Filed under: Trolls, Hunter, Shaman, Leatherworking, Patches

“Ghost wolf” is usually a term you associate with shamans, but now it might just become the keyword for the newest, rarest, most difficult to tame, and most visually strange hunter pet in the game. As the Mistress of Pets Mania’s Arcania reports, some of the new Dustwallow Marsh subject matter in Patch 2.3 involves some Grimtotem shamans who summon tamable ghost wolves. For most hunters, however, these ghost wolves will be impossible to tame, considering a few seconds after they seem, they just die, regardless of how much damage they take. The only way to tame them involves using various items or abilities which can shorten the casting instance of your “Tame Beast” spell down to a fraction of its original 20 seconds. Here’s a list of what you need:

• [Mystical Skyfire Diamond] — that metagem can cut the date it takes to cast Tame Beast in half. You have to repeatedly cast various aspects until its special proc goes off.
• [Drums of Battle] — You need to either be a Leatherworker, or have one in your party who will use that for you just before you start your taming, in order to shave a few more moments off your taming date.
• Heroism or Bloodlust — The same ability with different names for Alliance and Horde shamans; having a friend in your party use that will further reduce your taming duration by 30%.
• Be a troll — Trolls get a Berserking ability, which might just be the final little bit you need in order to cut down the taming instance ample to snatch that ghostly wolf pet. As far as I know it’s not absolutely essential, but it certain helps a lot.

After all that, you need a macro or something to immediately target the wolf and start taming the very moment it appears. next, you can pray for a few seconds and hope everything works. It may be very hard, but it has been done before — though one person on Mania’s site said that her new ghost pet died a second after she tamed it, possibly as a residual effect of its otherwise very limited lifespan. So whether you want to try it, be patient, and don’t get your hopes too high. Oh, and get ready for an extremely towering leveling grind to get it up from 30 to 70. Hunter alts passing through Dustwallow as you level up: Don’t even dream about it.

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Original post by David Bowers