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Comment by Fortunate

Before this place is flooded with useless "I tamed Ban'thalos at herp time on derp server" comments, I'll post some useful information.

He is found circling high above the Sanctuary of Malorne.
His spawn timer is 6-17 hours.
He is a spirit Spirit Beast. You must have the Beast Master talent in order to tame him.
His NPC ID is 54320.

Strategy:

Ban'thalos flies up very high. The fall would kill you without some sort of fall slowing mechanism. The best method seems to be to park yourself at the top of the tree just behind the statue of Malorne. Have a freezing trap down. Once he flies close enough, fly up a bit, dismount, shoot and tame.

You actually do not need "Slow Fall" for this method, as you should land atop the tree after tagging him.

Comment by lolitsessix

PRO TIP:

If you're a goblin, hit it with a normal shot, fall towards your death, rocket jump before hitting the ground so you take no damage. Lay a trap down, tame as he flys down, he gets cought in the trap mid-tame, and boom, done. EASIEST SPIRIT BEAST I'VE EVER GOTTEN!

Comment by Songdragosa

For those of you who are not Goblins- if you are facing the statue of Malorne, there's a slightly crooked, tall tree on the left of the shrine. While on your flying mount, hold the X button while hovering over the tree until you don't go down as if you were hitting the floor. If you dismount on that very spot, you'll have the best seat in the house to tame this beast.

The rest is simple- lay a frost trap, mount up and hit the space bar to go up from that spot, shoot Ban'thalos when he gets near, let him fall on your trap, and tame away.

Good luck and good hunting!

Comment by Drahken

I'll try to not make this another "OMG I got it!" post. Though I was the first person on Kalecgos to get it.

Anyway, my strategy. I couldn't land on the tree like was suggested. So I dismounted in midair, shot him, then popped my parachute when I was close to the ground. If you're not an engineer, you can try Evonice's Landin' Pilla. It's pretty easy to get. So the problem is that the guy hits like a truck. Five or six hits was enough to kill me. So obviously you want to freeze him. But unfortunately, he'll start hitting you with his moonfire-esque attack before he reaches the ground. I used Deterrence, but I don't know if it actually worked or not. He killed me a few times, sometimes just as he would hit my trap. I mostly relied on getting lucky and him not attacking me enough to kill me. When he finally froze before killed me, I got him. Yay, new pet. I named him Kaepora after Kaepora Gaebora.

Comment by penguinsane

Saw Ban'thalos fluttering around as soon as I finished the questline on my druid with a bunch of hunters hovering around him. I hopped on my hunter and quickly did the quests, fortunately he was still around.

Died a few times figuring things out, checked the comments here at wowhead, then perched atop the tree with a trap waiting. Mounted, hit the spacebar to go up and waited till he was in range, then shot him and dropped. He hit my trap, I hit my Deterrance/Tame macro and he was mine 10 seconds later. I immediately got a bunch of "grats!" and "HOWDAFUK" whispers from other hunters and showed a few hunters my technique for taming when they asked. It seems like a LOT of hunters forget they have a handy thing called a Freezing Trap, since I saw so many people dying to his moonfire, which hits for like 30k every second.

The tree-sitting strategy is a winner, but I imagine that disengaging just before hitting the ground and setting a trap would yield the same results.

Server first tame at 8:11pm PST on US Azuremyst. Good luck to everyone!

Comment by 761488

All I can say is this...

I didn't use and fancy stuff to tame this guy, like standing on the tallest tree next to him or being a goblin or engineer. All I did to tame him was shoot then use Skyguard's Drape ice trap and tamed.

I forgot to use Deterrence but if you can make the fall with no damage you'll live through the moonfires and have 13-15k health.

Submitted a screenie of my Tauren and her newly tamed banny.

Edit: I don't know why this got down rated. You can tame him perfectly fine with a slow fall. Why down rate useful information?

Comment by 848770

Just tamed this guy about 15 mins ago, finally after 3deaths. I wasnt able to stand on the Tree as previous people suggested, so i just improvised a little. I flew just high enough so that i could reach him, then i just dismounted, got a shot off and before i fell to my death used disengage. I landed safely against the mountain behind me. I set a quick freeze trap, although he did get a couple of hits off with his arcane spell i was able to tame him with only bout 5k health left, but it did the job.

This guy is nice, tamed him 4:15am servertime on Norgannon

Comment by tywo96

Had a mage slow fall then Polly instant cast and he fell to the ground ice traped then tamed

Comment by Jettafae

Here are some things to know about this bird.

Spawn timer: 6 - 18 hours
Location: Mount Hyjal near the Sanctuary of Malorne
Trick: He flies VERY high up
Temperment: Non-Aggressive
Pet Tree: Ferocity
Pet Type: Spirit Beast(Exotic)

Strategy 1: Tree Sitting - There is a tree by the statue on the left side where you can stand on top of. Positioning is key or else you fall to death, once on the tree lay a freezing trap down when he gets closer to you and mount up. Fly straight up until you can hit him and aggro him. He can be trapped and should be trapped as his moonfire isnt so nice. (You really need the trap or he'll kill you). This is the strategy I used and it proved very successful after 3 tries.

Strategy 2: Endurance - Lay down a freezing trap at the top of the head of the statue. Mount up, once you are within range of Ban'Thalos, dismount and shoot him. Use your parachute cloak to go down. Its a good idea to use any heals you have just incase. Because you have a longer ways to fall you wont usually take any fall damage but you will take alot of moonfire damage. So keeping yourself alive from that is your main objective. Once he is trapped, it's an easy tame. (make sure once you pull you hit esc to stop shooting him so you dont break your trap). This method is great if you cant get on the tree but it does hurt alot more.

Edit. These methods still work in warlords.

Comment by Khayr

Can confirm that this drops the tear of loyalty vendor item and NO epics, because I just had a lock steal it from me as I was getting into position to tame it. :/ So if you're not a hunter, please just leave it alone... you're not going to get "sick epics" to make tons of money off of, you're going to get a cheap gray item and several people angry with you.

Comment by aymiah

Tamed by a troll hunter on Malfurion-US server at 7:32 PM server time. :( Right before my eyes. Oh well, at least I got to see it spawn.

Finally got him oh my lord I died maybe three times trying to get him sob. Tamed 3:15 Malfurion-US server by the large tree. Used Distracting Shot because I couldn't Auto Shot while falling (learned that the hard way), worked like a charm. Not sure what to name him yet.

Also for other hunters, if you're having trouble getting on the tree, coords that I was able to use are 27.25, 64.26. Hope that helps.

Comment by Kanyon

Tamed it on US - Llane at 8:02 pm server time.

My tactic:

I waited in a tree behind the Sanctuary of Malorne statue for 4 hours. When he spawned high above I was unable to range him from the tree top. So, I got on my flying mount and positioned myself in his flight path but above the column ring in the Sanctuary, being careful not to hover to high. When he flew close enough I dismounted, shot him, and just fell to the column ring, taking about 75% damage. I quickly dropped a trap then used Deterrence to avoid the moonfire. When he was safely trapped I tamed him.

He is a very beautiful spirit beast, my favorite so far.

Comment by pickboaa

Just tame it on Haomarush-EU. As i couldnt get the tree thingy to work i decided to try the aggro Disengage way, and for me it worked on the first try. Might have been all luck ofc but it worked. I did what Victorp said, pull him from high up and then disengage, i landed safely on a ledge somewhere with about 40k hp left. Then i just put Freezing trap down and started taming. I did this around the tree thats behind the statue, ull see some ledges in the mountain where u should try to land.
If u cant get the tree thing to work give this one a go, worked like a charm for me.

Happy hunting

Comment by 849189

Just logged in the Shrine of Malorne on my mage Instability @ Hakkar around 10:30 PM. I was camping the beast all day. Unfortunately when I got back to my hunter, I noticed I had to do all the Hyjal quests to see the beast (since it's located in the Regrowth phase).

There were 2 Alliance hunters and a orc hunter falling and dying attempting to capture it. Watching his effort to capture the owl, I decided to help him out. After all, he had the guts to try over and over to capture the beast.

I teached him the Treetop Method as described here, and he managed to get it at the first try after landing in the tree. Get on the tree, fly with space bar, auto-shoot once, deterrence, freezing trap and tame.

Nilrveb captured Ban'thalos @ Hakkar around 10:40 PM realmtime together with me at my mage Instability. He was happy that he named his pet after my mage's name.

He is probably the second or third person to capture the owl on Hakkar US, since I've been camping the zone together with my friends since 4.2 launch.

Ban'thalos is pretty beautiful ingame, it's really worty. I just hope I can also catch it soon on my own Hunter. :P

Here's a pic of it (tamed):

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Have faith! I saw a lot of hunters failing to tame it. :P

Edit: Newly registered member...

Comment by 684284

Easiest way to tame, in my opinion;

Balance your mount on the tallest tree behind the Malorne statue and wait. When he spawns, dismount and drop a Freezing Trap. Remount and fly directly up about 5-10 yards. When he's within range, dismount and Arcane/Auto Shot him. You'll land on the top of the tree and take minimal damage, if any. From there you can start the tame, and he'll get frozen. Works perfectly if you're careful.

Tamed at approximately 3:45 PM PST on Velen.

Comment by 849322

Tamed him at around 3 AM server on Nathrezim. (Tinkerbow@Nathrezim)

I used the tree-top method, however, 3 times he killed me because as I was falling his moonfire (even with deterrance) would kill me as he was coming towards me. You've got to make sure you're really careful, hit him when he's as close as you can stand, and only fly up as high as you absolutely must. From there it was a breeze and I actually managed to get the tame off before this awful ally mage that was standing on a ledge nearby fireballed me to death. I made sure when i rezzed to pull him out in front of the mage and /rude.

Comment by Safrienaer

I would like to give a couple of tips on this...

- Misdirect him onto your pet. That way you don't have to take the hard-hitting Moonlights.
- Disengage to avoid the falling damage.
- Once you're on the ground, set down a trap and position your unfortunate pet so Ban'thalos will fly into it.
- Once he's safely trapped, dismiss your pet (after ressing it if necessarily - the two times I attempted the tame on the PTR my pet died just as Ban was about to hit my trap) and start the tame.

Personally I never was into those tactics that required you to fall onto a certain elevated spot - mainly because that gives you a really small time frame to tag him, as most of the time he'll be out of range. By Disengaging instead, it doesn't matter where you start the tame, allowing you to tag him no matter where he is at the time.

Comment by Amidaman

Disengage right before hitting the ground.
Profit?

Comment by 841617

Just tamed this beasty at 12:36 am on Eredar....I`m either first or 2nd,can`t tell.

For those out there that are hunting this guy heres some tips...
1.Make sure you pull him from the air as far away from his range as you can go to reduce his amount of damage.
2.Once he casts harsh moonlight,use deterrance as you fall to reduce damage,oh and make sure to slow your fall,something I forgot to do the first time.
3.Don`t start taming until he is safely trapped,to reduce the chance of you almost taming him only to get owned by his moonlight.

Good luck to everyone who wants to tame him! :D

Comment by 849491

You can use NoggenFogger elixir from Tanaris (Gadgetsan) vendor, it gives Slow Fall effect, not always but 1 in 3 tries, so... for non engineers it's an option at least. :)

Comment by Chundermark

Alright, I know this may be an old macro, but anyway, I hope this helps in your hunt for Ban'thalos (and all other rares). This macro coupled with _NPCscan and SilverDragon is formidable. I just use this macro to be sure that the rare I'm looking for isn't up.

/cleartarget
/tar Poseidus
/tar Loque'nahak
/tar Gondria
/tar Skoll
/tar Time-Lost
/tar Aeonaxx
/tar Aotona
/tar Ghostcrawler
/tar Terrorpene
/tar Jadefang
/tar Ban'thalos
/stopmacro
/tell yourCharacterName You have found >%t< !

Comment by 836075

Tbh, I realy don't want this guy. But I have to, cause I'm on a quest to get all the Spirit Beastes!
Done 7/9. :D

Comment by 834069

Can anyone confirm if he is hostile or not?

Comment by 850283

Hi have a problem every time I look for the pet I can't see it. I'm not sure if I am in the right phase or something. I did the area enough to unlock dailys but I still can't figure whats going on. I though it was the someone pet that is making the npc scanner go off but I am not sure. I didn't finish mount haijal I just open enough to show the statue part of the zone. So pls help

Comment by MelTorefas

Is it just me or does Deterrence do jack all against this guy? I tried taming him like 10 times, falling onto the tree. Used a core hound Hysteria, and a haste pot. And deterrence and a freezing trap. The trap would never show up and he never froze, and deterrence did not deflect ANYTHING nor did it cause his melee hits to miss. So every single time I died with a couple seconds left on the tame. Finally a Worgen came along and got him after a couple tries.

I'm not super dissapointed, honestly, but it was a little irking that he kept killing me.

Comment by 247339

Tamed a few minutes ago on The Venture Co EU - used the raised bar above daily platform as the "landing spot", had a lock fly up, engage then teleport down. I flew up 15-20 yards, hit it, trapped once down and tamed. A single moonfire hit the lock no other damage taken. Very very easy tame.

A big thank you to all the other hunters and other people of various classes in the area cheering me on instead of killing it <3

Comment by Theooo

Must i do certain quests etc, or am i good to just go and camp im out?

Comment by Kilroy7456

Saw this guy spawn just now (~6:30 AM), had a horde hunter try to tame him but end up falling to his death. I end up with a similar fate, but having not read up on what these new rares do, I quickly get owned by his op moonfire. Oh well, I run back and if the other hunter has him, grats. But no, there's a DK standing there wacking at him like a tard, taking 5 minutes to kill him while I sit there and watch. Grats on your 25 gold, terrible DK, I hope it's more than you ever have again.

Comment by 305475

Caught at 3:45 ST on US-Skywall.

I'm so clever with naming... Named him Bamfalos.

Because this amazing bird... Is the definition of BAMF among Spirit Beasts.

Comment by Chundermark

I don't know if I'm the first person to try this, but I'll report back if I manage to tame her - I'm going to try tame her with Aspect of the Wild on, to see if that negates some of the damage from her moonfire spell in the preliminary stages of the tame. Good hunting, all.

Edit : Tamed Banny today at server time 16:59 (EU Tarren Mill, named him Iridescent). I managed to tame him the first time, whilst standing on the thin tree. I simply popped the freeze trap, mounted up, un-mounted and used Distracting Shot on him, then fell down on the tree taking a small amount of damage, he only was able to get 1 moon blast on me. I can truly confirm his spawn timer is anywhere from 6-18 hours.
Good luck and good hunting all.
Word for the wise: He actually flies around in a circle around the Sanctuary at a pretty slow pace, so you generally have a bit of time to get ready.

Comment by BrokenHip

Just tamed him, couldn't really make out which tree people were talking about, so just tried one, didn't work, expected to die but then random paladin tries to kill him, i shoot some bullets into him to make sure i get aggro when he dies.

Long story short, I failed, pala died, I tame without pots nor trap.

Thryst/SylvanasEU

Comment by 669378

For anyone attempting to do this, "You must have AGGRO on Ban'Thalos in order to tame it".

So if you have a friend who is helping you pull it down, be sure to distracting shoot it and get a abit of threat on it, before trapping and taming it.

Or rather I should say, make sure the friend/player who is helping know that you need "aggro" in order to tame.

Had a Druid who I paid to help me ground it, since he had a form of slowfall, and he kept tuanting it.

Comment by 850735

Not sure if anyone has tried this yet, but it should work.
One of the dailies is named Call The Flock, which transforms you into a bird. You can't do anything but call other birds while in this form, but once you disengage the buff, you get wings that let you slow fall for 20 secs, in which time you have the use of your normal abilities while moving. Similar use of a daily buff that is used to get Jadefang in Deepholm. Just don't complete the daily until you tame Ban'thalos. Report back if this is a viable solution.

EDIT - cannot use tame while moving

Comment by spinnerdh

I <3 flexweave underlay.

Comment by Ganrokh

I haven't seen anyone mention it... How high is he? I assume you can see him from the ground?

Comment by 699898

*UPDATE* Just tamed him exactly 13 hours later (from when he was killed) on Perenolde.

I'm heartbroken. After an entire day of camping he spawns as I'm returning from a lap in The Regrowth. There are 5 other people trying to tag him. My heart is racing and I finally land on the tree top after 6 attempts. I'm completely nervous and get 3 shotted. By the time I get my corpse, the majestic bird is at ground level getting destroyed by a warrior and warlock of my own faction. They slaughter him, and when I asked why they would kill him after seeing me attempting to tame him, the lock replies "For 25G!" and flies off! :(

Comment by 647079

Ok people I just got him. This is what I have to add to the info.

First he does spawn at the Sanctuary of Malorne.
During my camping there I find the 6hour timer is valid but actually it is also 6 or more.
First siting: I didn't get the info sorry
2nd siting: 7/2/11 @ 12:00am EST
3rd siting: 7/2/11 @ 6:32pm EST
4th siting: 7/3/11 @ 8:06am EST

If there were spawns in between I cannot say. After each spawn I left then came back 6hrs later.
How I did it:
There is a tall tree behind the statue there (facing toward it the tree is to the left), tall with no leaves. You can stand on its very tip. (May take you a bit to get it right but once you get on top of it and cannot fly down anymore/the tree stops you then you can dismount to test it. Just fly straight up and camp. When he spawns just wait till he gets close enough (make sure you are at a lower height then the bird but just close enough to shoot at him. This make it less likely you will get mowed down by HIS MOONFIRE. When I dismounted I hit him with Concussive Shot, landed on the tip of tree taking fall damage, dropped a freezing trap and used deterrence right after, once Det wore off started the tame.

Now some $%^ Ally Pally tried to stop me by flying up and hitting me with Hammer of Justice, I started tame again he flies up and tries Repentance next, but to no avail I still got my objective. (When I see him next time I'm gonna rip him apart. Evertime I tried I got mowed down by the bird except this time. He never hit me once, maybe a close up melee shot then froze. Being lower gave me a distance advantage plus using Concussive may have dizzied him into not using his moonfire. I'm sure you all understand what I'm saying

Good Luck and OH I'm on Gurubashi Server

Comment by Danielfboone

Just tamed him today with no help from anybody and no special tricks like slow fall or even deterrence. I stood on top of the statue's head ,dropped my trap, mounted and flew up as he was heading towards me. When he was in range, I dismounted, hit arcane shot twice, landed on the statue and stopped my attack. Then I spammed the tame button until he got in range and hit the trap. Successfully tamed with about 25% of my health left and I don't think he ever hit me with his attack. I have my freeze trap glyphed so I think it slowed his cast after it broke just enough for the tame to complete. I received a bunch of /cheers and when I asked if anyone had done anything to help, nobody said they had.

This was the third time I have seen him since the patch. I failed the first two times I tried to get him. The second time , a few days ago, he killed me and everybody started attacking him. Another Hunter who just happened to be there hit tame as they were killing him and got the tame right before the Owl died. I never get that lucky.

Comment by Ichi

Another Hunter who just happened to be there hit tame as they were killing him and got the tame right before the Owl died.

Doesn't the tame automatically cancel if someone is attacking the mob?
Ban'thalos spawned for me yesterday around 7pm, but some really mean poops attacked him after I pulled him to my trap, and when I tried to tame him it failed after a second every time. :-(
It's been about 9 hours now since last spawn. Waiting, waiting...

Edit: Tamed it 10:15am this morning. :-D There was another hunter and DK flying around trying to grab it, but finally I got it after dying 2 times! First time I was so nervous I forgot Freezing Trap. Second time I got moonfired to death before it reached the trap. Third time was the charm! :-D

Comment by Draba

this pet is great, but it is trick to tame. For me i was lucky, a paladin attacked him as the paladin fell i followed him to the ground& began to tame him. thanks to the paladin, i got a cool pet ! :)

Comment by virgo02

Hi,this is Solaria (Blood elf) from Shadowsong.I saw Ban'thalos last night/morning at 4:20 server time.He was tamed by an alliance hunter and Ankha spawned exactley 1 hr and 30 mins later at 5:50 am(I got the tame on her hehe).Well,tonight i rode up above malorne and there was Ban'thalos again only this time it was 2 am lol.Well,some A** Hole alliance killed it while my friend was trying to tame it.Just a heads up on the 22 hr diff.Dont know if he popped earlier or not or if this is his usual time or just again a random time but at least this gives some kind of detail on the spawn.Hoping Ankha or Magria spawns for my friend and the alliance dont kill it...

Comment by Spitzem

For hunters who are camping him and you are unsure where he is exactly. pick a hight you think is suitable, then fly another 100 yards up. he appears VERY high up and is not so easy to tame. Getting him onto the floor with you alive successfully is only half the job, whereas surviving his harsh moonlight attack and taming him is a whole second part.

Once I got him onto the floor for the first time, I was very excited, until I got destroyed by his harsh moonlight and lost him to another hunter by the time I ran back to my corpse. The next time he appeared I found it virtualy impossible without the help of another player.

Comment by rshire

I just watched it be tamed on my Server Turalyon EU there were like 5 or 6 hunters trying to get him (It was raining hunters haha), this was at 10.40am. i would have tried but its easier with someone to pull him so will wait a while :P

Comment by bruenir

Yesterday, at 5:15PM EST on Lothar-US I tamed Banthalos using the tree trick. EZ PZ. Didn't even use a slow fall of any kind. Just arcane shotted him from my mount which dropped me down to tree, and then frost trap, tame beast. At 11:40PM EST someone said in Hyjal general chat 'group up for banthalos?" and I was like, WTF? so I flew over,and he had spawned again. As I arrived, he was being tamed again by another alliance hunter, with the tree method and ice trap.
Now, I can't 100% confirm this, but I'm pretty sure no Magria or Ankha spawns anywhere in there. and about 20 mins ago (5:40AM EST) I got a banthalos alert. It was a horde hunter who had tamed him, still named Spirit Beast. Anecdotally that would continue the 6-7 hour spawn time. I didn't see the tame, of course, so who knows when that Tauren did it, but I think it's a pretty good chance it was just this morning. So my evidence says: 6-7 hour spawn times very likely.

Comment by virgo02

Lol..i dont need any evidence Bruenir..I'm telling you that i saw the bird at 4:20 realm time and Ankha spawned exactly 1 hr and 30 mins later.Thats it.Read my post again.Every realm is diff with its rare timers.I once saw Loque spawn 3 times in one day/night and never saw that again and i spent ALOT of time in the basin.And looks to me like you are calling me a liar Bruenir from what you are saying towards the end of your last comment...you can believe anything you want too but i write every rares time down when i see them.

4:20 am Bird
5:50 am Ankha
5:58 pm Magria
2:00 am Bird

That is what i have written down..Fact..

Comment by 850306

Tamed 18:30 PM on Darksorrow.

Camped around 6-7 hours on top of tree, then saw yellow dot on minimap, and there it was about to fly above me. Took mount, distract shotted him, dropped onto that Tree, layed Freezing trap, Deterrence & Tame and voila, there it is.

Another awesome tuning spirit beast!

Comment by virgo02

Oh,no.i wasnt saying they shared a timer Bruenir.I was just saying when i saw the bird and that the cat had spawned an hr and half later.

Comment by rodmin

A small story regarding my capture of this elusive spirit beast (TL:DR version in the end).

As i was finishing the daily questing the Molten Front, i noticed a large, transparent owl flying above the Malorne Sanctuary. Seeing such cool beast, without even knowing is value, made me log onto my hunter, which was at the Avianna shrine, which was quite close.

Overcoming the height was no problem to me, as i activated disengage upon almost half of the fall, allowing me to live. As i was laying down a freezing trap to freeze the owl, a voice beckoned me.

"Can you make a snack for your sister please, <IRL name>?" "Okay, i'll be there soon!". As i switched back to the screen, i felt an immense horror,for i found myself dead.

On the way back to my body, the combat log revealed that Ban'thalos had an ability that was quite lethal. But how, if i had a trap ready? Maybe she cast it on the way down.

Regaining my senses, i quickly ate a nice meat snack and flew towards the bird, shooting it and disengaging at half hight again. I was awaiting the beast, silencing shot ready and all, when the beast started to cast the spell. It was out of my reach! I quickly feign my death to stay alive, and the bird returned to ths skies.

Once again, i rose to the skies, but with a different tactic: by using my amazing deflect-everything-skills, i awaited to deflect the owl's moonfire. But the spell came through my dance, and it magic stung my heart. I tried to feign my death once more, but this time, it was real.

At this time i noticed another hunter, a tauren, nearby me. I knew time was urgent, so i looked upon divine insights on any clues on how to effictively capture the beast. Although the moonfire was indeed hopeless to resist, using the treetops behind the Malorne Sanctuary was a good aproach. As fast as i could (after healing my wound before a possible fall), i quickly rose to a treetop and went off my mount. I've failed to land on the treetop and fell down to the earth. I somehow survived the fall, and i felt gratefull for such an achievement.

My guildmates cheered for me with the ritual of "woot!"s, but i replied it would be even a greater "woot" if anyone could assiste me in the capture. As i flew up once again, i noticed the bird chasing a troll mage, which was slowly falling. He was attempting to catch the pet for his friend tauren hunter. Not on my watch! As both reached the grounded, i began the tame.

But wait! Why wasn't it working?

A quick study upon the beast revealed that the ebast was an exotic one, which only Beast Masters could tame!

"DAMN IT!" I said to my self, as i quickly feigned death and switched specializations; "Why couldn't they give the insight in bigger words!"

The tauren hunter quickly began to tame the beast, but its moonfire quickly claimed another life. As it quickly persued the mage, seeking aid from a nearby blood elf paladin, i quickly chased both until the range was safe. I placed a trap on the floor and launched a soft shot at the head. The owl quickly noticed me and launched at me with such a speed that i could feel the wind of the charge even though she was trapped in ice at mere inches of me. Not one second later i begin the taming. As i focused, i noticed the looks around me. The troll mage and the paladin, along with other druids of the Hyjal offensive at the Firelands, were all watching me comunicating with the bird. I was expecting the mage or the paladin to burst the trap and setence my death, but no... they were silent. They were still, aparently clear that after all the struggles, i was entitled to become the bird's companion.

For a brief, time was still. I thought i was going to be lost in time forever...

...until Ban'thalos finnally obeyed my command to remain calm.

My heart cheered, as i felt the soothing calm of my new companion.

The troll mage wasn't angry with me. Instead, he tried to claim a bit of the glory, whispering me that i should thank him for his help in bringing the pet down, in which i replied that not even a thousand thanks could express my gratitude. My guild then showed signs of cooperation in assisting with the taming, but i warned that i was already sucessfull. They cheered me, but asked about the "woot". Well, i gave them a "woot" alright, one so big it occupied 3 lines of our mental chat, and they all laughed in approval.

All of Hyjal soon knew i obtained a very "valuable" companion, in which i thanked for all the atention. As the cheering began to turn into swearing though (including the tauren hunter), i quickly announced : "Well, if you excuse me, i've got a sis to feed". And i gave a last look at the laughs of few before i went to tend to my beloved sister.

TL:DR version: Due to the Hyjal assault on the Firelands, Ban'thalos region will become full of players going around. I suggest bringing a lot of friends and having care upon taming this Spirit Beast.

Comment by sunasticos

After about 4 hours of Skarr camping, I went over to check on this guy. Apparently he was there! But some Priest and a warrior just HAD to kill him while I was taming. Lil' Trolls >_<

Comment by 495933

Well my little story is not one of a successful tame (by me anyway) but here it is in hopes that others will follow my lead.

