Spirit Beasts

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Loque'nahak

Loque'nahak, the original Spirit Beast

Spirit Beasts are exotic pets – available only to Beast Mastery hunters with the Beast Mastery talent. Rare and unique… Spirit Beasts are among the most coveted hunter pets in Azeroth.

While there are a few Spirit Beasts that do pose a real taming challenge, the hardest part about obtaining a Spirit Beast is being fortunate enough to find one. Spirit Beasts are rare spawn pets, meaning they may not appear for several hours once tamed or killed – some taking nearly a day before they decide to respawn. Taming a Spirit Beast requires patience and a little luck. Information and advice on how to find and tame them are also very important, both of which I hope to present to you with this guide.

Spirit Beasts are part of the Ferocity family of hunter pets, which means they are geared towards damage dealing. In addition to having acces to all of the standard Ferocity pet talents, Spirit Beasts also possess 3 special abilities. These are: Roar of Courage, Spirit Mend and Spirit Walk. With their three pet abilities, Spirit Beasts have more bonus abilities than any other pet.

Because of their high DPS, combined with their special healing spell, Spirit Beasts make outstanding PvP pets for Beast Mastery hunters. They’re also a fine choice for PvE as well, for many of the same reasons. With their strength/agility buff and bonus ‘prowl’ ability, they’re more or less the Beast Master’s ramped up version of a cat, but with the added bonus of some amazing skins plus an incredible healing skill.

The following guide lists all of the Spirit Beasts that can currently be found in Azeroth, maps on where to find them, what strategies to use for taming them, along with a few other bits of information to aid in your taming adventures. I hope that you find this guide useful, and may it increase your success while out hunting the various Spirit Beasts of Azeroth.

-Gar

Getting Prepared: Rare Finder Addons and Targeting Macros

Before you begin any taming adventure, I recommend employing the use of either a a rare finder addon or a targeting macro. Even though the locations of all the Spirit Beasts are listed below, the World of Warcraft is quite vast and these beasts can sometimes be difficult to track down if you’re merely relying upon your eyeballs. One such addon that can really aid you in your search is NPCScan – another is Silver Dragon. Both of these addons can really help give you a jump on targeting these Spirit Beasts if they happen to be out and ready for taming. This post offers an overview of NPCScan, and this post will show you how to get both NPCScan and Silver Dragon up and running.

If you don’t care to mess with addons, or maybe just want to go with a simpler approach, a manual targeting macro can be just as effective. In fact, this is typically what I use. To try this method, just open up your Macro config and create something like this:

/tar Arcturis
/tar Loque'nahak
/tar Gondria
/tar Skoll
/tar Ghostcrawler
/tar Karoma
/tar Ban'thalos
/tar Ankha
/tar Magria

This of course has all nine Spirit Beasts listed, but feel free to edit it to suit your needs. Spam this macro when you’re near a known spawn area, and if a Spirit Beast is out, you’ll see their portrait pop up.

Alright… well let’s go on a Spirit Beast Safari, shall we…

Let’s go tamin’ now…Garwulf here will show ya how, come on tame some SB’s with me…

Yea, I’m a dork, I know… ;)

The Nine Spirit Beasts in the World of Warcraft

Arcturis

Arcturis

Arcturis walking about at his spawn location below the Amberpine Lodge.

Level: 74

Found in: Grizzly Hills, Northrend

Arcturis has one spawn location in the Grizzly Hills, which is just north of the Amberpine Lodge. He can be found meandering around on the east bank of the river.

Arcturis Taming Strategy

Arcturis can be tamed easily with the use of a Freezing Trap. He’s a neutral mob and will not attack you unless you either hit him first or begin taming. Just place a Freezing Trap between you and Arcturis then begin taming. The hardest part about taming Arcturis is the competition and griefing that you’re liable to experience. Arcturis’ sole spawn location is in a very visible, high traffic area. Unfortunately, this can sometimes cause problems unless you happen upon him when no one else is around.

Arcturis Map

Arcturis has one spawn location in Grizzly Hills, just north of Amberpine Lodge.

Respawn Time for Arcturis

Arcturis is believed to be on a 10-12 hour respawn timer.

Loque’nahak <Mate of Har’koa>

Loque'nahak

Loque'nahak lurking at his spawn location west of the Nesingwary Base Camp.

Level: 76

Found in: Sholazar Basin, Northrend

Loque’nahak has seven spawn locations throughout Sholazar Basin. Based upon my experiences and the comments left by other successful tamers, the locations where he seems to spawn most are: west of the Nesingwary Base Camp, the spot just west of Skyreach Pillar, and the two locations furthest east by the gorillas.

Loque’nahak Taming Strategy

Loque’nahak is an easy tame, requiring no special approach. Just place a Freezing Trap between you and Loque’nahak, then start taming. Loque’nahak will leap towards you, landing right in your Freezing Trap for an easy tame.

Loque'nahak Map

Loque'nahak can spawn in one of seven locations across Sholazar Basin.

Loque’nahak Respawn Time

The general consensus is that Loque’nahak respawns about every 8-10 hours.

Gondria

Gondria

Gondria roaming around at the eastern spawn location.

Level: 77

Found in: Zul’drak, Northrend

Gondria has five different spawn locations in Zul’drak. The places I’ve seen Gondria out the most are the two eastern spawn locations near the entrance to Grizzly Hills.

Gondria Taming Strategy

Gondria requires no special strategy apart from a Freezing Trap. Gondria is not immune to Freezing Traps, which makes this an easy to tame Spirit Beast.

Gondria Map

Gondria spawns in five locations throughout Zul'Drak.

Gondria Respawn Time

Gondria is believed to be on an 8-10 hour spawn timer.

Skoll

Skoll

Skoll out by the Gas Cap above Brunnhildar Village.

Level: 80

Found in: Storm Peaks, Northrend

Skoll spawns in three different places in the Storm Peaks, and doesn’t seem to favor any particular one. The locations are: near the ‘gas cap’ above Brunnhildar Village, near the mouth of the cave at Snowdrift Plains, and on the snowdrift next to the frozen river at Bor’s Breath.

Skoll Taming Strategy

Drop a Freezing Trap, start taming, Skoll pounces and gets frozen, tame completes…you have a shiny new Spirit Beast!

Skoll Map

Skoll can spawn in one of three places in the Storm Peaks.

Skoll Respawn Time

Skoll seems to show up every 12 hours.

Ghostcrawler

Ghostcrawler

Ghostcrawler shuffling around the Abandoned Reef. Beware of his Nerfbat!

Level: 85

Found in: Abyssal Depth, Vashj’ir

Ghostcrawler roams all over the Abyssal Depths. He can be somewhat difficult to pinpoint due his diminutive size and the fact that he tends to phase in and out on occasion. Once you are within range to target him, throw a Hunter’s Mark up to make locating him easier.

Ghostcrawler Taming Strategy

Ghostcrawler is immune to all crowd control spells, so you must withstand his attacks while taming. Ghostcrawler hits very hard and can flatten an unprepared level 85 with relative ease, but here are a few things you can do to make the tame go in your favor…

Use Deterrence at the start of the tame. Once you get within Tame Beast range, activate Deterrence and Tame Beast, or you can use this macro:

/cast Deterrence
/cast Tame Beast

This will give you five seconds of damage-free taming.

In addition, try to equip items that have haste on them – especially one-use trinkets. Increasing your haste will reduce the cast time on Tame Beast, lessening the amount of time he has to hit you with his Nerfbat.

If you have a trinket that you can activate to grant you additional haste, then equip it in your bottom trinket slot and add it to the macro like this:

/use 14
/cast Deterrence
/cast Tame Beast

With enough haste, you can tame Ghostcrawler without sustaining much damage, if any.

Ghostcrawler Map

Ghostcrawler patrols all throughout the Abandoned Reef in the Abyssal Depths.

Ghostcrawler Respawn Time

Ghostcrawler respawns approximately every 10-12 hours.

Karoma <The Wolf Spirit>

Karoma

Karoma at his spawn location near the Crucible of Carnage.

Level: 85

Found in: Twilight Highlands, Eastern Kingdoms

Karoma can be found in one of a half dozen places in the Twilight Highlands.

Karoma Taming Strategy

Karoma is unique in the sense that he’s the only Spirit Beast that is hostile, as opposed to neutral like all of the other Spirit Beasts. This isn’t really that big of a deal, but it does mean that he will aggro if you get too close to him. As for how to successfully tame him… just drop a Freezing Trap in your Tame Beast path and that should do it.

Karoma Map

Karoma has six different spawn locations in the Twilight Highlands.

Karoma Respawn Time

Karoma’s respawn rate seems to be around 6-8 hours.

Ban’thalos

Ban'thalos

Ban'thalos soaring high above the Sanctuary of Malorne.

Level: 85

Found in: Mount Hyjal, Kalimdor

Ban’thalos can be found flying high above the Sanctuary of Malorne. In order to see Ban’thalos you must be in the same phase, which requires the completion of a series of quests that begins here.

Ban’thalos Taming Strategy

Ban’thalos was introduced as one of the ‘Taming Challenge‘ pets in Patch 4.2, which means he most definitely requires a taming strategy. Ban’thalos must be aggro’d while airborne, and considering how high he flies, this means you need to survive the fall once you’ve gotten his attention. Also, he has an ability called Harsh Moonlight which hits very hard. Given these two dangers, the main trick to taming Ban’thalos is surviving.

The first step in the tame is to get his attention. This requires flying up to where he’s flapping about, dismounting and then shooting him. To start this process, it’s important to pick a location where the fall will be very short. I recommend starting at the top of the tallest tree within the circle of his patrol area. Once Ban’thalos starts to get close, place a Freezing Trap at the top of this tree, then mount and fly straight up – being careful not to accidentally move in any other direction apart from ‘straight up’, i.e., just use your spacebar.

When Ban’thalos is within range, dismount, shoot him, then pop Deterrence. This will have you falling to the top of the tree with Ban’thalos in pursuit. You’ll probably take a bit of fall damage, but Deterrence will at least protect you from his Harsh Moonlight. Once back atop the tree, start taming. Ban’thalos will pursue you – entering melee range and landing right in your Freezing Trap – allowing for a successful tame at that point.

For a more detailed look at this strategy – complete with pretty pictures – please refer to my Ban’thalos taming guide.

Ban'thalos Map

Ban'thalos can be found flying high above the Sanctuary of Malorne.

Ban’thalos Respawn Time

Ban’thalos is believed to be on a 6-17 hour spawn timer, along with the other Spirit Beasts introduced in Patch 4.2: Ankha and Magria. They are not linked, however.

Ankha

Ankha

Ankha patrolling through The Regrowth.

Level: 85

Found in: Mount Hyjal, Kalimdor

Ankha can be found patrolling through The Regrowth area in Mount Hyjal. Taming Ankha also requires that you be in the proper phase of Mount Hyjal – same as with Ban’thalos and Magria.

Ankha Taming Strategy

Ankha is another ‘Taming Challenge’ pet, so hunters need to approach this kitty with a plan. However… the trick to taming this Spirit Beast is pretty simple…get naked. That’s right… you need to take off all your armor before you try to tame this cat. Ankha has a Spirit Claw attack which scales off enemy armor, so be sure to remove any and all pieces of gear that provide armor. Even 1 point of armor will result in this cat one-shotting you. Once you’ve stripped off all of your armor, this beast hits like a kitten – allowing for an easy tame.

Also note that Ankha is immune to Freezing Trap, as well as all forms of crowd control, so don’t even try.

Ankha Map

Ankha patrols throughout The Regrowth in Mount Hyjal.

Ankha Respawn Time

Ankha has the same 6-17 hour respawn timer as that of Ban’thalos and Magria. Ankha and Magria are linked, however. When one is tamed or killed, one or the other will respawn within 6-17 hours.

Magria

Magria

The spectral blue Magria roaming around in The Regrowth.

Level: 85

Found in: Mount Hyjal, Kalimdor

Magria shares an alternating spawn time and location with Ankha. This Spirit Beast is also found patrolling within The Regrowth of Mount Hyjal.

