I couldn’t find any quick information on who it is that starts the questline to tame my first pet, so I’m making it. I remembered that for my dwarf hunter, the trainer was not in Ironforge, so I figured that the trainer for Blood elves would not be in Silvermoon. Wrong.
Upon reaching level 10, hunters gain the ability to tame their pets, after completing a questline. The questline starts with Oninath in Silvermoon (84,26). He sends you to Farstrider Retreat to speak with Lieutenant Dawnrunner (60,63).
The kind Lieutenant sends you off to tame a Crazed Dragonhawk. I just ran out the door to the North and tamed one right away. Nice and simple. Run back and complete the quest to pick up a quest to tame an Elder Springpaw. I spotted a level 8 to the West of the Retreat and tamed it. The final taming leg is for a Mistbat. This one took some running. Follow the Dead Scar all the way to the border on the river. Staying on the East side, there are some mistbats on the other shore. I had to settle for a level 10 and tamed it (barely) to finish the questline.
I ran back to the Retreat and went on back to Silvermoon to do some pet training. When I went back out into the world, I tamed a level 9 Elder Springpaw and we can hunt without stopping. He has more HP than me and does about 11dps already.
Update with screenshots:
Due to the vast number of comments on this post and people e-mailing saying that I’m wrong, I re-rolled a hunter again and here is exactly what happens when you hit 10 as a Blood Elf hunter.
At level 10, I ran to Silvermoon and went to the above-mentioned location of Oninath. Lo! There is a ! above his head.
He offers me the quest in addition to his normal hunter trainer abilities.
Here is what the quest says to do:
Here is the lovely Dawnrunner at the above-mentioned location:
No kidding. That was super fast. That and getting the murlocs on the coast of Ghostlands for the clam meat.
Hay i got a question how do i get addons to work i tried a damage meter it didn’t work im going to try one that gives me more bars now are they safe?
Z, I would go to wowwiki.com and check out their addon section, it’ll answer all your questions and more.
A good site to get addons from is Curse Gaming, and for your purpose of adding more bars I have heard (but haven’t used) good things about Bongos.
If you study up on that pet youd learn its stats are worthless, the fires cool, but it has very little strength, armor, etc…
Cant get a good one till your over lvl 60.
umm where about is the oniwrath guy in silvamoon could ya plz be more precise ive been lookin for a while and i cant find. plz help me
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i just reached lvl10, but i aint able to get the quest from Oninath.he just shows the new abilities and unlearn talents option.Am i doing something wron or should i contact a GM?
If you have been to the hunter trainers in SM, then you have where he is. I put up the coords in the post for ya.
At level 10, when I got to him, he had an ! above his head to send me to Farstrider Retreat. I just checked some more and found this:
http://wow.allakhazam.com/db/quest.html?wquest=9617
It says it is given by Tana, who is in the same room. Strange.
Hello!
I have the same problem too. I went to SM to speak with Orinath but he doesn’t have a quest for taming the pet ๐
Can you help me?