Hunter pets and taming in WoW Forever

Change	What it means for you
Pets scale with your gear	Your pet's stats come from your own. Every upgrade you put on makes your pet hit harder and live longer too. In exchange, buffs that raise stats (Mark of the Wild, Blessing of Kings and the like) no longer land on your pet.
Crit and Expertise	Your pet uses the higher of your melee or ranged crit chance, so a bow-focused Hunter no longer has a pet that crits less than they do. Your Expertise counts for the pet as well, so it gets dodged and parried less.
Tame at your level	You can't tame a beast above your own level. Want a level-37 rare? Be level 37.
A signature for every family	Every family learns Bite or Claw (some both) and Dive or Dash, plus one ability nobody else has: Swipe for bears, Web for spiders, Dust Cloud for tallstriders and so on. The table below lists them all.
Speed survives untraining	A fast pet keeps its attack speed when you reset its training, so untraining to try new abilities costs you nothing.
Aggressive is back	You set the stance in the pet tab of your spellbook.
Scare Beast has a cooldown	30 seconds now, at every rank.
Retuned abilities	Crocolisk Dismember cuts healing by 25% for 6 seconds every 15 seconds. Bat Sonic Blast slows spellcasting by 30% for 20 seconds, once a minute. Bird of Prey Mine! disarms for 3 seconds every 90 seconds.

The 18 families

The bonus is what the family gets on top of the base pet: more damage, more armor or more health, or less of one to pay for another. Each name opens the family page with every ability rank and the beasts that teach it.

Family	Bonus, signature ability and diet
[Bat](/pet/24)	+7% damage. Sonic Blast: Nature damage, spells take 30% longer to cast for 20 seconds, once a minute. Eats fungus and fruit.
[Bear](/pet/4)	+5% armor, +8% health, −9% damage. Swipe hits three enemies every 5 seconds. Eats almost anything.
[Bird of Prey](/pet/26)	+7% damage. Mine! damages and disarms for 3 seconds, every 90 seconds. Eats meat.
[Boar](/pet/5)	+9% armor, +4% health, −10% damage. Charge closes the gap, roots for 1 second and powers up the next hit. Eats almost anything.
[Carrion Bird](/pet/7)	+5% armor. Demoralizing Screech lowers the attack power of everything in melee range for 30 seconds. Eats meat and fish.
[Cat](/pet/2)	+10% damage, −2% health. Prowl stealths the pet; the first attack does 50% more. Eats meat and fish.
[Crab](/pet/8)	+13% armor, −5% damage, −4% health. Pinch damages and slows by 50% for 9 seconds. Eats fish, bread, fungus and fruit.
[Crocolisk](/pet/6)	+10% armor, −5% health. Dismember cuts the target's healing by 25% for 6 seconds. Eats meat and fish.
[Fox](/pet/319)	+5% armor. New in Forever. Trickster's Dance: +50% dodge and 30% faster attacks for 12 seconds, from pet level 20. Eats meat.
[Gorilla](/pet/9)	+2% damage, +4% health. Thunderstomp deals Nature damage to every enemy within 8 yards, from pet level 30. Eats fungus and fruit.
[Hyena](/pet/25)	+5% armor. Tendon Rip bleeds and slows by 50% for 9 seconds. Eats meat and fruit.
[Raptor](/pet/11)	+10% damage, +3% armor, −5% health. Savage Rend adds an 18-second Bleed. Eats meat.
[Scorpid](/pet/20)	+10% armor, −6% damage. Scorpid Poison stacks a Nature damage over time up to five times. Eats meat.
[Spider](/pet/3)	+7% damage. Web roots the target for 4 seconds and poisons it. Eats meat.
[Tallstrider](/pet/12)	+5% health. Dust Cloud strips 505 armor at the top rank for 30 seconds. Eats cheese, fungus and fruit.
[Turtle](/pet/21)	+13% armor, −10% damage. Shell Shield halves the damage the pet takes for 12 seconds, from pet level 20. Eats fish, fungus and fruit.
[Wind Serpent](/pet/27)	+7% damage. Lightning Breath is instant Nature damage from range. Eats fish, cheese and bread.
[Wolf](/pet/1)	+5% armor. Furious Howl raises the melee attack power of party and raid members within 15 yards for a minute. Eats meat.