Magria Taming Strategy

The strategy for taming Magria is identical to the one used for Ankha. Take off all of your armor, then begin taming. Ankha and Magria are identical in every way apart from their looks. Ankha is a ghostly white and Magria a spectral blue. Both cats lurk in the same area but are never found out at the same time — it’s always one or the other.

Magria Map

Magria shares the same spawn area as Ankha, and is also found patrolling through The Regrowth.

Magria Respawn Time

Magria is on a 6-17 hour respawn timer that’s shared with Ankha.

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1 Skyfiah March 8, 2010 at 4:30 am

Nice post :)
Found Skoll myself when camping the Time-Lost, awesome looking pet, although its a shame they fall behind the Devilsaur in terms of DPS in raids.
Although my favourite looking pet is Nuramoc, best looking pet in the game imo, I get loads of /w asking where I got him etc etc

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2 Garwulf March 8, 2010 at 11:10 am

I just came across Skoll the other day while poking around The Storm Peaks, farming mammoth meat and doing my TLPD rounds. He really is pretty damn bitchin’.

I love that crackling electrified effect he has.

By the way, I have Nuramoc as well. Hands down my favorite all-around PvP pet.

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3 Jeeb June 15, 2010 at 2:43 pm

HELLO! Sorry I’m new to this form, so hunters ftw woot!

ok im gud. Wat’s a Nuramoc?

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4 Garwulf June 15, 2010 at 3:02 pm

A Nuramoc is the rare Chimaera found in Netherstorm. He’s the only Chimaera with his particular look – sort of like Prince meets HR Giger. He’s purple and flamboyant, but with an alien menace.

http://huntsmanslodge.com/1946/i-may-regret-this-in-the-morning.htm

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5 Taloz March 16, 2012 at 12:53 am

he is a chimera

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6 Andrea June 15, 2010 at 3:43 pm

I got both the Arcturis and Nuramoc in 1 day in less than a hour, made my day, :) .

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7 Jmen June 27, 2010 at 3:26 pm

ok i just picked up Loque sweet found him at the bottom left of Base camp he is now part of my Spirit tames beast woot woot all i need is Skoll………… i have Gondria, Arctuis, and now Loque, and while looking for Gondria i fount Terror Spinner as my PVP pet spiderk………… Hunters need more room in there Stables

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8 bob November 26, 2010 at 2:15 am

as of the new patch hunters have alot more space XD
hunters rock

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9 Hrup April 3, 2011 at 5:37 pm

lawl i found a spirit beast too, Gondria. :) was so happy when i saw her on my minimap. i quickly tamed it and it hit lvl 82

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10 Wyllowdaemon May 19, 2011 at 7:05 pm

I now have tamed 4 of them :) is there any achievement for getting all of them?

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11 Garcho April 5, 2012 at 8:01 pm

I found skoll at the center point of the map, left side near the end of the little valley…time to camp again…

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12 Tusek April 15, 2012 at 9:42 am

Karoma pet’s locations is twilight lands, but the grimtotem spirit guide looks like karoma, and they live in north dusthallow mars, and a lot of spirit guide stand in the temps :) (sorry for the bad language, but is don’t speak engelsh)

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13 lawman30 March 8, 2010 at 6:32 am

As a card carrying member of the SB4 Club, with Nuramoc tamed for PvP purposes, I am TOTALLY excited for the changes coming regarding the number of pets we can tame and have available at a time. I can’t bring myself to take my hunter into Sholazar Basin because I am afraid I will come across the King and not have the resolve to release Nuramoc in order to tame him.

Great guide on catching the beasts in question. I used your prior version to tame my beasties and I am happy to see you making it more concise to help the hunters out there deciding to go after these gems. Man I wish they would up the DPS on these bad boys to help make BM more raid-viable in the eyes of the raiding community at large.

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14 Garwulf March 8, 2010 at 11:22 am

“As a card carrying member of the SB4 Club”…

You’re the best Lawman. That’s some funny stuff. I always look forward to your comments. :)

I can’t agree more. As I’d said in the past… Blizz has got to stop dangling these carrots (e.g. Spirit Beasts), unless they plan on introducing more stable slots. It’s just not fair.

Also, we need quad specs IMO. 2 different specs for raiding, another for farming, and yet another for PvP. Or in my case, 2 for raiding and 2 for PvP. ;)

I really don’t understand why Blizz hasn’t upped the numbers on Spirit Strike. It’s obvious that it’s not scaling as well as Monstrous Bite. If anything, they should increase the DoT by a small amount, or better yet, make it so that it can crit! Spirit Beasts really should be a top DPS pet for BM Hunters, not 4th or 5th as they are now.

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15 Qonaan March 8, 2010 at 2:24 pm

I can see the angst of the SB’s damage output on both the player’s and the dev’s point of view. Even though it’s an old post, take a look at Ghostcrawler’s comments on the philosophy of the Spirit Beast implementation (point #4).

I agree with him. If Spirit Beasts were the best BM pet, then every single BM loyalist hunter would be out there farming for those elusive pets. Right now (3.3.2), BM isn’t quite up to snuff as SV or MM, and so heroic-raid-competitive hunters aren’t bringing BM to ICC. Imagine a future, however, when BM’s damage is boosted and the SB is also itemized as the best DPS pet.

Bleh. Suddenly you have a world (of warcraft) filled with top-DPS-chasing hunters as well as pet-enthusiast hunters competing for spawn points to get their hands on one of those beasties.

As it is now, the only folks interested in a SB are those BM hunters that enjoy a rare pet. If those same BM hunters care about min-maxing their DPS… well they probably won’t stay BM for long.

I wish I had a solution for this, but this is why I’m not a developer ;)

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16 Whuumper March 23, 2010 at 6:49 am

Great post as always ,although i have heard about Gondria at the left of the stairs near altar of harkoa.but never saw him there .Usually an it is confirmed by rare hunter overlay ,to the right of the big field near wall ?

Last week alone I called in 6 people for tames on him.I know when they sapwn just about down to 5 minutes on this realm.An make great coin on those who wish to pay.Many times free though.Been workin on the white gorilla times in crater also .

But my success in find ing spirit beasts is off on the time lost drake ,Have found him 20 times last month all in the same place .butthe time frame narrows down on him also …lol

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17 Killaphew May 9, 2010 at 1:13 am

Right you are that Gondria also spawns at the left of the stairs nears altar of Harkoa. That’s where I chanced into him the other day and tamed him. After a painful two months of flight paths over Sholazar to finally land myself Loque’nahak, it was a delight to add Gondria without any trouble. I didn’t expect him there and I got lucky.

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18 Starshooter:VeCo June 29, 2010 at 6:29 am

Only 2 months! lucky u i spent over 8 months farming him after the first 3 months i gave up and switchd my BM spec to SV “since it was good at the time -_-” and litterally the same day i saw him i broke down in tears. But i got him about a month ago now… and altho i’m mainly MM for raiding I love to pull him out and slow walk thru Dal ;) i’m hoping to catch the bear or wolf for a tank pet tho.

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19 Spirit Beast King December 26, 2012 at 1:48 pm

i got bear if u would like i can help u find him and u can tame him

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20 tikiri January 2, 2013 at 5:26 am

are u in wotlk and plz send me info if u can about the bear great help thanx

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21 locutus April 5, 2010 at 10:29 am

You need to update the spawn points of Skoll, as he spawns in 5 places. 2 close together by the western point on your map is by the rock, and outher side of opening by hillside next to tree.. The 5th spot is a bit closer to engine of makers along the bottom of hill.
This spot if you position yourself can be covered while you cover the spot overlooking the vicking chicks camp. 8-)

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22 Garwulf April 5, 2010 at 10:45 am

Interesting…, but so far I haven’t seen any other confirmed spawn locations apart from the ones I’ve listed. There may be more, but I’m reluctant to post them without proof in the form of a screenshot. Also, WoWHead is only listing the three locations as well. I have a feeling that if there more legitimate spots, they’d be pinned on there by now.

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23 kassidykross April 6, 2010 at 4:28 pm

yea a few toher sits have updated to a confirmed 5 spawn places of skoll which i think wow hates me because its been almsot 3 days with no avail .

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24 Alterlalae April 7, 2010 at 1:00 am

Now officially the proud owner of all 4 Spirit Beasts :)
Not many hunters on Khadgar have all 4 now due to them wanting pets that will be untamable in Cataclysm

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25 Azerel April 13, 2010 at 7:45 am

Lawman30 you wont have to get rid of nuramoc as you can have your him and 3 other pets in stable and then have your current pet out with you therefor having 4 SBs and nuramoc :D

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26 Andrea June 22, 2010 at 6:27 pm

I recommend you to have a tenacity for solo runs for original instances&current dungeons, especially for BM’s, so just get three ferocity pets, a single cunning pet and a single tenacity pet.

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27 Aioloss April 16, 2010 at 7:16 am

In one week I got Arcturis, King Krush and Loque! Arcturis was the easiest (Lightning’s Blade server). I probably only spent about 30 minutes camping out for him. Overall I spent tons of time trying to get Loque though.

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28 Posse May 1, 2010 at 7:06 am

As of April 30th, 2010, On the Maelstrom Server, Arcturis was tamed. The time was 9:00 pm server for any hunters from this realm, looking for the great Bear beast as I had done. I can not, nor will I make any claims to spawn timers. There has not been enough posts to make such claims other then 9:00 pm sounds like a good time to me. Good luck to all that search and Happy hunting. The spawn place is absoultly correct.

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29 Posse May 1, 2010 at 7:12 am

P.S.

I had spent a great deal of time hunting Arcturis, and I would not consider him easy, no offense. From the sounds of it, some people got lucky “Right place, right time.” I will say that standing on the hill a little ways is the best point to wait. With the amount of time I traveled back and forth to this spot, every hour on the hour, it wasn’t until I waited up on the hill that I seen him spawn. All previous times I waited by the grizz’s in the opening on the bottom of the hill.
Not that it probaly maters but, I think you must be out of the area for him to spawn. Like I said before..try waiting up on the hill, 30 yards away from the two trees mid way down the hill. They will be on the left, Grizz’s and stream to the right.
If your one of those every hour on the hour people like me, then stick around for about 15 mins. I have read in other places about Arcturis coming on the 15 min mark.

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30 Posse May 5, 2010 at 9:48 am

Update:

After about four hours of wait time, Mining and Skinning in between, I was able to tame Gondria. Once again, I belong to Maelstrom server, and server time of Spawn was 11:15 am, today. According to the map provided on this site of Zul’Drak, I found him in the most northern known spot, just on the northern side of the stairs. Easy tame, killed a Griz Bear just to get out of the way, and that would be that. This was the beast that I truly wanted, my favorite by far.

Further Update on Arcturis:

Right after I had tamed Arcturis, a fellow hunter friend of mine took over the spot. She stayed dedicated and was able to tame him exactly 23 hours later. She did not once leave her spot, nor did she take her eyes away from the screen. We wanted to see what kind of spawn rate, if any, was in play. According to our little experiment, our official timer without any doubt but, also without any further study, is a 23 hour spawn timer.

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31 Michelf May 4, 2010 at 7:54 am

I had great luck on finding Skoll At the Spot by the Brunhilders. He was next to the brown pad just as you come up between the hills. It was 8:18 A.M. EST So I would put money on 15 after the Hr. I have the port a pen as I call it So I quick put up my pet and Switched specs. Shot a freeze arrow on him and tammed. He is now my Favorite for when I PVP.

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32 Garwulf May 4, 2010 at 9:17 am

Grats Michelf. :)

By the way, what server are you on, so others may get an idea as to his spawn cycle?

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33 Caylee May 6, 2010 at 7:37 am

Tamed all 4 this past week with the final being Skoll jsut before 11PST on Bonechewer. They are all really fun models to play around with, and still have some wow! factor hanging out in the cities. Looking forward to the day when I can use mine outside of a solo setting.

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34 Garwulf May 6, 2010 at 12:07 pm

4 in one week..?! Nice!

