Spirit Beasts: The Huntress and the Hunted

By Night Updated: 2021/07/12

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Why tame a spirit beast?Spirit BeastWhat do I need in order to tame one?Exotic BeastsOkay, you've convinced me. I want one! But be specific, what abilities does a spirit beast pet actually have?

Spirit Mend - Heals any friendly target.

Spirit Walk - Puts your pet in stealth mode, but slows its movement speed by 50%. First attack from stealth has a 20% damage bonus.

Spirit Pulse - Removes 1 Disease, Magic, and Poison effect from itself.

TenacityEndurance TrainingSurvival of the FittestWhere do I find one? And what kinds of spirit beasts are there?Step One: Choosing a Spirit BeastSpectral Animalstypes

Bear

Coyote

Crab

Gryphon

Fox

Leopard

Lightning Wolf

Manasaber

Moose

Owl

Porcupine

Raptor

Saber Tiger

Void Wolf

19They come in colors?Step Two: Locating the Spirit BeastWait! This sounds tough..wait it out

Checking all spawn points

Determining the spectral beast is not spawned

Logging out and doing something else, leaving your hunter at a spawning location

Logging back in whenever you want, repeating #1-3!

Step Three: The TameUhh, did you say "get naked?"Freezing TrapTar TrapConcussive ShotAspect of the TurtleBinding ShotAncient HysteriaDisengagealwaysThe Spirit BeastsArcturisKaromaGhostcrawlercrabNerfbatLost Spectral GryphonSpectral Feather

/way Stormwind 71.6, 72.2 Lost Spectral Gryphon

Lightning Paw

/tar Lightning Paw

/way 16.69, 54.44
/way 23, 29
/way 16, 60
/way 24.31, 39.69
/way 23.58, 76.66
/way 30.23, 41.71

Loque'nahakverySkollTime-Lost Proto DrakeMyonix and Pashya

/way Suramar 41.0, 33.1 Myonix

/way Suramar 60.2, 40.8 Pashya
/way Suramar 62.0, 48.8 Pashya
/way Suramar 64.2, 47.4 Pashya
/way Suramar 66.2, 53.6 Pashya
/way Suramar 62.6, 53.2 Pashya

Mana SaberLeyline ProwlerAzure ManasaberThicket ManahunterBulvinkel

/way Stormheim 73.8, 84.3 Bulvinkel

Ban'thalosAessina's Miraclequickly

Drop a freezing trap

Fly straight up! But not high enough to die of fall damage

Wait until he flies within range of an ability

Dismount and shoot him! Pull all the aggro!

You should land on the tree and avoid falling death

Aspect of the Turtle before casting tame, or you die! Harsh Moonlight is a very devastating spell.

DeguStrong Willas soon asBarbed NeedleGumiStrong WillneedAspect of the CheetahalwaysimmediatelyHutiaStrong WillGonSpectral Eggshell

/way Orgrimmar 35.6 69.0 Gon

AnkhanoThe Sanctuary Must Not FallGondriaMagriathoseavoid armor ratingThe Sanctuary Must Not FallGaravery1.2.Mother Om'raShadowberry(s)3.4.Spirit Effigy

Crude Effigy, a drop from Drywind Bonepickers in Gorgrond.

Torn Cloth, a drop from Necrophytes in Frostfire Ridge.

Ancient Bone, a drop from Thunderlord Giantslayers in Frostfire Ridge (the ones at Grom'gar).

Small Fruit, a drop from Warsong Marauders in Nagrand at Anguish Point or Worgskin camp.

Elder Incense, a drop from Sethekk Prophets at Spires of Arak.

Wooden Bowl, a drop from Gorebound Legionnaires in Talador.

Crude EffigySpirit Effigy5.Void LanternShadowmoon VoidtwisteroneVoid Lantern6.Void Realm7.Elder VoidcallerElder Void LordXanUncomfirmedA quick note: If you should die while in the void realm once you've clicked the dagger, you do not need to get another lantern. The dagger will always be there now.Gara location pinned in purple; Great Tree Valuundira location pinned in yellow.Step 4: ????Thank you for reading this guide!
I hope you find your way to Spirit Beast Success!ofLegendsAcronyms: OMGWTFBBQ!

Comments

Comment by 1088350

Thank you so much for this guide, It helped so much!

Comment by PanzersSkywall

Great guide, well done!

