Comments on: Ghost Wolf: Here to Stay

By: summer

summer — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 19:25:50 +0000

im a werewolf girl im 11/10 and i got a real ghost wolf following me
and i have a pic of him but i lost it and im pissed IT WAS MY FAV PIC
and a live wolf that my moms frend has follows me all around
sooooo yea im a werewolf

By: Alanonymous

Alanonymous — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 01:15:35 +0000

BLIZZARD HAS TAKEN THE GHOST WOLF AWAY:
Per Drysc on 1/14/08:
Through a hotfix we’ve recently removed the ability to tame a Grimtotem Spirit Guide. Players who have already gone through the trouble of taming the creature will be able to keep them unchanged. This hotfix only removes the possibility to tame this creature from here on.

The removal of the spirit guide has been debated within design discussions for a while now as to what impact the pet and its precedent has on the game.
The unintended nature of the taming, the undead status of the guide, appearance of the wolf in relation to the feel of the hunter class, and the complex processes of taming were all issues touched upon and discussed.

Ultimately the discussions brought us to the conclusion that this should not be a permanent addition to the pet selection available to hunters; however, those that have already tamed them should be allowed to keep them due to their efforts in obtaining one.

See: http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=3907976716&sid=1

Glad I got mine.

By: Branan

Branan — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 22:25:22 +0000

BTW, Juju Flurry does not stack with the meta gem; I tried using it 6 times and it didn’t stack at all. I had to get a shaman to help out with Heroism.

By: Senthiuz

Senthiuz — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 05:46:31 +0000

I did not realize that they had taken out the Deviate Delight buff, haven’t had one of those in a good long time.

Genkai, you must have both the drums and the Meta gem, meta cuts it down from 20 second to 10 seconds, then the drums reduce the castng time to within the 8 second period required to tame it. A troll’s racial can also preform or augment the function of the drums.

By: Genkai

Genkai — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 18:20:30 +0000

So if you dont have the meta socket but have drums of battle will that work or must you have the socket?

By: Krellin

Krellin — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 05:10:36 +0000

They took out the (2 min) Rapid Cast buff from eating Savory Deviate Delights quite some time ago.

By: Senthiuz

Senthiuz — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 04:18:36 +0000

One thing that no on has mentioned is the 1/2 casting time buff given by savory deviat delights, this should allow low level hunter to be able to tame him, without the need of the meta gem or the large supply of gold requred to get it

By: Branan

Branan — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 02:47:11 +0000

I tamed mine tonight, got it on the first try with the help of an attentive priest and shaman. :) He’s called Wraithfang! Now to start leveling him… argh…

By: Haedraline

Haedraline — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 08:36:22 +0000

Sure was a nice challenge, but I’ve managed to tame it as well now. And yes, as others have previously said, you don’t need to be a troll to tame it. I play a troll hunter, but I actually just thought it a hassle trying to nestle in and time a berserking during the taming process.

Just get your mystical skyfire gem proc, have a shaman cast heroism/bloodlust and have a priest mindcontrolling the spiritshifter to more easily be able to time the heroism/bloodlust, ghost wolf spawn and the proc off the metagem. It’s all you really need, I could even time it well enough with the montrous latency I usually have when gaming.

And that macro (/target Grimtotem Spirit Guide /cast Tame Beast) helps a huge lot.

To Cleiena – Sorry to say it, but the need of using a metagem to shorten the time of Tame Beast, makes it probably impossible to tame this wolf in the lower levels.

By: Cleiena WoW hunter

Cleiena WoW hunter — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 02:33:15 +0000

/cry I am a level 26 troll hunter (I suck at leveling) and I would level to 30 if I could get this AWSOME wolf! p.s. I have a ghost saber (I am horde) and have only seen 2 one in BGs the other in Org. that includes allys in WSG >.< if you have ANY info and are on Dunemaul horde side will you please pst me with info so I could attempt to get this pet at 30 ty