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35 Hutte May 16, 2010 at 7:15 am

I have 1 question. Can I still find this 4 spirit beast or what ? i try to find them but i can’t!

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36 Garwulf May 16, 2010 at 8:42 pm

They’re rare spawns, which means they can take several hours to appear after having been tamed or killed.

Just keep looking and you’ll spot one eventually.

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37 Hutte May 21, 2010 at 5:13 am

ty

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38 Aresrox May 16, 2010 at 12:33 pm

For Skoll does the bottom right location show that he is inside a cave? or is it saying he is near the cave enterance?

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39 Posse May 18, 2010 at 6:19 am

The spot shown is not in the cave but, rather up higher on the flats where the Rino’s roam. I know this because I was able to tame Skoll at that spot yesterday on the Maelstrom server. The time was 9:15 am server time. I now have three of the beasts, and do not plan on going for all four. In my opinion Loque is the most used spirit beast, and though he does look cool, my interest does not lay in having the same pet as everyone else. Good luck, and happy hunting.

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40 Mbo May 18, 2010 at 10:48 am

Hi there.
First at all I wanna say a big “THANKS” to you about the guide. I read a lot of it and I’m pretty happy now. Great work! Go on!
And now – the question, it’s more like asking for advice. What kind of pet should I use for PVP? I know the cunning type is better and I already have spider to fight with me but I want to hear some other opinions.
Cheers!

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41 Garwulf June 9, 2010 at 11:39 am

Mbo,

I know this is a bit late, but while scrolling up through the comments, I just now noticed yours from last month. :(

Anyhow, if you’re still interested in this info, I posted a guide on it last weekend:

http://huntsmanslodge.com/hunter-pvp-pets

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42 Koal Kiesow June 5, 2010 at 12:50 am

ok i have been trying to get skoll for last 2 weeks. i look fror about 1-10 hours a day on his 6 spawns/. havent seen him 1nce. any tips?

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43 Garwulf June 5, 2010 at 1:09 am

As far as I know, he has only the three locations. I’ve seen him only three times since Patch 3.3, and all three times have been once in each of the locations listed. I would focus on those spots.

During the times that I normally play, I’ve seen him twice – both times at around 9pm PST. I have never once encountered him between the hours of 10pm – 2am PST, for what it’s worth.

Just keep at it. You’ll spot him eventually, your heart will start racing, you’ll have a successful tame, and then you’ll send me a screenshot. :)

Good luck!

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44 Luthare350 June 9, 2010 at 11:11 am

I found Loque’nahak today near the top of the map but some stupid warrior was there i asked him nicely can i tame it and he said no he needed frost bite. Dont have a clue what he was going on about i offered him 200g and a dream shard for it and the A HOLE STILL said no :( why would people do this?

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45 Garwulf June 9, 2010 at 11:16 am

Unfortunately, killing Loque’nahak is part of an achievement. The warrior was going for this: http://www.wowhead.com/achievement=2257

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46 Luthare350 June 9, 2010 at 11:28 am

yeah for one achievement i was going to keep that thing for as long as I play the game… grrrrr. He has been after it a month, i’ve been after since they put it on the game. not easy being a hunter really :P

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47 Garwulf June 9, 2010 at 11:43 am

Which is why it’s that much sweeter when you finally do tame him. :D

While still a rough tame, Loque is not nearly as difficult to get now as he was early on in WotLK. Good luck though, and I hope you have better fortune very soon. :)

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48 Luthare350 June 9, 2010 at 11:29 am

oh and a even crappyer thing that happend to me lol this is how much this game hates me i saw skoll who i also have been after for ages on my pally oh but its on a different relm and it hord grrrr not going my way this week

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49 Garwulf June 9, 2010 at 11:44 am

Oh no! I’m sure this bad luck will turn around, so hang in there.

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50 Luthare350 June 9, 2010 at 11:46 am

lol i will as i allways have lol thanks :)

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51 Luthare350 June 9, 2010 at 12:14 pm

do u know when the best time for me would be to look for Loque’nahak as it was killed between 8.00 and 9.00 pm UK time

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52 Garwulf June 9, 2010 at 12:50 pm

All I can tell you is that the times I’ve seen him were usually around 11am, 5pm and 11pm my server time. Hopefully that helps. :)

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53 Luthare350 June 13, 2010 at 7:39 am

Gondria i just got it XD wooop! 16.45pm UK time YES i have a spirit beast!

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54 Garwulf June 14, 2010 at 10:13 am

Right on! Wooooot!

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55 dan516 June 27, 2010 at 10:30 am

your missing the one of the most important things in these spirit beast guides known or theoretical spawn timers like 8-10 hours or really long like 20+ hours on Arcturus would be helpful especially since if your given a time tamed on server x is not going to help any one due to the random nature of the thing but at least you would know how long to camp out or patrol

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56 Garwulf June 27, 2010 at 8:00 pm

If you know the spawn times, please post them dan516. It’s my assumption that they’re all on 6 hour spawn timers, however I’ve read many statements to the contrary.

Posting spawn timers is of little importance unless they’re 100% accurate.

The best I can say is that they tend to appear in 6 hour intervals. That, and I can tell you where they spawn.

I’d say that’s pretty f**king good.

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57 dan516 June 28, 2010 at 3:51 pm

OK i will these times are all theoretical nothing is confirmed by blizzard based on my exp and forum post on other sites
minimum of 6 hours and a maximum of 8 hours for Loque’nahak, King Krush, or Aotona
minimum of 8 hours and a maximum of 10 hours for Skoll
minimum of 8 hours and a maximum of 10 hours for Gondria
for arcturis near as i can tell he is on a 20+ hour one
and when i camped for the time lost proto drake i worked off of a minimum of 6 hours and maximum of 12 hours

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58 Garwulf June 28, 2010 at 4:40 pm

Excellent! Thanks for that info Dan. :)

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59 Feign June 28, 2010 at 7:37 pm

Tamed Arcturis around +20hrs after I last saw him killed…so yeah, he is one of the SB that has a long timer. I’m now officially a member of SB4!

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60 Garwulf June 30, 2010 at 12:39 am

Woo Hoo! Another proud card carrying member!

Bring on Patch 4.0 so we can usher in the SB5 club. My money’s on a flappy Spirit Beast… owl or some other sort of Bird of Prey.

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61 axel July 3, 2010 at 7:22 pm

Man i gotta tell ya I love your site – very impressive and welcoming, Love your pic links to your sections too very artistic and pro looking.

Thank you :)

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62 Garwulf July 8, 2010 at 9:27 pm

Thanks Axel! I appreciate the compliments and glad you like the site. :D

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63 Porcia July 8, 2010 at 10:10 pm

Loque’nahak Tamed 06:32 EU Anachronos 8/07/10 by skytouch pillar
Another proud paid up card caring member of the SB club, 1 down 3 to go. BTW aotona popped up at same time. didn’t bother as I’ve already tamed and killed now have 3 elitesas pets got the big corehound from shadowmoon valley a while back.

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64 Shahinson July 10, 2010 at 1:47 am

Porcia you by any chance a dwarf hunter?? i tamed loque nahak to on that day i believe, on the same server as you????!??

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65 Porcia July 10, 2010 at 3:30 am

No I’m a night elf hunter

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66 Nutcruncher July 16, 2010 at 6:34 pm

I was looking for loque for about 4 and a half days, finally on the 5th day i was killing dragons in the very northern spawn point and went to check if he was there and my NPCScan went crazy and looked on the hill and there he is. It wasnt very hard to get him cause on archimonde there is hardly anyone in the basin, so after i tamed him i went to check gondria’s spawn points and found him on his very north west spawn point. I tamed loque around 6:30 realm time and local time, tamed gondria around 6:40 realm and local time. Best of luck to hunters looking for these guys, ITS COMPLETELY WORTH IT!!!

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67 noortukxx July 20, 2010 at 1:41 am

got gondria and skoll between 10 hours

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68 Neinalgo July 29, 2010 at 11:50 am

Just got Gondria at 12:46pmST, Ner’Zhul. After about half a day to a day of searching. Now, to hunt for the others. <3

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69 Neinalgo July 29, 2010 at 12:05 pm

Sorry, me again. I wanted to add that I found Gondria at Mam’toth, the crater area behind the stairs, pacing the spawn point. Still so pumped. <3

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70 istas August 5, 2010 at 1:00 am

Hey there,
My luck has been great yesterday and today morning.
One of my alts is a Hunter and i enjoy having spirit beasts and exotic pets.
So i got a delisaur from Ungoro Crater for starters then i wanted more.
Tamed arcturis and gondria easily but still i needed more of these beautiful pets.
I started searching for Skoll… Took me days, weeks scanning the Stormpeaks spawning areas but nothing.. I was giving up then starting search again..
Yesterday morning i logged my Hunter which was camping / flying upon Brunnhildar Village and there is was the blue dog walking around there all alone. I land down asap stabled my other pet lay down a frost trap and accidentally fired serpent sting on him :D ”Fuck” i told my self i hope none else appears now and screw this up! ;p Feint death lay down a trap and tamed him . Nice little doggy!
Ok so i got Skoll , why not Loque also?
I started the same day (yesterday) flying around Sholazar Basin for half an hour , observed there were 3 more hunters one was spamming the chat if anyone has seen a spirit beast and a reward for giving him the coords;p
Anyway i logged off and occassionally log in to check ..Nothing..
Today morning i logged again as i was camping near Skyreach Pillar and started my usual flying round goin left from there… Then as i was flying and passed Lifebloom pillar and underneath the white monkeys showed up , there he was among them! (i cant give coords atm but i guess u understand where;p) i landed immediately and omg i had to abandon 1 of my pets coz i was full i had 5… So i didnt think at all : Gondria abandoned .
Better have this than Gondria i said , well anyway frost trap down hit tame button and woop new pet! :D

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71 istas August 5, 2010 at 1:48 am

Forgot to mention that is The Maelstrom Server Eu around 7 am game time ;p

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72 Illustrate August 22, 2010 at 5:27 am

Gondria tamed on Khadgar-EU at 15.20 server time on 22/08/10

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73 Garwulf August 22, 2010 at 10:12 am

Grats Illustrate, and thanks for posting the server and time. :)

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74 Illustrate August 22, 2010 at 6:28 pm

Loque’nahak tamed as well! My lcuky day. Pretty sure it doesnt matter what time I tamed him due to the nature of his spawning, but I got him at 04.20 server time.

2 down, 2 more to go =D

Oh and thanks for the guide, been amazing amounts of help!

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75 Illustrate August 22, 2010 at 8:31 pm

Woohoo!
Arcturis spawn and tamed at 6.30 server time on Khadgar-Eu.

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76 Garwulf August 23, 2010 at 11:29 am

Grats Illustrate!!!

I’m happy to know the guide helped you some. :)

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77 solja August 31, 2010 at 10:03 pm

I been on the hunt for these beasts for a while now as i type im camping out in sholazar basin, my experience with the other 3 spirit beasts has been the same with me and busses when they come they come all together. I have caught gondria skoll and arcturis on pure gut instinct. I had a feeling gondria would be thier the first time i ever looked for her and she was, i caught her about 19:04, i thought hey why not try my luck in storm peaks i flew to storm peaks and did one circle around the spawns when i spotted skoll on the n of tht village name u all no the one., tht must of been about 19:07, 3 minutes later.

Anyway last night i thought hmm lets wormhole to sholazr basin at a little past 1 in the morning as i mounted my npc alert went off i got excited thinkging loq but it wasnt it was king krush and just his corpse, i thought never mind congratulated the guy for his kill and took a flight path to amber lodge, no sooner as i got to the top of hill on the corner of the trees i see arcturis just standing their minding his own buisness, i dropped trap concussive shot him and let my hunter do his thing.

ive been looking for the SB’s since nov 2009 for three of them to come in one week has made it all worth it i just wish loquenahawk will spawn as soon as i maximise my screen from writing this.