I came upon Ban'thalos just yesterday (first time ever spotted) and didn't have any idea how I would tame him due to the heights and no (visible) place to land in range of the flight path. I didn't come here and read about the treetop sitting till after.

Anyway... While I was fumbling about I noticed my precious Ban'thalos diving down to the ground. I rushed down to see and there I saw a horde troll/hunter and very low health taming Ban'thalos and I could have simply one shot the guy and claim my prize but then I realized he had to force dismount and distract shot this guy and then still survive the fall and do his tame...

Well.. I waited patiently for the tame and then /cheer for him upon which I received a /salute and a /bow in return.

My day will come I hope... Who knows, perhaps I'll receive similar good will.

Comment by 851980

Found him...only for another hunter to get aggro and steal the tame. Won't be trying again for a while. Too soul-destroying.

Comment by 779904

Tamed him about an hour ago (1:15am server time) On the Akama server.
First time I tried to get him horde just grabbed and killed him while I was trying to tame. Saw him today by chance and followed the directions: land on tree, lay down ice trap, mount up and shoot, and start taming. Thankfully no one interrupted me this time and hes all mine! Good luck to all others!

Comment by Mychelle

Just started the camp for this rare today. And I have learned one thing that I dont believe anyone has mentioned in these comments just yet.

I am on a PVP Server. And for anyone else doing this camp this info might come as a little relief if they are in the same boat as me. If your attempting the top-of-the-tree strategy like I am, ( Cords: 27.26, 64.26 ) ,then I will be happy to tell you that right below the tree and a little to your right if your looking at the camp itself, is the flight master for the area. So far I have had three different players try and land on the mountain behind me attempt to shoot me from afar thinking I am completely AFK. (First was an Elemental Shaman, Next a Moonkin Druid, and third another Hunter), all three quickly found out that shooting me parked up in this tree leaves a -very- angry flight master shooting at them from her location on the ground. These three griefers found out very quickly just how hard they made that flight master hit.

Only the shaman was stupid enough to continue to try to poke me. (I guess he didnt think about possibly healing himself back up to full after having ran away from the flight master for the first failure.) And I am not excatly sure what actually killed him....the flight master hitting him a 2nd time for casting Frost Shock on me (I guess he didnt want me to run away from him up in the tree?), or simply the fall damage of trying to land on the tree with me and failing. I guess only he knows. Shout outs Mr. Orc Shaman, you made my camping a little more entertaining.

PS: He did the the "Hearth of Shame" when he rezzed.

Comment by 375614

I tamed this lovely looking pet the other day after several attempts, mainly as the Alliance liked to keep killing me or the pet.

Sit on top of the taller of the trees behind Sanctuary of Malorne. It may take a couple of attempts but it can be done. I use to set myself up on the tree before I logged off in-case he was there when I logged back in.
Wait for Ban'thalos to appear, he flies around in a large circle around the temple. When he is close enough sent an ice trap down, mount, fly up, shot him, disengage and start the tame. The ice trap will go off and make its an easy tame.

But be warned this is a busy area, with Alliance and horde hunters and horrible people killing it to either spite you or get loot that isn't that good. I was shot at for the whole tame and was just lucky I had enough HP to live and that Ban'thalos didn't seem to be in there line of sight.

Hope this helps xxxx

Comment by 397420

goddammet !@#$ing alliance dogs!
they killed it when i was hunting it down cuz some warlock friend told me he was up & he helped me, when we finally came up with a strategy that he summoned me to the point on the tree were u can stand on and after he pulled my trap didnt pop in a part of the tree where it could hit the birdy from where i was standing, just tried to tame anyways, at the very last second it failed & then i died and when i rezzed some alliance @#$%^&*s just killed it for funs...
bloody idiots !

Comment by rawrcat

Please ppl have some respect for your other players. I understand that everyone wants the damn tame first but come'on if u sit there and see a person sitting atop of a tree for 2 days and then the bird appears, be f-ing generous enough to let them have the tame. Karmas a *!@#$. Its not the same thing as stealing a kill or skinning someone elses kill. You just sat there for 2-3 days or more all to see some jackass roll in on there horse and take it from you. Just be respectful please.

Comment by SDBrucifer

I just tamed Ban'thalos on the Azuremyst server, at 01:39 server time.

When Ban'thalos spawned I was on top of the tree pointed out in earlier comments. I quickly realized I wasn't going to get into range from the tree top. I was lucky that no one else was interested so I had time to wait for it to fly to me. I mounted and flew straight up from the tree, when it was in range I dismounted, shot it and soon after landed on the tree top taking minimal damage.

I used deterrence which helped me avoid the spell damage as I waited for the owl to fly into my Freezing Trap.

I agree with previous comments, it is a very nice looking pet.

Good Luck my fellow Hunters.

Comment by 852696

Ban'thalos has about a 4 hour spawn time after magria or ankha. he flies about 35-40 feet of the ground makeing ur fall very unservivable the best thing to do is dismount above the mosses antlers and land on its head. The next trickie part is getting him to stay in a freezing trap, carefull when he casts harsh moonlight because this is a insta 1 shot. the best time to find him would be earllly in the morning or llllate at night, me wakeing up at 12 pm ST found him :P died and flew back to see someone had killed him. ALSO i dont care if u see another person tameing him, dont kill him let them have it! they were their faster and they want him to. so let them have it:P

Comment by 852696

you can seem him from the ground, landing on the ground from his height thow wouldnt be smart..

Comment by Penze

What happened today is shocking for hunters! I came after i had done my firelands dailies to Hyjal I saw Ban'thalos i started taming him. I needed 3 seconds more i was happy at that moment. Suddenly hunter come and kill. I run back fast then i saw horde mage start killing him! And yes he killed him! (I am horde)! I was really upset. So please if ou are not hunter please do not kill eny rares please! They only drop that grey thinky! Thank you!

Comment by bloodandbone

Tamed 11:36PM.

Top of tree, mounted up, went in range, shot ban, dismounted landing top of tree, freeze trap, gg.

Comment by KimmyDare

Sadly, Ban'thalos is in a rather unfortunate spot, flying right over the daily quest hub... if you aren't able to get onto the tree and tame him within a few minutes, he will most likely be killed. He is noticed very easily and attracts the attention of non-hunters... although they can't kill him alone, they WILL gang up on him.

If you spy him in the sky, remain CALM and PATIENT. Focus on getting on that tree asap; its hard to get on there, I know, but you can do it. I was able to land on it after watching Banny circle about three times, haha. Heart pounding!

Just don't pull in a hurried panic; you'll most likely die and attract unwanted attention even faster.

Good luck!

Comment by 610321

I tamed him on Mal'Ganis around 11:30am. I believe that a mage was trying to bring him down for another hunter that was on the ground, but I was sitting on top of the area around the statue which made it easier for me to tame him first.

Comment by 852284

Just tamed @ 5.48 pm (EST) on Bleeding Hollow (US)

Comment by 839946

Area 52 @ 7:30pm Server time or EST

Tamed..

I tried to get close to him but fell, another hunter tried the tree trick but missed; by the time I came back to my body, brought out another Spirit beast to heal me, dismissed pet. I mounted went back up on tree.
Sat there for a min so he can come back around, flew up, Distracting Shot, trap in the air, fall to top of tree; the other hunter fell or something. I popped haste pot, Berserking, deterrence(for safety), and tame. He was in trap with tame took place. I wasn't at full heal, from first fall, and the fall once I hit him.

But after heart pounding for the full 10 sec tame time, he became mine. With nasty yells and spams from the other hunter, the tame was still mine.

Comment by 853246

Killed at 12:20 AM server time on Shadowmoon. (7-9)
No, not by me. By a priest named Fizzles who ONLY did it to be a *!@#. Of course earlier today I bought a new back and forgot to put my parachute back on it :/

Oh well, back to hunting around. Good luck everyone.

Comment by Rafaellich

guys we are hunters you get in combat before you go hit the ground just Disengage XD works fine

Comment by epicdeath

Got him last night after a short 2 hour and lucky camp. I camped on the highest tree, the one in the back, on the left of the statue when looking from the front. I had to add the NPC manually to NPCScan in advance.

When he popped out i mounted and flew straight up about 5-10 yds - meaning his range was about 40-50yds above the tree-top. I fired one conucssive shot, and automatically dismounted and landed in the top of the tree. Pulled deterrance, and started taming. He hit me for about 100K dmg before the tame was finished and he reached me, leaving me with about 25K. None of his abilities seem to cancel the tame. No need to trap, didnt use any pots, potions or other stuff. Named him Banthalos

Comment by 853419

Just saw him tamed last night, 7/8/2011 9:15 Agrammar server time. He spawned exactly at the quarter mark if that helps. Once he spawned, he just flew around in a circle as well.

A hunter was kind enough to annouce it in general chat and I think every hunter in Hyjal flew there immediately. Several died trying to get him (myself included, my floating item didn't work after I was in combat >.< so I went splat) and my original idea of getting him over the water didn't work since his pat goes nowhere near the lake.
It was directly over the questing/daily area too, so I was afraid there would be one less rare without an owner.

I was honestly surprised by the help that was given/offered. A druid gave heals to whoever tried to tame along with advice on how to tame it, and no one even tried to attack it (there were a lot of players there too, opposite faction as well).
The tame eventually happened without much problem, a Worgen hunter that had spent a while getting him down finally got him. He didn't follow the ice-trap/tree plan though, he shot it and fell on the statue and had the druid heal him to full health before he started the tame. That's another possible plan if you have helpful friends or players nearby.

I had several chances to get him when he chased players to the ground before killing the. I could've had a nice new pet, but chose not to since I didn't do anything to get him. (and I spent days getting Olm a few months ago, so not really interested in a new ghost owl) On the plus side, I did manage to get Terrorpene a few seconds after he spawned ^.^

Comment by applebear

Just tamed this guy at 7pm server time on Garrosh. I just logged in, and there he was flying high. To be honest I wasn't expecting a shot at him so soon. have only seen him once before and another couple hunters were fighting over him...I will never interfere if another hunter is there first.

With that, I was all ready positioned on tree. Just tossed down ice trap and flew up waiting for him to get close enough. The tree method works very well, don't need anything to slow your fall at all or any other tricks, very straight forward...dismount, shoot, fall, tame as he hits ice trap. Got it done first try. Hardest part is containing your excitement and not skipping steps. Make sure to get the trap down because he does blast you with a strong moon fire. Didn't get it off on me but watched him nearly kill the last hunter who tamed him with it.

Thank you to those who left the tree tip. Just wanted to confirm it works like a charm. :) Happy hunting all!

Comment by zomg5

11:30 am on server dreadmaul saw this beast flying around near the daily quest givers then i saw a horde hunter trying to tame it well i let him have it cause he was there first but the next thing i knew is that there are 20 other hunters who also wanted it so the keep attacking it to get aggro and somehow they manage to kill it

Comment by raisona

Tamed him on Aszune at 9,30 server time.

NPC scan went off - flew over to the tree - managed to perch myself in it -

Flew up a bit

Waited till he got in range

Arcane shot - dropped onto tree - ice trap - tame

Went really smoothly, no one else could reach him to aggro or try to tame so was great

I spent some time before today praticing how to perch in the tree - came in REALLY useful !

good luck :)

Comment by Cuyller

Auchindoun - US
Tame Time: 6:15 am.

I just got him, and as with Anthriss, a very kind and generous paladin helped me out. I died a couple of times from fall and he managed to lure him down for me.
Boy do they not make it easy!

I will admit I was worried to have Allie hunters try and grab him too but I was lucky and managed quite well.

Imho, for all those new pets, and this is what I am going to do from now on is have someone with me just in case.

Good luck to you all!

Comment by 824735

saw him today after camping him for a couple of days...was perched on the tree but i got so excited that i pushed forward instead of up so was off my perch...tried time n time again to get on it, couldn't do it...a tonne of allis around were all trying to kill him, so i'd follow them to try n tame...but alas they killed me...came back from my 4th graveyard run to discover him gone...an orc hunter had trapped him for an alliance hunter to tame...my mission, to find n kill the orc hunter...*sigh* back to my perch :)

Blackrock server btw :)

Comment by 853831

Ner'zhul US Server

After seeing some Alliance/Horde hunters with Ban'thalos I knew I wanted this creature so I started camping on 7/5/11. Pictures do not do this creature any justice

Alliance hunter got tame between 7:30pm - 8pm on 7/5/11 - we both were perched on same tree all afternoon, went to eat dinner, came back and saw him with it

Horde hunter informed me he tamed Ban'thalos a little after 3am on 7/6/11

Nothing to report on 7/7/11

Alliance hunter got tame between 7:30pm - 8pm on 7/8/11 - we both were perched on same tree for much of the afternoon and dinner made me miss this tame again. Hunter saw me later and showed me his tame. Was also kind enough to log onto his horde alt and inform me

Server reset on 7/9/11 at 5am

Anhka spawned at 1pm on 7/9/11 - Killed by non-hunter horde player who announced it in general chat

Tamed Ban'thalos at 1:45am 7/10/11 on tree (27, 64)

- Was falling asleep
- Alliance shadow priest trying to kill me, but finally left
- Was just about ready to go to bed and then I saw it spawn (bright flash of light and there it was right in the distance in front of me with the silver dragon around it). It is a BIG bird and you can't miss it. It flies clockwise so if your on the tree it will come to you
- Alliance DK saw it also and flew up to check it out
- Adrenaline was flowing, hands were shaking
- Laid down trap, flew up a short distance, waited for it to be within range, distracting shot, got dismounted, landed back on top of tree, Ban'thalos flew down and tagged me twice with beam, it got trapped in Ice Block and I got the tame
- Alliance DK watched and congratulated me

Magria spawned at 9am on 7/10/11

- Had only tabard, shirt, rings, necklace and trinkets equipped and it killed me with 3 blows
- took off rings, necklace, trinkets and got tame with minimal damage

Comment by pandaman

Getting a worrying influx of non-BM Hunters hanging around the quest hub for longer than necessary if they are just doing dailies, some are even up the tree. I worry because they obviously have no idea you have to be BM to tame it, and expect someone to get frustrated and just kill it when they realise this.

Even if they have BM off-spec, you'd have thought they'd be specced into it ready for instant taming...

Comment by pandaman

Oh wow, nearly screwed up taming this.

Had just finished dailies at 11:40am server time, came back and there it was, a Warrior was failing at killing it, so knew it was the opportune moment to get it up the tree out of reach.

Due to my extreme adrenaline rush, I failed getting into the tree, then screwed up by Serpent Stinging in before trap (same bind on different bars for SS and Tame), so I ended up dead.

By the time I got back and up the tree again, several more people (no Hunters) were circling baying for her blood, but managed to get up first time, and got it trapped and tamed perfectly.

Some of them /cheer at me, maybe because they couldn't gank me if they wanted up the tree, but whatever job done, very happy

Comment by Superdude312

Hunters !
1) Get on tree
2) Set ice trap
3) mount up and fly higher, not to high !
4) when he is near, dismount and use arcane shot (or whatever)
5) wait a bit (not long) and use deterrence so you don't get your @ss killed
6) he should get trapped, try to tame him

7a) find out it's an exotic pet and use /facepalm (MM, SV)
7b) have fun with your new pet (BM)

i got 7a -_-

Comment by pandaman

This is now my favourite pet in game, the streaks it's wings leave look so gorgeous, reminds me of Thunderfury or Ashes of Al'ar, well worth the wait

I have uploaded a photo demonstrating how the wings streak in motion

Comment by blizzkingjoker

look iv been trying to catch this spirt beast and i cant all the comments i read say git on the treee but u cant all the trees are burnd u cant git on a pont at the tope of the tree so please some one tell me wtf every one is talking about

Comment by paperc07

someone pulled this spirit beast to the ground and I was on my hunter and tried to tame it can we not tame it if its on the ground do we have to do the HUNTER TREE TRICK? everytimed I tamed it would work for a second and then click off

Comment by 752391

do you need to unlock the dailies to get this pet or do u just need to be able to see the statue?

Comment by 694454

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vA77KgM4Qg
That's a pretty good video, it explains where he spawns, even gives a screenie of the exact location, tells you how to tame it, and also tells where the Ban'thalos comes from lore wise :P It's actually pretty cool imo =D

Comment by 854296

Tamed this gorgeous creature using the tree-top and freeze trap method at 6:15am Khaz'Goroth server, July 12.

Went to check to see if Ban'thalos had spawned, but it hadn't so was hovering over the top of the Sanctuary of Malorne on my flying mount while I checked the internet for the spirit beast cat spawn points, as I thought I would go check them out next, when I switched back to WoW I caught a glimpse of green wings and my heart skipped a beat.

I hurriedly tried to land on top of the tree, very hard to do with shaking fingers. Finally made it, flew up, fired at it, landed on the tree, and realised I had forgotten to lay down the freeze trap and my 'Tame Beast' was not on my action bar. Ahhhh! Died.

Ran back as fast as I could, hoping that no other hunters were around that early, rezzed. Tried again. Couldn't land on the stupid tree, by this time another hunter looked like they were circling, so I just thought I'd try the fall anywhere and use deterrance. Not quick enough and fell to my death. By this time I was getting pretty scared someone else would tame him out from under me.

Ran back for the third time, finally managed to do everything right. Landed on the tree top, laid down my freeze trap and waited for him to get closer. He flies pretty slowly so my freeze trap had worn off by the time he was halfway around. Dropped another trap. Mounted up. Flew straight up. Fired off an arcane shot, landed on the tree top, cast deterrence, he got caught in my trap and I was able to tame him. Easy when you do it right.

He is now my constant companion and I get comments about him all the time. So beautiful!

My fellow Guildie was camping out Skarr at the same time and he was able to tame him about 15 min later. Two very happy hunters ended up in Stormwind showing each other their newly tamed pets. Very good day!

We now have a competition going with our fellow Guildies to find them suitable names.

Comment by sTyLnK

Tamed this bird at 12:30am July 12. PVE server.

After finishing everything on my main for the night, I decided to dust off my hunter before I went to bed. I was looking at the new patch 4.2 pets and thought maybe I would camp Ban'thalos. One of those' not expecting anything, but meh why the hell not' type of deals. A quick You tube video showed me what to do and off I went. Of course realizing that it was phased I luckily had completed the Hyjal quests. All I had to do was a few quests to unlock the phase.

Low and behold the second I finished 'The Sanctuary Must Not Fail', but the phase kicked in and NPCscan goes off. A ton of people were all around me and as I looked up there must have been 10 people flying around and many more on the ground staring up.

Now in the video they mentioned landing on a tree. The bizarre thing was with all these people around no one was by any of the trees. I flew up to a tree and tried to land at the top, but ended up missing and falling all the way down. Luckily I didn't die and with 1% heath I got the achievement Going down? Chuckling to myself bandaged up, attempted to land and this time was successful. With Ban'thalos circling around again I put down a trap, flew up and attempted a shot, but a Horde hunter seeing this decided to take a shot at him in a wild attempt to steal him away. In a matter of seconds my heart sank and then leaped in joy realizing that this guy was much to high with no close landing. I crossed my fingers and must have prayed to every God in existence and they must have all answered my prayers because the next thing I knew he plummeted and died on impact. Seeing this as my opportunity I shot Ban'thalos again, he flew into my trap on top of the tree and I tamed him.

It just goes to show you not everyone knows how to get this bird down yet and by taking those few minutes prior to watch and learn it gave me the advantage I needed.

Comment by 854446

As soon as I logged in yesterday at 3:58 am ST on suramar, there he was flying near me as I was perched on the tree top. I quickly set a Freezing Trap, mounted up and hit the space bar 4 times, I quickly dismounted and fired off an arcane and concussive shot, I got his aggro and quickly popped my macro: /cast deterrance /use Mythical Healing Potion /cast tame beast. It lead him to my trap, then I hit the tame beast button again and he was mine.

Comment by Elladaow

Just tamed this for my husband on the Tanaris server at 6pm *ish* server time. Tame went off beautifully other than a few horde trying to kill him * /sighs at childish antix * good luck to all the hunters, Ally and Horde alike trying to tame this beauty.

Comment by Chaotichorizon

Just tamed on Medivh at 21:07. It looked like some tried to tame him first, saw nasty moonfires going off. I was perched on the tall tree on my mount. I flew up and arcane shot him and dismounted. On the way down I dropped an Ice trap, yes, they will stay in mid air. Landed on the tree and lost about 20k health. Ban'thalos hit my ice trap and I began the tame. A few hunters started swarming, but no one tried to shoot at him, which I'm quite greatfull for. Third spawn I've camped, this one was a 7 hour camp. Just had my laptop going while I watched tv, cooked dinner, ate dinner. Almost chocked on my steak when I heard NPC Scan go off. lol GL to all rare hunters out there.

Comment by vanishing11

Ok, so I've been camping here for a few days waiting for the kitties (Magria and/or Ankha) to come out and nothing. I was starting to believe none of this Spirit Beasts where real since i had not seen Ban'thalos either that is with the exception of other hunters pets which was anoying since it kept giving me false pings with NPCScanner.

Today I did a couple of BGs and finish my FL daylies as soon as I was done I zipped back to Hyjal and I see Ban'thalos flying with a bunch of Alliance hunters trying to get on the tree, so i rush over and after several trys i manage to get on the tree myself, tagged him and started to tame (BTW the method is flawless) when a group of the alliance non-hunters tags him to kill him. Ban'thalos started killing them all so i set a second trap, bandaged, drink heal pot and wait till Ban'thalos was done killing the guys below then he comes back at me, I start my tame again and voila, got my new pet.

I was shaking when i finally got it.

TY all for the good advice like I said it worked like a charm.

Tamed @ around 12:40pm
Server: Aerie Peak

Comment by 729800

Tamed at 6:30 (or so) pm est on khaz modan.

Comment by 716252

Any tips for landing on the bleeped tree?

Comment by Samaramon1

As for HOW to get on the bleeping tree (the hardest part tbh), I found this to be the easiest way.

Use a smaller mount! For example, Gryphon> Drake. You have way better control to see and set your char directly above the tree spike.

Rotate map! Make sure you're right above the tree from all angles.

Smaller movements. It's much easier to adjust if you just go forward, then keep backing up. The movements are shorter, and can help your positioning.

Make sure you track your chars body. The body of the player should be directly above the tree, not the mount.

Finally, learn from your mistakes! If you fell from one position, don't repeat it. Don't give up, you can't really get it at first, but once you do, things get much easier.

Best of luck! <3

Comment by 816947

Just tamed at 22:36 Moonglade EU Server time, beautiful bird =)

The spawn guide-
Kirix and Skitterflame spawning (and being tamed/killed)
20minutes later, Ban'thalos will spawn
2hours later Magria or Ankha will spawn

Tamed Kirix+Skitterflame, then Ban'thalos... Waiting 2hours now for a Magria hopefully :D

Gl guys, happy hunting :)

Comment by Seac

Just spawned at 1am server time on Wyrmrest Accord. Tamed about 15 minutes later.

I attempted to tame him several times, but wound up dying (would have had him the second time but he proceeded to kill me). Ended up having him tamed out from under me by a troll who had just logged on. After he tamed it he came and stood in front of me for five minutes. It was touching.

Fellow hunters: We have enough trouble getting these rare spawns without making it more difficult for each other by being inconsiderate. Let's be a little respectful of each other, maybe? Apparently my karmic reward from the universe for letting a goblin hunter go ahead of me to tame Magria was having the ONE pet I really want tamed out from under me then rubbed in my face. We already have to contend with other players gleefully killing the rares for no good reason, and Blizzard's idea of "fun taming challenges" to get something we've waited hours/days/weeks/months/whatever for.

Comment by 855573

Just caught Ban'thalos on Shattered Hand server at 12:58 using the goblin rocket boots to save me from the fall and then laid down an ice trap to freeze him while I tamed him. GL to everyone else trying to get him

Comment by Pippens

Ive been hunting this guy for ever! I was doing heroic sethekk hals for the raven lord, when my good friend ozin whispered me that he had spawned! I had a hear attack and got a summon, Only then to see a troll mage kill him. I guess its a blood fued between the factions, but this guy is a !@#$ing #$%^. Alliance or horde, u shouldn't kill a rare in the middle of a tame. That troll can go watch his gay porn and leave the taming of the 4.2 rares to the hunters

Comment by Combatnurse

Woah that was an intense tame!

Tamed on my hunter at 6:59pm server, US-Crushridge

I'd just got done the quests to open up the Firelands dailies not 20 minutes before. I was sitting there reading up on Magria actually, when I see a yellow dot SLOOWWWLLYYY patting around on my tracking out of the corner of my eye. I hovered over it and seen "ban'thalos" and thought to myself... "no way..." Then Silver Dragon goes off.

I panicked! I flew myself over the half circle pillar behind the quest givers, flew up in the air, hit him with arcane shot, and fell with like 20k health left... died to one of his moonfire things.

Second try, I did the same thing, but when I landed hit deterrence and an ice trap, but died again.

Third try, I fly up, wait for him to come around. Hit him with arcane shot (i'm not an engi, nor did I have any slow fall things or help). Landed with about 20k ish health, but this time my trap gets him quicker (I didn't lay the trap before I tamed, but after I landed).

Some ally came along and tried to either kill him or interrupt my tame (not sure which, I just seen them attacking) and luckily my tame went off RIGHT before I died. A nice pally res'd me and gave me a name for him.. Clover... because I was VERY lucky to have tamed him!

Comment by 846272

Im so sad logged into hyjal and saw him flying around shot at him in the air fell and lived started taming and then died. another hunter got on a tree and got him.

After my first attempt at taming him he went up higher in the air dont know if thats supposed to happen but it did

Comment by Dancewhore

Anyone who steals this pet off you and kills it is doing you a favour of sparing you the embarassment of going into battle with an owl by your side.

Comment by ohnoezitsjoes

He hit me while I had deterrence going. I died before deterrence ended. My combat log shows that to. I didn't see this in the comments, but I wish I had known before I wasted an attempt expecting this to work.

Scattershot did interrupt it though.

My tame was 12-13 hours after last spotting.

Comment by 620220

Saw him on my warrior, decided to quickly jump on my hunter (that I rarely play) and try to tame him. After 2 tries (and deaths) I noticed another hunter I knew try and get him, he died but I managed to trap it. Being a nice guy I decided to just trap it and wait for him to grab it, he seemed like a nice guy.

Well the guy tames him and simply flies off without even saying "thank you"

Life lesson, don't bother being a nice guy :p

Then again it is just an Owl... I prefer my other spirit beasts.

Comment by 791031

Just tamed Banth on Stormrage at just before 3 AM. Was funny for me. I am an engineer so I just used my Flexweave Underlay to tag then slowfall. Died three or four times, but got him with the help of a guildie. All of the hordie hunters came over and /spit on me lol. Was fun and nerve wracking but got this beauty ^^ (very happy hunter). Good luck all!
---Happy Hunting!

Comment by xarthan

Just tamed on Bronzebeard at 9:44am. I was up on the highest tree. Pop arcane. Drop Ice Trap. Did Ancient Histeria + Dismiss Macro, then Potion of Speed, Deterrence, Tame Macro.

Comment by 805742

Just tamed on US Darkspear at 10:48PM ST. Did not see where or when he spawned--sorry, no help there. (Ankha was tamed at 5:05PM on this server earlier that day. No spirit beast spawned between these two.)

