Fancy spirit beasts and other pretty pets await in the WoW Classic expansion.
World of Warcraft Classic’s upcoming Cataclysm expansion adds attractive new hunter pets to tame, including rare spawns and, in a later patch, those that pose extra challenges to acquire.
« When Cataclysm Classic launches [on May 20], all of the special encounter rare pets for hunters introduced during the launch of the original Cataclysm will become available, » said Kris Zierhut, principal game designer. « We have not made any changes to their spawn timers, locations or pathings. »
Zierhut also said Cataclysm’s so-called « challenge tames, » which feature tameable beasts with special buffs and difficulty for hunters, will come later.
« While we may be working from the 4.3.4 data patch in terms of class and encounter balance and tuning, content tied to a specific update, such as rare pet tames in the Molten Front that are part of the 4.2 Rage of the Firelands patch, will be accessible when that respective content goes live, » he said. Challenge tames include Ban’thalos, the cats Magria and Ankha, and the Molten Front spiders.
For now though, here’s how to find the Cataclysm hunter pets you can obtain at launch. A reminder that you must be at least the same level as the pet in order to tame it, so you’ll have to wait until level 85 to get some of these rare spawns. Many of these are exotic spirit beasts, so they will also require players to have the top-tier Beast Mastery talent to capture them.WoW Cataclysm hunter pets list
For all of these, I’d recommend using the add-on SilverDragon to help notify you when they’re up in your vicinity, and a coordinates add-on such as TomTom to tell you precisely where you are in the game. Otherwise, you can always create a targeting macro for the pet you’re hunting and put it on a keybind you can easily spam. For example, « /tar Karoma » will target the spectral wolf in Twilight Highlands.Ghostcrawler
Zone: Vashj’ir
Area: Abandoned Reef
Greg « Ghostcrawler » Street was a Blizzard developer famous for saying things like « nerf paladins to the ground, » so it’s appropriate that his namesake is a level 85 spectral crab spirit beast with the hard-hitting ability Nerfbat.