Anyway im on bronze dragon flight server. I wish all the hunters good luck in getting ur tames and hunters be assured if i come across them i will definetly message all local hunters to come tame if they need it.

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78 Andrew September 10, 2010 at 5:57 am

Tamed Skoll today at 6:09 am server time on Draenor. NPC Scan picked him on my first round of patrolling the 3 spawn points, so I have no clue how long he was there undiscovered. I managed to tame him at the northernmost spawnpoint. Get NPC Scan, it works even if you have to program the beast your looking for in separately. If you are having trouble with NPC scan not working properly, you missed a rare elite, ect. Make sure to clear your creature cache in your interface folder. The application only works for monsters that your interface has no record for ever seeing before, so if you delete the records it will work properly again. Sometimes pre-tamed pets can set off your npc scan application, especially if you program them in manually. So make sure to clear your cache before you camp!

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79 Andrew September 10, 2010 at 11:37 pm

Update: Shortly after I spawned Skoll. Gondria spawned almost immediately in Zul’Drak, although as soon as my NPCscan alerted me, I looked towards the ground and spotted her falling down dead at the hands of a Alli Shaman. Not a HUGE deal for me as I am looking to tame Louq. I talked to a Spirit Beast guru (as she had tamed all 4). She had told me that an important part to finding these animals is that there is never more than 1 of the up at one time. Meaning that Once one is killed or tamed, the next one in the chain will spawn shortly after. Once the chain is complete then the 6-8 hour timer is set in motion. Not sure how true this info is, however it seemed WAY too true to what this other hunter had told me for it to be chance. Stranger things have happened, but maybe one of you guys who knows more about this could share your thoughts? I am curious if this is true, however I do not wish to mislead people, its hard enough finding one let alone taming one without faction or greedy interferance.

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80 waftycranker October 19, 2010 at 8:05 am

OMG – today has to be the day i should have put the lottery on, at 07:47 i managed to find and tame Gondria, at the spawn point eas tof the stairs. Then at 18:02 Loque at the SE spawn point he was there as soon as i logged on, had no space left, noob error, then a mad rush to abandon a lesser pet, hands shaking, frantically watching the skies, but I got him. So going for 3 in 1 dayy, going to look for Skoll, whish me luck :)

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81 Garwulf October 19, 2010 at 10:40 am

Good luck waftycranker, but sounds like you don’t need it. You seem to have plenty already. :)

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82 Ullr October 28, 2010 at 1:21 am

Ok, so I’ve been after Loque for a while now (Moon Guard US). So far I’ve seen 2 dead bodies and had it stolen mid tame once. I’m trying to determine where the more active spawn points are. From what I’ve read on here and wowhead and my own personal findings it seems:
70,71 SE of Lifeblood pillar, 28,22 the northern spot by Goretalon Matriarch and 30,66 the one SE a bit of Nesingwary base camp.
Also do the spawns (King Krush, Aotona and Loque) share a spawn timer? I’ve never seen them together or near the same time but I’ve been reading a lot of conflicting information.

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83 Chassidy October 29, 2010 at 4:48 pm

10/29/2010 , Shattered Hand
7:15AM~ tamed Gondria (69, 47)
flew over to check out Skoll (46, 42)~tamed @ 7:23AM

LUCKY ME! I am now proud owner of 2/4! Now on for the other 2!!
Happy Hunting to ALL!

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84 silvre November 1, 2010 at 12:33 am

Looking for Skoll after changing from SV to BM. Found him after 3 hrs search beside the metal plate above the Brunnhildar Village. NPscan did not sound the alarm as I realise that there is a cross beside Skoll name. After going around the usual route that Skoll will spawn I came back to the spot where I was camping and behold there a bluish wolf moving around the metal plate area. I click on it and it shows spirit beast. Get off my flying mount and shoot a concussive shot before dropping a ice trap and lol got him, yah!. It was probably 8:00 am, Laughing Skull server. Well 3 more spirit beast to go. Hope everyone gets their spirit beast and be in SB4 club, chuckle.

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85 Syllanna November 2, 2010 at 6:58 pm

Got Arcturis on Nov 2, 2010, on Fizzcrank realm at 9:40 PM server time, he spawned right where the map has marked, right by the tree. My first spirit pet :)

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86 grimmis November 11, 2010 at 6:02 pm

got Arcturis at 4:45 server time right under the tree first one woot

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87 Kari November 12, 2010 at 9:10 am

Thanks to this guide for helping me find my first spirit beast! I had given up looking, as I am not able to play WoW a whole lot and there were so many Horde camping out Arcturis’ spawn area. I woke up early one day and decided to fly over while I was waiting for the dungeon queue, and there he was (0836 server time, Dragonmaw). Couldn’t believe it! I was so excited I almost cried. And since I have had tons of people asking about him. A bear was the very first pet that I used and I have had a bear among my arsenal of pets ever since I started playing, so this was very fitting. I’ve been looking for Skoll as well, but not very actively as I’m so happy with Arcturis.

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88 Angell :) November 12, 2010 at 5:36 pm

I have been trying to get Loque’nahak
For like, The longest time, I havent seen him once.
Any tips? : \

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89 hadlike November 12, 2010 at 8:50 pm

tamed skoll loque and gondria in less than 24 hours. damn i’m a lucky bitch!

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90 Angel :) November 13, 2010 at 10:32 am

Niice!
You iz a lucky one :P

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91 huntingman November 16, 2010 at 9:01 pm

wow just got a lvl80 and just got 2 spiritbeasts on my first day of 80.

Skoll and Gondria

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92 Uryu November 18, 2010 at 10:59 pm

Finally after a month of farming I got my first SP, Gondria. He was caught at midnight on Kul Tiras server. The hunt begins for the next 3 :)

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93 Bluraider November 30, 2010 at 4:19 am

I had the absolute best luck on Trollbane yesterday

11/29/10 tamed Aructuris at 6:12 Am. I had been logged on less than 30 and stepped out of Amberpine lodge and there he was

11/29/10 at 7:01 am still on Trolllbane tamed Loque’nahak. Yes thats right i managed to get both in just under and hour. I couldnt believe the luck. I had not even been looking long for Loq’ about 90 mins total. Probably spent about 3-4 hours looking for Arcturis.

At 7:22 I also saw King Krush and when to tame him but another Hunter was already in midtame. That was the 2nd time in 24 hours finding him. First one another hunter killed him in my midtame. He was even from the same side. I cursed him out and ill still be looking for him.

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94 Shots December 1, 2010 at 11:18 pm

Well i have now been camping arcturis’ spot for about 10 hours now… still havent seen him :(

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95 Mick December 2, 2010 at 3:59 am

You’ll get him dw :)
Just got Gondria this morning! Only Skoll left now :)

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96 Venooze December 6, 2010 at 11:42 am

Hey ,
Venooze 80 hunter here Aerie Peak,
I have been camping for Arcturis no luck any advise.. ;) ?

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97 silvre December 7, 2010 at 6:53 pm

Acturis only spawn one location as Garwulf mentioned in the map. You can camp there and check every half hour. You get him eventually as what I did. You have to be patient and good luck. Cheers!

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98 Venooze December 8, 2010 at 8:11 am

Hey cheers 4 the help,
Got Arcturis by logging in and there he was…
I thought i might aswell got and look 4 Skoll even though i had never seen him before, 6 hunters in the area and i swoop down and got him, he was in an unusual spawn point so lucky me,
Just went into sholozar farmed 4 an hour last night.. no luck
And i pop in today and there he was
So got Loque, Arcturis and Skoll in less than 1 day :)
Venooze on Aerie Peak
Gl guys :)

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99 Krystal December 20, 2010 at 1:54 am

Got Arcturis @ 2:37 am server time on Greymane. Thanks for the heads up with NPC scan. So happy I finally got him! Took me about a week or so of casual camping. Now my next mission is to get Skoll and Loque’Nahak :D

Here’s me with (who I’m hoping to name) Sparticus!
http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs1372.snc4/164482_482369669665_856449665_5538445_2318607_n.jpg

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100 Poppy December 23, 2010 at 12:48 pm

I have Arcturis, Loquenahak, Terror spinner, Nuramoc, Aotoana, and many other rares, but im having so much trouble finding Skoll and Gondria….

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101 Dondura Miller June 2, 2011 at 2:42 am

I found him easily..go to the area and look for the entrance that go to Grizzly hills..just on the inside right..pass the trees and he is there..you will see him as a bunch of sparkles till you start taming him

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102 JEB82 August 17, 2011 at 11:32 am

I just got 4 Spirit Beasts in less then a 24 hour period! :D
Tuesday morning I tamed Ghost Crawler @2:45am (Realm time ~California) Cenarius
then Tuesday night I tamed Arcturis @7:15pm (Realm time ~ California) Cenarius
then this morning (Wed) I tamed Skoll @12:30am midnight (Realm time ~ California) Cenarius
& right after that I tamed Gondria @12:45am midnight (Realm time ~California) Cenarius.
I could not believe the odds I beat.
Whootz!!! :D

Plus this morning (Wed) after my BF left for work, I logged in with his toon & guess what
I tamed Ghost Crawler AGAIN within 15 minutes of logging his toon online.
This happened around 5:45am (Realm time ~ California) Cenarius
& right after that I flew him to Sholazin Basin to get him Loque’Nahak & King Krush
as those are what he wanted & asked me to do & sure enough within 10 mins of arriving at the set destination I got him King Krush.
Sadly no Loque’Nahak yet & it’s been 5+ hrs since with no excitement or activity.

Also, in addition to my newly tamed pets (the 4 spirit beasts within less then 24 hrs)
just this Monday I tamed Sian-Rotam & 3 differant Devilsaurs, then, a week earlier, again on a Tuesday, (last week) I tamed Sambas & 2 days B4 him, I tamed Loque’Nahak on Sunday as well as King Krush (for myself) & Shango.

I also got Elm The Wise about 2 weeks ago as I have hade no luck with Ban’Thalos :(
& Prior to CATA I tamed Nuramoc, a CoreHound, a Flamefly, a flourescent blue & black Scorpion (I thought it looked differant then any other I’ve seen) as well as a
WarpStalker & Crystal Spider.
I’ve had many more pets over the years I’ve been playing since B4 Burning Crusade even came out but have never had this much luck within a 24 hour period of getting 4 spirit beasts, plus several others within the last 2 weeks & a same repeat spirit beast (2 times) GhostCrawler within less then 48 hrs for my BF’s toon.
All in all, I’d say I’m a VERY happy girl & it’s been one hell of a last 24+ hrs as well as 2 weeks :D

I find myself preferring the look of Spirit Beasts or white/silver/clear coloured ones,
as well as the brights & flouresents, maybe it’s a female thing.

Anyhow, I’ve wrote more then I likely needed to or intended too,
just wanted to share my good mood & information with anyone it may help regarding spawn times/days.
Thankyou for your time & patience if you actually read all this post :)

Happy Hunting/Questing!

BTW Arcturis has spawned exactly every 7 hours like clock work at quarter past the hour he’s due to spawn on.
I’ve seen him do it 3 times now in the last 2 days.
within

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103 HEINRICH October 22, 2011 at 12:35 pm

can you tame skoll in wrath of the lich king

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104 Krystal December 27, 2010 at 2:44 am

I ended up naming my Arcturis “Babalu” hehe If I get Skoll, I think I’m naming him MrTinkles. ITS SO MANLY! :) ~ haha

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105 Krystal January 3, 2011 at 1:54 am

AAAAAH! I just had to come here and update that I got…guess who? :D

http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc6/hs021.snc6/165164_490141884665_856449665_5677106_3526149_n.jpg

I’m reconsidering MrTinkles and calling him Amadeus instead! I dunno! @_@ Now off to Loquenahak!

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106 Naidene January 6, 2011 at 6:53 am

Ive been camping these guys for quite some time now, and am having TERRIBLE luck.

