Finding The Right (Quest) Beasts To Tame

As with any of the rest of the World of Warcraft quests, the quest mobs in question are very specific mobs. Therefore, trying to tame a Pygmy Surf Crawler is not going to count towards taming a Surf Crawler. I believe it was the Hunter quest that lead me towards my introduction to Thottbot.com, a website with a simple search engine that’s full of mob and item location data (complete with maps) and a plethora of other information.wow gold

I strongly suggest you use Thottbot throughout your Warcraft gaming, and for that reason, I’ve made the links up above when referring to the quest mobs. Find a line entry with a high number of kills, and then click on “Map” to the left of the kills number, and you’ll find the most recent places that that type of mob was found and killed by other players. It’ll never pinpoint something for you, but it sure makes finding mobs and specific drops easier than it would be if you had to rely on your friends and guildmates to point you in the right direction!

How To Use Your Taming Rod To Tame Beasts

Now that you know where to find your first beast for the Taming quests, maybe you’ve even got a Dire Mottled Boar wandering around in front of you… how does this “Taming Rod” work?

The simplest way I’ve found to use it is by putting it into my Action bar (bottom bar with the 1 2 3 quickactions), and use it from there, since it’s not required to actually “wield” the rod in order to have it work. I’ve dragged the rod from my bag into QuickAction slot represented by the number 0, and now for the actual taming steps:

Find a Dire Mottled Boar and TAB until you’ve targetted it. Don’t attack, but get close enough that the QuickAction number on your Action bar (number 0 for me because of where I put the taming rod) turns from red to white.
Activate the taming rod through your Action bar QuickAction (for me, the number 0, or by clicking the bar on my Action bar) cheap wow gold
Wait until your tame succeeds or fails.
If it fails, repeat Step 2 and 3. If it succeeds, return to Razor Hill to turn in your quest and get the next step.