You Hunters that are into the nifty pets… you’re going to want this guy. Trust me.
I know he’s just another Spirit Beast retread with a new skin, but he’s a frickin’ bear, and a bad ass one at that!
He has no special emotes, but he does have some quirks to him. I’m assuming that Blizz has some final fixes to make before the patch goes live.
First off, he runs at normal speed while prowling. This is something I’m sure they will address.
Also, I’m not sure if other bears do this, but if he’s in the standing position at the beginning of a charge, he charges standing up. It’s pretty effing cool. He looks like a comet speeding towards his target.
I’ll tell you one thing… I really hope they add more spawn points for him, because if they don’t, he’s going to be very difficult to tame. He’s so close to the lodge that you could probably see him plainly from the taxi. He’s also in a Grizzly Hills questing hot spot right near the river. I haven’t patrolled for possible additional spawn locations, because, well…who has time for that?! Not I. 
I’m pretty beat tonight so this is all I have for you, but I’ll try to get some decent video footage of him tonight or tomorrow.
Happy Turkey Day Peoples! 
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Have they fixed the nasty teeth bug when you use Bestial Wrath? not logged onto the PTR for ages so not seen if there have been any more patches.
@ Uchikoma
Nope. It’s still unsightly. I expect that to be polished up some before the patch goes live though.
I, too, have been worried that his spawning in a questing “hot spot” is going to cause some REAL trouble taming him. I really hope they make some additional spawn points in some more “out of the way” areas of Grizzly Hills.
If the patch drops after Christmas, I hope Santa gives us hunters (or AT LEAST Beast Master hunters) more stable slots!
Regular bears do indeed charge standing up! I lost my mind the first time I saw it on my new solo-ing bear pet. I think it happens a lot, because they stand to cast one of their abilities/buffs, and then immediately charge.
Seeing as all the other spirit beasts have several spawn points, I’m pretty convinced that it will be the same for this lovely creature. Agreed that the current spawn point will be incredibly frustrating, being so close to the lodge.
@ lawman
It’s kind of strange that the PTR has been up this long, yet no one’s mentioned finding him at another spot in Grizzly Hills. I sure hope that they add at least 1-2 more locations or else it could make for some unfriendly competition. Especially on PvP servers.
@ Rades
When Arcturis charges it looks incredible. Because he’s near transparent apart from his mane, he looks like a comet hurling at his target.
I’ve not had a bear since the pet talents overhaul prior to WotLK, so I was unaware of this. Bears couldn’t charge back in the old days.
@ Kassiopeia
I hope so too. Anyone flying into Amberpine Lodge will immediately see him. not to mention, it’s going to be a clusterf**k right there for weeks unless they add more spawn areas.
Does he sound like a proper spirit beast yet? Or does he still have regular bear vocals?
@ Mousie
He sounds like a bear.
I’m not going to let Gondria go until Arcturis sounds as special as he looks.
@Garwulf
Do you know what Arcturis’ NPC ID is??
@ Artemoose
Arctris’ NPC ID is 38453
So I’m guessing he is another Ferocity Spirit Beast? I was really hoping this one would be Tenacity…
Woot grats on catching him, he still eludes me on the ptr *sigh* and as for his teeth issue you are right, when you look at him from the side in big red the teeth look fixed, but straight on, ya they are still rough.
Also, the pics you have make him look amazing! I have only seen him twice on there but now I am going to have to find who to let go in favor of this new pet!
I really need more stable slots.
But I guess if it comes down to it, Gondria will be set free even tho that kills me haha
Damnit, I already have Skoll, Gondria and Loque’Nahak. If they keep bringing out more spirit beasts I’ll run out of slots in my stables completely!
@ Sylvester
Blizz needs to add a Spirit Beast or exotic pet stable IMO. All of these dangling carrots are going to cause undue stress and conflict among the pet collectors. Either that, or they could create some variance between the different Spirit Beasts and their abilities. That way, at least you wouldn’t have 3-4 of the exact same pet. A tanking Spirit Beast would be just fantastical.
I just got him first on Misha server, I was killing bears from boredom and he spawned right below the road. Here is screenshot of my tame. I’m so happy, good luck Hunters I’m not sure of the spawn time. I’ll add video soon.
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2711/4170749647_be9a348cfc_o.jpg
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2657/4171504586_12d020f441_o.jpg
Grats MV!
Now be sure to take care of him, or I’ll drop the dime and send the ASPCA after you. No drowning him if his DPS is sub par.
He looks pretty cool when charging eh? Kinda like a comet.
@michaelvick
Did you find him just outside the lodge by that spawn point? Or was it in a different location?
@ Chris
Maybe Michael will confirm, but I can tell you that judging by his screenshot, it looks to be the same exact spot I tamed him on the PTR.
Yes right where you said it would be, here is full screen shot with UI to give you a better idea. See the tree to the left of screen shot? He spawned right there.