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107 michael.ziemak January 30, 2011 at 7:15 am

I spent my whole time trying too get all the spirit beast and boom ina few weaks i Ask my 85 mage pal too check for the 2 spirit beast skoll and gondria and there they were.i Also got The spirit wolf and spirit crab with my lvl 85 hunter.I spent alleast 4 days wakeing up too see if they spawned in the morning.In luck i got the spirit bear.TOok me a few hours too get them but it was not half bad.i did dung runs and battlegrounds.

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108 Troubled March 3, 2011 at 6:45 pm

Yes i just tamed Karoma 1:35pm server time aman’thul server thats 5 spirit beasts in my collection and just the ghost crab and samba left on my wanted list :-)

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109 mg March 26, 2011 at 7:25 pm

where is the spirit crab and it is so hard to get Loque and skoll

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110 Felinin April 3, 2011 at 5:11 am

Ghostcrawler the Spirit Crab is in the far south west part of Vashj’ir… he spawns almost anywhere on that large underwater plateau south, south west and east of the demigod L’ghorek.
The spirit beasts have always been hard to get, and you need to be either a little obsessed or very lucky to find and tame them.
One thing is for certain: for whatever reason, you need to be THERE! I tamed both Loque and Skoll by camping out for them (Skoll took me months); with Gondria I was busy in Zul’Drak for Loremaster when she showed up; and with Arcturis I was en route elsewhere and took a lucky diversion past the Lodge.
This is the way of Spirit Beasts, the way they decide when to become yours…

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111 Dondura Miller June 2, 2011 at 2:44 am

crab is the easiest..look on the map and you will see an out cropping on the lower left side of the map..look for him in the clearing about halfway into the outcropping..he is hard to see though..more like seeing a blue haze than a crab

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112 Ghia steamwheedle, EU April 1, 2011 at 12:55 pm

Thrilled, ive got all the spirit beasts now, all i need is Karoma :D

Rares ived Tamed:
Gondria
Loquenahak
Arcuris
Skoll
TerrorSpinner
Aotona
Sambas
Aruric(Yep, again)
Nuramoc
And a few more i cant think of, Good luck Hunters!!
Peace :]

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113 Kayliinii April 10, 2011 at 2:32 am

Just got Arcturis on Cenarion Circle US at 3:18 AM server time. Flew in to check because I was making my rounds and nearly had a heart attack when I saw NPC Scan go off. <.<''

Good luck to anyone looking for them, and if you're on CC, I wouldn't mind information if you have it. Character name is what I'm posting under. :D

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114 Kayliinii April 10, 2011 at 3:04 am

Just got Loque’nahak, as well, around 3:50 AM server time, also on Cenarion Circle (US). What luck!

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115 rich April 14, 2011 at 3:40 am

I got Ghost Crawler at 6:24 ESt and Skoll at 7pm EST the SAME DAY!

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116 JEB82 August 17, 2011 at 1:03 am

I just got GhostCrawler, Arcturis, Skoll & then Gondria all in the same day!
(In that order, within just shy of a 24 hour time span.)

GhostCrawler I tamed @2:45am Realm time (California) Cenarius
Arcturis I tamed @ 7:15pm Realm time (California) Cenarius
Skoll I tamed @ 12:30am midnight Realm Time (California) Cenarius
Gondria I tamed @ 12:45am midnight Realm Time (California) Cenarius

Needless to say this has been the best start to a week I’ve ever had! :P
Signed a very happy young lady :D

Oh & I got Sambas a week before this also on a Tuesday after the realms came back up for maintenance (I’m thinking it was around 11am Realm time (California) ~Cenarius )

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117 JEB82 August 17, 2011 at 1:10 am

In addition I got Loque’nahawk about 2 days prior to taming Sambas, so a Sunday &
it was around supper time or just before, so like 1:30pm realm time (California)

I also tamed Sian-Rotam just B4 the whole spirit beasts luck.

So that’s 4 spirit beasts within 24 hours, plus the additional three just 2-5 days prior to that, which is my personal record of 7 rares in less then 7 days.
I also got a few others like King Krush, Devilsaur in Un Goro Crater & 2 more I can not recall off hand due to this lack of sleep, lol

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118 JEB82 August 17, 2011 at 1:17 am

not bad for a girl eh :P

plus I have 17 others in my stable, including Numaroc which I got prior way B4 Cata expansion coming out.
HOWEVER, I have yet to see Karoma.

Anyone else tamed Karoma??

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119 raininghell April 18, 2011 at 4:06 pm

hi iv been wondering if there was anything you guys could tell me on loque’nahak i really want him and havent seen him once but iv been looking for him ever since i saw him as other hunters pet… im getting vary mad when i dont find him lol so some help would be nice

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120 raininghell April 18, 2011 at 4:32 pm

ahahah wow right after a que popped some other hunter found him and got him im soo
mad

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121 Curuadh April 18, 2011 at 8:31 pm

Tamed Skoll at 9:27 p.m. server time on Draenor. A most magnificent animal!

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122 anthony April 27, 2011 at 4:14 am

just tamed the bear and 2 cats all within the 15 minute server restart countdown… i think thats a record. just need skoll which ive killed twice in the past week when iw as to low of level :(

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123 lightmann63 May 1, 2011 at 6:54 am

I’m in the Burnig Crusade.
How do I get to Northrend?
How do I get to the Rath of the Lich King?
I already down loaded it.

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124 Troubled May 11, 2011 at 7:05 pm

you can catch a boat to Northrend from stormwind but you need to be level 68 atleast to quest in Northrend

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125 Troubled May 11, 2011 at 9:30 am

Just Tamed Tsul’Kalu the Spirit Gorilla released in patch 4.0.6 found him wangering in North Stranglethorn cords 48:30 didnt even know there was a spirit gorilla till i stumbled onto him :-)

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126 Lucky May 23, 2011 at 4:32 am

I just decided to take a few hours farming Loque’Nahak, and when i was flying he just stood there after about 15min of flying, guess im lucky?!

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127 Bærclaw May 23, 2011 at 10:01 am

They are all on the same timer, i found loque at 12:30, then went and snaged up arcticus, and skoll all within 5 min from eachother

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128 Chayce June 7, 2011 at 4:07 pm

I cant find the bear one its really hard

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129 Danny June 9, 2011 at 9:53 pm

The bear should be easy, he only has one spawn point. I got him on my first day of camping for him

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130 Hrup June 12, 2011 at 11:01 am

Ugh im haveing so much trouble looking for loquenehak and the bear. i have gondria but Skoll is hard as well.

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131 Hrup June 12, 2011 at 11:10 am

Ugh im haveing so much trouble looking for loquenehak and the bear. i have gondria but Skoll is hard as well. nvm i just found skoll :)

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132 epichunt June 19, 2011 at 12:44 pm

hey i was just wondering if this is also on wrath of the lich king??? i read all the coments but u guys kept on talking about lvl 85 and stuff… pls tell me more about the locations of the spirit beast!!! im a lvl 80 hunter looking for any spirit beast.

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133 epichunt June 19, 2011 at 1:32 pm

btw im busy looking for the bear in grizzly hills…

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134 Nímh June 20, 2011 at 1:00 am

Arcturis is the simplest to find. He only spawns on the riverbank just below the flightmaster in Amberpine Lodge in Grizzly Hills.

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135 epichunt June 20, 2011 at 1:59 am

ok thanks !!! ;p but i was also wondering if u play cata ??? is there a difference with the spirit beasts??? because i play on wrath of the lich king.

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136 Wiglaff July 2, 2011 at 7:09 pm

Loque’nahak – got him @ 11:00pm up north in borean tundra!

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137 Xbaby July 4, 2011 at 6:58 am

I want to tame Skoll & Gondira

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138 epichunt July 8, 2011 at 1:23 pm

i also want to

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139 Sierron July 8, 2011 at 2:35 pm

It’s here im glad to have them all. xD But i wish luck to everyone trying to find and tame them. Look out, some may try to kill them since they drop some thing.

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140 Calthaliss July 18, 2011 at 3:01 pm

Just tamed both Skoll and Arcturis on the Spinebreaker server! After trying and trying for the last few months without a blip from NPCscan or Silver Dragon. I managed to nab both without even camping. Tamed Skoll at 3:04 PM server time (coordinates 46.20 65:43). Grabbed Arcturis at 3:19 PM server time (coordinates 31.38 55:23). Almost had Loque’nahak too at exactly 3 PM but someone else was already camping him. Still, if I hadn’t seen him spawn, I might not have gone checking for Skoll or Arcturis.

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141 Felinin July 19, 2011 at 4:15 am

@epichunt – the four Northrend Spirit Beasts did not change with the release of Cataclysm – same pets, same spawn points. It’s possible that the spawn timers have changed, but if so they will surely be on shorter timers than before, not longer.
I have a level 80 capped BM hunter (Misst on EU The Sha’tar) who found Loque a few weeks ago while flying around the Basin. He was at one of the southern spawn points, just up the hill from where Pitch (the tameable black cat with skin like Humar the Pridelord) is held captive by the Frenzyheart hunters. But you need to fly around and keep checking all of the spawn points, using NPCScan and/or a target macro.

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142 Raygar July 20, 2011 at 4:30 am

They added some new spirit beasts in 4.2…once again though Ill say this. They need to add spirit beasts for the cunning and tenacity families!

-Baron Raygar

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143 Hunterluv July 23, 2011 at 3:30 pm

Im having the WORST luck ever lol

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144 autoshoot July 26, 2011 at 7:17 am

if u tame spirit crab and then store it can i come back and tame another one later?

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145 Rob Arends July 31, 2011 at 3:38 pm

Has any1 randomly gone to a spawn place were one of these spirit beast and have found one of them.

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146 Raynard August 5, 2011 at 9:14 pm

Ya, I was questing and looking up Loque’nahak jumping from spawn to spawn looking for him, no luck though, and I decided to go check the bear while i go to Dal and he was sitting right there, I’m quite pleased, but I’ll trade him for Loque any day

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147 gloria August 11, 2011 at 10:04 am

i was questing in zul drak near mam moth crather and just happened to look up and see gondria …i just about jumped out of my seat with excitement

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148 Calthaliss September 17, 2011 at 5:15 pm

That’s how I’ve found all the spirit beasts, never camped. Well not never, I camped Skoll off and on for about a month and never saw him spawn. I then just decided to randomly start checking spawn points every few hours when I was online and that’s when I started finding them. I’ve since re-homed 18 Skolls, 9 Loques, and several Gondrias having figured out the spawn timers, I have never seen Arcturis spawn again though..

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149 Founditbyluck August 1, 2011 at 12:01 am

I was camping Arcturis when I decided to go looking for some other spirit beasts. And, I checked this site for Gondria spawn points, this is on Dawnbringer realm if you’d like to know. And, NPCscan went off for Gondria, I was like, “OMFG F***YEAH! :D :D:D:D:D” I dropped off my mount, dismissed my worm, hit concussive shot and started to tame. In 10 seconds that pretty cat was all mine.

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150 Ans August 4, 2011 at 6:13 pm

Heya all, I got Gondria and Skoll 1st time within 2 hours from one another. Realm time was about 12am for Gondria and 2am for Skoll :D :D :D

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151 Raynard August 5, 2011 at 9:16 pm

I see Skoll in Bor’s Breath ALL the time, I killed him on my lock once, and I wowheaded him, and saw that i really should of left him alone, or better still make a hunter, and now im camping Loque’nahak for the tame lol

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152 GreenHunter August 7, 2011 at 2:03 pm

Tamed Loque 1 hour ago, what a rush :D Just wrote in Guild chat “Then I guess, I’ll have to fly around 9 hours straig – ZOMG LOQUE’NAHAK! It’s a shame he/she don’t have Spirit Strike anymore :3

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153 Omar August 8, 2011 at 7:22 am

Right as i was camping skoll i left for 5 minutes and went to the other points, i came back to the last point and my NPCscan went off, all the blood rushed out of my face. I saw skoll lying there dead, my heart broke and i experienced rage like no other. Most depressing point in my WoW life needless to say. luckly i tamed loque and ghondria all within 30 minutes of that thoo :P

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154 JEB82 August 17, 2011 at 1:24 am

I just got GhostCrawler, Arcturis, Skoll & then Gondria all in the same day!
(In that order, within just shy of a 24 hour time span.)

