Taming the Beast (Alliance)

• Reach level 10
• Accept Taming the Beast from Elayaa EasewindOptional

At 10, Elayaa Easewind, a hunter trainer on Zephras Isle, may send you on to Valanaar with Taming the Beast. It is only a pointer: skip it if you are already in Valanaar.

Skips ahead to step 16 outside Zephras Isle.

• Turn in Taming the Beast at Quel'ana QuickgaleOptional
• Accept Taming the Beast from Quel'ana QuickgaleQuel'ana Quickgale: the first Taming Rod

Quel'ana Quickgale stands with the trainers by Valanaar's west gate, Quel'dora Quickgale beside her.

• Tame Windsong Crawler for Taming the BeastUse the Taming Rod on a living crawler
• Turn in Taming the Beast at Quel'ana Quickgale
• Accept Taming the Beast from Quel'ana Quickgale

Windsong Crawlers live only by water: the nearest scuttle along the shore south-west of Valanaar, among the crabs. How the rod works: target a living crawler, use the Taming Rod and stand still for the whole channel while it hits you; moving, fighting back or anyone else's help breaks it and costs one of the rod's few charges. Killing one does not count. Keep each rod: it goes back to Quel'ana.

• Tame Ornery Galestrider for Taming the BeastUse the Taming Rod on a living galestrider
• Turn in Taming the Beast at Quel'ana Quickgale
• Accept Taming the Beast from Quel'ana Quickgale

Dismiss the crawler first (right-click the pet portrait, Dismiss Pet). Ornery Galestriders graze in the Gustberry Lowlands, the fields a short walk west and south-west of Valanaar.

• Tame Vuldren Alpha for Taming the BeastUse the Taming Rod on a living alpha
• Turn in Taming the Beast at Quel'ana QuickgaleQuel'ana Quickgale: Tame Beast
• Accept Training the Beast from Quel'ana Quickgale
• Turn in Training the Beast at Quel'dora QuickgaleQuel'dora Quickgale, beside her: Beast Training

Dismiss the galestrider. Vuldren Alphas hunt in the same Gustberry Lowlands, a little further south.

• Reach level 10
• Accept Taming the Beast from Grif WildheartGrif Wildheart: the first Taming Rod

At 10 go to Grif Wildheart, the hunter trainer at the smithy in Kharanos. The Hunter's Path from Olmin Burningbeard in Ironforge, Tristane Shadowstone north-west of Kharanos or Einris Brightspear in Stormwind also leads here, for a little experience; it is only a pointer. In Elwynn at 10 instead? Josephine Carson's chain in Goldshire teaches the same.

• Tame Large Crag Boar for Taming the BeastUse the Taming Rod on a living boar
• Turn in Taming the Beast at Grif Wildheart
• Accept Taming the Beast from Grif Wildheart

Large Crag Boars (level 6–7) root around the fields west, south and north-west of Kharanos and respawn every 3 minutes. How the rod works: target a living beast, use the Taming Rod and stand still for the whole channel while it hits you. Moving, fighting back, being out of range or anyone else's help breaks it and costs one of the rod's few charges; if they run out, destroy the rod, abandon the quest and take it again from Grif. The boars use Rushing Charge from 25 yards, so start with the rod, not Auto Shot. Keep each rod: it goes back to Grif.

• Tame Snow Leopard for Taming the BeastUse the Taming Rod on a living leopard
• Turn in Taming the Beast at Grif Wildheart
• Accept Taming the Beast from Grif Wildheart

Dismiss the boar first (right-click the pet portrait, Dismiss Pet): a released practice pet can turn on you. Snow Leopards (level 7–8) prowl the slopes south-east of Kharanos, more north-west and west of it; the smaller Juvenile Snow Leopards do not count.

• Tame Ice Claw Bear for Taming the BeastUse the Taming Rod on a living bear
• Turn in Taming the Beast at Grif WildheartGrif Wildheart: Tame Beast
• Accept Training the Beast from Grif Wildheart

Dismiss the leopard. Ice Claw Bears (level 7–8) roam the hills around Kharanos, many south-east of it and more north-west toward Anvilmar; their Ice Claw hits hard, so start at full health.