The Best Way to Tame (Tips & Tricks)

Always use Potions of Speed, Lifeblood (if Herbalist) or any other Haste increasing effect. (Rapid Fire is "Ranged Haste" so I do not believe this effect helps the taming process.) Place these into a macro to use over and over!
Ban'thalos is flying high above the sanctuary. (If you just hover over the water of the sanctuary pool, NPC Scan will be SURE to go off if he spawns.)
When he spawns, fly up to him. You'll need your macro, arcane shot, freezing trap and tame pet handy.
Hit him with arcane shot. (VERY IMPORTANT!) Do NOT use Serpent Sting. (Did this the first time, big mistake.)
As you are falling, point your camera downwards. Disengage when you're almost towards the ground.
Lay down Freezing Trap and deterrence RIGHT away! This guy uses Moonfire to attack you, and 2 hits and you're dead. (Seriously, he's like a rampaging, moon-fire spamming boomkin noob.)
Relax and take a breath! And spam tame pet! Congratulations, you have a beautiful new Spirit Beast!

This took me 3 times to do. I died twice, then succeeded on the third time! May be best to try to find him at night, so there won't be many threats of people trying to gank you as you do this. I had two other Horde pals come watch me as I tamed this, haha.

Best of luck, and happy taming!

Comment by Euphyley

I've got a couple of videos of him flying around (gives a good idea of the height he flies at) and a couple of tames here.

Comment by 854723

Nelf Hunter. Tamed on Caelestrasz at 5:47am ST. Positioned myself at top of tree behind statue, waited for Ban'thalos to come in range, dismounted and tagged her with arcane shot. Landed on top of the tree with minimal damage, set freezing trap and cast deterrence and tame beast macro. Easy tame. She also previously spawned at 10:45am ST and at 12:05pm a few days ago. Hope this helps other hunters on my server.

Comment by Luvaria

Can you just tag him then disengage on the way down (a short time before landing) to prevent the fall damage instead of wasting so much time trying to stand on the tree?

Comment by 541461

I tamed this on Cairne. I was gonna use the tree thing coordinates are 27.26 64.26, but I decided to use a slow fall since the tree can be crowded and I wanted to tame it away from the tree.

I went to Thorium Point and spent a litte time doing the quests to get Evonice's Landin' Pilla. (This quest will spawn in the slag pits after you kill the chaimbermaid)

A day later I went to do some dailies then to my surprise it had spawned. A dk was flying around it i think tring to aggro it. I had put my needed keys in a good order and hit dismount, arcane, then the pillow.. aaaaa a soft landing. I layed out the freezing trap, popped a speed potion and tame once it hit the trap. I had my pvp gear on for the stamina and a health trink if needed. I tamed with about 1/4 health. I named it DiscoInferno since it looks like a light show!

Comment by 857015

Just want to say Caphune's idea about using the tree works perfectly i'll even leave a video showing how easy it is to tame him from the tree.

http:// www dot youtube dot com/watch?v=reewtpNxNv8

since i can't link replace dot with . and it will work sorry being new here but thought i would show how easy he is to tame.

Comment by Sunnz

So am I dumb or do I just not know how to stand on this tree? Is there a certain way to get on it?

Comment by 779198

Just tamed on Antonidas.

After about 30 mins of trying to get in that tree last night, I sat and waited for him to spawn. A few other hunters pop by every now and then, and I finally decide to do a random with my boyfriend. Halfway through the dungeon I get a whisper from my hunter friend (Rothshaan, same one that helped me tame Deth'tilac last night and is uber awesome) starts whispering me that the birds up.

I drop group, fly straight up from the tree, wait till he gets within range, pop off a shot, land and hit my trap. He didn't so much as cast his Moonfire attack. Seconds later he was mine!

Rare hunt is finally, finally over. :D

Comment by GaladriellePalie

So Ban'thalos was up today 1pm Server time. I was having issue's finding the right tree to land on... A couple other hunters allinace and horde flying around trying to get the tame too, along with other players watching to see who got the tame.

Word of advice for anyone trying to stop the other faction from getting the tame off... DO NOT KILL THE PET KILL THE TAMER! That way if a hunter from your faction or yourself (if you're a hunter) may still have a chance at the pet.

The enemy hunter gets the pull and myself, another friendly hunter and pally all drop onto the original hunter. The second hunter and pally try killing the bird while I am trying to interrupt and kill the enemy hunter. Well enemy hunter gets the tame off only to die one shot later... I swear to god I wish I could have changed factions right there to kill the two dummies not attacking the hunter...

I'll have to try for this pet another day. Good luck to anyone else who is after him.

Comment by 807873

Just got him. 2:15 bloodscalp.

Took me about 30 minutes to work out what to do haha. Looks sick

Comment by 834556

I tamed this pet today, and then the ZA/ZG random popped up. So I was pretty lucky on that. Went into ZA, group started to have trouble on last boss (It was Lynx/Dragonhawk) switched to BM, and BOOM, goes down after Banny came out. (Not literal, but the healing helped out healer a lot)
about 5 minutes earlier, I had tamed Mag. Do we see a connection spawn?

Comment by Soilborn

Last night was my second attempt at taming Ban'thalos. The first had ended in several deaths and me swearing at my computer as a group of Horde thought it would be fun to kill him.

I'd just finished a guild run in ZG and was heading back to the Sanctuary for dailies the next morning. I spotted him flying above and thought I'd give it a go. I've never been able to manage the "stand in the tree" tactic (and although I did ask my other half to try for me, we fell twice) so I went for the "disengage in midair" tactic. I chose a spot as low and as close to the mountains as possible (back to the mountains so you disengage the right way) and then the taming then went something like this.....

1st Attempt - Succesfully dismounted, tagged and disengaged in mid air. Then forgot where my deterrence button was and died!
2nd Attempt - As above although at least this time I pressed deterrence. Sadly it was too early and there was nothing to deter, landed got hit with Moonfire and died.
3rd & 4th Attempts - Managed to dismount whilst out of range, nothing to disengage from, died both times.
5th Attempt - Dismounted, tagged, disengaged, landed, deterrence, freezing trap, tame beast, died.
6th Attempt - Reversed deterrence and freezing trap. Seemed to be working fine until for some unknown reason I decided to use a health pot, broke the tame, and then (even with the pot) didn't have enough health for another tame.
7th Attempt - SUCCESS! Dismounted in midair, tagged, disengage, land, freezing trap (although I don't think I actually managed to trap him once!), deterrence, tame pet, then wait what seemed like an age for the bar to go down!

There might have been other attempts in there but I forget.

I've now got a 65G repair bill, no food and another new name to think of. However I do have a very cool new pet to go play with!

Prior to this I'd decided I was only causually taming the new rares (if I saw one i wanted I'd have a go). Now I need only one more Spirit Beast to have them all so it looks like I'm back to camping......................

(Argent Dawn, approx 00:45 server time)

Forgot to mention....on my previous attempt (the one that ended with Horde killing him) I discovered that if you have a friend with a two player flying mount and they kick you out of it you get a parachute. Bear in mind though that you can't dismount, they have to kick you out or it doesn't work, no parachute and another death! Just remember to cast deterrence on the way down or that pesky Moonfire will get you! (like it did me)
Again it requires help from friends but it is another option to try............

Comment by Yvelle

I never thought I'd be so very thankful to a horde toon for making /rude gestures at me, but yesterday I loved that blood elf hunter (I have a dwarf hunter). I tried once before to get Ban'thalos, but I hadn't researched him, so I (and many other toons around) died many times before some idiot shaman killed him. After researching and many attempts at the "tree top" method, I decided to try the parachute/deterrence way next time.

Yesterday while doing my dailies, there Ban'thalos was circling above the daily hub. He must have just spawned, because no one else had notice him yet. The first three times, my timing was off on my button mashing and I died. By that time, a DK had noticed him and was circling him too. After my fourth death, and waiting for my deterrence cooldown, a mage and other hunters had started showing up. I was fuming watching the timer count down and seeing other people die repeatedly trying to bring him down. On my fifth try, I got my shot, parachute and deterrence off. I landed after what seemed like an eternity, dropped my trap and mashed the tame button. Truthfully, I expected to see a "Release Spirit" button appear - that's what I'd been seeing all my previous attempts - but instead a giant block of ice appeared in front of me, with little hearts floating above me. I noticed another player landing behind the ice, but I didn't dare touch my mouse or keyboard to look at them for fear of breaking the tame. And truthfully, I couldn't take my eyes off the tame cast bar. I kept chanting, "Don't f--- up my tame! Don't f--- up my tame!" I've seen too many jerks out there kill rare pets just to be jerks, or because you got there first.

The tame finished and now Ban'thalos is mine! The other player was the blood elf hunter I mentioned earlier. He /ruded me, but I love him nonetheless and I /kissed him. He could have easily killed Ban'thalos. Thank you, blood elf hunter for not ruining my tame! I love you! <3

Comment by 228860

I tried the tree trick - problem is I can't find a spot to stand on at the top of the tree.

It seems like a very tiny landing point - I can't find a way to "Stand" there without falling to my doom.

Any tips? Should I get a smaller mount or something? I keep trying to land on the tree-top with my mount, so I know it's safe to dismount for the taming, but I can't find a spot.

Comment by Kemaria

If you're using a buddy to help you bring him down to the ground without utilizing the treetop method, make sure you pop off a shot, too, before you freeze him. In my excitement tonight, after a guildie brought him within range, I neglected to do that and instead dropped a freezing trap right away and tried to tame.

There sat Banthy all frozen, but because I hadn't tagged him myself, my tame beast wouldn't work. After several attempts, I gave up and let a fellow faction hunter tame him, since he'd been very classy and was waiting patiently instead of jumping in to tame him while I was still trying. I figured I'd had my chance to tame him, so it was only fair to step back and let someone else have their turn. After Banthy was tamed, I asked him what he'd done to make it work - so, lesson learned the hard way, but at least a nice hunter got him. :)

Realm: Thunderhorn
Time: approximately 7:40pm

Edit, July 24 (Thunderhorn):

- 11:30am (approximately): Banthy tamed by a friend
- 10:40pm (that's when I saw him, not sure how long he was up before then): Banthy tamed by me

I was doing dailies in the area and saw a suspicious cluster of players around the Sanctuary of Malorne. Sure enough, there was Ban'thalos, circling around overhead as if he didn't have a care in the world. At first, I thought I'd try the treetop method, but another hunter was there, not landed on the tree, but hovering next to it. It didn't seem like he was going to go for the tame, but I didn't want to crowd, so I left the tree, and called in the same guildie for backup. No one attacked Banthy while I was waiting, so when he got there, we went for it. Banthy was pulled down to the ground, I remembered to tag him this time, pulled him into my trap, and successfully tamed him. The other players around me were classy and didn't interrupt the tame, so I am very grateful to them. :)

After that, I stripped down to wait for a spirit cat to appear at the 28, 52 area (where the yellow trees are), and less than an hour later, Magria spawned and was successfully tamed.

Comment by Nakama

Shot, slow fall just before hitting the ground, freezing trap, tame worked just fine. Thank goodness I've got Flexweave Underlay! :)

--Jed

Comment by Nevinny

I really wish that Blizz would make these rares so that non-Hunters can't target them.

Twice now, while flying just above the tree, I've had a DK grip him, then kill it. Sadly enough, it was a same faction DK. Then gloat that they prevented a Hunter from taming it.

I can't think of any other item that can be gotten in the game that can be taken from you by another player.

In truth I feel sorry for those who can only boost their egos by screwing up other players.

Comment by 94882

Just tamed after multiple tries...

- If you find yourself dying while try turning to tame Ban'thalos try turning on Aspect of the Wild. (worked for me)

Comment by 857966

i cant find the pet where it shows on the map , is the position right?
which tree should i land on? i found a tall tree in shrine of aviana , is it the wrong tree? can any one help me?

Comment by 857966

there are some burned trees there and in the left of it there is a lake. what tree do you mean? can you mention to it more specify?
thanks for your help

Comment by Tatwo

Hunter Tame Guides for 4.2 Rare Spawns
Molten Front - Mount Hyjal

Youtube Search for: "Tatwo Solo Tame"
1 Tatwo Solo Tame Guide Deth'tilac Challenge (w/ people bothering you)
2 Tatwo Solo Tame Guide Kirix Challenge (HARDMODE)
3 Tatwo Solo Tame Guide Solix Challenge (Entrapment)
4 Tatwo Solo Tame Guide Ban'thalos Challenge (Easy and Hard)

Comment by 844355

caught this guy as well as ankha
5 mins between each other

Caught them around 2:20 am Kul Tiras - eu
2 new spirit beasts to add to my collection of rares

Comment by Solanales

Tamed this pet today. I was on another character, and had enough time to log out, log back in, fly over, die on the first attempt, and then successfully tame. Flew up to where he was circling, quickly hit dismount, and distracting shot, then hit my parachute. I was almost dead when I hit the ground, but had a pally with me to bubble, then another distracting shot, and got him. Other hunters were standing around in trees.

Comment by davenrothz

My wife (BM hunter) spotted this and completely freaked out. She had me come on my paladin to help. I just judged it mid air, bubbled and she was at the ground ready to hit it and tame it. She hugged me after :D

This happened 7:55pm 7-24-11 on Suramar.

Comment by 841788

Killed him on my 85 Pally. I then was killed by 4 different Hunters who witnessed my act of murder! :P

Comment by Theblkbltmstr

For those of you wondering, YOU HAVE TO COMPLETE THE QUESTS UP TO THE PHASED AREA WHERE YOU CAN SEE EVERYBODY in order to see/tame this pet.

Which means you have to complete Matoclaws quests up to right after saving the ancients and what not.

Comment by 324747

Stand on the statue's head

Fly straight up off the statue until u are in range of Ban (high enough til u wont die when u take the fall)

Shoot an arcane shot at him as u fall

Take the damage when u hit the top of the statue after the fall

Lay out freezing trap

Tame

Yes he can be cc'd so no harm done to u when he is in ice :)

oh don't walk off the statue after the tame, it don't tickle XD

Comment by 37164

Just got this guy when the server first came up. I didn't use any fancy equipment or anything. Just flew up...shot with arcane shot....fell down popped disengage right before hitting the group, trapped and won. Goodluck to everyone. Such an amazing pet!

Comment by travischilders

Tamed a few days ago. Basically he spawns above the santuary of malorne. you wanna get to the top of the tallest tree behind the sanctuary, lay a freezing trap fly up shoot him and wait for him to go in the trap...very easy tame. Just watch out for all the other hunters who will try to steal it in the area :)

Crazyshot
Hydraxis

Comment by pauly1206

Tamed about 10 mins ago. I am a troll hunter, I had all the macro's that I was told to use, I was on the right tree, 2nd attempt at this Bantha, NPC went off, it was targeted, I tried shooting distracting shot, then any kind of shot, nothing would work, THEN this Orc Hunter, Sinopa, wispered me and said "mount up, go straight up. dismount and shoot and fall back onto the tree, drop your trap, and tame". well like I said, tamed Bantha about 10 mins ago! Thanks again to this nice person that saw I was having problems, thank you again Sinopa!

Lazz
Duskwood
12:50pm

Comment by 859517

Do you have to do all 115 quests in hyjal to get the Beast?

Comment by Salandria

27/7/2011
Server: Kalecgos - PVP
Spawn Time: 3:20AM PST
Spawn Location: 28,60
Rotation: Counterclockwise
Notes: I stood on the tree as advised. I put down the trap first, then aggro'd, then Deterrence, then of course, tame.
HP: 96,905

Good luck hunters!

Comment by 859656

Popped up right over the firelands portal at 7:02am on 7/27/11 Shandris server time by 7:15am it was tamed by a horde.

Comment by 752391

I enjoy this story, I had just gotten the flame hypogriff mount of my main and was showing it off to a friend outside the portal to the molten front. while we were chatting he suddenly turns and points out Ban'thalos flying around. I instantly start freaking out and order him to watch it. I instantly jumped to my hunter who i found to be in Storm wind (slaps self) I flew to its spawn. and unlike practice runs I got onto of the tree right away fly up, shoot drop, die. bloody thing its freaking hard. fly back, get on tree, rez, eat, fly up, shoot, drop, ice trap, tame. dont forget a dam ice trap! I named it after my friend who tagged it three of four times before a shaman that was trying to kill it and got himself killed in the process.

sorry for the YAY story but... i cannot resist i like reading these when im waiting at all hours for a spawn

Tame somewhere between 5:00 and 5:23 pm realm time
Getting on the tree when its spawn is 100% faster for some reason
Dont forget your freaking ice trap!
Good luck fellow hunters!

Comment by 859825

Tamed at 1030pm server time. Another hunter tamed at 430pm server

Duchëss
Korgath

Comment by Salandria

28/7/2011
Server: Kalecgos - PVP
Tame Time: 2:30AM PST
Tame Location: 27,63
Notes: I did not get the exact spawn information as I logged on and he was already there. I helped another hunter get him :)

Good luck hunters!

Comment by Salandria

28/7/2011
Server: Kalecgos - PVP
Tame Time: 4:30PM PST
Tame Location: 27,60
Notes: I did not get exact spawn information as this information was relayed to me by another hunter.

Good luck hunters!

Comment by 228860

Tamed last night at exactly 10:30 p.m. Server time. Literally when it turned to 10:30 pm on my game clock, NPC scan went off.

He spawned right in front of me while I was standing on the top of the tallest tree behind the Malorne Ruins.

Dropped the Freeze Trap, Mounted up, flew straight up about 5 feet, waited for him to fly a little closer to me, shot him, fell to the tree top, Deterrence, caught him in the trap, Tamed...he never did a single point of damage to me. He never even used his special attack. The easiest tame I ever made.

Right after I tamed him, I immediately went to Magria/Anhkas patrol area and - DING - Ahnka was in the process of being tamed by another Hunter as I flew over.

They must be chain-linked spawns - I'm betting that as soon as I tamed Ban'thalos, Anhka immediately spawned. But he (or she?) was being camped by the other guy, so I missed him.

Easy way to get into the tree safely:

Use a griffon or bat.

Position your mount just above the tip of the tree and make sure tree top point is right in between your character's feet. (Not the mount's feet - YOUR feet while you're on the mount) Then dismount.

That's how I got on the tree top without any problems. Nice view of the valley from up there BTW. lol

Comment by Chakra

Killed today @ 04.55, Kazzak eu pvp.

Comment by LadySuncrusher

as so many others have said ... KILLING THESE NEW BEASTS OFFER NOTHING BUT A WORTHLESS ITEM COMPARED TO WHAT THE BEAST IS WORTH FOR HUNTERS ...

ANY PLAYER WHO IS NOT A HUNTER WHETHER HORDE OR ALLIANCE WHO GO AND KILL THIS PET R NOT FAIR PLAYERS BUT SELFISH, GO GREATE UR OWN DAMN HUNTERS FOR THESE BEASTS AND SEE HOW IT FEELS FOR HUNTERS WHO IN THE PROCESS OF TRYING TO TAME THESE BEASTS FEEL!

my friend who plays on a pvp realm was purposely targeted by an alliance toon so his parntner could just go ahead and kill it and in the process the taming was interrupted ... i on a pve realm, this time horde toons interrupted my process also killing this magnificent beast purely because a hunter wanted it

Comment by 160838

This little basterd is phased. So you need to complete the Hijal quests upto the point where you have the Flame-Gate opened and can do the Fireland dailies.

If you have not done this, do not bother looking for him as you cannot see him.

Comment by 202176

If you notice the only item they drop is called Crystalline Tear of Loyalty , and the description of that item says "The desire to serve as a loyal companion coalesced into a single priceless crystals" and that is the way of Blizzard to say you shouldn't be killing these spawns but instead hunters should tame them (notice the part of : The desire to serve as a loyal companion = A hunter pet)
So yh if a wasnt the first one to notice this sry then i didnt read trough 249 comments ( or something like that) to know if i am stealing someones post or not, but i reached to this conclusion myself so just wanted to put that out there.

PS: There are 10 rare spawns that came in , in patch 4.2.

Comment by elfhuntress

Does anyone know the spawn time or the last time spawn on Duskwood

Comment by elfhuntress

Finally got him...on duskwood realm between 6:55 and 7:11 am aug. 2, 2011 eastern time
I kept falling off tree....lol

Comment by Snuffley

Just had this spawn in front of me, al'akir EU - some paladin tagged in and kept hold of it and killed it in front of me, even though I sent W saying please don't kill it, I will pay etc even said in General chat don't kill it.

sucks so much spent 3 days stood in a tree for nothing. The other guy just laughed and said he had killed it 3 times now....

Comment by 398164

Tamed with a warlock And paladin, start with paladin hitting it and bubbling before hitting ground, once it's down, trap/fear and tame while praying no one tries to be a #$%^ and kill it.

Comment by 859410

Realm: Emerald Dream
Time: 12:46
03/08/2011
For the purpose of any phasing questions all quests have been completed.
For the purpose of taming tactics standing on the highest point tree as detailed above worked perfectly

Comment by Snuffley

I feel that im not meant to have this pet....other hunter just stole it from me and tamed. Oh well.

Comment by Pensri

Just tamed Ban'Thalos this morning around 10:00 am Nesingwary server.
Lined myself up with the tree, dismounted, shot the beast, laid a freezing trap, and tamed away. :) Mesmerizing wings...

Comment by Underwood

Just tamed him on Argent Dawn-EU, roughly 4:45am. Followed instructions of using the tree closest to the Shrine (directly behind it), flying up a short bit, firing off a shot, hitting a potion of speed and then casting a deterrence and tame beast macro.

I noticed initial difficulty with the placement of the freezing trap. The first few times, simply laying the trap would put it on the ground at the base of the tree, a long distance below. I tried using the trap launcher to manually place it but suffered similiar issues.

Long story short, practice with placing the freezing trap beforehand. It makes the tame so much easier/possible. I was fortunate enough that the shaman who wanted to kill it couldn't work out how to bring it down.

Comment by 175425

Tamed him on my hunter (2nd spirit beast in a row, less then 30min after eachother!)

Vek'nilash Eu, ~11:45 server time

Big thanks to druid Droodkin for help on pulling him! :D

Comment by SOMisICEMAN

Tamed on Argent Dawn US at about 3am server time.

I had just zoned out after camping for Skarr for a bit... and there he was, flying around! Died about 4 times and fell from the stupid tree another 5 trying to get it right in my nervousness.

I found putting the trap down on the tree THEN flying up removed the chance for a trap to screw you up. You know it is on top of the tree before you ever take off and once I finally got my ducks in a row, he trapped right away for an easy tame.

Then I flew out to Twilight Highlands just for lolz and got Sambas 5 min later. It was a good night

Comment by sTyLnK

Saw a few hunters after this today. They were going to tame it and some stupid Horde goblin mage swoops in and killed it.

Why Blizzard didn't just make this rare spawn strong and able to one shot people like the spiders in Molten Front is beyond me.

Comment by wheebie

Helped my friend tame this on Ysondre yesterday. NPCscan picked him up so I started spamming all the hunters I knew to come tame him. I pulled him, popped my Skyguard cape and took the starfall to the face. Made it a simple tame for my friend.

Comment by Larabeans

Just Tamed on Juebi'Thos

I looked up new pets for 4.2 when Fl first came out. Needless to say i completely forgot about most of them. Lucky a guildie pointed it out and i got summoned there asap.

My guildie was standing on tree "marking" my spot per say. Saw few hunters trying to get on tree but I got on aswell to lay my trap. (This is after I was previously there before I remembered I wasn't spec'd into BM seeming i changed it for some solo Fl trash ) . Guildie attacked it so it would come closer. Luckily nobody decided to be a little @#$%^ and interrupt it whilst i was taming it. And success.

I named him Hedwig <3

Comment by nealfly75

Tamed on Ysera 11:18am server time. Took about 8 attempts to get on the tree. Arcane shot, freezing trap, and tame. Easy as pie. Happy hunting.

Comment by Punk79

I'm just a scrub hunter really but I saw this bird and I saw an ally hunter on his flying mount hovering in front of the bird trying to find a way to tame it and I thought to myself "Damn I wanna ninja this bird from that ally" so here is what I did (after 2 fail attempts where I learned about the birds deadly spell that I dont remember the name of...)

I went to the mountain south or southwest of the Sanctuary and found a spot where I could land that was as close to the bird's flypath as possible. The bird was still out of range for all shots etc. and this spot I was standing on was like 10-20 yards lower than the bird's altitude.

The bird keeps flying in a big circle over the sanctuary so when he was closest to my spot I flew straight up on my mount untill I was just a little bit higher than the birds altitude and then flew straight towards the bird untill he was in range to pull, then I just shot him once with serpent sting or whatever to aggro him and immediately disengaged so I went flying backwards through the air and landed on the exact same spot on the mountain where I was before. Then when the bird came closer and started casting that deadly spell I shot him once with scatter shot (I think that's the name... the shot that can be used in melee range and disorients the target for a few seconds... I told you I'm a scrub hunter... anyways...) to interrupt the spellcast and after that I started taming him. He didn't use the spell again and just meleed me for laughable damage while I finished taming.

Anyways... if anyone can make sense of this post and just take a look at the mountain area closest to the flightpath you will figure it out right away where that spot is. The process was really easy and in fact much easier than trying to describe it here. :)

Hope this helps someone... if not... /care

Comment by Dorf

Just managed to grab Ban'Thalos now using the tree method. Pro tip for those of you struggling to get up on the tree:

Use a small mount, Golden Gryphon or a regular Wind Rider is recommended, stupidly huge mounts like Proto Drakes or Firehawks have too big a wingspan for you to aim yourself properly.

Position your mounted character in frond of the tree's trunk, facing the statue of Malorne. Ride the back of the mount up the trunk, repeatedly tapping your backwards key until your character goes over the surface area of the top of the trunk, then to be sure you're on it, press your sit key (Default X) to make your flying mount go down in a straight line, if you're there it will stop on the tree. At that point you're free to dismount, place a trap and get ready to shoot.

Tips for the actual Ban Thalos tame:

Wait for him to fly as over-you as possible, fly up, Arcane Shot and the instant you land on the tree start the tame. It doesn't matter if he's casting Harsh Moonlight, the channel and the damage from the spell doesn't break the tame. Now it's down to RNG for the damage ticks. By the time your tame is about 1/2 or 3/4 done, Ban will be frozen and your tame is secured.

I hope what I've posted helps someone, this tame is easy to lose if you have a lack of HP due to being undergeared - which was the case for my Hunter alt. Ended the tame with about 12000 HP left, I felt like a baller.

-Dorf

Comment by Miniegun

Woo!
Finally tamed his at 6:45pm on Jubei'Thos, after 2 weeks of camping!
2 weeks you might say, that's a long time to wait. Well, I had so much trouble getting this, here's a list;
1: Found him, went to tame him, and a guildy came along and tamed him :|
2: Found him, went to tame, and a mage slow falled and killed it
3: Found him, went to tame it, and a DK death gripped him and killed it.

Today I had been camping since 3, and at 6:30 I decided to log over to my shaman to do my dailies. Jumped on, flew to Hyjal and in chat they were saying something about 'in the sky', then I saw Ban'thalos, and a shaman in the tree getting ready to kill it. I quickly logged to my hunter (who was perched in the tree) popped Ancient Hysteria, mount, shot and froze him. The shaman decided to break my CC, and try to kill him. He died, lol, and when he did, it took my a few short seconds to tame him, after which he reincarnated and yelled at me for taming because he wanted 'loot'.
I had many many hunters congratulate me and I gave them the rough spawn point and tips on how to tame, I also had an Alliance hunter /spit on me :)
Must say, this made my day, and all the hunters agreed for 2 weeks I deserved it >.<

Comment by gabe1gabe

will somebody please answer this for me, do I need to do all the quests in Hyjal to be able to see him? I have spent quite a few hours camping so im starting to think im doing something wrong

Comment by quickssilverr

...Got Ban'thalos today...