GhostCrawler I tamed @2:45am Realm time (California) Cenarius
Arcturis I tamed @ 7:15pm Realm time (California) Cenarius
Skoll I tamed @ 12:30am midnight Realm Time (California) Cenarius
Gondria I tamed @ 12:45am midnight Realm Time (California) Cenarius

Needless to say this has been the best start to a week I’ve ever had!
Signed a very happy young lady

Oh & I got Sambas a week before this also on a Tuesday after the realms came back up for maintenance (I’m thinking it was around 11am Realm time (California) ~Cenarius )
In addition I got Loque’nahawk about 2 days prior to taming Sambas, so a Sunday &
it was around supper time or just before, so like 1:30pm realm time (California)

I also tamed Sian-Rotam just B4 the whole spirit beasts luck.

So that’s 4 spirit beasts within 24 hours, plus the additional three just 2-5 days prior to that, which is my personal record of 7 rares in less then 7 days.
I also got a few others like King Krush, Devilsaur in Un Goro Crater & 2 more I can not recall off hand due to this lack of sleep, lol
not bad for a girl eh

plus I have 17 others in my stable, including Numaroc which I got prior way B4 Cata expansion coming out.
HOWEVER, I have yet to see Karoma.

Anyone else tamed Karoma??

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155 Iznotr3t4rd3d April 3, 2012 at 7:37 am

I have tamed him very easily on my First Try

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156 thamara September 2, 2011 at 6:05 pm

Just got loque and gondria in a 15 minute time span. I’m only level 77, got Krush earlier today and the bear yesterday, so when I hit 80 it’s just skoll to get ^^

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157 felicia September 13, 2011 at 12:48 pm

tamed Louqe at 1 44 pm server time in misha…been sorta lookin for about a week but no serious camping i am so excited!!!

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158 Oletwoshot September 21, 2011 at 8:16 am

I have now tamed gondria no more then 5 minutes ago alarming is the fact there is not spirit strike which has pissed me off after all that camping any one know why this might be or is there a roll on what abilities they get upon taming ? loque the same spririt mend spirit walk roar of courage these are the only ones that i recieved with either of them :(

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159 Levitimg October 8, 2011 at 8:21 am

I got Gondia just east of Mamtoth crater. the thing is practically invisible. there is no spririt strike… approx 8:50 am at Arathor

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160 Ainia October 11, 2011 at 2:12 am

After months of trying camping, I gave it up.

This week, monday 10/10/2011 I had the most beautifull hours in WoW since I started in Vanilla.

Found Gondria in Zul’Drak.

Went to do dailies in Firelands and accidently discovered Deth’Tilac and succeeded in the tame.

Wanted to try my luck in depth and went to Scholazar Basin wher I (yes indeed” came immediatly out on Loque’Nahak and tamed him.

3 Beautifull pets in a row, in a timespan of less then 2 hours, AMAZING !!

Happy player for sure.

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161 Breakaway October 15, 2011 at 7:55 pm

Got tonight Ghostcrawler and Arcturis :) And a hunter stole me Ban’thalos in front of my nose after I tryied 2 days to even see hem.

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162 Breakaway October 15, 2011 at 8:32 pm

Just tamed Madexx at 6:30Am the blue-purple one :)

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163 Ullron October 26, 2011 at 5:50 am

You have great information on here – thank you. I’ve been extremely lucky recently; I nabbed Arcturis within an hour of turning 74, and found Loque’nahak within 24 hours of hitting 76. Only made 3 or 4 circuits around Sholazar. I’m sure the luck’s about to run out and it will take me forever for Gondria and Skoll.

Regardless, the pets are awesome and I always get a few comments from 5-man pug groups on how cool they look. Now I need to try them out in pvp a bit.

Ullron – Stormrage

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164 Darkbrew November 21, 2011 at 6:05 am

Nice update to guide. I’m down to just finding Magria, and then I’ll have all nine.

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165 Samskeyti November 21, 2011 at 9:30 am

I love going to all the spirity beast places, finding them and rehoming them to hunters. Nothng beats my enjoyment of wow more than summoning a hunter who has been looking for that special always-eluding spirit beast, to said spirit beast. Or non-spirit beast. Rehoming pets <3 The only thing left after you've filled your stables.

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166 Kahnloc November 27, 2011 at 12:19 pm

LOL, after waiting for arcturis for a whole day, then spending another day looking for loque, i goto zul drak looking for gondria, after about 15 minutes thar she blows!!! my addon didnt even alert me right away, i just saw a spectral tiger lurking right there and was so happy and shocked!!! threw down my freezng trap and tamed her, AWESOME!!! my first spirit beast.

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167 Kalaski December 2, 2011 at 11:53 pm

So i’ve done a crap ton of quests in hyjal and im assuming i’m in the right phase, any way i can tell for sure if im in the right phase? or continue flying back in forth spamming my macro for the next few hours like i have for the past 7

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168 Dontdienow December 4, 2011 at 11:18 am

just got me Loque’nahak from following spawn spot on maps u got found him at top part of s-basin at around 8pm relam time , thx =D

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169 blits December 5, 2011 at 3:10 am

all i want is skoll, JUST SKOLL. i got the rest……any pointers on times(server times please, couldn’t give a crap what the time it is in Antarctica )

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170 c January 3, 2012 at 8:18 pm

I found Skoll (whee! finally!) tonight by the gascap at 10:13 pm server time (earthen ring). Good luck!

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171 Garwulf January 4, 2012 at 9:27 am

Grats on the tame!

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172 Quistus December 11, 2011 at 8:55 am

So 13 hours ago I only had one spirit beast, Arcturis. I have been flying around trying to find the rest for over a week and just couldn’t find any. Then, last night for my Birthday, I tame Loque’nahak. I wake up early in the morning and then manage to tame Magria, Ghostcrawler, Karoma, Gondria, and Skoll all in a matter of three hours! What a good birthday! Only two more!

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173 Hagle December 17, 2011 at 8:19 am

Thanks Garwulf you have made a fantastic site it was a great help, when I am able to get my first spirt beast witch will hope fully be ban’thalos.. I shall name him Garwulf :p <3
And I must say there are some pretty Dan funny story's on this page :D

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174 Zaniy December 27, 2011 at 12:20 pm

Hello!
I was looking for Magria in Mount Hyjal, but couldt find him at all… the place where its supose to spawn, looks quite different now. Its now a questing place wich Its only fulled with fire mobs. Does the spirit beast still excist? Help please!
Btw, very nice site, helps alot :)
-Tarren mill Zaniy the huntard :3

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175 Garwulf December 28, 2011 at 8:15 am

If you’re seeing the fire mobs then you need to complete the prerequisite quests first so you can unlock the area. Ankha and Magria don’t show up until you rid the area of the fire mobs. The quest chain begins here: http://www.wowhead.com/quest=25317

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176 crystallskull December 27, 2011 at 2:05 pm

What is a phase? I feel dumb for asking but idk what it is.

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177 Garwulf December 28, 2011 at 8:10 am

A phase refers to an area that’s been altered due to an event, e.g., a completed quest chain.

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178 crystallskull December 28, 2011 at 12:12 pm

ah, okay thanks.

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179 lopp December 29, 2011 at 12:51 pm

is it possible to get them without phasing the area?

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180 Garwulf December 29, 2011 at 2:27 pm

Nope.

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181 Iznotr3t4rd3d March 2, 2012 at 8:37 pm

So you have to quest in the area first, then you can tame?

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182 Sunpa January 6, 2012 at 8:21 am

I cant tame any of them why?

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183 Langs January 6, 2012 at 4:53 pm

You need to be BM but you can still tame cool rare pets like simba in twilight highlands as the other specs. The other reason could be the amount of pets in your stable is full or more likely you are already carrying 5 pets on your belt.

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184 Popenyoung January 10, 2012 at 7:15 am

Thanks to this site now have 6 spirit beasts.
1. Skoll
2. Arcturis
3, Gondria
4. Ankha
5. Ban’thalos
6.Loque’nahak
In that order. Arcturis is the easiest to get because of only one spawn point. Good luck hunters and early am is the best time to find them however, have found the m in the afternoon also.

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185 Sunpa January 11, 2012 at 8:41 am

ok ty

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186 Shipoopi January 14, 2012 at 8:22 pm

Just tamed Loque’Nahak just now.. what a beauty she is..
8:08 realm time…. took 4-5 hours and only took 1 spot to farm at<3

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187 unklebubby January 25, 2012 at 4:56 pm

Anyone know the range of NPC scan or Silver Dragon? I have been patrolling the area where ghostcrawler is for a few days and know hits. So i wasn’t sure if those two had the range to cover his patrol of AD any advice would be awesome

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188 Garwulf January 25, 2012 at 7:49 pm

I don’t know the exact range, but it’s basically targeting range. The mob just has to be up and about in your active area – within range to target. My guess is around 100 yards or so, however, sometimes it can detect mobs from quite a distance, such is the case with that giant who patrols throughout Icecrown. He can be picked up by NPCScan in Dalaran.

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189 'darkage' January 27, 2012 at 6:18 am

Hey! guys i’d like to say that i was taming Ban’thalos but he despawned, as soon as he did that i went to the regrowth and Ankha had just spawned..it might just be a coincidence but check it out if you see Ban’thalos killed/tamed and you might get lucky with Ankha

Happy hunting ;]

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190 Acal January 30, 2012 at 2:57 am

Didn’t work for me, just tamed Ban’thalos and tried to look for Ankha or Magria without luck. So insted I went to Twillight and found koroma instantly. Earlier today I found Gondria and yesterday I got Arcturis and Loque’nahek.. so basically not complaining with 5 Spirit beasts in 2 days… I am comming back for eighter Ankha or Magria though :-)

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191 Acal January 30, 2012 at 2:25 pm

oh well… just Got Magria for about 20 mins ago when i logged back on after being away all day:-) so 4 spiritbeasts in one day…not too bad :-)

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192 help me! February 3, 2012 at 6:14 am

how can i add Loque’nahak
to my npcscan?

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193 Acal February 4, 2012 at 2:53 am

I just made a macro for those I wanted

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194 Fidelma February 5, 2012 at 9:15 pm

Great guide! I’m happy to say I have all the Wrath spirit beasts, but I’m still needing to finish leveling my alt hunter to get the Cata ones.
I have helped two hunters tame Ban’thalos on my holy priest main. Simply grab your local priest, set up on the ground below them flying in the air within range of Ban’thalos. The priest then dismounts, dots Ban’thalos, bubbles, hots, and levitates before hitting the ground. The priest will need to keep herself alive until Ban’thalos is within taming range then it is fade or suicide time (it’s also nice to bubble and hot the hunter before you fade if you can). I had to die both times, but the second hunter only took once to get it right. The first time we had to experiment. Never could find the tree to stand on, so we had to get creative!

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195 jaredsamber February 11, 2012 at 12:24 pm

I got the spirit wolf and i must say was the easiest tame ever, i saw him at 84 a nd was able to level (whch was alot over 12 bars) and he was STILL there, was sweet :) him and skoll were easy but damn those cats are a bitch for me LOL

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196 Acal February 16, 2012 at 3:43 am

to me Ban’thalos was the hardest one… that tree is sooooo irritating*lol* the rest was fairly easy…

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197 BIZZ PISSED ME !!! February 17, 2012 at 12:00 pm

i have fly around to the spawn point for LOQUE’NAHAK !!!! IN FUCKING 20HRS!!!!!

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198 Substance20 February 18, 2012 at 7:12 am

Gar, just a heads up, but Karoma is immune to Freezing Traps, as is Sambas. It must have been hotfixed after 4.3. Still, despite being aggressive he’s pretty much easier to tame compared to the other Cataclysm Spirit Beasts.

Thanks,
Gryzor

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199 Evilplan February 18, 2012 at 12:27 pm

Last night @ 19.47 pm i tamed Magria, and now my Alliance hunter too is a proud owner of all nine spirit beasts.

