Tame Beast

Tame Beast
Tame Beast Level 5 hunter ability 30 yd range Channeled Tames a beast to be your companion. If you lose the beast's attention for any reason, the taming process will fail. You must dismiss any active beast companions and have an empty Call Pet slot before you can begin taming a new beast. Only Beast Mastery specialized Hunters can tame Exotic Beasts.
Properties
Class	Hunter
School	Nature
Cooldown	None/Global Cooldown
Other information
Level learned	5
Related buff
Tame Beast Taming a pet. Duration: 6 seconds
Related debuff
Tame Beast Taming a pet. Duration: 6 seconds

Tame Beast is a level 5 hunter ability that allows the hunter to train beasts and make them their life-long companions.

Hunters starting in Exile's Reach unlock this ability during   [1-10] Taming the Wilds.

Limited beast families

Exotic beasts

Some families of beasts are considered exotic. These families can only be tamed by Beast Mastery hunters, who have the [Exotic Beasts] ability.

• Aqiri
• Carapid
• Chimaera
• Clefthoof
• Core hound
• Devilsaur
• Pterrordax
• Shale beast
• Spirit beast
• Stone hound
• Water strider
• Worm

Taming tomes

Some families of beasts require reading taming tomes before being able to tame them:

Pet family	Unlocked with	Account	Automatically known by
Blood Beasts	[Blood-Soaked Tome of Dark Whispers]
Cloud serpents	[How to School Your Serpent]		Pandaren
Direhorn	[Ancient Tome of Dinomancy]		Zandalari
Feathermanes	[Tome of the Hybrid Beast]
Gargon	[Gargon Training Manual]
Lesser Dragonkin	[How to Train a Dragonkin]
Mechanical	[Mecha-Bond Imprint Matrix]		Dwarf,  Gnome,  Mechagnome
Ottuks	[Ottuk Taming]
Undead	[Simple Tome of Bone-Binding]		Forsaken

Notes

• Interruptions will cause a taming attempt to fail. This includes stuns, knock downs, and silences, but does not include the daze effect.
• You can only tame beasts that are at your level and below. Raid bosses count as the level of the raid plus 3. For example, the Mogu'shan Vaults are currently level 35, so the quilen of the Stone Guard require at least level 38 to tame.
• Some beasts cannot be tamed. Only certain families of beasts are tamable, and even within those families not every member is tamable. To ensure the beast you want is tamable, you may want to cast [Beast Lore] on it for more information.
• Having a bodyguard follower will break the taming process, so it's better to dismiss the bodyguard beforehand.

Patch changes

• Patch 9.0.1 (2020-10-13): Now learned at level 5 (was 13).
  
• Patch 7.1.0 (2016-10-25): Now learned at level 13 (was 10).
  
• Patch 7.0.3 (2016-07-19): Now takes 6 seconds, down from 10.
  
• Patch 4.3.0 (2011-11-29): The casting bar for Tame Beast should now always indicate the correct cast duration at high values of haste.
  
• Patch 4.1.0 (2011-04-26): Now tames pets to match the hunter's level, rather than 3 levels below.
  
• Patch 4.0.1 (2010-10-12): No longer reduces armor while taming. Time taken to tame pet reduced by 10 sec.
  
• Patch 0.11 (2004-09-29): No longer requires the Hunter or the target beast to be out of combat.
  
• Patch 0.10 (2004-09-18): Beast Taming is now renamed to Tame Beast
  

See also

• Tamable beasts category

External links

• Wowhead
• WoWDB