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2551/4173868212_0cb6f57609_b.jpg
Don’t laugh my UI when patch came up, it messed it up some…lol
Here I just took this shot to help every one get a better idea, notice the tree where the other Hunter on the Proto Drake is? Thats where he spawned for me. Good luck!!
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2558/4173133635_96336c7b98_b.jpg
Oh I almost cried! I hung around that exact location all day, got the NPCScan add (so i could do my chores at the same time)at 10:30 pm my add went off, but i was too late!!
He was murdered!!! LOL
No chores tomorrow!!
My thanks again Garwulf – great info as always.
Although it was heartbreaking to say goodbye to Kilminster the devilsaur, when I spotted Arcturis (same place as everyone above, EU Sha’tar, 18:35 this evening) I knew I had to do it.
Getting hooked on that “heart in the mouth” feeling when NPC_scan pops (though tbh you don’t need it for this one, real easy to spot)… but… but… well it wasn’t quite the same as having flapped around all over the place for three weeks to find him like I had for Skoll. Don’t get me wrong, he’s fantastic, I’m still buzzing, and of course the cachet of having about the rarest pet on the server is fun – I can’t resist hanging around in Dullaran, bear behind (so to speak), popping off everyone else’s NPC_scan, but the chase does seem to be almost as good as the catch. Didn’t even have time to think of names for him… ‘Rupert’, ‘Fozzy’… no rush I guess, I think he’s gonna be with me for a while.
Guess I’ll just have to keep going for the TLPD !
Tamed this bad boy on Nesingwary @ 9:45 server time. Logged of my priest after ICC 25 and logged on my hunter who was parked at Amberpine. Flew down to river and back up and he spawned right beneath me just on the river side of the tree in all the pics. Thanks for the info Garwulf, this has to be a server first have yet to see any other hunter with him.
Grats Dwraith. You got pretty lucky.
Thanks for the spawn time and server btw.
I lucked out tremendously on Arathor. Turned 74 last night, at about 1500 Pacific I flew to Amberpine. He spawned within minutes of my arrival (or was already there). First attempt failed miserably (damn this boy hits hard), and called in a buddy paladin to spam-heal me. He had to fly in from Dalanar on a crappy computer, and arrived just barely in time to get me started just as a Orc came to.. cheer me on at this point. Very classy of him; wish I could arrange for the return of favor.
No camping, no sore losers, one very beautiful beast.
Now to replace that oil-stained wolf I’d grown fond of. Maybe with a spirit wolf…
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Got him at the “main” spot loc tonight at 10:14 pm est (9:14 server). Spawned at 31.3 , 55.6, on Aggramar.
Good luck to all camping. Also I started camping 8:15am server. No idea if he was tamed or killed elsewhere but I can guarantee he didn’t spawn by me before that!
Got him after nearly 12 hour long camp- 7am started and 6:45pm got him, awesome looking pet. On Turalyon real 645pm. dont know if it helps but i know the guy who claimed him before me and he took it at 11pm the previous night- so maybe 20 hour respawn? anyway good luck to you all and keep at it
Camped 14 hours for this thing and decided to play Dota on one screen while having WoW and addon alert run on the other screen.
After playing for a while, i notice my character just getting logged off for being afk for too long, i log back in and see Acturis dead below me.
I have been emo ever since, thx for reading this. Fuck blizzard afk booting mechanics……..
@ My previous above post
Waited all over again and finally Caught Arcturis at 9:45 ST Server Frostmourne, Mind you this was after finding him dead and straight camping till now.
Found him dead at 4:30 PM ST and found the next one at 9:45 AM ST so that’s around 17 hours of possible respawn time….. Newayz im glad i got my new Spirit Bear
Good Luck to all the rest of you
i caught him yesterday in that exact spot
I hunted for loque for 2 hours a night, every night for 8 months until I caught him.
I dont play my hunter much and only yesterday decided to log in to look for the new spirit beast.
checked the lodge for location, flew to grizzly, complained to my guild for 15 minutes about having to “abandon” my hive queen and how i wish blizz would change the term to “set free” when the bear spawned.
I hadnt even set my bars up for taming, had the wrong trap keybound, I had to feign death 3 times and reset him before I finally tamed him.
so yay
i got him yesterday around 20:00 frostwisper realm,
i agree give more stable slots.
but the lvling of the pet go very fast so thats a good thing took me 1 hour and a bit to lvl it from 75 to 80.
long camping trip and a lot of cursing at 2 low fuck alliance but got it and happy.
good luck to all the hunters who are still on the camping trip
Just taimed him at 12:51Am Realm Time at the same spot! i camped there from about 9pm i think not really sure so wasnt too bad
i’ll go back there in 12 hours time to see if it is a 12 hour spawn timer and post and let u know!
hope this helps!
Happy Hunting.
sorry forgot to put this on the previous comment, heres a screenshot: http://i788.photobucket.com/albums/yy161/ChrisMcc30/SpiritBear.jpg
and he’s lvl 74 before you tame him.