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200 Jacksowner March 15, 2012 at 6:49 pm

I want to get all of them too! Sadly, i only have 2 right now ):

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201 Acal February 18, 2012 at 7:15 pm

Loque’nahak was the hardest to me to find too— when I did I renamed her after my x… “deadpuzzy” LOL

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202 Jaegerson February 21, 2012 at 1:01 pm

hunted Loque’nahak yesterday….for him less than 10 mins….the luck of a dwarf that day

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203 Xathanael February 24, 2012 at 10:34 pm

Anyone know what phase you have to be in to tame Ankha or Magria?

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204 Sentrica March 1, 2012 at 6:06 pm

So, I went on a taming spree the beginning of the year. Already having tamed the Kitty up in Zul’Drak the previous year. I managed to get all remaining 8 of the beasts within 24-48 hours of just entering 2012.

The only pet that I had a problem taming was that Owl. Couldn’t find the tree.. So, I landed on the marble stones surrounding the statue of Malorne. Took me awhile, but I achieved my goal of getting them all.

Happy taming to the rest of the hunters out there, this guide helped a lot, so thank you for putting it up :)

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205 Hunter March 8, 2012 at 2:11 am

Hey caught Gondria and Ghostcrawler today within 15minutes of each other this guide helped a lot, so thank you for putting it up :D

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206 huntardious March 13, 2012 at 10:21 am

never bring someone with aoe dmg to kill an other faction hunter, i did that with a fury warr, he used whirlwind, arcturis died …

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207 Jacksowner March 15, 2012 at 6:48 pm

Took me 5 hours to get Arcturis, but SOOOOO worth it. He is SOOOOO amazing :D

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208 Taloz March 16, 2012 at 12:53 am

Well i love hunting pets. lol Got Ban’thalos, Magria, and, Deth’tilac all in the same day. I had help from my wife. she is a pally. She pulled ban to the ground and bubbled befor she hit, if you stay ontop of the stone thing that goes around the statue he will come down far enough for you to aggro once you start shooting him. it does help to have a healer do to his speacial ability. Anyways I have them 3 Nuramoc, Skoll, Ghostcrawler, Loque’nahak, King Cruch, Gondria, Arcturis, and Karkin. Been fun hunting and cant wait to get some more. Check my armory at Taloz 85 hunter Maive. Yeah i know my gear is bad but hey i got cool pets lol

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209 Taloz March 16, 2012 at 12:56 am

Oh and also if you use add ons NPC Scan and NPC Scan Overlay or Rare Spawn Overlay are great to have.

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210 Kurlok March 20, 2012 at 9:20 pm

Tamed Gondria tonight at 0110hrs sever time on Arygos…final addition to the stable to make SB9…lovin it!!

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211 Narugan March 20, 2012 at 10:06 pm

I tamed 4 of these rare spawns today in about 1 hour. I guess I had a lot of luck.

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212 Iznotr3t4rd3d April 3, 2012 at 9:27 am

Thanks to this Website i now have 6 of 9 spirit beasts…Tame 3 of them in one day its feel great finding them.

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213 Iznotr3t4rd3d April 4, 2012 at 3:19 am

I NOW HAVE ALL 9!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!111 :D

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214 Stephen April 29, 2012 at 12:59 pm

Got Ankha today on Burning Blade at 4pm!!!!

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215 Imahunterwholikestotamestuff April 30, 2012 at 5:45 am

Thank you so much! I found Gondria at the exact place you specified after not being able to find Skoll! it took me only 30mins and i have my first ever spirit beast! Thanks!

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216 Silks hot May 1, 2012 at 9:48 am

I remember when world came out I was one of the first to tame Arcturis and I would always go there with him use eyes of the beast and fool all the hunters there, even getting some hordes to get flagged.

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217 Saffrost May 1, 2012 at 9:07 pm

I must be very lucky – In my first two days of being a BM Hunter (lvl 80) I tamed both Loque’nahak and Gondria . . . And I missed Skoll by about 30secs and ran into a hunter who had just tamed him! I think I’ll keep trying my luck for the others :) . . . Thanks for the Macros – I will be using them in my hunting ;)

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218 Saffrost May 1, 2012 at 9:07 pm

I must be very lucky – In my first two days of being a BM Hunter (lvl 80) I tamed both Loque’nahak and Gondria . . . And I missed Skoll by about 30secs and ran into a hunter who had just tamed him! I think I’ll keep trying my luck for the others :) . . . Thanks for the Macros – I will be using them in my hunting ;)

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219 james May 2, 2012 at 5:29 am

i found the loque nahak but i could not tame him why 5/2/12 at 9:18 on the west side

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220 dgoodwin May 7, 2012 at 7:11 pm

Just got ghostcrawler. And before that I landed the bear. Got all of em except for ban’thlos.

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221 JD May 18, 2012 at 10:52 am

On a taxi-flight across Hyjal, and boom! NPCscan goes off with Ankha. Landed at my original destination, then flew back to the nearest stablemaster to make room, went back… and she was still there! Ditched all my armour, trinkets etc and tamed her in my skivvies and tabard… thanks for the advice! I originally dual specced BM just to get Loque’nahak (the coolest looking pet in the game i think), took me weeks of camping. But in the past month, I’ve just stumbled across Karoma and now Ankha. Think I’m just gonna stay in BM all the time now!

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222 Alvaru May 21, 2012 at 10:12 pm

Hi there all..picked up Loque yesterday..just a little tidbit..was circling almost the whole day..the last time befor I got to Loque ..saw to cat footprints..pretty large ones..one on grass..one on rock..next thing…bam..loque..got him just north an to left of nesingway camp? How eva ya spell it..:) happy hunting all!

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223 Tenro May 25, 2012 at 2:14 am

hey everyone i just wanted to say i just got 5 spirit beasts in a row today and 2 of them where from the hyjal trio, caught 2 within 5 minutes and now i only have 1 left from the trio to get along with the crab and spirit wolf, it is real easy catching the beasts aslong as you dont even try lol happy hunting everyone
Arcturis
Loque’nahak
Gondria
Skoll
Ban’thalos
Magria

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224 matt June 10, 2012 at 5:23 am

Got the gondria and the wolf 2 day epic nessss thankyou so much. silver dragon and a macro is a must. my friend found the bear and gondria as well in 2 days but accidently killed gondria hahahahahhahahaha

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225 Kaylissia of Tortheldrin July 1, 2012 at 12:42 am

Proud to say that Ive tamed 4 in approx. an hours time today! :D Loque and Skoll is all I need now. :D

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226 Kaylissia of Tortheldrin July 1, 2012 at 12:43 am

Proud to say that Ive tamed 4 in approx. an hours time today! :D Loque and Skoll is all I need now. :D I already had 2 woot

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227 Garwulf July 2, 2012 at 6:56 pm

Grats Kaylissia! 4 SBs in an hour is very impressive…and lucky! GL w/ Loque & Skoll.

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228 Kaylissia July 3, 2012 at 9:34 am

Thanks Gar, I got Loque the next day. Skoll continues to be elusive. Mostly because on our realm we have a certain druid who camps 24/7. He drives me insane! Anyone on horde side of Tortheldrin, feel free to head up to Bor’s Breath and camp this player back! xD

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229 luis July 4, 2012 at 5:54 am

alguien me puede llevar a karoma por f

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230 luis July 4, 2012 at 6:28 am

por fvor see alguien sabe agregen a zxluisxz y me llevan por f

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231 Apothx July 10, 2012 at 9:13 pm

Is their a club for those who have tamed all 9 SB’s? Skimming the comments I didn’t see anything about one…The key thing about Spirit Beasts is patience. I just randomly went to these spots through out the days, the only one I camped for was Skoll (And even then I got lucky, he spawned like 30 minutes later), which this completed my collection. Don’t rush to find them all, just take your time. Enjoy the hunt :)

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232 Silversea July 11, 2012 at 8:49 am

Hey Garwulf, this is a great site you have here. I have learned a lot.

On SB myself, I’ve picked up Loque, Skoll, Arcturis, Ghostcrawler and Banthalos without any camping; I have them all purely because someone else came across them and I happened to be the only lvl 85 hunter online at the time and they /w me asking if I wanted to tame it. Just shows how empty the servers are these days.

Skoll was a bit of an exception though; the guy made me pay 5000g, but I would have regretted it if I didn’t. Unfortunately I never use SBs a lot. I am too well set up with MM at the moment.

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233 eassau July 13, 2012 at 4:01 pm

Your instructions are super good. I got Ban’thalos last evening and it was just as you had said. It was difficult to get perched on top the tree but it worked after several tries. I decided to stay up there several days checking and logging off and logging back on at random times. I practiced laying freeze trap, mounting and ascending, then dismounting and simulate shooting, falling back and re gaining health. Tried it in the twilight on a real owl and it worked there…. About 3 days and bingo, I hit the macro and poof, he was there. I was shaking so I forgot what I was to do. Finlay got together ant started the routine. It took me 3 tries to get in range of a shot after dismounting, but finally it worked and I came down with him after me and clicked deterrence and there he was in my trap, a little taming and he fell in my lap. Thank you, Thank you, Thank you….AWSOME

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234 eassau July 13, 2012 at 4:25 pm

Actually he fell to the ground and I thought the taming failed, but after searching around i saw him on the ground below my tree…WOW

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235 eassau July 13, 2012 at 4:22 pm

Prior to taming Ban’thalos, I found and tamed Ankha while following your instructions to the tee. Sure looked silly there with all my clothes off, but it worked just as you had described in this forum. I was surprised he tamed so quickly without killing me while I’m naked. I was really on edge because of all the mob around there and me with no armor. If I had aggro’d one what would I do then? I suppose a freeze trap on a mob may do the job…..Thank you very much….

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236 Taloz July 18, 2012 at 10:23 am

A hint on Ankha and the othe spirit tiger there. If your in a party and the people your with have armore to their special ability still will work on you. so ether get out of group befor tame or have them strip too.

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237 Zuiz July 19, 2012 at 1:18 pm

I am having a hard time trying to get loque any tips??? I have been camping him for so long.. TIRED of no beast =(

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238 Kaylissia July 21, 2012 at 7:31 pm

Finished my collection just now. Got Skoll and magria in a matter of minutes. (besides hearthing & flight path from Dal to Frosthold) Nabbed Anthriss while doing my hyjal dailies after nabbing Magria. (I know Anth isnt a SB but still :P ) Im so happy :D

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239 Kaylissia July 21, 2012 at 7:32 pm

Zuiz, I nabbed Loque right near the nesingwary camp…to the left of the path and above the water…right there….i know he has many spawn points but that just happens to be where I got him. hth

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240 Maijtala August 2, 2012 at 11:02 am

I finally got Loque this week, after hunting for hours each day for a week! Oddly, it was the same day, a few hours later, after I decided to hunt for Aotona and tame him/her too! A few hours later, Loque popped up right by Nessingwary’s camp! So far I have Arcturis, Gondria, and Loque! Still can’t find Skoll :( And haven’t hunted yet for the other two spirit kitties, guess those are next!!

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241 Habownero August 19, 2012 at 9:18 am

soooo today i got ban’thalos, magria, AND loque’nahak within about 4 hrs of each other. what are the odds of that? lol

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242 HunterWoW August 30, 2012 at 11:13 am

I found all beasts,but there is problem,i cant tame them.Says invalid target.

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243 Garwulf August 30, 2012 at 11:29 am

Are you specced Beast Mastery? Spirit Beasts are exotic pets – only available to Beast Mastery hunters.

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244 Larrka August 31, 2012 at 10:53 pm

So, I found Loque up by the spawn point closet to Icecrown. I imediatly, hit guild chat, to tell them that Loque is up and to Post it in Trade, as i had aready had Him. However, today, I met a hunter, who puts a shame to us all, for he had Skoll out, tried taming Loque, then just killed him. It was a sad day. However I found my Loque by the Negway Base camp, the one closest to the edge. I had left camping him to go help a friend of mine for a few hours. I fly back up, just to see, not really hoping, and BOOM! Loque. The npc scan never did go off for him. I was being killed by anthor cat at the same time. So, note to future Loque hunters: kill regular cats in area first, then tame.
SKoll is my only Northrend Spirit Pet left.