Very helpful to my successful Degu taming today. Of course when he was at 35% I got a tiger add. Trapped the tiger and I was at 20% hp when he was ready to tame.

I died twice before that. Went and got the addon "Range Finder" which made this much, much easier.

Deterrence + Glyph of tame beast was good enough.

Thanks for the guide!

Comment by theASCHE360

Thanks for the guide, I really like it!

Comment by Lactas

It was really funny to tame Ankha the spirit tiger from Mount Hyal. Before you try read buffs he have it might be intresting:D
I done that after 4 wipes because 85 lvl mob was doing like 500k dmg in one shot...I had to remove all armor I got, and was taming only in panties and rings:D

Comment by wraithslayer

I just wanted to point out that your information about Ankha & Magria is slightly incorrect.

If you only complete Aessina's Miracle, you will not be able to see these two. The whole Regrowth is empty of mobs.

You have to complete a few more quests (I think it was only 3-5) to open up the Firelands dailies. At that point, there will be elementals and flamewalkers in the area, but then you'll be in the correct phase to see these two beautiful beasts.

Cheers!

Comment by Tykes

For those with TomTom; make some macro's. Didn't include Ghostcrawler because he walks too much. As for Ankha and Magria, they walk from point A to point B, not particular spawn points. Same goes for Degu.

Hope it's useful.

Ban'thalos
/way Mount Hyjal 27, 62 Ban'thalos

Arcturis
/way Grizzly Hills 31, 55 Arcturis

Magria
/way Mount Hyjal 27, 51 Magria
/way Mount Hyjal 41, 53 Magria

Ankha
/way Mount Hyjal 27, 51 Ankha
/way Mount Hyjal 41, 53 Ankha

Gondria
/way Zul'Drak 77, 69 Gondria
/way Zul'Drak 67, 77 Gondria
/way Zul'Drak 61, 62 Gondria
/way Zul'Drak 69, 48 Gondria
/way Zul'Drak 63, 43 Gondria

Loque'nahak
/way Sholazar Basin 58, 22 Loque'nahak
/way Sholazar Basin 63, 29 Loque'nahak
/way Sholazar Basin 21, 70 Loque'nahak
/way Sholazar Basin 30, 67 Loque'nahak
/way Sholazar Basin 51, 81 Loque'nahak
/way Sholazar Basin 67, 79 Loque'nahak
/way Sholazar Basin 70, 72 Loque'nahak

Skoll
/way Storm Peaks 46, 65 Skoll
/way Storm Peaks 30, 64 Skoll
/way Storm Peaks 27, 50 Skoll

Karoma
/way Twilight Highlands 54, 76 Karoma
/way Twilight Highlands 49, 75 Karoma
/way Twilight Highlands 58, 63 Karoma
/way Twilight Highlands 65, 60 Karoma
/way Twilight Highlands 54, 54 Karoma
/way Twilight Highlands 59, 43 Karoma

Degu
/way Valley of the Four Winds 42, 77
/way Valley of the Four Winds 60, 77

Gumi
/way Kun-Lai Summit 54, 57

Hutia
/way The Jade Forest 48, 27

Gara
/way Shadowmoon Valley: Draenor 45, 65

Changelog: Added the porcupines & Gara.

Comment by 1202217

i love this guide because it helps me and then i dont need to reload pages then tipe evry pets name :) thanks for the guide btw i got gondria! and Loque'nahak to xD

Comment by WyvernVJ

Great guide but you are missing:

Step 5: Profit!

:P

Comment by kpfreely

Excellent! Can't wait to get naked!

Comment by Kardo

Just tamed Ban'Thalos using the tag and disengage before hitting the ground.. It does work!

Comment by 94239

For your first pet I would suggest ghostcrawler. it seems that not too many people know about him or really want him and his massive pat + the fact that he is in the back of vash means that you have a good chance of being the only one there.

Comment by 216618

Thanks to this guide I only lack Magria, Hutia and Degu after 4 days and 4 hours played at lvl 90!

Comment by Vyxxen

Awesome guide. Just landed Gondria last night and Ghostcrawler today. Must own all spirit beasts!

Comment by Wolfman84

Degu is a tough one I tried twice an got whacked. I will try the strategy here an see how it goes.

Comment by Screamin

Awesome guide cant wait to get my spirit beast for my hunter!