• Turn in Training the Beast at Belia ThundergraniteBelia Thundergranite: Beast Training

Belia Thundergranite, the pet trainer, stands in the Hall of Arms in Ironforge's Military Ward, by the hunter trainers.

• Reach level 10
• Accept Taming the Beast from DazalarDazalar: the first Taming Rod

At 10 go to Dazalar, the hunter trainer in Dolanaar. The Hunter's Path from Ayanna Everstride at Aldrassil, Jocaste in Darnassus, Einris Brightspear in Stormwind, Olmin Burningbeard in Ironforge or Grif Wildheart in Kharanos also leads here, for a little experience; it is only a pointer. In Elwynn at 10 instead? Josephine Carson's chain in Goldshire teaches the same.

• Tame Webwood Lurker for Taming the BeastUse the Taming Rod on a living spider
• Turn in Taming the Beast at Dazalar
• Accept Taming the Beast from Dazalar

Webwood Lurkers (level 5–6) creep through the woods just north-east, south-west and east of Dolanaar. How the rod works: target a living beast, use the Taming Rod and stand still for the whole channel while it hits you; moving, attacking it or anyone else's help breaks it and costs one of the rod's few charges (out of charges: destroy the rod, abandon the quest, take it again). Their Web roots you but does not break the channel if you keep still. Keep each rod: it goes back to Dazalar.

• Tame Nightsaber Stalker for Taming the BeastUse the Taming Rod on a living stalker
• Turn in Taming the Beast at Dazalar
• Accept Taming the Beast from Dazalar

Dismiss the spider first (right-click the pet portrait, Dismiss Pet): a released practice pet can turn on you. Nightsaber Stalkers (level 7–8) lie on the hillside south of Lake Al'Ameth, south of Dolanaar; the plain Nightsabers by the village do not count.

• Tame Strigid Screecher for Taming the BeastUse the Taming Rod on a living owl
• Turn in Taming the Beast at DazalarDazalar: Tame Beast
• Accept Training the Beast from Dazalar

Dismiss the cat. Strigid Screechers (level 7–8), owls, perch in the woods south, south-west and west of Dolanaar.

• Turn in Training the Beast at JocasteJocaste: Beast Training

Take the road west from Dolanaar to Darnassus. Jocaste stands inside the Cenarion Enclave with the hunter trainers; Silvaria, the pet trainer, is up the ramp next to her.

• Reach level 10
• Accept Taming the Beast from Josephine CarsonJosephine Carson: the first Taming Rod

At 10 go to Josephine Carson, the hunter trainer who stands with the other trainers by the Lion's Pride Inn in Goldshire; Isaac Chan, the pet trainer, is beside her. Skyborne: this is for one who left Zephras Isle without taming; it teaches the same.

Skips ahead to step 20 if Taming the Beast is turned in.

• Tame Rockhide Boar for Taming the BeastUse the Taming Rod on a living boar
• Turn in Taming the Beast at Josephine Carson
• Accept Taming the Beast from Josephine Carson

Rockhide Boars (level 7–8) graze in three herds south and south-east of Goldshire, toward the Maclure Vineyards. How the rod works: target a living beast, use the Taming Rod and stand still for the whole channel while it hits you. Moving, fighting back, a heal from someone else or anyone else hitting the beast breaks it and costs one of the rod's few charges; if they run out, destroy the rod, abandon the quest and take it again. The boars use Rushing Charge, so start with the rod, not Auto Shot. Killing a boar does not count. Keep each rod: it goes back to Josephine. A Dwarf or Night Elf who took Josephine's rod instead of their home trainer's is led through Goldshire from here.

