Because then you could just send out your pet to attack the attacker) Do remember though, that if the mob deals to much damage to your pet while you're channeling, your pet will die. Which is common sense. But that's not why I'm saying this XD You might want to kill the same type of mob before trying to tame one so that you can see how much damage it deals to your pet and to see if it's ok to let your pet take the damage while the mob isn't being attacked. It's just a precaution to make sure you and/or your pet to die trying to tame the mob.