I just tamed Arc. He’s so awesome. I hovered on my flying mount for about two hours. I fell asleep at my keyboard and happened to wake up and there he was. It was all luck for me. I had an ally hunter come up to watch. They didn’t give me any trouble and cheered and burst into dance with me after I got him tamed lol. Good luck to those who want to tame him =)
Got him tonight. Had my NPCScan on but I ended up getting logged out because I was AFK (had to bake some stuff… I know, don’t ask). Anyway, I log back in, NPCScan stays silent (because Arcturis was cached) but I still hover the little yellow dots on the mini map and there he was. Laid the trap, tame, 30s later I’m a happy bunny.
I tamed Arcturis today at 1.27 pm realm time (European realm, server Terrokkar. )he spawned right in front of me at the spawnpoint North of Amberpinelodge indeed at the place from Michaelvick’s screenshot (the one where the hunter indicates spawn position) Here is a list of spawn times from my days of “camping”and checking if he was there, hope it can help someone tame him too. Happy hunting all !
List of times when Arcturis did and didn’t spawn ( to get a view of his spawn time)( during my camping days..:)
16-12-09′ : 10.50 hr. PM Arcturis was tamed.
17-12-09′ : 04.00 – 05.00 hr. AM No Arcturis…
17-12-09′ : 10.00 – 11.00 hr. AM No Arcturis…
17-12-09′ : 4.00 – 17.00 hr. PM No Arcturis…
17-12-09′ : 10.00 – 23.00 hr. PM No Arcturis…
18-12-09′ : 1.30 hr. PM Arcturis was tamed.
19-12-09′ : 11.30 – 01.30 hr. PM No Arcturis..
19-12-09′ : 1.27 hr. PM Arcturis was tamed by me !
So I believe his spawn time is 24 hours..
So he really has only 1 spawn point is that correct?
That I’m aware of.
there are at least two confirmed spots according to Thottbot and a few comments on WoWhead one on the cliff southwest of Grizzlemaw at 47.47 and the other at Amberpine by the River at 30.56, which seems to be the popular sighting spot
I did some poking around the web Koroo, and I can’t seem to find valid proof of another spawn location, only heresy.
Tamed this beauty this morning on Korialstrasz. 8:08am server time. Coordinates 31,55 just north of Amberpine. Spawned right on top of me while I was reading a book and npcscan went off. Besides loosing my heart to my throat had no problems taming him. One other hunter was camping at the same time and I saw a Belf hunter camping on and off throughout the day (little does she know I tamed him an hour after she logged the first time).
Grats WhiteDragon!
I’ve tamed this gorgeous creature about a week ago on ED-EU at the same spot everyone else tamed him, after camping him on and off for 4 days. Even my boyfriend helped by running my wow in the background while he was working at home and I was doing some chores. I’m not here to brag (altho ANYONE that owns this cutie has a reason to brag
) but I do want to point out a small problem both my boyfriend and I came across. We both had in-game sounds tuned to that they’re also playing when one is alt-tabbed, but my boyfriend’s NPCscan went off when he tabbed back into WoW only to see it already getting tamed by another Hunter. Same thing happened to me, I was alt-tabbed for a few minutes without any NPCscan sound until I tabbed back in. Fortunately for me there weren’t any other Hunters around at that point so I was able to tame him yay ^^
Named him Aedeche, which is the name of a bear god. Third spirit beast for me, the only one missing is Loque but tbh I CBA to camp for her at this point
Good luck to all of you trying to find and tame Arcturis
Just tamed this beauty on Draenor, at the amberpine location.. 05:10 server time.
Just tamed him at 7:45am (Dreadmaul/oceanic server time). Only took my 1 minute after dinging 74 so I’m realy stoked I have him till I ding 80!
That’s awesome Darkdraco! Grats on the ding and on nabbing Arcturis!
hey, i caught him last night at around 1am…. was just wondering, can i only use him when in beast mastery spec? i also have marksman which is obviously better for dungeons and raids and would love to have him there too. (this may sound a silly question, but im new to hunter and heard that if i didnt store him in a stables and then change back to marksman i would lose him) could someone please help?
meg,
You won’t lose him if you switch back to MM, but you’ll be unable to use him unless you’re BM. You must have the 51 point Beast Mastery talent in order to tame and utilize Spirit Beasts.
Just spec MM for raids, then use Arcturis while in BM spec for your dailies, etc.
So would everyone agree that he is a 24 hour spawn? I understand that the spawn could be + or – an hour or two but does anyone have evidence that he hasn’t been seen at 8 or 12 hour intervals? I saw him at 5:00 in the morning. Am I wasting time looking for him outside of 3:00 to 7:00?
Found and tamed him at around 4am server time, 2 hours after taming Skoll >.< I hope theres a new Spirit Beast coming out soon, i have nothing to do now lmao.
Hit LVL 74 and had to have this bear (like the post above he hits HARD died first 2 trys)camped him and 2 days later there he was started to tame and here comes LVL 80 allie player kills bear and me. he’s tells me not going to happen. guess he kills bear everytime he spawns because I have been camping for 2 weeks with no luck. we need more spawn points.