• Tame Gray Forest Wolf for Taming the BeastUse the Taming Rod on a living wolf
• Turn in Taming the Beast at Josephine Carson
• Accept Taming the Beast from Josephine Carson

Dismiss the boar first (right-click the pet portrait, Dismiss Pet): a released practice pet can turn on you. Gray Forest Wolves (level 7–8) run in the woods east of Goldshire, east of Crystal Lake.

• Tame Young Forest Bear for Taming the BeastUse the Taming Rod on a living bear
• Turn in Taming the Beast at Josephine CarsonJosephine Carson: Tame Beast
• Accept Training the Beast from Josephine Carson
• Turn in Training the Beast at Isaac ChanIsaac Chan, beside her: Beast Training

Dismiss the wolf. Young Forest Bears (level 8–9) roam the woods just south of Goldshire, with more south-west and south-east of town.

• Tame a beast of your level to keepOptional
• Near Goldshire there are no cats: Prowlers (wolves, level 9–10) roam eastern Elwynn, Longsnouts (boars, 10–11) its far south-west by the Westfall border; at 12–13, Young Goretusks (boars) graze the fields of northern Westfall.Human only
• Near Kharanos: Snow Leopards (cats, level 7–8) prowl all over Dun Morogh, Scarred Crag Boars (9–10) its east toward Loch Modan; at 10–11, Mountain Boars roam western Loch Modan.Dwarf only
• Near Dolanaar: Elder Nightsabers (cats, level 8–9) and Feral Nightsabers (cats, 10–11) prowl the woods of north-western Teldrassil.Night Elf only
• Near Valanaar: Vuldren Alphas (level 10), the beast of your last practice tame, hunt the Gustberry Lowlands; Shriekling Matriarchs (raptors, level 9) nest just west of Valanaar; Shadowgale Urseras (bears, 10–11) roam the north of Zephras Isle.Skyborne only
• Feed Pet: open your spellbook, cast Feed Pet and click a food your pet's family eats (the pet's tooltip lists them: cats eat meat and fish, boars almost anything). Raw meat looted from beasts counts. To buy: Toddrick the butcher in Goldshire, Jaeana in Darnassus and the innkeepers on Zephras Isle sell meat; the innkeepers of Kharanos and Dolanaar sell bread. Food near the pet's level makes it happiest; much lower food gives about half. You cannot feed in combat.
• Happiness: the face on the pet frame. An unhappy pet does three quarters of its damage, a happy one a quarter more. Happiness drains slowly, faster when the pet dies; a pet left unhappy too long can run away.
• Loyalty grows with time and kills. Each loyalty rank raises the training points you spend in Beast Training (pet level times loyalty rank minus one).
• Beast Training (spellbook, General tab) teaches your current pet the abilities you know. To learn a new ability or rank: leave your pet with a stable master (Erma in Goldshire, Shelby Stoneflint in Kharanos, Seriadne in Dolanaar, Genn Fairweather on Zephras Isle), tame a beast that has it (its pet spellbook tab shows what it knows), use the ability in fights until the game says you learned it, then take your own pet back and teach it with Beast Training. A pet holds four active abilities at most.
• Pet trainers sell Growl ranks and resistances. Alliance: Isaac Chan in Goldshire, Karrina Mekenda by the hunter trainers in Stormwind's Dwarven District, Peria Lamenur in Kharanos, Belia Thundergranite in Ironforge's Hall of Arms, Keldas in Dolanaar, Silvaria in Darnassus' Cenarion Enclave, Quel'dora Quickgale in Valanaar.
• Call Pet, Dismiss Pet and Revive Pet are in your spellbook now; Mend Pet comes from your trainer at 12. A dead pet needs Revive Pet; one that is away more than about 100 yards is dismissed and comes back with Call Pet.

Tame Beast works like the rod: a beast of your level or lower, a channel you must not move during, the beast hitting you all the while. A pet keeps the level you tame it at and levels up with you; it can never be above your level, so tame one close to yours. Each family has its own ability on Forever (a boar's Charge, for example). For levelling, a cat hits hardest (Claw and Bite) and a boar takes more punishment.