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245 Jaime September 4, 2012 at 8:46 pm

My one day of taming Spirit Beasts (same day I hit lvl 85)!

Datsyukian
Shattered Halls

Realm Time:
Karoma – 4:05 P.M. (56.49 – 62.13)
Ban’thalos – 5:57 P.M. (On top of the tree)
Ankha – 7:11 P.M. – Coords (27.28 – 51.15)
Solix – 7:48 P.M. – Coords (In Cave in the lava)
Ghostcrawler – 9:01 P.M. – Coords (15.14 – 77.06)

(add 3 hours for my timezone *EST*)

My goal was to find Karoma – I first found dead @ 10:44 A.M I knew I had to come back around 4 P.M. (6 hour difference from death) and BAM – 4:05 P.M. – Karoma was out walking around. I then proceeded to head back to Mount Hyjial to camp Ankha – then BAM @ 5:57 P.M. Ban’thalos showed up. I figured I had a bit more time before any other rares show back up, and to my surprise (ANKHA) spawned @ 7:11 P.M. – I then proceeded to do my dailies and I got Solix from doing dailies.

I then go… hmmm if I tamed those other 3 spirit beasts – I figured to give Ghostcrawler a shot… and as soon as I circled 3 laps around his spawn points – BAM – GHOSTCRAWLER!! @ 9:01 P.M.

So glad I was able to retrieve 4 awesome spirit beasts (and 1 spider) during my night of taming!

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246 Dram September 6, 2012 at 11:32 pm

Been looking for multiple beasts in both cata and northrend for 2 weeks and havent seen one

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247 Grogghagga September 12, 2012 at 4:44 am

Today i tamed Loque’nahak, Karoma and Ghostcrawler within an hour.
And that makes 7 spirit beasts in 5 days, guess i have been kinda lucky since it is kinda high populated realm and all. :)

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248 Ashton September 17, 2012 at 3:34 pm

Just wanted to send out status of spawn timer… Tamed Ankha at around 610 US server time for anyone looking.

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249 Dan October 3, 2012 at 9:26 am

I completed Mount Hyjal the other day and just found your website today. So does this mean that I am out of phase to try and tame the spirit beasts? Or are you able to tame the spirit beasts after completing all the quests?

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250 Creditz October 12, 2012 at 5:27 pm

Got all of them, thanks :)

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251 nick October 15, 2012 at 1:45 pm

hey man idk where did u find the gondria but the fact is that i explored all northend + zul drak and i didnt find anything…dunno dude….

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252 Lovax October 22, 2012 at 2:06 pm

I just hit 85 yesterday and went looking for my first SB. I went for Arc first since only one spot that he spawns at. I landed and asked in general chat if anybody had happened to see him yet and just as I did boom he spawned right on top of me. I got numb after taming him was numb for like 15 seconds with excitement. Today I went looking for Loque and after an hour of flying circles I left to go look for Gondria. The third spot I hit looking for him resulted in my second SB in less than 24 hours.

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253 Adelheide October 22, 2012 at 6:23 pm

I have been looking for Spirit Beasts all day. Anyone have any info on finding them easier. I have SilverDragon and NPCSpan but unfortunatly I havn’t had any luck. I have been going to all of the spots for all of the beasts but no such luck.

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254 Lovax October 23, 2012 at 9:46 am

Adelheide, If it was easy all hunters would have all of them. they are exotic and rare for a reason. It comes down to luck really and patience. The silver dragon and npcscan addons are great additions for the hunt. If you don’t have patience then you are going to be aggravated all the time.

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255 Uvu December 25, 2012 at 7:22 pm

When you’re dealing with half-day-long spawns or longer, some of it comes down to just plain long-suffering patience and, yes, luck. Good LUCK to you! On my Ally hunter, I spent about eight hours trolling back and forth, round and round looking for Ghostcrawler. Thank God I got him (my fav pet). I’m still trying to figure out how to hang in that dang tree in Hyjal for that stinkin’ bird!

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256 hordehunters October 23, 2012 at 2:22 pm

i had been camping a spawn in sholzar for days for the magnificent loque’nahak, i had gone AFK for a few minutes and when i had come back my addon had gone off and some asshole hunter had tamed him, in a fit of rage i flew around sholzar checking his spawn points, this is when i saw him, a helpless orc roaming the wilds below, i dismounted and took my anger out on him with my bow!

back to spawning, can’t bellieve i had just missed him too :(

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257 Lovax October 23, 2012 at 9:23 pm

Garwulf, I thought I would throw out a suggestion to add to your guide here when it comes to Ban’thlos,Ankha and Magria. The the coords for the tree top that you reference here are 27.3 and 64.3.

I also thought it would be a good thing to add in the walkthrough that an easy way to tell if you are in the correct phase for someone who is not sure is that they should have access to repeatable quests from the NPCs at the Sanctuary of Malorne. If you see no repeatable quests then you are not in the correct phase.

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258 CharmsKey October 24, 2012 at 6:27 am

I gotta say your site has been very useful! being a noob I have not had a easy time finding rare pets but I just now got Karoma and picked up Gondria two days ago! I have had really good luck super early hours of the morning :) Picked up Karoma at 6:15am PST :)

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259 Lovax October 24, 2012 at 8:33 am

I got Magria as soon as I logged in the game this morning. I was on the tree where Ban is at and did not see him so I swooped down to check and see if any kitties were there and yep Magria is mine.

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260 Lovax October 25, 2012 at 7:35 am

Ban’Thalos in the bag. That makes for my 4th SB in less than 3 days.

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261 Theohuxtable October 25, 2012 at 9:03 am

Finally got Gondria today at around 10:30 a.m EST, got him at the Alter Of Mammoth spawn point. Took weeks to finally get him.

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262 ugottrolled November 1, 2012 at 9:12 am

Arcturis tamed at 12:11 PM on Arygos.

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263 butterbuns November 2, 2012 at 11:00 pm

got karoma on hakkar server at 11;50 central time after 5 hours of searching

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264 Korame November 16, 2012 at 12:50 pm

Arcturis tamed at 12:40 Realm Time, right when poped up

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265 Korame November 16, 2012 at 12:51 pm

Shadowsong btw

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266 Sciobtha November 16, 2012 at 6:39 pm

Just starting my spirit beast journey. I was looking for skoll for two days, he spawned and I panicked and couldn’t find any buttons (had just replaced everything with macros) and killed him by mistake :( I d/c’d and raged at myself!!!! I popped back on and let everyone know that skolls timer had been reset.

I am now camping the spot he spawned for me last time, I pre-emptively dismissed my pet and have trap launcher on, I clicked freezing trap then came back to this window. The plan is that he will spawn within taming range, I will see the screen shake and click once to go back to WoW window, a second time to drop freeze trap, and a third click to start taming. Hoping when the moment comes I don’t panic or have someone grief me, wish meh luck! I will prolly go for Loque next. :)

p.s. while camping this spot I literally just read every comment to pass time and look for tips, I may have to invest in one of those amulets, it sounds powerful!!! :P NAWT!!!!

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267 Sciobtha November 16, 2012 at 6:52 pm

p.s. kinda digging the dramatic storm peak soundtrack!

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268 Sciobtha November 17, 2012 at 4:29 am

Just nailed skoll! Baelgun server, 3:25 am PST (Server time?) I was shaking sooo bad! Off to Loque’Nahak, I am officially addicted.

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269 Julieta December 9, 2012 at 10:05 pm

This is really useful!
I have a friend that was able to log on and get Skoll. He just
spawned right in front of him.

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270 kelendros December 24, 2012 at 3:32 pm

skoll is so elusive – i saw him 3 days ago but was only 78 and watched anothe hunter tame him. since then i stopped lvling and just stalk him on bor;s breath
any tips?

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271 Uvu December 25, 2012 at 7:12 pm

For what it’s worth, using the macro you suggested, I beat two other hunters out after Arcturis. Much obliged!

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272 Mipser December 28, 2012 at 6:01 pm

I tame logue’nahak without trap :D

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273 Zombiehunter January 3, 2013 at 5:52 pm

Just tamed Arcturis at level 74 today! I only had to camp out for about a half hour. =) I managed to beat out two other hunters to him thanks to your macro. Thanks again for the detailed guide, or I would have never caught him!

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274 Sciobtha January 8, 2013 at 3:53 am

Gondria nabbed at 3:25 realm time in Baelgun, finally after getting skoll quickly this was a pain to search…

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275 Bryon January 8, 2013 at 5:45 pm

With all these areas being combined across servers, it is nearly impossible to see these anymore. Such a shame.

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276 Sonesson142 January 10, 2013 at 3:27 pm

Found Gondoria 1 min ago!:D:D:D, i got luck lol

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277 Kea January 26, 2013 at 5:32 am

Ive camped for days and days (3 weeks) but I STILL CANT find him. Can someone help me?

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278 nestel January 26, 2013 at 6:09 pm

been searching for karoma in twilight highlands but still no sign of him any tips that could help me find his common spawn points pls im at twilights hammer realm :D

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279 Monras February 10, 2013 at 7:48 pm

Anyone know we’re I can find Loque & how long dose he spown

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280 zack shelton March 5, 2013 at 5:38 am

loque can respawn in the same place multiple times, in a span of a day and a half i saw a hunter tame him , and then i came across him already dead , and the next day i tamed him early that morning. i tamed him at the sky reach pillar, but previous he had spawned at the same location back to back.

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281 Matu February 18, 2013 at 8:55 am

Started a tame on Arcturis last night and a competing hunter, killed him for me, gee thanks friend, at 7:15 pm…..got up this mornign for work and flew to spawn point at 5:30, no spawn, 6:15 no spawn, off to work, at 7:00, fired up wow on my work comp and kept it minimized, checking sporadically, Horde hunte camped at 7:30, no spawn, opened wow at 8:20 and there Arcturis was, target, hit tame and got him just as 4 other hunters , including the Horde, landed from who knows where……times are server times on Blackhand server….glad to have him…have wanted him since BC….now on to others, have Skoll, and Now Arcturis…..(-8

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282 Keyword2 March 3, 2013 at 12:32 pm

Useful info. Fortunate me I discovered your website accidentally, and I am stunned why this twist of fate didn’t came about in advance! I bookmarked it.

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283 Shasooya March 3, 2013 at 6:08 pm

ok i’m trying to tame Loque’nahak but i cant fricking find him and i have a app on my phone that lets me know whare thay spawn but i looked every ware he spawns but i knt find him can you help me

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284 Ardalsam March 4, 2013 at 10:52 am

Just got Ban’thalos about 10 mins ago! I didn’t use deterrence, just hit him with glaive shot to aggro him, dropped the trap, easy tame! :)

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285 Klaxxi March 6, 2013 at 11:07 am

THANX !
thanx to this guide i got both Gondria, and Loque’nahak!!<3

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286 Soik the Hunter March 9, 2013 at 7:32 am

Just tamed Loque’nahak this morning (at 9:20am local time), 4:20am server time (Ursin). Got it at one of those spawn points at south west, the one near the river, to be right.
Was looking for it about 3 months. Now I’m sure that it’s just a question of luck and perseverance. All of sudden Loque spawned right in front of me!! My heart beat so fast and kept beating for the next 10min!!!
2 important things for who look for that pet:
- Be sure to don’t have a active pet while you look for it;
- After taming the Loque I kept looking for Aotona, cause I read something that they (Loque, Aotona and King Krush) spawn together or nearly. No, at least that time, those others didn’t spawned.

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287 huntine March 11, 2013 at 9:53 pm

what about the porcupine in pandaria, i’ve seen it in two different locations but no success in taming it…i never thought to strip all armor may try that…i have heard of successful tames tho

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288 Phystia April 20, 2013 at 7:12 pm

I am searching for Loque’nahak at the moment can anyone tell me the best place to camp for him?

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