Comment by Snowbalz

To make everyone's life easyer with Deku, Gumi and Hutia use this item Cracked Talisman so you don't take any damage while taming :D hope this helps.

Comment by TXSysgoddess

I did all of the Hyjal quests including the Firelands dailies when Cata was current and I've had dots on my map for Magria at various times but can't actually see him or target him despite all the other mobs in the area. I just had Ankha show up on my map today but again couldn't see or target him so clearly something is squirrelly about the phasing. :(

Comment by 1303474

I had the most amazing luck tonight. In the matter of 6 hours, i tamed Ban'thalos, Gondria, Ghostcrawler, Arcturis and King Krush(Not a spirit beast, but a rare pet anyhow!)

Comment by PunterHunter

something I would like to point out as stupid as it sounds, each Spirit Beast is very unique unto its self, for example my friends Loque'Nahak will follow on his right and attack almost the instant he is told, mine on the other hand, will run on my left, and ploddingly "charge" into battle. Mine also seems to do the yawn and stretch thing almost twice as much as my friends.

awesome guide is awesome and I can't wait to see what lovely exotic spirit beasts await us all in Draenor.

not that anyone will see this, but with Ban'Thalos you can actually land at the very tips of the pine trees and stand on them with a little patience, place the freezing trap at your feet and do a /cast rapid fire/cast deterrence/cast tame beast macro incase you get some competition, which surprisingly still happens alot

Comment by Grumpystump

It's the pets you're not looking for that you get. Don't waste time camping, just go after a random raid or instance and look in the spots listed. I had Skoll when WOLK released on my Orc huntard, but it took a month or two before I got him on my Dwarf. Went back after a Hellscream kill (got the BOA bow!) and figured, " what the hell?" Ported to Dalaran, flew out and found Skoll just sitting there, waiting for a good home. You'll get em if the stars are aligned. Don't force it, and always go BM!

Comment by estherbamberg

Could you add some recommendations for use in the guide?

Like, if you want this, the best spirit beast is that.

Such as. Last weekend in a group of my friend playing their lvl 90 raid geared Deathknight Tank who I have seen solo most of the Timeless Isle, another lvl 90 tank I don't remember, and my Chostcrawler, my Ghostcrawler was STILL holding ALL the agro. I had no real scale of measure until that Deathknight was ignored how ridiculously effective it is as a tanking pet. Just silly good at tanking.

I know you said you weren't playing anymore, but if you come back please consider it.

Comment by 1224515

Absolutely amazing guide!

One thought on the porcupines...If you are lucky enough to have a Prot Pali willing to sacrifice him/herself for you, let them tank, knock their health down and then let the pally die. The second the pine turns around, concussive shot and tame glyph of taming is still a must though, took me to 6k health lol

I realize this takes the challenge out, but although I love the challenge (Savage was my favorite tame ever) this works for when you have already tried it 5 times and are ready to give up :)

Comment by Nitwalker

So Gumi destroyed me repeated last night. I guess I'm not a good kiter. You mentioned, but did not expound on getting naked. Is this required? If so, why? Also, is it feasible to hire a tank and healer to get her below 30% so I can step in and tame? If this is a viable option, please let me know!

Thanks!
Nitwalker
90 Dark Elf Hunter

Comment by Jaymacibe

New Spirit Beast come WoD...Gara

Comment by sharkPT

Hey ofLegends reading through the comments reguarding Gumi I remembered. Maybe you can consider adding Binding Shot to Degu's list of usefull spells we can use. I used it when I tamed Degu myself and it gave me so much breathing room when I was DPS'ing her down. I thought this could be of help to people who are doing the tames solo, because no comment here talks about Binding Shot and also you said you haven't played WoW in some time so I reckoned maybe you haven't tried it yourself.

Comment by Draconic1

Ankha and Magria spawn only after you have completed The Sanctuary Must Not Fall. At least I have never seen them until I completed it, and the second it was completed, I found Ankha.

