Rare Hunter Pets

For a detailed overview on the available pets, and everything else you need to know and I forgot to write, please head over to Kalliope's excellent post on the Petopia Forum:

Where The Wild Things Are [MoP rare hunter pets]

For some helpful hints on tracking the sneaky beasts, she also made a video on how to best go on about uncovering them.

Some quick info to get you started though:

• Follow the tracks backwards! Yes, they're currently bugged, most will be fixed in 5.1.
• Use Flare not where the last track is, but where you anticipate the pet to be walking.
• Throw a Hunter's Mark on them, so they stay visible even after they leave the flared area.

  For a quick link to the post for each creature, click on their name under the picture:

 

Rockhide the Immovable

 

Patrannache

 

Stompy

 

Bristlespine

 

Bloodtooth

 

Bombyx

 

Savage

 

 

Hexapos

 

Glimmer

 

Portent

This is how it all began...

 
The tamable beast riddle

The riddle is slowly getting solved. Loki on the Petopia forums was the first one to find the tracks. Followed by sensionn, Kalliope, The Doomcookie, Quivering, Golden... if I forget anyone please let me know :)

 Look for tracks. 

Dusty tracks

 Find tracks. Follow them. They spawn and despawn and change direction. Find the start. Use flare.

Use Hunter's Mark to keep the beast visible (but only to you)

Flush out the beast!

So far, a goat, tiger, fen strider, water strider, porcupine, crane, turtle, basilisk and a Maddexx-esque quilen have been discovered. 

Its fun! It's a great idea. I still need to find out if non hunters see the tracks but I assume they do. Only hunters can see the tracks.

If you're quick and put a Hunter's Mark on the flared creature, you'll be able to keep track of where it is when it leaves the flared area, but only you!

Be careful:

There is no way to 'tag' the creature as of currently that I know of. If it's flared, everyone can see it. If you freeze it in the flare, a second hunter can just tame it. I have also tested aggro tagging with someone on the beta. I asked her to attack Savage, and she shot his health halfway down, and when Savage started attacking her instead of her pet, I tamed it without any interruption.  I did have Hunter's Mark on it so it stayed visible to be throughout.
I still need people to find out if Hunter's Mark will tag it to you. So someone needs to put the mark up, while the other person does the same and tames.


You have to be level 85 to be able to tame the starting zone rares like Savage, the tiger. There still is a questgiver in Stormwind/Orgrimmar, that ports you to Valley of the Four Winds and makes you reach 86 by talking to him over there.

Edit: It has been confirmed that the first spirit beasts will make their apparition as of patch 5.1.

Now, find those creatures!!