Most signature abilities arrive at pet level 12 and gain a rank every 12 levels after that, up to 60. Furious Howl, Scorpid Poison and Demoralizing Screech start at 8 or 10; Prowl and Thunderstomp start at 30, Mine! at 10.

Foxes live on Zephras Isle

Every fox is a Vuldren on Zephras Isle, the Skyborne starting island, at levels 1 to 10. The family is the Skyborne Hunter's to collect: tame one before you leave the island. Trickster's Dance unlocks when the fox reaches 20.

Where to tame the best pets

Pick a pet in your level range: you tame at your level or below, and a pet levels with you from there. Fast attackers keep their speed after taming, which means steadier threat and more chances to crit. Every beast below is in the pet finder with its attack speed and abilities.

Levels 10 to 20

Beast	Why it's worth it
The Rake (cat, 10)	A rare cat in Mulgore with a 1.2-second attack, the fastest pet you can get at 10.
Ghostfang (cat, 10)	A rare blue cat near the Wetlands tunnel in Dun Morogh. It knows no abilities, so it's a look rather than a power pick. It comes back about half an hour after someone tames it.
Death Flayer (scorpid, 11)	A rare scorpid in Durotar with a 1.6-second attack, and it teaches Claw rank 2 and Scorpid Poison rank 1.
Coldrasp (wolf, 12)	A pale blue spirit wolf in the Whispering Forest of Tirisfal Glades, 1.5-second attack, and it knows Furious Howl. It takes hours to come back, so be first.
Jai'vhanel (bird of prey, 12)	A black owl in Darkshore on a short respawn: if someone beats you to it, it's back in a couple of minutes.
Broodling (spider, 14)	In the first packs at the Ruins of Lordaeron. Note it attacks every 2 seconds once tamed, not 1.5 as in the wild.
Moonstalker (cat, 14–15)	A common cat in Darkshore with a 1.3-second attack. No camping needed.

Levels 20 to 40

Beast	Why it's worth it
Mist Howler (wolf, 22)	A rare wolf in Ashenvale with a 1.3-second attack that teaches Furious Howl rank 1.
Humar the Pridelord (cat, 23)	A rare elite lion in the Barrens, 1.3-second attack. Bring a friend or a good Scare Beast.
Mountain lions (cat, 23–28)	Starving and Feral Mountain Lions in Hillsbrad Foothills and Needles Cougars in Thousand Needles all attack every 1.2 seconds, and they're common.
Ghostpaw Alpha (wolf, 27–28)	A common Ashenvale wolf at 1.3 seconds that teaches Bite rank 4 and Furious Howl rank 2.
Swamp Jaguar (cat, 36–37)	Swamp of Sorrows, 1.2 seconds, common.
Broken Tooth (cat, 37)	The classic: a rare Badlands cat that attacks every second, the fastest pet in the game, and it teaches Dash rank 1.

Levels 40 to 60

Beast	Why it's worth it
King Bangalash (cat, 43)	The elite tiger king of Stranglethorn Vale, 1.4 seconds; teaches Dash rank 2 and Claw rank 6.
Snarler (wolf, 42)	A rare Feralas wolf that teaches Bite rank 6 and Furious Howl rank 3.
Ravage (hyena, 51)	A rare Blasted Lands hyena at 1.3 seconds that teaches Dash rank 3.
Deathmaw (wolf, 53)	A rare Burning Steppes wolf at 1.2 seconds: the fast wolf for a raid Hunter.
Rak'shiri (cat, 57)	A rare Winterspring frostsaber at 1.5 seconds that teaches Dash rank 3. The common Frostsabers around it share the speed.

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Hunter pets and taming in WoW Forever

At a glance

What changed for pets

The taming quest

The 18 families

Where to tame the best pets

Levels 10 to 20

Levels 20 to 40

Levels 40 to 60

Scare Beast and taming tricks

Training your pet

Best pets by job

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