Tame time: 23:38
Server: Thunderhorn
Location: 39,28

Good luck all!

Comment by variationisenemy

I was doing the dailies & saw this pet - no luck as I'm SV/MM. I decided the hearth back & change spec on the chance it might still be there. Lucky me, it was! I just hit it with an arcane shot, hit deterrence on the way down (took some damage), laid a trap, got hit by about 65k moonfire (think I still had some rez sickness though) which left me with perhaps 1/3 health, & finally tamed it.
Tame time: 16:00
Server: The Forgotten Coast

Comment by 865564

there is a problem ive seen couple of videos on youtube on how to get it but when i get to that place there is no statue and water, etc, but on mine everything is burnt can u plz help

Comment by 785932

Camped her for about a full day and a little extra. Logged in after late dinner and she spawns on me like five minutes later! Heart pounding i fly straight up from my tree perch and drop a freezing trap. Remount and fly up to her level, arcane shot her, but the falling damage took too much off at that height. Even Naaru and deterence couldn't save me because she didn't hit the trap. After dying i fly back right away and healed and gave it a 2nd shot. This time i didn't fly up so high and this time she hit the trap, got her easily.

Time: 12:00am Server: Whisperwind

Comment by Millimille

So, the "tactics" about standing in the tallest tree behind Malourne (spelling?), and Lay down a frost trap, mount up, pull Ban'thalos, deterrence on the way down, start taming.

I CAN TOTALLY CONFIRM IT'S WORKING!

You don't need a parachute or something like that. The only thing you need is a hell lotta patience. I got lucky when I logged in one morning, so besides the tactic, Patience!

Comment by TweakyDig

Tame Time: 15:14
Server: US-Aegwynn

Confirmed that the Tree method works. Land on the tallest tree, plant a freezing trap, mount up, fire a shot at him, land back on the tree. Wait for him to be frozen in your trap and start taming. His Moonfires hurt very badly, so ensure he's frozen or you'll wind up dead in a heartbeat.

Good luck to all eager Hunters. :D

Comment by 865814

Today on Archimonde at 5:30EST

My hunter has a parachute-cloak (ENG). Died 3 Times. Hovered, dismounted, concussion shot. Popped the parachute, disengaged, landed on statue, frost trap, tame... then a rogue ambushed me (which triggered an insta-tame LOL!

If that rogue only sapped me I'd have been screwed.

Comment by 462911

A slight hint for rares spawns like this one:

Never camp them for a long time. Simply fly over the spawn spots every day or every other day quite early in the morning (6-9am should do and that's not too early). Your luck will come eventually.

I've been able to catch every Northrend rare that I wanted (Skoll, Gondria, Aotona and now Loque) bar Arcturis (who keeps on eluding me but I will eventually get him) that way. Same goes for most of the Cataclysm rares I caught (Ghostcrawler, Karoma, Sambas, Ban'Thalos, Kirix, Solix, Karkin, Ankha). I only need Magria and Skarr there. I did tame Skitterflame just because I went by the Skarr spawn spot and thought , ah well: taming challenge. Scare beast --> tame, woop. Abandoned the pet right after because it's not a unique skin.

Anyways, just keep on casually looking for them and don't burst your head over the pets.

This morning I'm off to look for Skarr. I find Ban'Thalos - Tamed on Dragonblight EU, around 8 am today(the only pet I actually camped for one day after 4.2 came out for seven hours) and start to /who hunter. There's only 3 online including me. Noone even responds, too bad for them. Meh, I go into the portal to look for Skarr: he isn't there. /who hunter again. I get one more hunter popping up. Whisper him, he respecs BM but doesn't know how to tame it exactly. I hop over to Sanctuary of Malorne again and show him exactly what to do. He tames it and he's happy. No fee asked, no fee needed.

Loque'Nahak - Tamed on Dragonblight EU, around 8.30 am today - Northernmost spawning point. I actually /who'd for other hunters in the area when I started doing my lap. There was one level 83 one to whom I directly whispered (for fun, ofc): "You no take Loque". Of course I didn't ever think I'd find him but I beat the other hunter to it. He took it rather well and I had to check for Arcturis anyway so I decided to check on Skoll - Tamed on Dragonblight EU, around 8.45 am today and he was up as well. Whispered the hunter and stayed with Skoll until he was there.

He was still grouped when I decided to check for Sambas when Karoma - Tamed on Dragonblight EU, around 9.10 am today - popped. I told him that, he logged another hunter and got it. I decided to do a heroic on my tank for a satchel and then came back for Sambas - Tamed on Dragonblight EU, around 10 am today. After a bit of waiting above Victor's Point he just spawned right in front of me.

Moral of the story: always be friendly to other hunters and hint away their spawns. Do not rage over not finding a spawn you're looking for and by that killing another spawn you already have others might be interested in. It all pays off in the end. Don't give up and keep on casually looking.

Comment by 755493

I've wanted to tame Ban'thalos since I first saw it. NPCscan went off earlier today and luckily I'd already read the taming strategy here so I was able to tame it before any of the other hunters did. I did die several times before I finally got it right ( flew up too high from the treetop ). Thank you for the taming tips! Yay! :) Good luck to everyone else who attempts it!

Note: This was around 5:30 PM EST.

Comment by zsasha

After doing research on wowhead and other hunters had mentioned the Tree method i thought i would give it a go.
Camped the tree for about 3 hours everyday for 3 days and no sign, so today i was on a mission and refused to leave the tree.... i spent 6 hours there, and off goes my npc scan. Now i thought the tree being used seemed just a little too simple but thought give it a go as soo many hunters had used this..... EASIEST tame i have ever had.........

key bound my ebon bird and arcane shot and used a macro once i had relanded on the tree. my Freeze trap was in place before going up.... i lost about 17k health when i dropped back to the tree .
#showtooltip Tame Beast
/use Potion of Speed
/cast Deterrence
/cast Tame Beast

FROSTMANE -EU
time tamed 18:00 cet
renamed -Tootie

next on my list is Skoll, i already have Arcturis, Gondria and Loque'nahak ... then Ankha/Magria will be next

Comment by 768475

For those who struggle with the tree method and do not have a handy slow fall on hand I found the mountain slope right behind the statue a great place to set yourself up. I just lined myself up to it ( I set myself a little higher than Ban'thalos so I wouldn't miss it), so when it came by I arcane shot + disengage right onto it, dropped a frost trap and tame. Happy hunting!
Nehunter - Gilneas 1:02 server

Comment by Iceveiled

Tamed on Duskwood US at 12:10 pm server time august 17th (day of this post). Just like the rest of my spirit beasts, I just happened upon them when I wasn't even trying. For me, the spirit beasts appear when I'm not trying (and believe me, I've tried farming them).

ENGINEERS...the following tip is for you:

Flew up in range just below him, dismounted my flying mount, tagged him with arcane shot, activated parachute cloak tinker (flexweave underlay) right before hitting the ground , popped deterrence and used my belt tinker shield (grounded plasma shield - aka bubble) and dropped a freezing trap as he descended upon me with fury. He nearly killed me before he froze in my trap. Tamed him as nerd adrenaline surged through my veins.

Good luck hunters. He hits hard.

Comment by Daisley

Tamed about 4:10PM (GMT) on Khadgar-EU.

Saw him, got above that tall tree, and pulled him. When he cast his nasty spell of nastiness, I popped Deterrence and Tame Beast, hoping for the best.

Tamed him, and received lots of hate from other hunters. :P

Comment by MacOSXpert

Don't you just love it when a group of random people come and pull him down and kill him? How nice of them.

Comment by 866897

For those of you wondering, you do have to do as many quests as you can until the White Stag is unleashed, its a few quest's after the land changes.
Only then will Ban'thalos be visable, you will know when you have done it because alot human players will appear.

Comment by 129446

Just got him after spending 17 hours in a row in that stupid tree. I'm tired now.
A few other hunters stopped by every now and then, but they all went impatient after half an hour sitting there. I would be really, really mad if someone else snatched or killed him infront of me, luckily I was the only one around when he spawned. Dropped a trap on the treetop, flew up and aggroed him with an arcane shot. Got hit by two 33k moonfires before he hit the trap.
Finally my stable is complete!

Comment by 866897

so im just about to go to bed... i think il have a quick look, Ban aint there... so i do my round..
i bumb in to the rare mob Blazewing and get a nice bit of armor..
i then pop over to the terrorpene and hes there! i try a tame only to have my pet out.. i die, i then try a frost trap tame.. hes immune.. i die! so i then heal up and do a straight tame and i get him with about 10% health left and the split second i tame him i get killed by sambas! lol lucky me :)

then i have a last look for Ban and he aint there so i sit on the tree for 2 mins and BANG there he is! i get set up only for a punk alli hunter to come over and take a shot at him and ruin my tame!.... but Ban'thalos being the legend he is kills him! lol i pop a frost trap and BANG BANG i shot u down! i tame him :) LOL

most epic tame i ever had and prolly ever will! im so happy lol thought id share that with u guys!

btw it was Frostmane at 3:00am server time

punk hunter rushing it lol! when i was sat on the tree he pulled up behind me ready to take a shot at me too! i kept laughing for 5 mins.

Comment by DarkerFalz

I forget what time this was, but it was friday, aug 19, on Muradin, US. Sadly, I didn't get the tame (was wearing no armour, as I got Ban and the other spirit beasts mixed up) so I died about 3 times, while a nelf hunter tamed it out from under my nose.
So glad that no-one didn't try to kill or ruin our attempts at taming.
We basically took turns, I tried taming first, died, she tried, died, I tried, fell off the tree, got hit with moonfire, died, she tamed it.
Found her 5 mins after I rezzed and sent her a /cheer and some other good emotes.

Time to go camping for this one, only one that I really want, because it looks so cool.

Comment by Delaios

If you are an engineer and want to use the parachute on your cloak, make sure you've actually applied the parachute. My first tame attempt ended quite abruptly because I forgot to put a parachute on my Rhyolith cloak.

Comment by wheels010

just got him 5 minutes ago max! easy tame, hardest part is balancing yourself in the tree(make sure you use a smaller mount) use Deterrence when he starts casting harsh moonlight, then tame beast. I was inly hunter around at the time, so i knew he was mine!

(thank you blizzard for not making him immune to freezing trap)

Comment by Random33698

For those folks wanting to get the trinket : Evonice's Landin' Pilla

Let's say you are fairly new to the game (didn't play vanilla wow) and didn't grind Thorium Brotherhood Rep (much less know who the heck they are) and you are having the worst time ever (like I did) trying to perch in that darn tree. It will take a couple hours.

Go to the Badlands. Start at Kargath and take the quest from the guy who will give you the breadcrumb to Searing Gorge and the Thorium Brotherhood. (Yeah, you have to start there, dunno why.) Then just start doing quests and follow along until you can open up the one for Mountain-Lord Rendan. Follow his and those will eventually lead you on a plane into the mountain and stealing pillows. Hang out after you turn in that quest and Chambermaid Pillaclencher will show up... She drops Chambermaid Pillaclencher's Pillow which will become your trinket when you turn it in.

Another helpful link for the quest chain to get there:
Twisted Twilight Ties

Oh yeah, I did NOT get the owl - saw him, dropped to my death over 20 times trying to tame - saw a hunter perch in the tree (which took me over a half hour at one point, 10 seconds on another) and tame real quick. So this time I want to be prepared. Hence the pillow. Yes, I finally got in the tree, but darn it - that owl really got my goat. So to speak.

Comment by AertenAine

Quickie Info:

Location: 27,64
Time: ~12:45 am spawn, 1:10 am tame (I failed a few times)
Server: Suramar-US

Got this feisty birdie at 1:10 am server time on Suramar although he spawned closer to 12:45 am. Several failed fly, attack, fall to a perilous doom deaths later and I read the tip here that got me the tame. Get up on that really tall crooked three behind the Shrine of Malorne (if you're facing the shrine its behind it on your left, coordinates are 27, 64). It's a bit of a challenge to get atop that tiny spire but it can be done. Lay your frost trap down as he approaches then mount up and fly directly straight up, do not move a millimeter. If you move at all, you will die at the next part. Fly straight up until you're at his level. When he's in range, dismount and fire off your tagging shot. If you've done this correctly and not moved you will land back on the tree and take 1/3 health dmg max. Banthalos should land in your frost trap and freeze therefore giving you the ability to tame him. I survived the tame with about 1/3 health left. I'm a draenei hunter so while he was frozen before beginning my tame I quickly popped Gift of Naaru to help with the dmg he deals. I did massive happy dances because at 12:19 I'd just FINALLY found and tamed Ankha! Two challenge/spirit tames in an hour!

Here's also what I learned didn't work in the numerous attempts of taming beforehand. I was lucky there were no other hunters around attempting to tame the bird otherwise I would have likely lost the tame. A guildie pal of mine had the engineering parachute so he would try to tag him then slow fall down so I could get in range of him to tag. Problem with that is guildie would die by being attacked by the bird just as I was in range. I'd get two shots off but Banthalos immediately evaded/reset when guildie died. Now if you have the parachute by all means use it, it will help you take even less damage in the fall back down to the tree. I also couldn't find a way to fall over water, I was never in range but if I could have I think that may have worked. I didn't try disengaging into the water but I see where some people found that to work. Getting up on the tree alone doesn't work; you never come in range. I tried to fall onto the shrine or some other high place and I would survive the fall sometimes but it didn't leave me enough health to survive the tame. Trying to survive the tame without the trap seems also impossible.

Hope this helps and good luck to any fellow hunters out there!

Comment by 709389

just so its out there, Ban doesnt share a timer with the two cats. I was attempting to tame Ban when i recieved a whisper from a friendly player that said Mag was roaming around.. They even helped pull a mob off my back :) Needless to say, I caught both of them and now just need 3 more S Beasts to complete my collection :)

Comment by 866592

Got him this morning at about 2.45am server time on Lightbringer EU. He spawned just by the Firelands portal near Sanctuary of Malorne. I had been camping for about 8hours sitting in the tree. Almost had a heart attack when he spawned, was praying no one else would notice him.

Be wary, he flies stationary for about 5 - 10secs, then takes what seems like an eternity to reach the tree area.

Flew up, arcane shot, deterrence, tame, new pet. Jumping up and down with excitement.

Be patient, he does spawn. On the lookout for the other rare ones now as they apparently spawn nearby the same time as him.

Comment by 871938

All huntars... please post the following:

The Date and time you tamed a pet, cuz we want to know.
Tell us all the details of what you were doing, what server, tell us a little about your guild and the unorthodox way you went about a tame. Tell us what color underwear you have on, if any. Tell us about how you have no friends in RL. We really want to know.

Comment by 872199

Just tamed this guy on my tard today, what a beauty.
He is a tough one to tame, iLvL 353 and he almost had me dead before I tamed him. Had the help of a "genuinely" nice priest that was passing by and asked me if I was trying to tame. The priest levitated and pulled Ban'thalos to the ground by me where I began to tame, priest bubbled me then when bubble broke pulled aggro long enough for me to tame. Priest died in process but was of invaluable assistance. Dont think I would have been able to pull without priest.

Comment by 04geolin

Just tamed him, using this method:
1. look for the brown tree behind the statue of marlone
2. fly up to the top and wait for him to cross your path
3. shoot him and drop
4. as you are falling disengage
5. when you hit the floor (if timed right you will survive with at least 50% hp) just lay an ice trap
6. tame away :)

enjoy your new pet

Comment by BracMagus

WinterHoof. Tamed on 8/26/11 around 7:45 est by my hunter BracTrap.

To all the Horde who tried, failed, and died trying to take it from me, I rejoiced at your deaths and will enjoy your failing we glee every time i have this pet out.

Method used:
Used the tree behind mal's shrine. Was yanked by a friendly priest to the hill within 30 yards of said tree and watched a lock, boomkin, and hunter die trying to take it from me. Tossed a trap on the dead bodies and tamed away.

Now to think of a good name.

Comment by Paulosio

I came across someone trying to Ban'thalos a couple of days ago but the hunter died in the attempt because he took way too much fall damage. He tried to use the building behind the statue of Malorne rather than 1 of the trees. I shot Ban'thalos from 1 of the trees before he went back up in the air so he aggro'd on me and then started taming... No freeze trap or anything.

Just found him again and was trying to help another hunter till some mage showed up trying to kill it and failed... Unfortunately some other hunters then showed up and managed to get the tame ahead of the guy I was helping :(

Comment by Sora14

Had it spawn around 1AM Server Time after nine hours of camping. But, that's not the reason I'm posting this. There are a lot of negative posts about what non-hunters have done to hunters trying to tame this pet on here, but I have a positive post (though slightly negative).

When Ban'Thalos had finally spawned for me, after all of the 'false alarm' npcs scans going off from other hunters in the area having the pet already, felt my heart drop for a few moments after having practically no activity for that long and only watching Netflix/Hulu on my other monitor. I quickly flew up in the air and pulled him down with an Arcane shot. In the heat of the moment, I forgot my frost trap and died.DO NOT LET THIS HAPPEN TO YOU!
Don't make the same mistake that I did and do something that dumb after waiting so long just to get the beast. But, this is where the actual story begins.

When I finally returned to the tree and revived myself, it wouldn't allow me to revive in the same position in the tree so I had to revive near the trunk. At this point, two fellow horde players had noticed the rare spawn. In my head I'm assuming the worst and that they were going to kill it. After sending a simple message to them about not killing it and even offering to pay them gold they said don't worry and that they wouldn't take any money from me. Sure enough, they invited me into a group and they were insisting on helping me get the spirit beast. It was becoming harder and harder to get back up in the tree... after trying summons, mass resurrection, and other techniques that a warlock, druid, and hunter are capable of we came to the conclusion that the only way to get in the tree is to do it yourself. With how nervous I was.. it wasn't easy to land in the tree properly.

With how much time I was wasting getting into the tree, we attracted the alliance attention and a death knight had attempted to kill the spirit beast. After getting killed twice, she noticed that we were going to try taming it and then went to attacking me. The Death Knight had brought another hunter with her, or at least that was in the area, and they both had started to attack me. The druid and warlock quickly jumped in and held them off while I finally managed to get myself in the tree again. I dropped a trap immediately, jumped in the air and arcane shot un one last desperate attempt to stop me from taming it the death knight dismounted mid air and tried to attack me but... fitting enough fell to her death as I finally captured Ban'thalos or as I'll call him now, Odin.

To the Warlock and Druid who helped me: Thank you SO much. I know that you probably will not ever read this message but I am truly in your debt. And, please remember WoW players... even if there are players like the ones that gave me trouble and who were attempting to stop the tame... there are also players like the Druid and Warlock who were literally doing everything in their power to ensure it was not killed and it was tamed. They wouldn't accept any type of monetary reward (which I had offered numerous times, and I don't blame you guys if you wouldn't do the same for nothing)... true good people and friendly players. If you're not a hunter.... please do not kill this Spirit Beast. The only thing it drops is the 25g gray, which isn't worth the effort you have to put into killing it.

I wish best of luck to the rest of you on your hunt for Ban'thalos and please remember... DON'T FORGET TO TRAP.

Comment by SimonEddie

just helped a friendly hunter get it. loads of other hunters and people where trying, i invited him and slow falled tagged him so that the hunter could tame him.

BEWARE

He does a harsh moonlight baility which does MASSIVE damge killing you within a few seconds, so make sure you use any stuns or similar.

Comment by Aristor

Tamed on Stormrage US.
3:15 AM Spawn, give or take 5min.

Sit in the tree to left left of the statue, and wait for the spawn. Lay a freezing trap down. Fly up in the air (STRAIGHT!), and shoot ole Banny. You'll fall right down to the tree, where he should follow and become trapped. If he casts moonfire, use deterrence before taming.

Best of luck!

Comment by MacOSXpert

Tamed at 10:37pm on Daggerspine US.

Dropped trap behind Malorne statue, flew up, arcane shot, disengage, tamed.

Simple as that. Wish I knew about that strat sooner because I lost ban a couple of weeks ago to a bunch of people who killed him.

Comment by 703737

I'm really glad i did the hyjal dailyes, and that a friend of mine whas around ( he is a warlock) i invited him. He setted his teleport thing on the statue, flew up and dmged the npc and used the teleport afther a lil i could agro him and trap him and tame it :D I belive it whas around 21:45 dont remember it exacly.

Comment by 876316

Came across Ban'thalos last night (or should I say 2am BST) and luckily I was on my hunter. Quick change to my BM spec then spent more than 30 minutes trying to tag it but was never in range. Tried sitting in a tree but didn't work for me (may have been in wrong tree). Finally found a kindly Paladin who helped tap it and bring it down for me to train. My first Rare pet and really pleased with it, was worth the time and hard work :-)
I also paid the Paladin a fee for helping of course.

Comment by 870708

Tamed on Lightbringer EU around 9:30pm server time (bst+1)

Stood on the tree (getting on it was harder than the tame!), flew up a bit, dismounted, hit concussive shot, kept it on him, dropped a trap, and once he was trapped I tamed. Easy peasy :)

Comment by 356359

Literally just tamed this for a hunter in my guild and what a battle it was! Tamed on Azuremyst EU at 13.40pm Realm Time

The hunter tamed it from the shooting desent, missed the pillar where our healer was and died. It turned on our healer as she put a heal on the huner as they fell. It eventually killed her but it was picked up by me (Pally Tank) who taunted it and dropped a Judgement to keep it just as the healer was dying.

It almost killed me but I did Lay on Hands to stay alive until the Hunter got back to their body. They laid a Freeze trap down just behind me and shot it as soon as I died and tamed it.

If you know a Healer and a Pally Tank maybe try having them help you out on taming this one.

EDIT: Forgot to mention realm and server time for taming purposes.

Comment by 876706

I've just tamed him.

11:45 Shadowmoon realm

Stood on the top of a tree and used a freezing trap.

Comment by 215545

Tamed on Skywall at 4:50pm EST.

Comment by Silje84

Tamed Ban`thalos today, 21.00 realm time, at Sanctuary of Malorne(Darkmoon Faire EU).
Was a pain trying to figure out how to aggro it down without dying, but an alliance warlock, who actually tried to kill him, did it for me...and he died trying to ruin the tame. He tried it twice, but second time I was faster and manage to tame it before "reset":) So thanks to a failing warlock, Ive got an awesome pet ^^
Actually had a mage coming to help me with Slow fall, but didnt need the help after all;)

Tamed Ankha and Ban`thalos today. Been very lucky with spawns since last friday. Got 6 spirit beasts and a Terror-turtle :D

Happy hunting!

Comment by 50612

Since I'm an engineer I just waited till he was close to the cliff side nearby the tree that was suggested to stand on. Shot the bird mid air and disengaged and parachuted so that I would land on the cliff. I popped deterrence idk just incase laid a trap at my feet then tamed the bird.

Comment by annakandie

Just tamed this sweet owl at 4:02am on 9/1/2011

Comment by 877002

1st try i found it flying and tried to tame it but a pally came and killed it b4 i could have it 2nd try i finally tamed it and its a GREAT pet! :)

Comment by 344881

I just got this lovely pet about an hour ago... I zoned back in from the Firelands, and my silverdragon went off. I looked and saw that it was Ban'thalos, and my heart jumped for joy. I hadn't planned on camping this guy till after I had managed to kill Aeonaxx, but with this shiny little opportunity staring me in the face, how could I ignore it? I flew around for a few minutes, watching him, and then settled down on the tree. I placed my trap, and well, I didn't have to fly very high above the spot my trap was at. I dismounted manually, and shot him. I dropped down, barely taking any damage at all, and started my tame. I didn't get hit except by a very small melee, which was 4241dmg. I know people say he attacks with a moonfire like attack, but I guess I got lucky, lol. For all you hunters out there, this tame is A LOT EASIER than you think. GOOD LUCK!

~Brecc of Area 52, lvl 85 Blood Elf Hunter

Comment by 877164

Just tamed on EU Azuremyst at 11:41pm (realm time). Used the tree tactic, but as soon as I shot him and landed on the tree he charged me and knocked me off the top. Fortunately I had flexweave underlay on my cape and was able to keep from dying. The moonfire dmg he does is very strong, but can confirm that scatter shot does silence it for long enough to trap him.

Just another quick note, he did spawn at exactly 11:40pm after many hours camping the spot. Anyone else seem to be seeing the rares show up at 20 and 40 past the hour? All my tames seem to always spawn at those intervals. Also, a thank you to a hunter on my realm who gave me valuable information and tips, you know who you are :)

Comment by 877620

Ban'thalos tamed on wildhammer at 3:25 am server time.
Easy tree tame... died once in a panic wasnt even in BM spec.

Comment by Romire

I saw Ban'thalos at the sanctuary

It took 7 goes to get him right, then a DK comes along and KILLS him on me!

all that for a POS DK to do that? yeah thanks a lot, 12hrs of waiting to spawn at 3pm AEST 6/9 gone!

Comment by 878552

Just had a friend tame on Blackhand U.S. Horde. 11:40 p.m. Above the Sanctuary of Malourne. Hope it helps :D

Comment by 779198

Ban'thalos spawned about 6:28am server time on Antonidas.

My friend and fellow hunter didn't have this one, so I immediately starting calling trying to wake her up. I literally sat for an hour watching him fly in circles till she saw I was trying to reach her. (Does this guy even despawn?) Thankfully, she was able to get up into that god forsaken tree and tame him. :3

Comment by 864298

Here's what I just did (which won't really help you at all unless you're an Engineer)

I have the Parachute enhancement to my cloak, so I flew up near him and did:
dismount
concussive shot
parachute
... in quick succession

then dropped a Freeze Trap when I landed.

I took a chance and kept the Auto Shoot going so I could disrupt that nasty spell of his and, when he froze, I tamed him.

Too bad neither he nor my core hound can be used in MM, but ... /kanye shrug ... who cares; I was planning on giving BM a try while doing Heroics anyway

good luck!

Comment by UNFJoel

Tamed at 12:20 p.m. EST on Ghostlands server. It took me eight different attempts to tame this guy - first tried to just blast him out of the air, but the ground and I had a disagreement, and the ground won. Next, had a couple of helpful priests try to give me levitate and the priest bubble, but that didn't work as well as hoped (priest heals would steal aggro). Tried slow fall with a mage, still no luck, Ban'thalos' attacks are brutal. Finally watched a video on YouTube about the taming process and was able to do it. Have to stand on the top of a really tall tree that's just behind the stone arches (that took several attempts/falls), set a freeze trap, fly up so you're in range of Ban'thalos, then dismount/shoot him, land on the tree top, use Deterrence and then tame. My heart was racing through this process, but it was nice to finally get him.

Comment by 844789

Tamed Ban'thalos at 5:00pm Ream Time - Dawnbringer

This one took a bit of hard work and thinking to figure out how to tame 'em. Just flew to Hyjal to do my daily's well low and behold, Ban was flying around with a Mage, Hunter and Shammy circling him, trying to figure out how to bring him down.

I noticed they were trying to pull him into the water - but the mage was dying before the Hunter was in range to tame.

I was with my boyfriend at the time, and we figured out a pretty abstract strategy to tame. I was standing on the Colosseum - right behind the large Elk statue, we timed it so my boyfriend would aggro Ban'thalos and would fall near me (since he is a Rogue he took reduced fall damage, which helped a lot considering that Ban'thalos' ranged attack does quiet a bit.)

