Spirit Beasts
Tamable only by BM Hunters with the 51 point Beast Mastery talent, Spirit Beasts are the most sought after rare pets in the game. Currently there are four Spirit Beasts that can be found in various parts of Northrend.
General Information
Spirit Beasts are part of the Ferocity family of pets. They have a unique skill called Spirit Strike, which is similar in nature to a Druid’s Moonfire ability.
In addition to Spirit Strike, Spirit Beasts also possess the Prowl ability, along with Claw as their focus dump.
All four Spirit Beasts are basically identical, apart from their unique models. They are neutral mobs and will not attack unless provoked either through a hostile attack or by beginning the taming process.
Spirit Beasts are rare spawn pets, which means they will not reappear again for several hours once they’ve either been killed, or tamed by another hunter. It is believed that Spirit Beasts are on a 6 hour respawn timer.
They are classified as Rare Elites, which means they hit a little harder than other mobs at their level.
The Beasts
Arcturis
Location: Grizzly Hills
Level: 74
Since he has only the one known spawn location just above Amberpine Lodge, competition for this unique pet can be quite stiff. Arcturis has the distinction of being the only bear model Spirit Beast. Arcturis is also unique in the sense that his skin is somewhat of a hybrid model of a traditional bear and a shapeshifted Druid.
Gondria
Location: Zul’Drak
Level: 77
Gondria has five spawn locations in Zul’Drak. The most popular and successful taming location seems to be the location farthest east. This cat is based upon a traditional Frostsaber model, but with a spectral appearance, glowing eyes and a whispy glow. This Spirit Beast is quite impressive looking when viewed first hand.
Loque’nahak
Location: Sholazar Basin
Level: 76
Loque’nahak was the original Spirit Beast, having been first introduced in the Wrath of the Lich King expansion. Due to his popularity among hunters, multiple spawn points, as well as his inclusion into the Frostbitten achievement, Loque’nahak is perhaps the most difficult of the four Spirit Beasts to acquire.
See all posts about Loque’nahak
Skoll
Location: The Storm Peaks
Level: 80
Skoll has three spawn locations in the Storm Peaks. Skoll is perhaps second only to Loque’nahak in popularity. He’s also the only Spirit Beast that has a wolf (worg) model. Since he’s the only Spirit Beast that is already level 80 once tamed, this makes him a premier choice for many hunters.
As is the protocol with most beast taming, it is recommended to drop a Freezing Trap in front of you just before the tame. Prior to taming, Spirit Beasts have an ability called Pounce. Once the Spirit Beast is engaged via the taming process, it will use this ability to close the gap on a hunter. It’s not really anything to fear if a Freezing Trap is placed just in front of you, as the Spirit Beast will most often land in it and not even break the tame channeling.
For additional information on these four Spirit Beasts, please refer to my post archives for each, as well as the comments below each post. Site visitors have provided a wealth of information and tips which can really aid in trying to nab one of these beasties.
Good luck to all you hunters looking to add one of these beauties to your stable! 
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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
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.
HELLO! Sorry I’m new to this form, so hunters ftw woot!
ok im gud. Wat’s a Nuramoc?
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
I got both the Arcturis and Nuramoc in 1 day in less than a hour, made my day,
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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
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.
“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.
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
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 .
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
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
I recommend you to have a tenacity for solo runs for original instances¤t dungeons, especially for BM’s, so just get three ferocity pets, a single cunning pet and a single tenacity pet.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Grats Michelf.
By the way, what server are you on, so others may get an idea as to his spawn cycle?
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.
4 in one week..?! Nice!
I have 1 question. Can I still find this 4 spirit beast or what ? i try to find them but i can’t!
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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For Skoll does the bottom right location show that he is inside a cave? or is it saying he is near the cave enterance?
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.
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!
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
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?
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!
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?
Unfortunately, killing Loque’nahak is part of an achievement. The warrior was going for this: http://www.wowhead.com/achievement=2257
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
Which is why it’s that much sweeter when you finally do tame him.
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.
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
Oh no! I’m sure this bad luck will turn around, so hang in there.
lol i will as i allways have lol thanks
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
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.
Gondria i just got it XD wooop! 16.45pm UK time YES i have a spirit beast!
Right on! Wooooot!
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
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.
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
Excellent! Thanks for that info Dan.
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!
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.
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
Thanks Axel! I appreciate the compliments and glad you like the site.
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.
Porcia you by any chance a dwarf hunter?? i tamed loque nahak to on that day i believe, on the same server as you????!??
No I’m a night elf hunter
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!!!
got gondria and skoll between 10 hours
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
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
Hey there,
”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!
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
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!
Forgot to mention that is The Maelstrom Server Eu around 7 am game time ;p
Gondria tamed on Khadgar-EU at 15.20 server time on 22/08/10
Grats Illustrate, and thanks for posting the server and time.
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!
Woohoo!
Arcturis spawn and tamed at 6.30 server time on Khadgar-Eu.
Grats Illustrate!!!
I’m happy to know the guide helped you some.
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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