Comment by Baranth

Just wanted to post a huge thank you for this guide!
I lucked out in a big way these last few days, I had just started playing WoW again after several years, was totally lost and with the WoD pre order boost for my hunter keen to find stuff to catch up on.
When I found out about spirit beasts and then this guide in particular, it became obsessive for me ( I love collecting things) and I set out to get the whole set.
I am still 4 short, but I ran into a huge piece of luck as there was a server maintenance and when I logged in after the servers came up, I was able to get 6 of the spirit beasts in about 2 hours (including travel times) and it got me super into the whole process. First was Loque'nahak, then Gondria, then Ban'thalos, Ankha, Karoma and an hour or two later (after doing the access quests) Ghostcrawler. It took me another couple days to tame Skoll and Degu.
Anyway it is a great guide and I wanted to give credit where it's due as I couldnt have tamed a single one without it.

just Magria, Arcturis, Hutia and Gumi left to tame now, with all the other rare hunter pets to keep me busy in the meantime ^_^

Comment by 1380451

When Taming Ban'thalos using Disengage just before hitting the ground works great, I set my bar up with in the 1 position and Disengage in the 2 position. Just went up to dismount hit the keys at the right timing. Tamed! All with no HP loss.

Comment by g90814

New method of Realm hopping for that rare spawn you want (spirit beast or other):

1) Get yourself to the spot you want to camp
2) Queue yourself with the new Group Finder: under Premade / Custom (look for realms that are not in your own CRZ group)
3) Queue up for an Ordos or Celestials group.
4) Once you get invited and grouped, wait a few seconds for the zone to stabilize, scan for your target tame, then drop group if it's not there, or tame if it is!

I just tamed Magria this way, took me about 15 minutes of group hopping, maybe 15 groups if that many.

Happy taming!

Comment by antisocialian

Read your guide, and found Skoll(the Lightning Wolf) moments after getting to the 3rd waypoint(on the hill just above Bruunhildar Village). I literally watched him spawn and then forgot which key was my tame beast, i was so excited. :)Ty for the help!

Comment by Dragon1324

Could you add what buffs the spirit beast might have? I've heard all these stories about Anhka one shotting people but don't know what the buff actually says. Also, I know spawn times are hard to average but some advice?

Comment by Ephem

Thank you SO much for this detailed guide! I've wanted Gara badly and now I know just what to do, appreciate your hard work on this great how-to!

Comment by 1440580

thanks and with all info on 1 page i have now got 11 of 13 spirt beast

Comment by 1443227

I'm a newer hunter (not new to the game, played my mage main for 5 years, still do), but this guide helped me a lot, especially the advice I saw to log in and out and check spawn points to avoid frustration

This morning 8:30 server, I managed to get the two spirit beasts I wanted, Loque'nahak and Skoll. I have been searching for them for around 2 weeks.

The hardest part begins though, I have no idea what to name them haha

Comment by robbiedehand

Good guide just one thing for those doing this at level 100 DO NOT use a damaging shot to aggro any of the old content spirit beasts, especially Ban'thalos since he cant be tamed without aggroing him in range first.
Because due to the stats squish and the old content + dmg buff a single autoshot will kill these older mobs atleast that the problem i ran into with the molten front spiders i was re-taming (previously released them cause of lack of stable spots back then) and since Ban'thalos has similar health and is same lvl i am pretty sure he whould get oneshot to.
Best whould be to use distracting shot in a macro with /stopattack to be save.

#showtooltip
/cast distracting shot
/stopattack

Comment by 1458206

Thanks for the guide! With it, so far I've gotten: Magria, Gara and Ankha :)

Comment by Nightwolf1802

You can't tame a spirit beast until you reach level 74; you do need the beast mastery spec activated to tame.

Comment by KillerDragain

Thanks to this guide I just need Ghostcrawler, Magria, Ban'thalos, and Skoll, and right now I'm camping for Skoll! ^^

Comment by gold07

I have finally just obtained all of them and wanted to thank you so much for this guide, it really helped me on what to do and without having to view numerous pages. I first wanted just the bear, but slowly found myself addicted to collecting them, but I don't think I'll ever do this again on another hunter, hopefully Blizz will make class achievements, so we can have a saved system of our character feats! :)

Also good luck to all of you hunters out there, it may seem kind of time consuming, but I assure you, you feel accomplished when you have them all!

Comment by 678539

Awesome guide. Happy hunting :)

Comment by Breezed

Got Gara today! That finishes my spirit beast collection. :)

Great guide except it's not noted that if you fail to tame Gara for whatever reason, just go back to the tree in the real world and click on the knife in the hole to enter the void realm again. Gara should appear by your side in a few seconds. You have to kill the mobs again to get Xan to spawn.