Freaked out a bit at the end, because the Mage and Shammy were hovering around - and I did not know if they would try to pull aggro - however they did not - so as soon as I was within ranged I pulled aggro with an arcane shot and started to tame. he hits like a truck and a half at 119k I was left with 43k - the only reason I was able to survive the tame was because at the last second he got caught in my frost trap. I also had a haste potion on (Increases haste by 45 for 1 hour)

Again, its a very abstract method that I doubt can be duplicated unless your friend is either a Rogue or has anything that can slow their fall while taking the moonfire-esk attack that Ban will put them thru.

At the end of it all, named them Hope and very happy with his tame :)

Comment by 689670

It is my alt and I am not very skilled in hunters, so here is what I did and failed:
-I tried the sitting on tree tactics but I was panicking so much because I was afraid of other hunters on the area or gankers that I failed hard.
-I tried the parachute tactic with the trap down and he would kill me before he hit the trap or I he would get trapped after I died. (if you die while he is trapped he will evade, even if you attack or trap again)
Here is what worked:
A guildie tankadin was on the area, so I aggroed the bird and parachuted when near the ground, the paladin taunted it as he was in range, so I didn't get much dmg. I popped the trap, the paladin dragged it to the trap and I tamed.

I know it is fail, but worked for a bad skilled hunter. :B

Comment by Luvina

Got him about 3am ST on Dragonblight,
Went crazy and had a heart attack ect lol...
Couldn't land on the branch as he was circling back round ><, finally managed it, summoned my arena team, which wasn't the best idea as they got aggro and had to die before i could tame, so trapped him in a freezing trap, cried for a certain amount of time before my friend jumped off and died lol.

But beautiful pet, definatly worth the wait :)

Just try not to panic xD

Comment by jamel

how long is respawn.

Comment by jamel

one*

Comment by Romire

Its 4:40pm AEST 8/9

NPC Scanner goes off "YOU ARE NOT PREPARED!" Thanks illidan

Ban'thalos has spawned!

Im screaming in general, I NEED A MAGE NOW! 200g for helping me!

No one responds and a who of Mount Hyal revealed Pallys!

So anyways i proceed to tame, i stripped naked and get on my mount and fly up, 2 Alliance Druids & 2 Horde druids are circling it, I said "TODAYS MY DAY!"

1st Attempt: Failed
2nd Attempt: Failed
3rd Attempt: Failed

At this point the druids are LOLing at me and one says "give it up?" i respond with "NEVER"

On my fourth attempt i shot and disengaged near the mountain, i surived with 50% health, I put a frost trap down and i proceed to tame, Hes frozen! *SUCESS* or so i thought

A smart ass hunter from allaince decides HE wants it and breaks the ice block, The owl is still in my threat, The timer goes down it ends, and i have my brand new Spirit beast!

BM HUNTERS FOR LIFE!

http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/692/wowscrnshot090811164118.jpg/

Comment by jamel

wat realm are u in and do sancturary of malorne have to be restored?

Comment by Romire

I swear!

This owl spawns more every 4 hours it seems on my Realm! hes spawned 3 times in one day!

2:24am AEST 9/9

He spawns MORE then the cats do!

Comment by 878987

I watched a Druid pull this owl and plummet to his death 3 times. Epic fail for 25gold and no achievement.

I wasn't even going to bother taming it as I have kept the same pet for about 5 years.. but I used the good old hunter tactic, stood on the statue's head, laid a frost trap, flew up, dropped my mount and arcaned him on the way down.. Tamed. Stunning looking pet. Took it and solo'd a Fiery lord. Exotic pet collector or not, this bird just looks amazing flapping around in Orgrimmar and with mend pet it can really hold it's own.

Comment by solardiablo

Tamed earlier tonight. Must have died 5 times total before finally getting the sequence of dismount, hit, use parachute cloak, set trap, tame. Agonizing too, waiting for my rez timer each time before I could come back, heal up, and try again. There was another hunter in the area who had apparently been trying to tame as well, proceeded to give me grief when I pulled off the tame, like I ninja'd his pet or something. But I have a hard time feeling bad about it, given that he had 5 opportunities to tame him when I was dying left and right like a noob!

Comment by 860132

Just tamed him with the help of a mage. Misdirect on mage friend to take first aggro. Mage died, but I was able to trap & tame.

- Hits like a truck (did about 30k damage on me per hit)
- Deterrence does NOT work.

Died lots of times, both from birdy as from falling damage (pop parachute a bit too late... stuff like that).

Comment by pat1812

Just tamed Ban'thalos 8.05PM Hellscream EU

tips here worked like a charm

get on tree top.. fly up.. shoot him
when u land back on treetop put down ice trap and tame

w00t
3rd rare tame for me today!

Comment by 793424

Got the tame on my hunter 9:35 am server time. Garona server.
Used the tree method with track beasts on, and I saw it spawn waited till it was a little closer then dropped trap and flew up tagged with concussive shot to slow it and dropped to tree and waited for the trap and waw law the tame was mine. No damage except minor from the dismount to treetop. Another player was in the area but was on the ground in front of the sanctuary so could not pull aggro once i got it tagged. Good Hunting & Taming to ya all.

UPDATE: While camping Magria this evening, Ban'thalos spawned again at approximately 11:00 pm server time on Garona.

Comment by 355492

*Sigh*

I was camping him for hours... I even had my position perfect on the tree. I have NPC scan so I turned my volume up and alt-tabbed so I could browse the web while waiting. At around 4am I hear the noise go off.. I almost had a heart attack. By the time I tabbed back Ban'thalos was NOWHERE in sight and I see this other hunter off in the distance. I have no clue if they tamed him or killed him... I can't believe how quick they did it apparently. Or they could have already had it and pulled it out to troll my NPC scan. It's so frustrating waiting all night >_>

UPDATE: I just got him at around 8:25am! My first attempt, the trap failed after I hit him and tried to lay one down. Put the trap down BEFORE you pull. Then I arcane shotted, hit deterrence (he cast a moonbolt right away), taming him while trapped. This pet is amazing and so unique! A happy ending to my awful boring night. Don't give up and good luck

Comment by 300838

just tamed mah purty at 830ish est on lethon.used the tree strat w/o a hitch.

Comment by Rettopyrrah

Tamed him tonight on Arygos, I finished the quest on my rogue to open up the fireland stuff and noticed him flying so I logged over to my hunter "who did not do many of the hyjal quest, therefore did not have the firelands stuff open and could not see him"
So I decided to do the quest to open the fireland dailies and wow he was still up, so I flew on the tree and took a shot at him to bring him down to my freezing trap and tamed him.
Was shocked he was still up for well over a hour.

Comment by 880431

I have been sitting on this tree for 4 days now, it seems to spawn just after i go to bed, i have had no luck, for those of you using NPC scan, i bet ur heart raced when it goes off, but then bummer u cant find it, it has happened to me 4 times, if there is a hunter near you that has that pet the NPC scanner will go off if the pet is active lol it even went off when i summoned my Anhka. good luck to you all, if you are as lucky as me u will have to wait 4 days plus, if ur as lucky as chuck norris on the pill it will spawn right in front of you within 2 seconds.

*****UPDATE AFTER STAYING UP ALL NIGHT HE SPAWNED AT 11:45AM, I FELL OFF THE TREE IN A PANIC, AND ANOTHER HUNTER GOT HIM FIRST SHOT*********

******UPDATE NUBMER 2 I GOT IT DEAD ON 8PM AFTER SITTING ON MY TREE FOR ANOTHER 8 HOURS YAHHH MY HEART IS STILL PUMPING**********

Comment by Raych

Just tamed this beautiful owl at 2:38 pm on Burning Legion! I had heard that he only spawned on the hour, and have seen this with the other new rares, but I guess it's not the case!

Funny thing is, I had just found Deth'talic for a guildie, so I helped him tame it. Almost instantly after he tamed the spider, Anthriss spawned (which sadly was killed). I told my guildie I had been wanting this amazing owl, so he showed me how to get onto the tree. My previous attempts failed because his moonfire ability killed me before he got in my trap (I had tried the disengage in the air method).

So I got on the tree, sat there about 15 min, and he spawned! Most amazing bird ever <3

So, with this luck, I headed to Storm Peaks, because I've been wanting Skoll..and he was there too! Gonna go buy a lottery ticket I think =D

If you can get into the tree, it's the easiest way I think. Place Freezing Trap, fly up, dismount, arcane shot, deterrence, tame beast and enjoy! <33 I don't think you NEED deterrence, but it helps with the extra damage. He only had 1 attack before he got in the trap. =)

Oh, and if you are trying the tree method and having trouble, try using a smaller mount. I used my gryphon and it worked perfectly. Makes it easier to see the top of the tree =) And just line yourself right above it. It took me a while, but it was well worth it.

Good luck all! <3

Comment by 880151

Tamed owl on Borean Tundra server when it spawned at 3:50am (NPCscan went off). I didn't use the tree trick, i went to the mountain ledge behind the tree. Mounted up flew up and then just enough out to shoot at the owl and then disengage backward back onto the ledge. Uploading screen shot.

Comment by 230382

I didn't have a cape or anything to slow fall me so this is how I did it.

If you line your body with the very tip of the crooked tree (not the ones on the left side of the monument, the crooked one on the right side of it) by changing your angle to where you are looking up at your character it is easier to find the center of the tip of the tree and get "stuck" on it. Place your freeze trap and then target Ban'Thalos. Mount up and press the space bar to glide up and get in range of Ban'thalos. Next press the X button to move down as close to the tree as you can without losing him in your range to shoot. Wait, on the next pass shoot him and you will fall down to the tree. When he starts casting moonfire hit him with scattershot to interrupt and then start taming immediately. I got him on the first try of doing this after nearly 6 deaths trying it a different way.

Happy Hunting!

Comment by Thanetor

Yes, and you can only get Ban'Thalos during the phase.
You cannot get him beforehand, as the shrine is on fire. Why would -any- owl even want to be there?

EDIT: This comment was in an answer to the question "Can he be seen before the Regrowth occurs?"

Comment by 666604

ok here is simpler way to do this: fly right up to him, dismount mid-air,shoot him, at the last sec pop ur parachute (or slow fall), soon as u land pop the freeze trap and start charming! I got frustrated trying to get on the tree, this worked 1st time........lemme know if this works for any of you. BTW i named him Habrok which is Norse for "the best hawk".

Comment by 882561

So my boyfriend spots this lovely beast at around 1:30 a.m. server Tanaris and lets me know that he's up. I switch to my BM spec and have him Have Group me, when I fly up from the crooked tree and hit tame, to which he swiftly kills me. I rez pop some haste pots and food and try again only to die. This second time another ally hunter is watching me, and she puts down a trap.....and stands there. My bf offers to pull her off the tree with Leap of Faith but I tell him no if the other hunter gets the tame than she is simply the better of us. She doesn't fly up or anything so I try again this time setting down a trap before-hand (I thought none of the new rares could be trapped) and I start the tame. Other hunter of course attacks it, breaking my trap, and is quickly killed. I pop another trap and tame again gaining my new pet :D just goes to show it's better to be on the highroad.

Comment by Tuseka

Just tamed him on Graymane at about 9am server, had the help of my bf and his paladin, he flew up and got aggro them bubbled as he fell to make a nice landing and I just grabbed aggro from the ground as he came down with my tame beast, his moonfire hurt took me down to half health with one hit, no need for a frost trap though because my tame beast was faster before he could do anything else.

Comment by 694454

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vA77KgM4Qg
Check that to see how to tame & where Ban'thalos actually comes from Lore wise, yes, it actually has lore behind it!
Thumb up so others can see =D

Comment by Kaldea

Tamed Ban'thalos @ 9:47pm on Dawnbringer

Easy tame for me as there was no other hunters near by at the time he popped. For some reason my NPCscan never even went off and I had been camping the zone for about 2-3 hours while looking through some websites and doing some reading. When I looked back he was flying around near me and I started to panic a bit since my NPCscan never went off. Again, lucky nobody else was around!

Pretty much did what most have done. Got up in the tree, mounted, went up, arcane shot him, fell down, put out my trap and hit tame asap. Didn't take very much damage at all from him or the very short fall. By the time I had gotten up there he was pretty much close up to me.

Very beautiful pet and I'm one happy hunter to have gotten him so easy :) Good luck out there to all the hunters looking for him!

Comment by 882885

Got him on Zuljin the other day at spawn point. It was 0130 server time.
1 other hunter was around and he was trying the whole tree thing. He kept falling off and the bird never got close enough for him to tag. I watch the hunter try and try and finally asked if I could give it a try. He said go ahead. I knew the tree thing wouldn't work so I got in the spawns flight path and dismounted my flying mount. I took about 100k fall damage.
I'm a new 85 so I was left with about 5k health left. I did this a couple more times to judge where I should fall after the tag. I decided to fall on the wall like thing around the monument that is near the flight path. I flew up to Ban, tagged him, fell and took that damage, dropped frost trap and tamed. He didn't cast on me thankfully. Anyways, should be easy if you do it like that and have any type of health pool. GL

Comment by 597835

I sat on the statue's head facing east. placed a freezing trap in front of me, flew up just high enough to hit him, hit lifeblood, deterrance, tame. Finally worked. Glad no other hunters were there. Took about 45 minutes. I tried the tree tactic, but I just sunk right thru them. He was there first thing after i completed the quests for this area. He had me down to like less than 10% health.

Comment by 885455

There is a very simple way to tame Ban'thalos. First target this little beauty then land on Malorne's head close to his antlers. Eat some skewered eel to boost your stam and when you see him on your mini-map coming close to where you are, place your ice trap between his antler's and mount your flyer. Fly straight up a little ways, without moving forward or backward, until your Arcane shot becomes usable. Dismount, arcane shot and he will fly down to you without even using his moonfire ability. I drank a healing pot quickly when I landed (just in case). When he came down to me, I used deterrence and my ice trap went off. I tamed him. When you drop from your mount, you aren't high enough to sustain much damage because you'll land on Malorne's head and a healing pot will do.

Mind you, after spending almost 100g to repair from dying and following the advice to disengage and hit the water, and try to find a tree to sit in, this seemed to be the best solution. It took one try and I had him. What a beautiful pet! All you hunters out there, enjoy him...he's awesome!

Comment by SmackRamen

Just tamed at 11:00 am server on Eitrigg. Landed on tallest tree behind Malorne's statue, laid freezing trap, flew up enough to fire at him, dismount, fire, tame. Tree was a bit difficult to land on but I was hung over so your mileage may vary :D

Comment by Shakarri

First five attempts I flew up, tagged him with arcane shot, then hit disengage to land in the lake. He killed me before he got into taming range.

Next I tried landing on the big tree south of the statue, took a few minutes. Waited for him to circle around, layed down a freezing trap, flew up, dismounted, tagged with arcane shot, and hit my deterrence / tame beast macro. Landed on the tree, he was frozen, and now I have Ban'thalos. ^_^

On top of tree with freezing trap.
Taming on top of tree while Ban is frozen.

Comment by 215670

Ugh, this guy was a NIGHTMARE to tame, ended up getting a priest to give me a hand, I placed a freeze trap on a hillside within disengage distance so that when I pulled him and disengaged I took around 50% fall damage, the priest then kept me healed up while I was taming (the freeze trap broke the second I started taming him)

Having a healer around to heal/shield you is a DEFINITE help with this one.

Comment by 886011

I've captured every spirit, rare and elite pet wow has to offer and I must say this one is simply not worth the time and effort. Congradulations, WoW you've made one that costs to much treasure.

Comment by miauzinha

Landed on the tree, put down the trap. Another hunter were on the mountains just "observing" me. Then I mounted up, pulled him and dismounted. Landed safely on the tree and started tamming. The trap didn't work and he killed me with his spell when missing only 5% of the taming bar. The other hunter shoot him and with full health and no efforts, tamed him on the mountain. I'm SO GUTTED.

07:30am Ghostlands server.

Comment by 886214

There seems to be a bug with Ban'thalos not staying freeze trapped while tame. Anyone else noticed?

Comment by jamjar91

Just solo tamed Ban'thalos, I thought I'd share my way with you fellow hunters that would like to tame this spirit beast.

Have it focused so you are able to see it's cast bar for Harsh Moonlight, which hits for a truck most likely killing any player in 6-8 seconds. Fly directly below it, as low as possible while your shots are still in range, try to make sure your over higher ground to make life easier, because once you've done one shot at it, you need to be able to reach the ground in less than 5 and a half seconds at normal falling rate. Just before you hit the ground (perhaps 10 yards roughly above it,) hit disengage and don't move. Watch the focus target cast bar for Harsh Moonlight, right at the end of the first cast hit deterrence, then lay a freezing trap while deterrence is up. Just simply wait until Ban'thalos gets frozen in your trap, then start your tame beast cast.

Sorry about the wall-o-text, I think if people are really that interested, they won't mind reading 8 lines of text.

Best of luck.
Jxß, The Maelstrom.

Comment by 886494

Tamed Ban'thanlos on Wyrmrest Accord 10.2.11 at 2.50am pst.

Easy tame. I used the tree, dropped freezing trap, tagged him, then immediately began to tame. He stayed frozen while I tamed him. I did not have any problems at all.

Comment by JezzebelPop

I had said to myself I was never going to tame any more spirit beasts after I got the 4 Northrend ones, I was going to wait until I had an alt hunter to get the cata beasts.

I also thought that Ban'thalos was rather pretty yet never thought i'd get one due to it being awkward and a hard hitter.

However that all changed yesterday when I tamed one.

My mind changed because the first time I saw Banny was when while talking to Matoclaw it spawned above me. I've only had 2 other rares spawn while I was on their spawn point and one of those was a non tameable blazewing. So this seemed like a special occurrence to have the first time seeing him be him spawing on me. However I let him be and went my way.

I saw him 2 more times after that and then a 3rd time (day before yesterday) where I decided i'd grown rather attached to him and tried getting on the tree. However that failed and a couple of Blood Elves came along and stole the spot.

Yesterday, yet again I was lucky enough to find him flying overhead just from handing in my dailies and this time there were no other hunters around so after two failed attempts I got on the tree and waited for him to fly over so I could tag him then freeze, then tame! He didn't even begin casting his special move.

So yes I am pleased and unlike with Black Madexx I don't have that feeling of discomfort from taming something I never set out to tame although it did mean my stable was full and had to release my Humar since i'd never seen another Madexx and never spent much time with my black lion. I still want Blue Madexx so need the space.

Comment by 890189

this has to be the EASYEST pet to tame, fly right up to him, serpet shot, as you near the ground disengage, tame= win his ability hurt alot but you should be able to survive it

Comment by 852347

Tamed today on Norgannon. Top of the tree, summoned priest friend along on the top of the tree for heals just to make sure. Flew up, dismounted, shot the owl, landed back on the top of the tree, freeze trap and tamed. Got healed to full health. Worked nice. The worst part of it all is to get on the top of the tree. The spot is so tiny, took me about 5 minutes of positioning myself there. Good luck!

Comment by evripper

Saw him flying over. Got on top of a tree. Flew up. Dismount. Concussive shot as I fell. Once in range, he started casting Harsh Moonlight. I immediately hit with Scatter Shot, and started taming. I was about halfway thru when he started casting again, but none of his attacks hit me (bugged?). Tamed right after end of 2nd cast. No haste buffs or traps used.

Comment by Katlamos

A right *!@#$ to tame, but I got him.

Tamed at 3:26am on US Steamwheedle Cartel.

After some desperate attacking of the tree next to the shrine, I finally managed to land on it, set a trap, and tame him.

Comment by Braydrel

Funny story on my tame.

My friend told me he was up and i hopped over on my hunter and flew there. I then realized i never zoned the place. I sighed, and started the quests and kept doing them on my time off, etc.

About 3 days later, i phase the zone, and he's flying right there. Tame him 1st shot and happy day! :3

Comment by 598420

This looks like it is gone be hard, BUT, if you use the next guide its real easy.

YOU HAVE TO BE A BM HUNTER

Guide:

Make macro ( /m in game, and put text below inside macro, save )
( /use Potion of Speed )
/cast Deterrence
/cast Tame Beast

1. Stand on the Tree near the sanctuary ( i submitted a screenshot with exact position )
-------- ( if u see this below u ( zoom in till no further ) then u can dismount ) --------
2. Lay a Freezing trap in the same spot your standing on the tree
3. Mountup and fly STRAIGHT up ( only spacebar ) about 10 ft high
4. /target Ban'thalos and Concussive Shot him (if you do it right you land on the same treetop where you where standing)
5. use Macro
6. BIG WIN you have youself a greet / awesome looking pet

good luck

edit: Why r all posts downrated here, really dont know :S i know most of these comments are very helpfull

Comment by 847060

Tamed him this morning on Malygos. He must have killed me like 6 times because he kept missing the trap on the tree. But when he finnaly hit the trap I tamed him no issues. Takes a bit of patience, but the tree start does work. One fo the coolest looking pets IMO. Allready had people compliment him in the 2 hours ive had him.

Comment by 894130

Please if you are a hunter and see another hunter already taming me respectful and let them tame. Lost the pet today due to a pissy hunter who killed him while I was taming. This goes for all rare pets.

Comment by Xirifus

Oh god...

Right now, as of this moment, above this comment there's 17 - seventeen - purged comments with -1 or -2 rating detailing when, how and where people have tamed Ban'thalos.

Sure, it may make you angry or upset seeing how other people have gotten him and you have not, but still, try not to press that downvote button. Purged comments get deleted after a while, and personally I have found them useful, since there's usually been at least one comment from one of the servers where I have hunters, and this helps me in figuring out when the next spawn's going to occur.

I don't know what Wowhead's moderators think about these, but there's not much that needs to be commented about the mob. Usually one of the first comments details the estimated spawn times along with routes/spawn points and tips & tricks. Therefore, it doesn't (in my opinion) affect anyone negatively if the next four pages are full of "tamed on X at Y time", so please don't downvote these, they're useful.

TL;DR - last sentence^

Comment by 898855

First detected Ban'thalos at 1320 server time today on Frostmane US. Tamed at 1330.

Comment by lordlight

Flaged hunter on a pve server was trying to do it, so like any self respecting alliance player I ganked him and the rare pet.

Warlocks are just evil.

Comment by manleyart

This is the easiest and simplest tame you can do!

No need to be too complex about it.

Stand on the statue of Malorne between the antlers.
Lay down a trap.
Fly straight up and wait until Ban'thalos is in range of your Scatter Shot.
If you have some item that gives you slow fall then be ready to use it. (I used the cloak from the Shattari Skyguard quartermaster)

You shouldn't need a slow fall effect however because if you've already tested the fall then you should be high enough to bring you to about half health or so. You don't need to fly up any further than that.

Fly up, scatter shot him so he can't spam the moonfire effect then fall to the statue.
He will come straight down and freeze.
Tame and enjoy!

Comment by 9mmx19

Couldnt get the placement on the tree right so I ended up aggroing in midair and disengaging onto the little piece of land behind the tree everyone is talking about. Hard to eyeball correctly and definitely took several tries (and a repair bill). Good thing no one else was around going for it.

Started on the piece of land then moved up and forward a little.
Arcane Shot
Disengage
Trap/Tame

Comment by 908132

I just tamed this pet by using the directions above to land on the tree. I food buffed, put a hunter mark on Ban'thalos and then when he came back around I dropped a freezing trap. I mounted and flew straight up (just until he was in range) once he lapped back I dismounted used concussive shot then he used his harsh moonfire ability. On the second hit I used Deterrance then immediately followed by scatter shot. He then froze and I tamed him on the tree.

He fell to the ground and bugged but I summoned him again immediately.

I post this because I do not have engineering and I wanted to help hunters without the above mentioned skills to see that it is possible with some perserverance.

Good Luck :)

Comment by 865143

Tamed him today on my hunter, it was really a lot easier than I've read. I got on the tree (which was the hardest part) used the Tazik Shocker from engineering which lured him into the waiting trap and tamed him before trap broke. He didn't hit me a single time. Woot!

Comment by Pjoter007

Just tamed him on third try, easy in few steps:

- get on the highest NOT GREEN tree in his spawn area while mounted
- dismount to check that u r rly on it
- put down freezing trap
- mount up, fly up (only by pressing space) into same height as he is flying on
- when he gets to ur range:
- dismount
- shoot him once
- cast detterence (u need it for his first strong hit he sometimes cast)
- let him being caught in ur freezing trap
- tame him while being trapped

Gratz jolly very well done!

Comment by herahera

OK something VERY IMPORTANT to note.. you need to be in the same phase to be able to tame this pet.

example: I saw this mob flying around on my DK, which has already done all the hyjal dailies and unlocked everything possible. But when i logged over to my hunter, (who has done none of the hyjal dailies), I could not see him at all. (yes, both my toons are on the same realm)

At first I thought it was a bug, so I logged between characters a few times. and sure enough, phasing affected my ability to see him, thus rendering me unable to tame him. :(

Comment by kyuubi75

Just tamed this birdy today. i am a Engineer so i used a combination Parachute cloak and grounded plasma shield (belt enchant) to survive harsh moonlight. then trapped and proceeded to tame. only had about 5k health left XD

Comment by 909389

Seen this guy when going into Molten Front today after just capturing Solix (Rare fire spider). Had all 5 pets on me and had to abandon one, chose Anthiriss to say bye to. Set myself down on top of the tree to tame, some DK and mage (Horde and Ally), pull him and kill him. Absolutely devastated. Go inside to get looking for Skarr and as soon as I get there Karkin spawns, get a nice easy capture on him, but still doesn't compare to Skarr or Ban'thalos. I wish I had some advice to give to you if you're in my situation - /w offering gold didn't work for me. :(

Comment by 837478

Thank you, thank you, thank you for your comments here people! I managed to log on at the correct time and it showed he was up. I tried the disengaging backwards into the water a few times, but I died twice and the third and fourth time he evaded because I didn't think to use parachute and I fell too fast. Anyways, by now a lot of other hunters were around, I counted 8 or 9 at one point. I watched a few other people try and fail at getting him so finally I got choked. Now see, I had tried to get onto the tree quite a few times and obviously I was doing it wrong because I failed so miserably. But now that I saw I was going to lose him I had to try anything! So I flew over to the tree, managed to land on the FIRST TRY! Now see, I had tried for a good 20 minutes the day before and I couldn't do it, so this was unusual haha.

Anyways, I dropped my ice trap, mounted, hit spacebar to go directly up and waited for him to come to me. While that was happening some asshat saw what I was doing and flew up and aggroed him for his friend but didn't hit slow fall fast enough and died... so that was lucky. Ban'thalos flew back up, came around to me, I aggroed, dropped down and landed on my ice trap. It took him a sec to get there but I hit tame beast as soon as he was in range. He was only frozen for two seconds before breaking it and smacking me, but I managed to complete the tame. Got a lot of /rudes from the horde hunters after that, but hey, I was the only one smart enough to land in the tree!

Thanks for your comments guys, guarantee I would've lost him if not for your very detailed help!

Comment by 711539

I had Ban'thalos in my trap on top of the tree tonight (on US-Garrosh) when another hunter shot out my trap and killed the owl. He claimed that his guildies we're "holding" Ban'thalos for him, even though I was the only hunter there at the time of the tame. He also said that he had "precendence" over me. Funniest thing of all was that his Guild Master was helping him kill Ban'thalos then told me he had a "Fun Time".

Too bad really. Ban'thalos is a sweet lookin' owl. I will try for him again.

Comment by 615025

:D Just tamed him early today and here's what I did (without foods or items):

1) Hovered over a tree and made sure I could land safely on the tip of it. Then I flew up a little bit so I could reach the owl and pull him, which would make me fall and land on the tip of the tree, only losing a little health.
2) I put down a Freeze Trap on the tip of the tree. (you might find this works better doing it after step 4 or 5.. depends how fast everything goes)
3) Shot him with Concussion shot to pull (but it doesn't matter really what shot you use, I just wanted to slow him down a bit).
4) As soon as he was in range, I casted Scare Beast, so he wouldn't start the process of three-shoting me xD
5) I was having issues with him Fearing too far away, so I casted Scatter Shot, to keep him unable to attack me, but still close. (the reason I fear and then do this is, since Scatter shot is close range, sometimes he can start wailing on you before you can cast this. With Scare Beast you can reach him sooner).
6) It might take a few tries, but eventually he should fear/daze wander into your freeze trap, and then just Tame Beast (but feel free to try to tame beast while he's just wandering around dazed anyway and you might get a head-start before he hits the freeze trap xD).

Yay, hope this helps. Happy hunting! :D

Comment by 911525

So, This worked well...but don't do it it to you're own alliance...

I waited for a Blood Elf camping Ban'thalos to go through the same routine everyone else does. Shoot him, fall, get "moon fired" and die.

The BE started the routine and it went just as I thought it would. So I flew within range, waited for him to cast his moonfire, watched the BE fail and instantly hit tame beast. Ban didn't even cast another moon fire. BAM. STOLEN. Tamed.

Then I planted my Flag of Ownership on the BE, ROFL'd and flew away.

I love messing with Horde, but like I said, I wouldn't have done it this way to my own alliance.

Comment by 294219

As a warrior I spammed all the hunters in /who until one came along so after some trial and error it figures the best way to do it is to get thehunter to stand on the C shape structure atop the pillars and lay a freezing trap. I flew up mounted and tagged the mob with hc throw then leapt back down to the hunter who distracting shotted it to the trap and tamed it, pretty simple even with the priest who was trying to kill it saying he should have brough his dk to stop the hunter taming it.

Hard solo, easy with someone to help. The guy said he had no money and that it was his friends char but thanked me profusely, I told him I didn't to do it for a reward, just glad someone could make use of the pet.

Comment by 531792

I found a better way to tame it. You can stand on top of a tree at coords 26,63 and when he comes around just fly straight up till you are in range hit ccshot and lay a freeze trap (yes he can be ice blocked) then start taming cause you will land right back on the tree

Comment by Tsukiryu

Makes me sick that people would kill it because their friend wasnt there first to tame it....ruining it for another player...thats not cool.

Comment by 905112

One of the easiest ways to actually 'creatively' aggro him and tame him, is aggro him very high up, and then disengage before you hit the ground, in such a way that you won't take fall damage (i.e don't do it as you aggro him, but wait til you're very close to the ground).

Edit: It's worth nothing I helped a hunter tame it, the way I did it was simply aggro him in the air (Heroic Throw), and I made sure I was positioned over a flat piece of ground, I waited til I was close to the ground, heroic leaped so I'd take no fall damage, and popped Shield Wall and Enraged Regen with Last Stand to outheal is damage.

Comment by 912523

Tamed it this morning, it was actually easier than expected and didn't require any profession-related item:

- Use your mount to get within shot range;
- Dismount and shoot it (any shot will do, it's just to attack mob and be flagged for combat);
- Wait until you almost crush to the ground, then cast Disengage;
- Cast Deterrence and set a Freezing Trap on your feet;
- Cast Tame Beast and enjoy your new pet!

Comment by Keiba

I finally got to attempt to tame Ban'thalos today around 1:30 a.m. on the Azuremyst server. There are a few reasons why I say "attempt" rather then "got to tame" goes like this; I had spent about a week camping out for this bird altogether when i had hearthed to SW and I had flown back to Sanctuary of Malorne and my NPC scanner started going off reading Ban'thalos was in the area. Try as I might to find Ban'thalos i realized that he was not close to the ground as I originally anticipated but instead very very high in the air.

Disregarding the personal thought that I should come onto wowhead to figure out what to do, I tried finding every means possible to reach him on ledges or the statue but it proved futile.

Finally I checked a lot of comments that stated falling on trees. Thinking "I am not doing that." 2 minutes later I was scrambling to fall onto trees to get a grip. Nothing worked. Finally I read the head of the Sanctuary's statue was an excellent place to fall onto. I gave it a shot and had 5% health (Yay! I didn't die!). Formulating my plan and reading more comments I decided to do as stated on the comments and fly straight up after I set a freezing trap and dismount and tag. I found it extremely discouraging however that the first couple of times of attempting to trap him did not work well because I waited to long to set the trap. So by putting the trap down when he is in the 3 o'clock position (as he does fly clockwise), fly up, dismount and tag him. Now here's where the problem came in (actually three problems) one was the shot I was using (serpent sting) to tag him. So even if I had trapped him with deterrence going, it did not last and I got one-shotted with his moonfire ability because he was recieving damage from my shot. The other two problems were a pally and shaman that decided to kill Ban'Thalos while I was waiting for my resurrection timer to hit 0. And they succeeded. Come to find out they were my best friend's buddies so they got to hear my cussing and yelling over the headset.

So here's a bit of advise when you do tame Ban'Thalos. I suggest using distracting shot rather then anything else. No damage done and I'm sure the trap will last. Another thing is to use the statues head as a platform rather then taking odd-ball guesses with trees all day. I have also heard that disengage while falling helps relieve a lot of damage taken (I didn't do it so I don't know but it's worth a shot). Another thing that can be done is setting up your toolbar ahead of time so everything is in a row or setting up macros. But this is how my rotation went:

1. Make sure your friend's buddies aren't trying to play games with you by stealing your tame (we all know how frustrating that can be).

2. When Ban'thalos is at 3 o'clock, set Freezing trap.

3. Fly up, dismount when Ban'thalos is in reach, tag and disengage.

4. Hit deterrence when you hit the statue.

5. Let him freeze and tame.

Hope this advise helps. Like I said, i still have yet to tame him but hopefully this will prevent tiny mistakes from being made that could cost you an amazing tame.

Happy hunting!

11/17/2011-- I tamed Ban'Thalos today (Yay!) and I did everything I had listed except I used a Mythical Healing Potion when I first hit the statue then I hit deterrence. The healing potion replaced the Disengage I was going to do but figured I wouldn't try my luck.

Revised rotation:

1. Set Freezing trap when Ban'Thalos is at 3 o'clock

2. Fly up, dismount when Ban'thalos is in reach and tag.

3. Drink a Mythical Healing Potion when you hit the statue's head then hit Deterrence.

4. Freeze and Tame!

Hope this information helps! Happy hunting! :D

Comment by Featherwind

A guild mate told me he was up today, so I zoned in from the Molten Front and when I arrived Manabanky, a Paladin and Asheida, a Priest killed him, laughed and flew off.

I'll get him though!

Comment by 913731

Hello ppl,

Group up with a Warlock

We just did it as hunter and warlock

I, The warlock, did the following:

1- Stood on the ruins in front of Malorne statue (looks like a small bridge) along with the hunter.

2- Have the hunter set up a freezing trap.

3- Have the warlock set up a demonic portal.

4- Have the warlock mount up, fly high, pull the bird with felflame.

5- Smash your Teleport ability as hard as you can. Lag can cause it failing.

If the teleport was a success... then at the same time

6- Have the hunter aggro the bird, trap it, and tame it.

and,

They live happily ever after...

Good luck hunters :)

Comment by Sohco

This is one of the more "simple" tames to do. Don't follow the posts about bringing friends or this or that. Getting on top of the tree and placing a trap is the simplest method.

To get on to the tree:

1. Get on your flying mount and move to the tip of the tree you plan on using.

2. Move forward into the tip until it stops you from going any further.

3 Using the SPACE bar, slightly move up then SLIGHTLY try to move forward again. If you notice your character move forward then use X to try to move down. If the tree stops you, then you know you are in the correct spot.

4. Dismount and confirm.

Make sure you are in BM. Place a trap and make sure you can physically see it on the tip of the tree. Mount up ( USE ONLY THE SPACE BAR TO MOVE ) fly up enough to tag Ban'Thalos. Dismount // Concussive shot // Deterence // tame ....

Simple as that.

Comment by hurinator

Easy tame,, hehe after you get him down and into a freezing trap..
Good lock .)

Comment by 898451

I finally got him today on the Moon Guard server at 4:30pm(server time) after camping for over a week.

His time spawn is 6-17 hours. I saw him spawn at about 1am server, then he spawned again when I tamed him. So, roughly 15 hours.

I landed myself ontop of the tallest tree behind the statue. You know you've landed on it when you stop going down on your mount when you click x. Once you're there, dismount. It may take a few tries. Otherwise you need a mage or a slow fall potion to get him from the ground.. or a 85 healing potion ontop of the statue's head.

Once there, dismount. You may want a healing potion and haste buffs(though I did it without in fairly poor gear). Once he spawns, drop your ice trap. Mount up and fly up only so you can drop right back down onto the tree. Unclick your mount and distraction shot him down,(hit your potion if need be), click deterrence and tame instantly after that.

His moonfire hits like a TRUCK, so if you're going without potions, you NEED to hit deterrence. I didn't the first try and was practically one shotted. If you die, don't panic.(Or try not to, lol.) And fly and rez back on the tree. Don't rez, fly there and get back on the tree, it's actually easier to do it when dead.

He is a spirit beast, you need to be a BM hunter to tame him. You also need to have completed all the Hyjal quests and the one entering the Molten Front for him to appear. Once tamed, he comes with all the bells and whistles of the other spirit beasts, with a heal and a stealth. Not too bad looking, either. Good luck and happy hunting!

Comment by 915070

Yes, got it today! I used one of the posts here as follow: Set myself up on the top of the tree, un-gear, dis pet, lay freezing trap mount fly to get closer, distracting shot, than tame.....piece of cake.
Thank you poster for this short easy guide!

Comment by 915381

On Twisting Nether ( EU) at 17:45 Date: 23/11/2011

I was already camping Magria in MH for 24 hours. Missed him twice :/ so I forced 2 people in my guild so start camping other Spirit Beasts. So 1 guy was placed at Amberpine Lodge for Arcturis and the other at Storm Peaks for Skoll

So there was my yell on Ventrillo: " Your bear is here" ! Tamed him at 17:45 server time. Had to wait 6min on my HS, went to Stable master, placed a pet out and went back to Mount Hyjal for Magria

Was there at 18:00 and Ban'thalos spawned ! Stood on the tree, placed the trap, mount up, straight up and shot him. He was trapped and tamed him easly

Could be coincidence but mayby not.

Ps.: Special thanks to Unmikedeath and Thuglej

Comment by Sazonoff

Tamed him at 10:25 PM server time
Server: Scarlet Crusade

1. place ice trap on tallest tree top and mount up
2. flew up to get a little lower then eye level with him
3. dismount, concussion shot, tame
4. try to come up with amazing name.

He is a fairly simple taming challenge, aside from Ankha or Magria.
those three I believe are the easiest of the challenges.
the next ones I think would have to be Karkin or Skarr, then Kirix depending on how fast you are.

Comment by razoraki

i got him today, its very nice pet.
The tame was easy, too easy i can say.
Climb on the tree put down the trap, ride on mount and fly just to be in range, arcane shot,he trapped and i just tame him. i didnt use anything else (deterrence,haste etc)

Comment by Eindos

Have included a picture (screenshot) of where i stood to trap and tame ban'thalos. Don't forget you NEED to be in Beast master mode. Take a little time to position yourself on the very top of the tree, dismiss any pet, wait for Ban'thalos to circle closer, lay freezing trap, fly directly up, dismiss mount, shoot, land, (deterrence) perhaps, Tame.
Good luck.

Comment by 482940

Tame boast
Server Durotan
Time (server) 9:00-10:00
Date 4 nov 2011
I saw him at the same time the following 2 sunday.

Comment by 279694

Just tamed @ 10.22 ARATHOR using Seekingeldorado's tactics. Took me 3 tries to get it right but on third try it worked. Sweet, thx =) Easy to solo tame!

Comment by 916076

I tamed him on my hunt Indrasilya yesterday, lvl 85 only 340 ilvl around 96k hp on Trollbane EU. If seen him for days on the same spot even today after i tamed him. I think he spams there and just keeps flying around S of Malorne.

Very easy...
- At sanctuary of malorne land with your mount on the statue's head between his horns.
- Turn towards his ass using your keyboard.
- Use space bar to fly just high enough to target Ban'thalos (use x if your to high) and thats around half his flying hight.
- Shoot an instant cast shot (doesnt matter which one...)
- You fall on the statue and as soon as u hit (costed me 60% of my hp) drop freezing trap (i didn't use any parachute)
- Use detterence right after that
- Use tame

Done deal, this wonderfull pet is yours !

My first try-outs (4 times) i used pots etc... and he hit me anyway with his magic spells which hit me for around 50k hp/cast and i died.
Sometimes he is just faster as you and start spellcasting before he freezes, you will die then. But don't give up. I had him the 5th try!

Comment by 813036

Luck was on my side. Haven't played for a while, just started back. I was telling a friend that just started a new hunter, about Petopia. I went there myself and was looking at the new Spirit Beast. Seen Ban'thalos and had to have him (I have the whole collection of spirit beast :-) )
I had to do dailies in Mt. Hyial so figured I look for Ban'thalos. My hubby got there before me and he was there. I had read all the different things people tried with the dead tree falling to death, taking the potion of speed or eating haste buff food etc.
What I did is stand behind the moose statue on the pillars at Malorne. Hubby waited till he was just over head, flew up and aggroed him and timed it so when he fell, he fell on the pillars, took off a lot of health, but he didn't die. As Ban'thalos came down at him, I setup my freeze trap and casted my deterrence / tame beat macro. I was so excited I forgot to take my potion of speed. Took me 1 and a half tries of casting tame beast to get him.
He doesn't do hardly any damage, and with hubby there he healed me what little damage I did take.

NOTE: I'm am not the best dressed hunter by far and it was pretty easy for me. If you have a pally friend or even better a tank druid that can fly up aggro, then drop down in to tank form or heal you. would be best.

Comment by ToviValdora

Just tamed this guy on Eredar.

I didn't use any of these complicated methods everyone is describing.

This is what I did:
1.) Put a Freezing Trap on the stag's head.
2.) Hit space bar until I was in range.
3.) Dismounted and Arcane Shot (Concussive might have been better but oh well.)
4.) Tamed as soon as I landed.

Done. I did take a lot of damage from the fall but it didn't matter since he was frozen as soon as he came near me.

Comment by 916422

11/27/2011 - 10:30 am
NO NEED TO LAND ON A TREE! After watching him fly around - I asked a guildie hunter friend to come and assist me. She has a "parachute" she can use. After sitting on the head of the Stag statue - she put her parachute on and went up and got his attention bringing him straight down on top of the frost trap I had laid there. I was backed off a ways and after he was frozen, I started spamming the tame pet. As soon as she feigned death he was mine. If another class is used besides a hunter - other slowing falling techniques may work as well, and other aggro dropping techniques Worked like a charm!

Comment by Sectionnine

Stood on the tree, laid frost trap and mounted up again. Flew vertically up slightly, and shot Banthalos when he was in range. He came charging into the frost trap laid and tamed him.

It's pretty easy to get him. Do note however, you need to enable this setting in Interface>Controls> 'Auto dismount in flight' so that you can shoot and dismount, falling down to the tree top 5 yards below you.

The best thing was I beat a Horde hunter who Hunter mark him while I was there earlier than him.

Comment by allogator

I know there's a million "how to" comments but I'll add mine in because I didn't see this already said.

I used a Turtle pet but I imagine any would work.

~I got just high enough to target Ban'thalos and shoot him. (didn't worry about trees and such)
~Shot once with Arcane shot and used Goblin Rocket Jump before landing. (Disengage or a parachute from Gnomeregan would work too)
~Immediately Misdirected to my pet and shot until my pet had aggro and was tanking
~Dropped a Freezing Trap and set pet to passive to bring Ban'thalos over to it
~As soon as Ban'thalos was in ice I Dismissed Pet (or you could Abandon if you're a terrible person) and hit Tame Beast!

It didn't take long at all and I was only hit with 2 blasts before my pet got aggro so I was somewhere between 50-60% health and my pet didn't drop below 80%

Comment by Oritha

I was just going to do my Hyjal Dailies when my Npc scan went off. I looked up and there he was.
I decided to give it a shot and after dying 6 times i finally got him at 8.17am Saurfang Server time.
I used the tree and and placed down the freezing trap not before realising the ones before that i used the wrong trap. I used Deterrence to stop damage and then the trap got to work and i began to tame. Lucky for me no other hunters were in the area so even through it took me awhile i got him quite easily.

My 3rd Spirit beast and i am happy!
Good luck to all who are trying to catch this beauty

Comment by Swanflea

I tamed him! 13.23 pm Azjol-Nerub EU.
He actually spawned right as I was making my way to the Sanctuary of Malorne to do my daily rounds.
Took me a few minutes to position myself on the tree, I was really nervous. Luckily no one else was around.
When I finally got on the tree, I waited for him to get closer, placed a trap, mounted up, shot him, he got trapped while casting his harsh moonlight spell and I tamed.
The exact tactic described so many times before.
I'm so psyched, been checking every day with no muck, got Terrorpene yesterday and Ban'thalos today :) Only missing Skarr and Anthiss and I'll have all the Hyjal/Molten Front rares.

Good luck!

Comment by Swanflea

Comment by Yukihorten

Just tamed Ban'thalos on the Draenor Sever pve server

my Hunter is a Alli worgen Hunter :)
This is how it went:

I had been camping since 12:00am cst ,after catching Karkin. I went here to wow head to find out the best way to tame him and his respawn time. witch its 6 -18 hours. any way I did the tree method. I got on the tree and perched my hunter there and at 4:00 am cst, he rezzed and my NPCscan went off.
I was scared thinking i could mess this up. I dropped my frost trap, I mounted and flew up just a bit hit him with arcane shot. It dis mounted me. I fall back to the top of the tree. I took no damage. He comes in after me and gets frozen and i hit tame. And with a flash he was mine. I am so happy now.

I do recommend the tree method it worked great.
to the rest of the hunters who want this guy I wish you happy hunting :D

Comment by 764821

I tamed this beautiful Spirit Beast with my hunter on Uldaman, 12-04-2011 at about 9:00 p.m. server time. I used the tree top method, very uneventful, as an Orc Hunter looked on....

Comment by bardgal

wow.

I died five or six times, I lost count. I started out as the only hunter, and quickly had competition from another NElf, and a BElf. We all took turns dying.

I finally took all my armor off thinking this might be true here like it is of the two cats in the area, and FINALLY didn't die.

Oh, and also did the top of tree/freezing trap trick. The getting naked sealed the deal.

Comment by doku45

Hey guys!

Arctius from Fizzcrank here.

So around an hour ago, I stumbled across this guy on my Worgen Warrior. Troll hunter was attempting to tame, and doing quite... well... not so good. So, I took it to help! The guy had been trying to drop onto the statue to tame, but it nearly killed him every time.

I took a chance and did a /followme, and thankfully, he did so. I led him to the tree, and once he got it, I hovered up. When Ban'thalos here got close, I gave him a /ready, since I couldn't ask if he was ready- just had to hope he knew what I was doing. Got a /nod. Pulled Ban, gave the hunter a /hurry. Hunter caught on, I took the Moonlight, and he got his new pet.

I can't remember the exact time, but I believe it was around.... 5:30am? Something like that. In his normal place, of course.

Comment by Featherwind

Just tamed this beauty on Wrymrest Accord ( 6:07PM ST).
Trapped him and used the tree trick. Very easy tame.

Good Luck! =D

Comment by Doobs

Just tamed this owl on sunstrider eu at 20.40 realm time
Used the tree method died the 1st try due to my stupidity I moved slightly when I landed after tagging him splat I went
by the time I rezzed some stupid rogue of the same faction started killing it and died gave me chance to get back in the tree.
While she was rezzing I got the aggro again and tamed with no probs, used concussive shot to pull, deterrence and dropped a freezing trap at my feet.
I told the rogue it wasn't worth anything as it didn't drop any blues or anything but she just said that she wished to kill it :(
I hope the karma train catches up with her as I have spent all day sat in this damn tree as do many other hunters that seek out the rare or spirit beasts

Comment by Eyecandy

I just tamed him in Bloodhoof server.1:10pm. was on top of the tree,set trap,flew up,concussive shot.and Tame....
You need to unlock the daily quest in Sanctuary of Malorne to be able to see him.
Dont be like me camped for 3 days,got fustraded,came here and read a coment that explaned that.
Happy camping :)

Comment by Baconhawk

Greetings!
I was camping for Magria, and Ankha from 10-2am.
By my suprise, Ban'thalos was picked up by my npc scan!
I tamed her quickly, took about 3 tries, then went and checked up on Magria and Ankh, and by my suprise! Magria! I almost died from excitement! I got 5 rares today, and 2 in less than a minute!
I am very happy, I wanted Magria the most, but by everyone's comments, she spawns the less, so I was expecting to get me an Ankh.
But by golly, got me a Magria.
My heart is still beating all fast like crazy!
Krakin tamed; 9 or 10 pmish?
Kirix tamed; 10:30 ish.
Ban'thalos tamed; 2:17 am.
Magria tamed; 2:18am. :D
Jadefang tamed; 5:24am
-Shadow council

Comment by SlydeRule

After about 10 attempts to land on the top of the tree, I finally did it and then tried to tame him. I still had to fly up a little to hit him, then fell back onto the tree but he killed me before the trap could freeze him.

I wasn't about to waste more time on the tree landing, so I looked for another strat.

This one worked on my first attempt:

1) Fly up and hit him (I used Arcane Shot)
2) Use Disengage before you hit the ground. Time it right and you won't take any fall damage.
3) Lay down the Freeze Trap
4) Use Deterrence to protect yourself until the trap takes hold.
5) Tame him!

I setup a hotbar with these 5 abilities so I just had to hit 1-5 in sequence.

Comment by 803702

Here's a relatively simple stradegy for hunters who aren't engineers. It involves another hunter who IS an engineer and may already have it (like my hunter, Gimlor, who always patrols the area hunting for rares (for the sole purpose of alerting others)). Party up, misdirect on to the other hunter, fly up, aggro, drop down, freeze, tame, enjoy! Simple and easy...assuming all goes well. I've done this three times, all with success.

Comment by 714106

EPIC FAIL: So I follow the useful guide above where it says to park yourself on the tree, lay down an ice trap, fly up a bit, shoot the spirit beast, etc. But just like a huntard, my idea of shooting the bird was using . Please don't save yourself the trouble and use instead. I was only able to laugh it off because there were no other hunters in the area.

Also, you do have to complete the necessary quests to enter Firelands to even see this spirit beast. I found out the hard way...twice.

Comment by longslowgoodbye

Hehe this one is great. As I was doing dailys on rogue i spotted banthalos, logged hunter fast and went for the tame.
Two people were hovering around him as I planted myself on that "tame-tree", first i had survival... You cant tame that! It said OPS hurry hurry, so I changed talents to BM and waited for him to fly round. Tamed and barely made it with 6k life left.
Did something wrong with trap, always get to excited when people wanna kill rare tames...
The orc warrior that had been trying to get on top of the same tree as me and failed numerous of times whispered as I had gotten the pet..

(orc warrior) did u get him?
(me) yeah!
(orc warrior) FS, NOOB.
(me) tihi, whys :p
(orc warrior) wanted to kill for loot to alt
(me) he doesnt drop anyhthing
(orc warrior) rare they all do
(me) linking crystaline tear

silence.

Comment by 929194

Tamed this beast about 15 minutes ago on Tanaris, thanks for the info. good info here as well

huntsmanslodge.com

Good hunting guys!

Comment by cerw

Since I wasn't sure which tree folks were talking about, I followed another poster's advice and parked on the highest point of stag's head. When Ban'thalos came around I flew straight up, dismounted, tagged him with concussive, landed and laid freeze trap, hit deterrence and tamed as soon as he was frozen. Easy enough when I got it all in the right order, but this was after being killed about 7 times by falling too far, or freeze trap expiring just as Ban'thalos came close enough to be frozen. I found it worked much better to lay trap after tagging the owl.

Good luck, all!

Comment by 821119

I was flying around doing my Molten Front dailies today on my DK, and I saw this beautiful bird flying around. I did a /who Stormwind, and asked a hunter, and got some lucky guy this beautiful pet. :)

Comment by bitsy80

Just got him on Runetotem at 10:25am server time. Took me a few tries to land on the tree properly but once I got settled I put out my freezing trap then flew up till I could shoot him so he'd come down then he hit the trap & I finished the tame. Thanks for the advice everyone!

Comment by 898889

Easiest way to do this is fly your mount up on top of the peak of the tree over the sanctuary...manuever/lower yourself down while on your mount til it hits the peak and you wont fly any lower (this assures youre on top of the peak of the tree). Once your stuck on the peak do not move anymore. Next you want to dismount, youll land on the peak of the tree...immediately drop an freezing trap. Then mount up and fly UP about 10 to 15 feet hovering DO NOT move left or fight while on your mount, just go straight up cause u want to land in the same spot. Once Ban is close enough for engagement, dismount and quickly pop him with an arcane shot, youll land safely on the peak of the tree. When u land all u gotta do is stand there, he'll swoop down at you and BAM... freeze instantly literally inches in front of you. Start ur tame and there ya go.

Just did this first try, took 0 damage and had no problems whatsoever.

Cheers

Drakyn
85 MB Hunter
Ghostlands

Comment by 812406

Tamed him earlier while looking for the 2 cats. Eventually found my way to sit on the top of the tree and then flew up , arcane shot, and tame :)
Later i logged to look for the cats again, and he was up for the second time! I called for a fellow hunter to get him, but a horde mage and pala killed him for 25g ;(

Comment by 856232

Tamed him at 2.00PM server time on Moon Guard (my home 3.00AM - -). I saw him about 2-3 times when I went to mount hyjal. But I don't know how to tame him. I try to check 2 cats at their spawn point for a week but no luck. Today I found Ban'thalos again. I think a bit and find the way to tame him on youtube

OK now I'm ready to tame him. I land top on the tree behind the statue (After about 4-5 attempts) mount up wait until he come in range , dismount and shot him with arcane shot , cast deterrence ,lay trap , cast tame beast.

now he fighting by my side :)

Skinningonly
85 Female Dwarf Hunter
Moon Guard.

Comment by 929827

For anyone having difficulty using the tree (it's a little awkward getting to the right spot on it), you can use the statue's head as an easier platform. I've tamed Ban'Thalos on my main and toons, using both the tree behind the shrine and the statue in it. Using the tree, you take less/no damage when you fall after dismounting and tagging him. Using the statue you lose about half of your health. But both work just fine using the rest of the guides people have provided here.

Comment by 273515

no one has mentioned that he is only visable in a cleared hyjal, I spoted on my mage who has cleared the zone and can obtain the FL dailys and I loged on my hunter and I can not find this guy anywhere, loged back on mage and thare he was again. FYI my hunter is 85 but was lvled in PvP.

Comment by 832107

Even if you don't have any Slow Fall to fall back on, as a level 85, with around 125k HP, you'll be fine to do what I did:

Find a spot on the horseshoe shape that surrounds Malone and plan for that to be your landing spot.