Also note, there have been instances where if you bring a garrison bodyguard, it will cause you to fail taming Gara. This happened to my friend. She was able to redo as stated above.

Comment by billymm

great guide. I wasnt aware of some of the spirit beasties. thankyou for writing ;)

Comment by 1556468

Good guides in general

but id like to point out that for the Hutia guide = spirit beast The Jade forest

Silencing shot is a MarksManship hunter skill.....
Can a MM hunter tame exotic beasts ?

However scatter shot will work but you need another player present for a stun ability (i had a monk) or another hunter for scatter shot since the taming hunters one will be on CD when the second heal comes.

Hutia is as the guide hints on Immune to countershot, wyvern sting.
However the powershot skill will also work but then you need to time it before Hutia is about to cast its healing spell so you need a fortune teller....

I will continue to review the guide and add posts accordingly

Happy hunting

Comment by KenWD0ELQ

Excellent guide. Thank you.

I wonder if the spirit beasts in Hyjal, Ankha and Magria, have changed their prerequisites? I'd spent a couple of weeks camping The Regrowth prior to beginning the Firelands quests, and nothing. After I started the Firelands quest chain, Magria and Ankha both spawned fairly quickly (several hours apart, but after 2 weeks of nothing....) If you're having no luck, I suggest at least beginning the Firelands quests to obtain Marks of the World Tree, and THEN camping in The Regrowth.

Naked? While I do enjoy watching the female characters running around in the bra and panties, I suggest a more formal approach. One of my hunters purchased the Gilnean Festival Attire from Darkmoon Faire, and my tailor alt made a tuxedo for my other hunter. I feel that Rare hunting should be a formal affair, so the tux sends the proper message. And formal attire is still minimal armor, so there's no harm doing that.

Ankha and Magria are beautiful beasts. It's a shame that we can't have them both displayed at once.

Comment by cndrow

Something that would be an excellent addition to the guide: You can now "realm hop" by joining Premade Groups (usually specifically made for such purposes), to hop onto another realm(s) to look for your beast. This gives you many extra chances to catch these rares.

A guildie helpfully taught me how to do this yesterday and only within a half hour of hopping around I found Karoma, first try. Your mileage may vary of course, but at least this gives more opportunities to find our shinies!

Fantastic guide, thank you so much for putting this all together- and making it enjoyable and fun to read as well!

Comment by Oathkeeper0317

For some Odd reason, Bulvinkel the Moose Spirit Beast can be tamed outside of Beast Mastery, and will not trigger the 'cannot summon exotic pets' line upon trying to summon him, he will just not summon, not sure if this is a glitch or not, seeing as how he appeared for a few seconds when I first caught him.

Comment by Barleduq

Is there a guide for the spirit beast(s) added in Legion? I just learned of a spirit fox in Duskwood...

Comment by scubalady2

Thanks you Wowhead and your information, last night I tamed King Krush and Loque'nahak in beastmaster spec. I tamed Aotona the day before in survival mode....whew, lucky. This evening I got Skoll and missed the bear by 30 min. Would like to understand spawn times. I know when he was tamed and would like to know when to head back. Planning right now on 24 hr. until I hear differently.

Comment by 1842975

Make sure to unequip Titanstrike. Hati straight killed Gondria. :(

Comment by JillyBean4179

Need to update that in BfA you can no longer change the spec of your hunter pets. All spirit beasts are tenacity.

Comment by Idubaren

Guys I've been able to find another Spirit Beast that I don't know if she is still a Spirit Beast, at Northren Stranglethorn, in between the troll ruins and the murlocs purple reduct in the map. She's a lioness, her Name is Pogeyan <The Fire Spirit> and she's got the title of <The Fire Spirit> but she's a rare Lioness tameable beast, perhaps I'm wrong that she's an SB but I remember she had the Spirit heal when I first tamed her. I also think there are a few beasts with elemental spirit titles around those maps.

Comment by passwordcracks

You need to be at least level 65

This isn't true anymore, you just need to be level 39 and Beast Mastery specialisation

Comment by Trugan

Thank you.This guide helped me so much!

Comment by ArticSkoll

needs to be updated for the addition of elegon provided you have the cloud serpent item from exalted with cloud serpent faction mists, then just go to the raid elegon is in and tame him

Comment by AmyJames

This! Is what I've been looking for :)

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