Drop your freeze trap, mount up, fly up about 60-65yds, be sure you're facing Ban'thalos, fire a shot, fall back down to the top of the horseshoe, collect the achievement for falling and not dying, eyeball Ban'thalos and as he nears, pop Deterrence to make sure you don't take his Moonfire (will kill you at that level of HP after the fall -- about 45k), and start taming.

Ban'thalos hits the freeze trap and you keep taming.

When he comes out, you're almost done taming, and his hits don't even phase you nor interrupt you... and the next thing you know, he's tamed.

Worked perfectly fine on the first attempt for me.

Comment by 933873

After i saw the flame turtle getting tamed by an alli hunter i let him have it, only to see Ban'thalos right after. As i finished taming him i saw Anhka and tamed my second one. ( i like to collect spirit beast, only magria left) Seems as though they all share the same timer. At around 5.00 pm Realm time on saturday. Gl to all.

Comment by sushi521

Found this one right above the Sanctuary of Malorn 1245pm Alleria realm. He does fly very high and had to have a mage pull it down as i did not have Slow Fall or any other stuff at the time.

Comment by Kwestioned

easy tame stand on the hill that she passes closest to fly up close enough to hit her disengage before you hit ground ice trap tame GG... DON'T need slowfall DON'T need to detterance landed on side of mountain and planted trap there full hp and lovely new pet hope this helps for people trying to solo it

Comment by 915250

just logged in at 1230 server time nps was already spawned when i logged in to do molten front dailies ...with aid from guild pet was tamed at 1240 ... server blackwater raiders

Comment by 937084

Today i got 3 spiders from molten front and the crab, plz ankha and the bird, what a lucky day for me :D

Comment by 937947

Hi Guys,

After trying the much appreciated tips given on this website, and dying a few times from the fall (I have no slowfall ability) or from a finishing shot from my bird of prey (so to speak!) I decided that a new strategy was needed. Especially as another hunter turned up part way through and was having no better luck than I with the standing on top of the tree approach.

I caught this lovely and rather dashing beast by sitting on the head of the statue of the moose that appears when you have done the necessary quest line. I then flew up a little, to be able to fire at it and draw it down. Upon landing, drop a freezing trap and you should be close enough to start taming it straight away.

I tried (unsuccesfully) from the trees and the back of the statue initially but was able to tame it first time when making sure I was directly above the head when I fell.

Hope it works as well for you guys. Happy Hunting!

Swiftstar (Silvermoon)

Comment by 587966

Just tamed this guy on nesingwary server at approx 1030am central time. I stood in front of the statue and looked left to group of trees. I flew up to tall crooked tree and positioned myself right above tree. I used the x key to lower myself to make sure actually on tree. If you stop lowering you are right on spot. I then placed a freeze trap and got on mount and only flew hight enough to make concussive shot light up and when i fell I hit deterrence and when he came down freeze trap got him and walla a new pet >

Comment by Hubhub

OK so for the ones who seem to camp him for weeks without seeing him, heres proboably what you havent done;

The Firelands quests

I did this exact same thing, camped for many days and I saw him twice on my shaman and then when I logged on hunter he was gone, sadly.

You NEED to do the quests where you first open the portal to firelands. After that you will help three NPC with killing some fire elementals and the last part is where you watch malfurion resurecting The spirit of Malorne! After that you will enter the proper zone.

My story revolved this. I saw the Ban'thalos on my shaman and got very disapointed when I couldnt find him anywhere on my hunter. Logged back on shaman and he was till there! So I realised I had to do some quests but I didnt understand wich ones. Another hunter from opposite faction was trying to get the pet by using the tree tactics. An extremly helpful druid made sure he didnt get his hands on him untill I had done the required quests. It took me about 20 minutes to get in to the right zone, steadily comunciating with the druid. After that last quest BAM npc scanner went off and I rushed up to see if the hunter was still there. Fortunately he had just died and so I shot the bird mid air and disengaged. The druid was healing me and I traped the beauty only to realise I had bloody 5 pets with me! I quickly abandoned my trustyworthy hellfire wolf (Let's face it, not that hard to get a new one) and tamed Banthalos as quickly as humanly possible. There was not enough /thanks and /hugs for this druid and I gave him all my hard earned gold (500... its not enough!) and we said goodbye. Named the pet after the druid and I will forever be grateful to him.

Comment by 938769

LISTEN UP. This is by far the easiest way to do this. I tried the tree thing and everything else i could find. But they way it did it was the following:

1. Fly below the owl are far as you can WITHOUT being out of range.
2. Bump space bar 1 time to make sure when you dismount that it doesn't put out of range.
3. Dismount & Shoot
4. I have a slow fall cape so i use it, gotta have this or a mage in party with you.
5. Ban'thalos is gonna hit you pretty good on the way down. So make sure you have a health potion when you land. I used a Mythical Healing potion. Which heals you for 25k.
6. After you land begin to tame the beast.
7. Enjoy showing off your new spirit beast!

Hope this helped

Comment by 877612

For those of you that don't have problems landing on small spots, this is the EASIEST taming method for Ban'thalos EVER. The best part, you can do it BY YOURSELF!

1. Land on the top of the tallest tree, just behind the statue of Malorne.
2. Mount and fly up about 10 yards, and wait for him to fly in your range.
3. Fire Arcane Shot at him, and fall onto the tree top, taking ZERO fall damage.
4. Instantly hit deterrence, then freezing trap.
5. Tame him while he's frozen.
6. Enjoy your new Spirit Beast =)

Helpful tips: Get the addon NPCscan. That way if you are in the area, it will alert you when Ban'thalos (or any other rare) is up. Also, you should practice landing on the top of the tree, so that when he does appear you will already be used to landing there and wont have any trouble.

Tamed Ban'thalos with my hunter, Birgittë, at 15:08 realm time, US Icecrown =)

Comment by 939109

I cannot say this in a short story but read if you want

This is how i found and tamed Ban'thalos

I was just flying through Mount Hyjal heading for the molten front when suddenly my NPCScan alarm went off, and as always i get a pit in my stomach wondering what NPCScan found and if i could find it(in previous instances NPCScan had alarmed and showed me the rare but i could never find the it) Then i realized that it was a tamable rare which put me in a mode of pure determination to find him and tame him. I looked around on the mini map and found the spawn point(i was about 50 yards away from the spawn point at the time) i flew over to the spawn point and kept every tracking method off except beast tracking. then i found him. flying around in all his wonderful glory was Ban'thalos i flew down and realized, he was too far away to tame from the ground.I then looked at my pets that i had in my pet inventory and realized that it was full! I also saw some other hunters coming. i wasn't sure of the reason but i wasn't going to waste any more time. I flew back to Grove of Assina to find a stable master(I had Gondria, Skarr, Loque'nahak, Kirix, and Terrorpene in my pet inventory. None of which were expendable) and luckily found a stable master. I stabled the first pet i had and flew back out. I got to the spawn point as soon as the other hunters did. I flew up and in a panic dismounted, shot Ban'thalos in the air to tag him and feel about 70 yards. thankfully i remembered to use disengage to fly back and hit the mountain. this dropped me down to 7k of my original 120k health. i quickly used feign death to get Ban'thalos off my back and used a quick bandage. I got up and flew on top of the Statue of Malorn and realized that it would still be too low to break my fall and i would surely die from one attack after that.I realized that i would have to use one of the nearby trees.I looked around for the hunters, there was no sight of them so i got on top of the tree one right behind the statue. i dismounted and planted a freezing trap as i knew with an 85 rare, Ban'thalos would not be easy to tame i waited for him to get kind of close before i mounted and flew up so i was just within reach of 40 yards. i quickly dismounted, shot Ban'thalos and fell to the tree reducing me to 50k health. right after i fell and Orc Hunter who was camouflaged decided he would kill me because i had tagged Ban'thalos right before he came. he hit me with a serpent sting and an arcane shot(bringing be down to 40k health), i thought that it was over but then one of the other hunters attacked the orc and put him to sleep with a wyvern sting and told me to tame Ban. so I waited for Ban'thalos to get close but the trap didn't spring plus, if that wasn't bad enough he began to cast his moon fire. So thinking quickly i used deterrence, deflected all of his attacks, and right after used tame beast. It was one of the longest seven seconds of my life i waited and waited. when there were only 3 seconds left of tame beast he casted moonfire once again but this time he hit me with the first moonfire for just over30 k and right when i thought i was dead tame pet ended and i realized that i had tamed him with 2k health to spare. and the hunter that kept me from dieing received 200g in his mail plus i helped him get Loque'nahak the next day.

Comment by Omac

I followed the instructions here over and over, and died about ten times. Every time I tried taming him, I got "Not tameable". I even got him down to the GROUND and still couldn't tame him.

Then I did some more research, and found that you must be in Beast Master spec, and have the Beast Master talent so that you can tame exotics. Got him on the first try after that.

Apparently everyone else knew that, but I didn't - so just in case someone else has the same problem, that's the solution.

As for getting on top of that tree, it's easy. Shift into first-person view, look straight down at the top of the tree, and get it lined straight up and down in your view. You'll still need to do some up-and-downs while you're fine-tuning, but it's really not hard. Once you're in the right position, you won't be able to go down past the top of the tree.

Comment by Valairena

Dear Blizz,

Why must my pretty birdie growl and roar like my cat?

Oh, and why do ALL spirit beasts HAVE to be ferocity? Would it really be that hard to make some of them tank pets?

Comment by 941055

Just tamed him on Hellscream at 1:05pm server time. Crystalheals had the right idea. I landed on the big tree that is a little to the left of the statue. Flew up just high enough for Arcane shot dismounted and shot arcane at the same time. Landed back on the tree hit deterrence once he was close enough to hit me and put my freezing trap down and then i hit tame once he was frozen.

By crystalheals:
1. Land on the top of the tallest tree, just behind the statue of Malorne.
2. Mount and fly up about 10 yards, and wait for him to fly in your range.
3. Fire Arcane Shot at him, and fall onto the tree top, taking ZERO fall damage.
4. Instantly hit deterrence, then freezing trap.
5. Tame him while he's frozen.
6. Enjoy your new Spirit Beast =)

Comment by 767692

By crystalheals:
1. Land on the top of the tallest tree, just behind the statue of Malorne.
2. Mount and fly up about 10 yards, and wait for him to fly in your range.
3. Fire Arcane Shot at him, and fall onto the tree top, taking ZERO fall damage.
4. Instantly hit deterrence, then freezing trap.
5. Tame him while he's frozen.
6. Enjoy your new Spirit Beast =)

100% Works! :)

Comment by jf907079

I was heading to the Firelands when I spotted him. Godd thing I was with a guild member. We used the rocket mount and I was the passenger with the parachute. I Serpent Stung him in the air, concussive shot him on the way down, dropped a ice trap and tamed him! Good thing the other hunter that got there after me didn't get mad and killed him. :)

Comment by 941936

Its a good day for me, lol.
I tamed skoll on 5pm and tame ban'thalos on 6pm realm time.

When my npcscan prompt him, my heart stop...
But I died about 5 times to tame it. It fly very high, you can not reach it on the top of mounting around there. I also tried to fall in the water, but also fail.
Finally I hearthstone back to org and got enchant to my cloak Flexweave Underlay.
God bless me, when I go back, it is still there, lol.

Tip: prepare your slow fall before you camp him.

Comment by 865164

WoW really guys it's not that hard to tame. Just sit on the tiny landing point on the tree behind the statue. Wait for the bird to come in range, fly up a little, arcane shot to aggro. Have a frost trap on the top of the tree, tame and it's yours. 2 minutes work.

Comment by 859811

Just tamed Ban'thalos using the 'tree method.' Worked great. Took me quite a few tries to learn how to land on top of a tree with your flying mount (btw, use the smallest bird you have). Landed on tree top and dismounted. The tree I used was the one closest to the shrine. I think any tree will work as long as it's within his flight path. I waited till I saw him approaching shot range, then set down freeze trap. I mounted and flew straight up approx 50 ft or so. When he was within range i dismounted in mid air and fired a shot and landed safely back on the treetop. He dove at me and freeze trap got him. Tamed him. Didn't need to use deterrence. I think I got lucky... he got hit by the freeze trap before he could do his moon strike on me. It was a tricky tame and a good challenge. The hardest part is not falling off the tree. All the comments posted as per how to land on the tree were excellent and worked great. The first time I tried, he blasted me and my skeleton was laying on top of the tree. lol

Anyhow.... He's a cool looking pet. Good luck with this tame.

Comment by healingenzo

OK. For everyone (like ME) who is STUPID. This is an exotic. So remember to switch to BM first - LOL ! Other than that, the tree method works fine.

Comment by Keynlor

Just got done taming Terrorpene when another hunter posted in general that he just spawned. I tried the tree method but couldnt find the spot to land. Instead I found a ledge just back and to the left of the statue, flew out a little until I was just in range, then tagged and disengaged. You still take a little fall damage but its still manageable.

Comment by 43399

I'm fusk'in lucker today! Ban'thalos and Terrorpene in like 10 mins :D

Comment by 812583

I for one am completely fed up with these stupid hunter rare spawns. Maybe it's because I'm not a hunter and don't have the hunter rares memorized, but I've got at least 15 deaths to hunter rares so far.

Don't get mad at us for killing them though. There's no reason Blizzard couldn't have differentiated between regular rares and hunter rares. The rest of us don't want to see them anyway, and a pink dragon around it instead of silver would have kept us away. If you lose out on taming a rare to someone else killing it, blame Blizzard, not the guy who saw a rare spawn and killed it. He's probably just as pissed as you for not getting anything.

P.S. Adding this before some dolt comes on and says "just look it up before you kill it". No, we should NOT have to look it up whenever we see a rare spawn to see if it's worth killing or not.

Comment by 946092

I signed up to give an update on this pet. All in all I have been here on this tree since lunchtime Sunday and stayed up till early Wednesday morning, about 1:20am. About 10 hours of sleep / and away time, most of it sleep and still no bird! So the 6 to 17 hour spawn time imo is garbage. This is on Eredar server. I even contacted a GM and asked if there was a glitch or if this owl had been removed. He said everything is working fine and good luck with getting it, that was all he could tell me. Tried to download an addon so I could move away from this spot but it did not work.Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Comment by metalsyko

Tamed at 2:45 AM server/PST on Sentinels-US. I've seen him several times while looking for Magria/Anka, and never bothered to go after him as I didn't have any slow fall methods like I thought I needed. Saw him tonight and figured I'd go for it - Sentinels is low population so I wasn't afraid he'd get snagged while running for Noggenfogger or somesuch.

Had trouble with the suggested tree method, so I used the tag-drop-disengage method. Skidded down the mountain, landed at half health, dropped a trap, hit tame. Hey presto, shiny ghost bird that I now need to think of a name for. Now if I could only get lucky with a Magria/Anka spawn...

Comment by smithwess

I tamed him yesterday so here is how I tamed him. After finding him I looked him up on wowhead and all the comments were pretty useless so I had to find my own way to tame him. Around the deer statue there is a half circle, I landed on it then flew up so I was just barely in range of ban thalos. I then dissmounted and used arcane shot and landed on the half circle will low health but still being alive I dropped a freezing trap, hit deterrence then tame and that I found was much easier than the tree method or the slow fall method since I had no way of doing so. The only thing I used was a haste potion but I doubt it was needed.

Hope this helps to all you hunters and to everyone else stay away from him. Lol

Comment by 947412

I just had another hunter steal this pet from me...
worst part? She already had him, I saw her dismiss him right before she tamed. I died so she decided to get him.

Horde don't do this when you see an Alliance trying to get it. It's just plain low.

Comment by Ballybog

The trap will most likely be essential for those who wish to tame, as it's attacks can be devastating over a short period of time. It would be extremely difficult to survive both some fall damage, which is a certainty, along with his attacks, without the aid of a freezing trap. If not, you make this potential tame a gamble, that others could easily capatalize on during the down time that you are in spirit form.

Comment by Imperious0212

You can tame it, while it is frozen.

Comment by Imperious0212

Last time, I tamet the owl. What I did, it was ...

Be on top of a tree behind Malorne and it is a special tree in relation to where it is located is best for this Ban'thalos.

I took to mount a fly mount and just flew up until I favor it and dismounted, so I can hit the Ban'thalos while I land on top of the tree, when the owl was on its way to me, when I took up ice trap to do Ban'thalos frozen and I got it in place.

Simple.

Comment by Gaundy

Very easy way to tame him: fly up to him, shoot him, use deterrance, then when your close to the ground disengage so you dont take damage, drop freezing trap and start taming.

Comment by SolarSceptile

My boyfriend saw this awesome beast on my character while i was downstairs, I panic first because I was sacred i will screw the tame..so my bf went to his spawn point on his holy priest, I flew up dismount and attacked him...but! my boyfriend wasnt in time to bubble me so i took big damage..i quickly put on a ice trap but i died...quickly i flew back from the grave and Ban'thalos was still frozen on the spot..hit tame and got him! thanked my boyfriend and jumped around I found him on Al'akir EU server on 10:00PM server time Im so proud on my bird..called it Valentine

Comment by 953073

1 useful tip: Not all trees will let you place a freeze trap on them when you are on it. Before you fly up and engage combat, try and place a freeze trap down first. If it doesn't work change tree so you can trap him.

Comment by fantisera

Just helped a guildie hunter do this with my priest. Basically I flew up to just above Ban'thalos, dismounted so I began falling, cast levitate on myself to stop the falling and hit him with a dot to aggro him. He then went for me and obviously knocked off my levitate effect so I then used my parachute engineering ability to land safely on the ground where I healed myself and my guildie hunter as he did his thing. Actually very easy after we messed about for a while with levitates on each other and all sorts of things which didn't work, and better than trying to position yourself with the tree etc since it doesn't matter where you do what I did.

Comment by 945936

I just did it like some others by dropping a freezing trap on the top of a tree, rising in the air, shooting him, falling back on the tree (making sure I only used space bar to rise in the air), and taming him once he hit the trap.

I recommend having a healer around while trying to get on the tree, since you might fall and take nasty damage or die a few times.

Comment by Reboot

Very easy. Get on tip of mentioned tree behind statue. Dismount. Watch him a bit to get pattern down. When ready "freezing trap, mount up fly up til just in range, dismount, concussive shot, hit escape, when frozen, tame beast"

Comment by yacard

Tamed time 10:40am US Eastern Time. The drill about the tree was a little complicate for me, i cannot find the right spot, so I did it on my own way.
Use the Malorne Monument as landing base, the hightest point is his head, so fly over his head, get the min distance where you can shoot Banthalos, once you are over the Malorne's Head just use Spacebar (to go up) and X (to go down), DO NOT use other keys you will miss the landing zone. I found that facing to the mountain in the back is the shortest fall distance or the closest that you can be. Ok, once you have the right height:
1-Unmount
2-Shoot
3-During the fall, cast Deterrence
4-when you hit the ground (Marlone monuement) frozen trap
5-Move to the back of Marlone, turn 180 degree
6-Tame
By the time that you face to Banthalos, he should be frozen
BTW, that fall cost me 55k heal points, but was the lowets that I can get.

Comment by 960193

Easiest way possible to tame him. Step one find him step two have a arcane mage with you. step three hunter be on the ground. mage pop presence of the mind to instant cast poly on the bird. fly up there jump off and poly the bird have the hunter waiting below you. ice block or slow fall yourself or die. hunter tame while it's polyed and poof done easy.

Comment by 692994

I tried to tame this owl using all the other strategies listed here... they were all too frustrating and honestly made this tame a lot harder than it has to be.

HERE IS AN EASY WAY.

Fly up onto that 'C' shaped piece of ruin, that's being held up by four pillars, behind the statue of Malorne, dismount (coords 26, 63). Lay down a freezing trap. Face North/North West (this is the way the bird will be coming from). Mount up. When you see the owl coming, fly straight up by pressing Space Bar so that you're JUST in range of him (fly too high, and you'll die on the way down). You want to wait until he's nearly above your freezing trap (so you don't have to fly as high), then shoot him, dismount. You will fall straight back down to the 'C' shaped ruin wall, and you won't die (but you will lose health). Owl will come down and if you placed the trap right, he'll land in it and freeze himself. Tame him. Done.

He MIGHT zap you with a spell before he freezes himself and you might die, but, on my second try he flew right into the trap - and he was tamed no problem. Didn't need a friend, didn't need spells or parachutes, didn't use Deterrence... just a mount, and a freezing trap.

Comment by aretmis

For those that have problems with the Tree like I do just follow the steps below. No need for engineering or a buddy.

1) Fly to a spot where the owl will pat by, preferably with your back towards the hills/rocks

2) Do any shot on the owl, to get aggro

3) While falling down, disengage when you're close to the ground.
The closer to ground you disengage, the less damage you take. WoW will take the damage as if you have fallen to the ground from the height at which you have disengaged.

4) Place an icetrap if your health is low from the drop

5) Proceed to tame

Comment by 960637

I was able to tame him just now on ED

He flies VERY high up, and appears when you use track beast as a yellow dot. His special attack hits very hard, and will hit you thru deterrence, so it's important that you trap him. If you have NPC scan, it will go off when he spawns if you're camping Magria's spawn point.

When I found him he wasn't near the tree, so I had my mage friend (who at the time was helping me look for Magria) give me slow fall and tagged him with arcane shot. Once I hit the ground I dropped a trap and he landed right in it and I started taming. /easy.

Be careful though, this is near the dailiy area, so there are a lot of people who are just itching to interrupt your tame (why? I have no idea) A belf pally tried to interrupt me by attacking me. Luckily, my tame finished before he did any damage, and my mage friend made him hang around long enough that I was able to get my new pet under control and go kill him. Hopefully that will teach him to stop messing with hunter's tames.

Comment by Roeskva

I've been wanting to tame this beauty for a very long time but thought it impossible without the help of slow fall or perhaps levitate. I was reading through comments and tried the tree sitting technique, but since I could never find the damn spot it nearly drove me insane, so I had to come up with something else and it worked rather well (and I felt less retarded) :P

I decided to test how much health I'd lose from atop the statue of Malorne (the head of course) and planted a freezing trap. I had to be in the right position in order to actually be able to shoot at Ban'thalos to get aggro, landed a nice concussive shot and popped deterrence just in case. He didn't attack just landed right in my trap and obediently sat in it while I was taming him, thus I got my bird with 40k health left :D I probably would have asked for help if it hadn't worked - that's how impatient I am, but it does feel great to have done it on your own, which is probably the idea too :P

For anyone who's not entirely confident about the tree tactic, the statue of Malorne provides a great tame place. Simply put your freezing trap on this head, fly up and stay in max range (35-40 yards).

As a side note, these days doing outdated stuff on a max lvl character with buffed damage does sometimes complicate things, like achievements where you aren't supposed to kill a mob but do a little dance with it or whatever. However, note that one of the utmost failsafe ways to get those things done is with the use of ress sickness and wearing minimum gear. It's the same with the taming of these beasts. You can always equip a lower lvl weapon just in case, although the ress sickness should be enough to seriously dampen any damage you do.
However, why not use Thori'dal, the Stars' Fury if you have it, you know just because you can.

It's a piece of cake these days, if you didn't play a hunter in Cataclysm you can never know the struggle of it; but those of us who did, we can appreciate the effort and think back fondly of how nice it felt when your hard work paid off. Seriously though, hunters rule. Have fun taming!

Comment by Thestool

attention hunters trying to tame him i have a very nice way to pull him if you cant get on the tree. You get a S.A.F.E. "Parachute" from gnomergan dismount and pull in mid-air. Hope i helped some people.

Comment by Calhoun

Tamed Dath'remar 11:58am ST

Comment by 942100

After several failed attempts, it finally dawned on me to look up a "how to" on youtube! The tree method was the right route to go. Look up GVZBstudios I'm unable to post links on here just yet due to my newly made account. I only changed the trap order, in my successful tame. I landed on the tree, mounted first to find the right spot. Dropped my trap; mounted use space bar to fly up close enough but not too far from treetop. Dismounted; Concussive shot. The only damage I took was hitting the treetop. I didn't even need to pop deterrence this time. Trap captured right before he tried to hit me. I hit the tame button and voila! I did move all the needed items on my bar next to each other for this purpose. I found the same rotation works the best for all the new rare spawns. Concussive & arcane shots; tame; deterrence; traps disengage etc. I was on a taming spree today - All on Ravenholdt :) I tamed Ban'thalosKirkinSkitterflameAnthriss KirixSolix I got the other day!

Comment by 903438

Server: nagrand
Tame time: 8 11

First time i have ever attempted to get him, horde tried to steal it but could get on the tree :P, popped deterrance and ice trap, started to tame, successfully got him with only 572 hp left, very lucky tame :D

Good luck everyone else

Comment by tehhazza

Ban'thalos won't show up if you haven't completed the quests to unlock the daily hub. As far as I can tell no one else has mentioned this.

Comment by 949998

9:40 am Eastern, Madoran, March 26, 2012

I read through the comments, I really did. Tried the tree thing, no go. Tried landing on the statue, no go. I ended up spending almost 50 gold on repairs before it was all said and done. I fell to my death at least 2 times, my disengage not working until I landed. Which meant that my dead body somehow sprung backwards. *eye roll*

Anyways, the method that worked for me was this: I made sure my back was to the mountains. If you face the mountains, sometimes when you disengage it flings you so far back that you lose his aggro and he just flits off. I changed my camera angle to look directly down and flew a little above his path so I was looking down on him. I needed to do that so I could hit disengage at the optimal moment. I targeted him and dismounted as he was beneath me. As I pass through or under him I hit my arcane shot to catch his attention and then pop disengage before I get too close to the ground.

If you are lucky enough to land great and not take much damage kudos to you. It took me several tries to not have only 1/2 health by the time he started beating on me. I do not know what he was hitting me with but several times it only took 2 hits to take me out. The time it was successful, I landed with most of my health and dropped an ice trap. After one hit from him I popped a health potion and immediately started taming. I barely, BARELY tamed him before death's icy grip strangled me again.

My repair bills were hefty but it was worth it. ^_^ Good luck to all those trying.

Comment by violetfemme

Just an hour or so ago on Aegwynn, I tamed Ban'thalos. I used NPCscan to find him and tried a dozen times from various locations to reach him. He flies so high and away from everything else. I tried the above mentioned tree...couldn't land on it. I had no slow fall capabilities, so here's what I did (after about 5-6 deaths trying to get a plan together):

I landed on top of the statue of Malorne (between the antlers), dropped my trap, targeted him, flew straight up until I was just in range, dismounted, used Arcane shot, then deterrence. I landed on the statue and only had about 20k health left. Started taming as soon as he was in range and luckily he froze in place. When he unfroze, he was still not quite tamed. When the tame ended and I had him, I had about 5k health left. It was so close!

Plz do not kill if you are not a hunter...he is of no use to anyone else.

So, I was thinking about this and did not read through all 380 comments to see, but couldn't a hunter with a bird pet aggro Ban'thalos with his pet, set pet to passive to have it come back to you, ice trap it, dismiss current bird pet, then tame? I will have to try it with Banthalos on some other flying pet at some point.

Comment by lilianvoss

Who: Anneboleyn (Hunter Alt)
What: Ban'Thalos
When: 7:00pm server time
Where: Jubei'Thos (Oceanic)

Information: Tried dozens of times to land on the tree, fell to my doom, cried and raged for a short while till finally I landed, placed a frost trap, mounted, flew in the air, arcane shot Ban'Thalos, landed, waited for frost trap and tamed whilst he wallowed in his icy prison. Yay for me.

Note: Fly your mount till you hit the top of the tree and can't move around, dismount and you should be standing on the tree.

...may you be fleet of foot and quiet of blade...

Comment by 715936

I used my second action bar to set up all the buttons I would be likely to need. I easily get flustered so decided to make it simple.

I put in my mount button, shot key, sky cape, deterrence, freezing trap and tame. I also have another spirit beast and had made a healing macro for myself (I have it hotkeyed, or of course is automatic at less than 30% health), so put him on passive and added the dismiss key, so I could get the heal and put him away. Would also have been handy to have pet if attacked by horde.

(I also added a scatter shot button, healing potion, disengage for possible subsequent attempts, distracting shot to guard against interlopers or to take it from a helper, and the herbalism lifeblood so if there were snags and freezing trap was winding down I could reap the 408 haste buff on the tame.)

But, it was all much simpler than I imagined. I placed myself inside the arc of the bird's path and little above him (my first try was foiled by him flying out of range), dismounted, shot, activated cape, hit deterrence as I floated down, and then freezing trap close to ground. With bird firmly on ice, I dismissed the pet and hit tame.

PS The tree thing never worked despite considerable attempts and following every bit of advice I could find. Will update if I ever figure it out.

Comment by Rentotem

Tamed this beauty at around noon on Thrall.
Logged in and npc scan blew up quickly flew over to the tree (somehow getting perfect position first try even though my practice attempts took many) place a freezing trap facing the statue flew up dismounted shot popped deterrence for good measure and tamed away, sure enough Ban flew right into my trap and was easy picking leaving me with about 50% health left mostly from the fall.

Comment by 888482

I tamed today on Arathor. I can't reach, so I asked my friend to help me...he is a warrior and he shoot it and felt down and die... The owl folowed for while, I shooted to pull..but it reseted and went back... So finaly I did a classic way, I stand on the top of the tree...
In fresh 85 gear, In just used a trap thats all, nothing else didn' necessery. :)

Comment by 972612

Finally found this one today while doing a casual search for any spirit beasts in Mt Hyjal. Sure enough, I found him circling high above the Sanctuary of Malorne. I died a few times and had a hefty repair bill, but it was completely worth it! For a simple step-by-step guide with pictures, check out the Huntman's Lodge website (it's not letting me post the link since I'm a new member, but it is the first one that shows up on Google when searching for a Ban'thalos taming guide). It was a little difficult with trying that trick to get on that tree and I was close to giving up, but it IS possible, so please keep trying if you don't get it at first.

Server: Shattered Halls
Time: 1:00-1:30pm server time

Also, as a little sidenote... when you use Camouflage, he turns invisible like you and the rest of your pets do, but the green glow from the flapping wings is still visible. It looks really cool!

Comment by gogocaptain

OK first off if any of you try to use standing on a tree ETC ETC it is a waste of time .. the easy way of doing is this simple

1. grab a mage
2. make sure the mage is arcane
3. use Presence of Mind and use any sheep cc type when slow falling to the ground
4. he falls to the ground the hunter tames it .. GG game over no deaths or troubles
enjoy the easy tame

Comment by Seegtease

Okay, I have a great strategy that I found is MUCH easier to execute than all these darn "stand on tree" options. I always end up not landing on the tree correctly. It's no good for me. But this...

Fly at the same altitude as Ban'Thalos.
Keep your distance from 20-40 yards.
Be at the NORTH-NORTHWEST side of his spawn circle (Back should be facing the lake).
Dismount, fire Serpent Sting (I think SrS makes him less likely to lose aggro before you land).
When you fall over 50% of your descent towards the ground, Disengage.
The disengage should cause you to fly back and land safely in the WATER.
If you see him using his Harsh Moonlight, hit Deterrence, even if you're still falling.
Tame Beast as soon as he's in range to tame.
Enjoy your pet.

Yeah, the trick is landing in the water using disengage. It's so easy to solo this way (and deterrence will make his otherwise lethal spell do nothing). Don't disengage too soon, or you risk causing him to evade. If you have troubles, try being closer to him when you fire and disengaging at the last possible second.

Comment by mrosleck

Do you have to be in a certain phase to find him? Tomorrow is a week of camping and not a hint of him.

Comment by 929233

you have to do all the quests in Hyal so you start to see the daily quests in the area.

I tamed this beast yesterday around 22:00 CET

Outland server

Have seen the owl 4-5 times for around 3 weeks so its not that rare spawn

@ added, for you all that have issue to tame the beast or doesnt know of how to do it correct.

Youtube - Spirit Beast Taming by JohnDaniel747

Just go thru the clip and you wont have any problems in the future.

Comment by lizardfina

I play on the Cairne server, and at server time 4:46AM, I watched a Blood Elf named Deflyn kill Ban'thalos to prevent me from taming him. Spread the word.

Comment by joebowen

April 17, 2012 approximate time of success 6:30pm, pacific.

Found this guy while turning in Mount Hyjal dailies. Found a hunter friend nearby and called him in.

You cannot aggro from ground or mountains. We found the best method was to get on top of the tree nearest the Statue. I am a druid so I could switch to flight form, fly above the tree, after landing on it to ensure I wouldn't fall too far, and I would switch back to human form in the air, use Typhoon to aggro him, while falling, then land on the tree.

My hunter friend was already on the tree with his Freeze Trap. He tamed this guy with no issues whatsoever. I, however, was killed in the process as Ban'thalos is powerful and hits hard. We grouped first but I am not sure this was necessary.

I must say, he is one of the coolest pets in the game. Being a rare spawn, and very difficult to access, means you would be one of a select few to have him.

Good luck!

Comment by 867258

I figure most explanations have been told to death, but I thought this might be helpful:

To the hunters who play on laptops with track pads, or with lag issues: the landing on the tree method is possible. I tamed Ban'Thalos this way and I have to play with limited equipment

If you're having trouble landing on a tree, tilt your camera angle down to better see the tip of the tree. The landing area is slightly larger than the tip of the tree itself.

While lag can make this difficult you can land if you carefully position yourself and do the "up and down" mount test above the tree. While your mount may still be flapping it's wings if you hit your down key over the tree and stop you know you're positioned correctly.

Good luck hunters :)

Comment by 979221

Tamed 12:56PM Doomhammer 4-18-12

This guy took me like 6 tries to tame. What finally worked was: get onto the top of the sanctuary of malorne. I tried the tree trick, but I couldn't figure that out, so I gave up. So you're on the sanctuary. Set a frost trap and mount up, get into the air to where you can dismount and land on your trap, but still be able to shoot him with an arrow. I used SS. Dismounted and shot. When he went to fire off his harsh moonlight, I used deterrence. He then flew into my trap and I tamed him while he was all icy. It was a pain, but worth it.

Comment by shadowboy813

This is the approach I took when taming him:

Tagged him with arcane shot.
Shortly before landing, I popped disengage to reduce/eliminate fall damage
As soon as he's in range, he'll start moonfire spamming, this will happen roughly the duration of deterrance.
As soon as deterrance falls off (or he stops spamming), hit tame pet.
The tame pet channel finished just before he started spamming his moonfire again.

This method is simple, the only difficulty is timing your disengage.

Comment by mrosleck

I just finished several attempts at taming him. Each time I received the message the npc is not tamable.

After 3 weeks sinning the the #%$#% tree I am a little frustrated. Any idea what give? I see other tamed him recently.

Edited to add: dammit I was in MM spec not BM......%$^%$@

Comment by Sintacks

I feel weird... I just helped a Horde Hunter get this on my Alliance Rogue...
But the process we used is pretty good.

A rogue with a slow fall (engineer or daggers or something external).
Rogue hits it, starts slowfall. When the bird gets to the end of the cast, Cloak of Shadows to immune the OP Moonfire. Bring it into trap and then Vanish and the hunter wins.

Comment by 685132

So just flying around on my spriest and saw this beautiful bird flying in a circle around Sanctuary of Malorne, I didn't realize it was a rare for hunters to tame. I saw a DK flying around it but not the hunter on the ground. So I wanted to get it before the DK, I flew over to it excited, dotted it, used levitate and floated down. Bird hits like a beast lol. I died and before I released saw the hunter run over and try to tame it when it was at half health but some random pally killed it. I rezzed and ran back and was able to loot it, got a grey vendor item and a very angry hunter cursing me and the pally. Well, at least now I know. >_<

Comment by hamilton0608

Just tamed him this morning as i was out looking for the spirit beasts in Mount Hyjal. I could never land on the tree so i gave up and just landed in between the antlers of the deer in the center on the shrine. Brought him down with arcane shot and used deterrence when he started casting him moonlance ability. Layed my frost trap when he was down at my level and tamed him when deterrence was over, easiest tame in Cata once hes down. Also as a side note, my first try i used serpent sting to bring him down and this dot broke my freezing trap and then he easily killed me, so dont use serpent sting and then try trapping him. Good luck hunters.

Comment by blakebox

This week has been a lucky streak for me on Garona Server. I just tamed him last night at around 9:50 pm server time. Yesterday I ran into 3 rare spawn, Terrorpene (tamed), Deth'Tilac(tamed), Skarr(not tamed). And the day before, I ran into 2 rare spawns, Kirix(tamed), Anthriss(tamed).

Last night I was on my way to Molten Front to do some dailies and on the way there I realize that I still have an unfinished quest in Mount Hyjal area. So I decided to take that quest when I was flying by there NPC Scan popped with Ban'tholas. I immediately changed specs to BM and try and try to land ontop of that tree. I died 3 times trying to dismount and land on that tree. IF anyone has any tips on how to do that please share. I watched some videos of some one landing perfectly on that tree and it is frustrating.

So I cheated and called my Pally friend for help. We were about to run heroics and I kept declining to get this mob tamed. When my pally friend got here I told her to try to keep my alive from falling trying to land on the tree. It worked a bit but I still cant manage to land on that tree. So I was about to give up then my pally friend told me that she would pull and sacrifice herself so I can get agro. I did just that and just waited by the platform with ice trap. That was an easy tame with help :)

I tried using Slow Fall Larger.. I thought I read somewhere that someone used that but I was not able to get it to work. I think it said that it only works in Storm Peaks. I have been collecting these for this occasion. But I am glad I got Ban'thalos. That is another rare marked off my list. It is strange how when I am not even trying to find these rare spawns, it just pops up. I guess all that time wasted on getting TLPD is being made up now by taming 5 rare spawns in 3 days.

Happy hunting

Update 4/30/2012: I was doing my Hyjal firelands dailies again and Ban'thalos is still up on Garona server. It seems like this mob is always up.

Comment by 986271

I got the owl today ^^ i was desperate to catch a spirit beast but tody was my lucky day
just what u need is a good mage to help u as (he -she) can pull it & slow fall to avoid dying otherwise i think its impossible to get it as a single hunter .
N.B. for the newbies like me :) ,, u cant see the owl if u didnt get the achi of 115 quests in hyjal because i had a friend & he was in the area with me & he couldnt neither see me nor the owl , thats all & good luck with your hunting ...

Comment by 986328

By Seegtease (532 – 2·15) 18 days ago (Patch 4.3.3) Out of Date | Report
Okay, I have a great strategy that I found is MUCH easier to execute than all these darn "stand on tree" options. I always end up not landing on the tree correctly. It's no good for me. But this...
Fly at the same altitude as Ban'Thalos.
Keep your distance from 20-40 yards.
Be at the NORTH-NORTHWEST side of his spawn circle (Back should be facing the lake).
Dismount, fire Serpent Sting (I think SrS makes him less likely to lose aggro before you land).
When you fall over 50% of your descent towards the ground, Disengage.
The disengage should cause you to fly back and land safely in the WATER.
If you see him using his Harsh Moonlight, hit Deterrence, even if you're still falling.
Tame Beast as soon as he's in range to tame.
Enjoy your pet.
Yeah, the trick is landing in the water using disengage. It's so easy to solo this way (and deterrence will make his otherwise lethal spell do nothing). Don't disengage too soon, or you risk causing him to evade. If you have troubles, try being closer to him when you fire and disengaging at the last possible second.

Thank you for the awesome tip and the info. I couldn't do the tree to save my life but your way took me 2 tries. Thank you again

Comment by Slyboogie

GOBLIN HUNTERS ! !
fly to Ban'thalos' level and then simply auto shot, serpent shot what ever, then just goblin rocket right before you hit the ground, freeze trap, tame :) hope this helps for all my gobby bruthas !

Comment by BubbRubb23

Just tamed him on Lothar. Seegtease's method below is by far the best method. I just dismounted from above him, shot him down with my arcane shot, and than hit disengage and landed safely in the water. I than popped deterrence, tame beast, and than he was mine. :-)

Comment by Syllvos

Anyone using the tree method, it's important to note that laying a trap will just place it in front of you- all the way on the ground. Use the trap launcher, get it on top of the tree. I died several times before I realized this.

Comment by wingnut01

10:35pm dath remar server time and after many failed attempts this is how you do it. Get on the tree that many people write about - use a small mount and zoom in close. It is not easy but practice whenever you are there for dailies and it gets bearable. Get back on your mount once you are on the tree - press space bar to go straight up and be in range of him. Dismount and get a serpent sting on to him on the way back down to the top of the tree. This is when it gets important. Now that he is attacking you I originally tried dropping a freezing trap before i flew up to engage and then once i had engaged and was back on the tree I immediately hit deterrence. I died. You must wait until he starts his attacks before hitting deterrence. He hits like a truck and killed me the first tiime. Once he starts attacking hit deterrence then it will last the duration of his attacks. Hit tame immediately once he finishes attacking and he is yours. Good luck. Not the easiest of tames but one you can be proud of =)

Comment by 119838

I'm a Priest and I recently helped 2 guildies who had trouble landing on the tree. Here's what I did to bring him down to earth:

1. Fly above him and dismiss mount
2. Hit Levitiae and drift down past him. As you pass him, hit Holy Nova.
3. Be ready to hit Levitate again really quick because at some point on the trip down he's going to hit you with Moonfire and cancel the Levitate.

Once your on the ground, Fade to drop the agro and your Hunter friend grabs it with Tame Beast. May not be the best way to get this done but it's worked twice so far.

Cheers!

Comment by 7154

Tamed at 11pm server time, using disengage to break my fall. As a freshly 85 hunter, deterrence was a must to prevent the moonfire from killing me.

Comment by saillaw

How to solo tame:

1) Get on your mount slightly above the bird and wait until he has looped around so that you are between the bird and the lake, face the bird with the lake to your back
2) Dismount
3) immediately arcane shot (not serpent sting or other dot as that might break the tame)
4) immediately hit disengage (this should make you fall into the water)
5) let him hit you with at least one moonfire (can drop a freezing trap at this point if you want, I didn't)
6) as soon as you are hit by moonfire, hit deterrence
7) immediately hit tame beast

You win!

Comment by Blutooth

I checked for him for about a week after I hit L85. Didn't see any sign. Then I remembered this area is phased so I did the quest chain at Sactuary of Malorne up to when Hamul gets burned. On the way back to turn in that quest, I saw Ban'thalos up in the sky. WOOT!

Four deaths and some competition from a mage that just wanted to kill him and I have my shiny new Spirit Beast Owl. WOOT!

Comment by 994758

To Saillaw!

Excellent taming guide. Worked perfect. Tamed him today 2012-05-24 at Defias Brotherhood

//Zihlos

Comment by Centaurian

Excells in the DS fights. Dash, charge and boar speed compensate for the stealth in target switching. When it reches the target kill command works almost without fail, especially on Madness platforms by flying down to the base of the corrupted tenticles. It did 400k healing in the fight but he dies on 4th platform from the crush so I re-speced into heart of the phoenix. I am not sure if this pet is just self-healing or putting some heals on the tank. My hunter is always more than 25 yards away from it but having it on assist may cause it to use this ability on a raid member below 50% if the pet is at full health. Another hard to see bonus of a beast master hunter.

Comment by 905137

Realm: Dark Iron
Time: 6:00am Server

I flew over by the lake and turned my back to it. Targeted Ban, dismounted, hit Serpet Sting, hit Disenge (which threw me into lake), then I hit Deterrence, and began taming. Went very smooth. I didn't wait to get hit by the moonfire before I hit Deterrence and I had no problems. I didn't even use the freezing trap...

Comment by miigi

Just tamed him, pretty easy just shot him and hit disengage before i hit the ground used deterrance and tamed him.

Comment by virgo02

Hello,This is Melissa from Whisperwind and I'm a Gob Hunter ;) lol.I finally tamed Ban'Thalos Friday evening with the help of my AWESOME Daughter ;).I had tried 3 previous times but each time,he was killed by Alliance(and they say Horde are baddies but Alliance are just as devious).I kept trying to land on the treetop but kept falling lol so my daughter came in,positioned me just right,set the trap,flew up,dismounted,concussive shot him,dropped down on the tree top and tamed! all in that order hehe.I'm posting a pic so i hope it gets put up for you guys to see.I got a cool one of me taming on the tree top with him iced lol.Just please remember that its not cool to kill something that another player is trying to tame no matter if the other person is of the other faction or not because you dont know that person from jack and its pretty retarded and immature to do that to someone.Thank you.

Comment by 997813

I didn't have the slow fall and all nor could i figure out how to get on the tree so caught mine on the tallest possible part of the statues head.flew up just high enough to tag it with an arcane shot but don't use concussive shot landed use a healing potion and wait till starts to attack scatter shot then and tame only had 110k health.Using concussive shot may slow it down to the point of you not being able to tame it in time and may end up dead as is with my first try.

Comment by 998266

Hi...am new to posting. I am a bit disappointed...I was in the process of taming Ban, been trying to figure out my strategy for about a good 45 minutes when another Hunter appeared and Tamed him. Even tho I hade my Marker and my Hunters mark on him. After he tamed him he came to where I was standing an said nothing...I of course Congratulated him...Tho I was in Tears. Is that the way of Hunters?

Comment by 997813

for all those like me who don't know spawn timers.this 1 is not linked to the other 2 cats or magria at least .i tamed magria and went to collect obsidian ore and spotted the owl not even 2 min after.so its ether sheer dumb luck or they don't share a spawn timer.if any 1 knows a web site to look up spawn timers please let me know.

Comment by Pops715

Just had a fairly easy tame of this guy on Borean Tundra server, just a mere 6 minutes before the servers went down for maintenance.

I flew to the top of the tallest tree closest to the statue of the Stag. While still mounted, I tested my position by holding 'X' and making sure I couldn't descend. (It may take a few tries but it's fairly easy to do once you get the hang of it.) Dismount and you should be standing on top of the tree. Lay a freeze trap at your feet. Mount back up and use only the space bar so you'll rise straight up. Go only high enough to get Ban'thalos within attack range. When he flies close enough, target Ban'thalos and shoot him to get aggro. You'll fall, but just the short distance to the top of the tree, taking little or no damage. When he gets within melee range, hit 'Deterrence' (this will keep you from taking too much damage) then 'Tame'. He'll get caught in the freeze trap anyway, so the tame should be easy. He stayed frozen the entire time I was taming him.

Oh, and for camping him, I just perched my hunter on top of one of the columns and logged in and out at different times, hoping I'd get lucky, which I did. Logged in and there he was!

Comment by 543619

My first location of Ban'thalos was, admittedly, an accident. I was ploughing through the quests to unlock the Molten Front in the hopes of taming Ankh or Magria. A few seconds after I hand in the quest regarding Hamuul getting roasted, my NPCscan goes off for "Ban'thalos". I knew of Ban'thalos but there was a lot of dispute in my mind that I would ever find him due to

1) His location in a popular quest hub
2) The fact he is easily pullable and killable by non-hunters.

So, I flap up, finding him quite some distance above the ground. I dismount, serpent sting, Disengage about 5 meters from impact and hit my standard Detterance - Tame macro. He was mine. That was it. I was ecstatic but also expecting a bit more of a fight but none the less, he has remained on my active roster for some time.

Anyway. Three days pass (In which time I tame a plethora of rare pets) and one day, as I am waiting for my dailies to reset (Also frequenting the area for an Ankh or Magria) I see a small yellow dot appear on my mini-map. Its Ban'thalos again. I flap up and observe him for a few minutes, but I hate seeing rare spawns go to waste. So, I do /who 85 Hunter and begin trawling through the ranks trying to find him a home. I eventually found him a home in an 85 orc hunter.

Said hunter then repaid the favour by taming the Ankh spawn a few minutes later. I couldn't help but laugh, and I wished him well.

This was on Argent Dawn EU, and I, Zorithion, am always pleased to share the love and help people get their rare pets.

Still no Ankh or Magria though!

Comment by JM1120

Saw this guy on Bonechewer, US, at around 6:30 est.

I was doing my dailies for the first time in forever when NPC Scan blared in my ear that I'd found Ban'thalos. Having helped my cousin's guildie tame him about six months ago, when competition was still pretty fierce, I knew where he was, so I flew over to the tree and landed. I asked in my guild, and no one wanted him (or, rather, no one was BM spec and had all the Hyjal quests done) so I then advertised in trade that he was there.

Figuring someone would snatch this beauty up real quick, I flew back to watch it happen. I waited five minutes and no one came. By now I was sorely disappointed, and, not wanting to see this bird go to waste, proceeded to whisper every 85 hunter that was online at the moment. Finally, someone came, and I explained to him what to do. He died once, and with me healing him through the moonfire the second time, the bird was his.

He thanked me several times, gave me 50g, and then left. My only regret is that I instance leveled my hunter, and got none of the Hyjal quests done.

Comment by Heathersaysgo

I tried to tame him by disengaging, and I'm sure it's possibly, yet tricky.

Second time, I flew to the top of the tallest tree around Malorne, dropped an ice trap, and tamed him quickly! It was a great idea :)

Happy hunting!

Edit - Also, if you haven't gotten if you fall off the tree - voila! achievement. (accidental) :)

Comment by Damselfly

This video was invaluable: How to Tree-Tame Ban'Thalos

I've read all over the interwebs that the tree tame is the sure-fire method, but this girl actually shows you how to get up on that tree. After all, that was my problem (HOW DO I GET UP ON THAT THIN NEEDLE POINT?); I needed to be shown how, not just told how. I see a lot of other hunters stressing over how are they supposed to do this, so I hope this helps you like it did me. It's not a "fancy" tactic like others claim it is, it's pretty basic.

I could not, for the life of me, get onto the tree until I saw how she did it in the video. Since doing it this way (aligning above the tree and dismounting), I haven't failed at it yet. In fact, I got it my first try. Just practice a bit and you can use this method as a "last minute" tame if you want, if he unexpectedly pops up on your NPCscan (This is what I did--I did not camp up there). You'll be used to the method already, and you'll only have to contain your nerves enough to stop shaking as you align yourself.

The tree is better used if you're actually sitting down to camp, that way you don't feel that there is a rush to get up there, but the problem with camping up there imho is that Alliance most absolutely would spot me, know what I was doing, and attempt to sabotage. Camping ANY rare out in the open has always been a big fat huge no-no in my book (especially when it came to TLPD. Once you're there, everyone else stacks up on top of you and becomes that much more desperate.) I'm speaking generally, from my own experiences, so this is not always true. Your server may be particularly respectful towards their hunters when it comes to this.

When I tamed Ban'Thalos today, I was actually camping Magria's spawn point, when I decided to Eagle Eye Ban's area. Once I Eagle Eyed NPCscan went off. I got on a small mount and dropped myself ontop the tree. He flies slow, so I was twitching a bit as I commenced to do the same method as shown in the video. First try, and he's now my new pet.

Only after I tamed did I remember that I was still naked in preparation for Magria's tame...lol.

Happy hunting...hope this all helped. :) And do what method is best for you.

Comment by 938231

I would say the best way 2 tame him is 2 switch your flying mount so u can quick dismount and wait over by the water fly up dismount attack him and disengage into the water then Deterrence and tame him. i lost very little hp that way it took me 1 try in the water.

Comment by 311584

I set my trap on the cliffs at 27.54, 65.87 then flew up to shoot him then hit disengage and it put me right at my trap. It took a couple of tries to get the trap position right, don't put it too close to the edge.

Comment by 762672

Got a mage to do slowfall on me: worked just fine.

Comment by 1001147

While I was waiting for Ankha at one point yesterday, I checked the other rare spawn points for the other rares nearby. Blazewing, Terrorpene, and Ban'Thalos.

The bird was up and NPCscan scared me, yet again (NPCscan 12, Kris, 0), and so I started asking other hunters if they were interested in taming. Before I found someone, a human paladin started trying to kill him. I /no'd him, since I'm a Tauren, and really can't do much else, and watched as he slowly destroyed this beautiful bird. That is until Ban'Thalos crit'd him. :P

I had made a nelf druid the night before to help an Alliance hunter tame Skarr, and so I hopped on the same toon and pst'd the paladin. I said, "You do realize, he drops absolutely nothing but a tear that vendors for 25g, and has a spawn time of 6-17 hours apparently and that you could get a hell of a lot more money by telling someone he was up, right?"

"Sure, but this SoB killed me right as I was about to put up LoH."

"So? Why were you trying to kill him in the first place? He doesn't drop anything, and he's not like the LK rares where there is an achievement for killing them."

-shrug-

"Leave him be-he's a hunter's pet, there's no use in you killing him."

I log back onto my Tauren hunter to find Ban'Thalos flying around. :)

Please, if you're not a hunter, leave them be.

Rezyaroua Tauren Hunter, Moon Guard

Comment by d3athraz0r

Just tamed this beautiful birdie, proved to be a challenging tame however since I hadn't really spotted that tall tree in the first place (left of the shrine) which means that I died once taking fall damage and 2 more times , after a successful landing, by those moonfires that deal 30k dmg on you :D more or less after laying a trap on that tall tree flying a little bit above and provoking the Bird , you are ready to tame it ;)

Comment by NillaWaffer4U

Tamed this little owly Ban'thalos on the zangarmarsh sever around 11pm (7/19*, then saw him flying around 4:10pm (7/20/2012)

did the fall, disengage,deterrence/trap/tame like a boss method into the water.

Comment by kabookiejoe

wanted to tame on my hunter, but can't see do to phasing =(

Comment by 832808

Don't really like the model of this beast but I still kept an eye out for it because I like the the fun in the tame, yet it had really eluded me. Today I finally caught it.

1.Went up to the tallest tree next to the Sanctuary of Malorne and figured out how to stand on it.
2.Placed a Freezing Trap at the very top.
3.Mounted on my gryphon and flew directly up.
4.Tagged it with a serpent sting which dismounts you and drops you directly on top of the tree.
5.Used this macro:
/use Potion of Speed
/cast Deterrence
/cast Tame Beast
6.Bagged it and stabled it.

Hope this helps.

Comment by 1006397

For those who skipped doing quests in hylai, is phased out and cannot see it.

Just do like 3 quests right where Ban'thalos is up to where you defend the horse man dude from attack and you see a cinematic.

You should see it after completing those. 10 minutes tops.

Comment by 335802

I see a lot of fancy methods here for this tame, but through a failed plan to have a friendly priest Levitate me, I ended up with the tame, anyway, with no help of any kind and no tricky positioning.

Simply stand on top of the columns to the right of the statue of Malorne as you face the same direction as the statue faces. Fly up from there and wait for Ban'Thalos to circle back around a couple times until you are just barely within range as he passes over your head. Then, dismount, fire an instant shot, land on the pillars and place a freezing trap. Once he's in, tame and you're done.

I did not use a slowfall.
As I said, the Levitate plan didn't work (cuz they weren't fast enough).
I did not use a parachute.
No mess.
No fuss.

Just a straight and simple snatch.

Comment by herumor

This is easy as an engineer.

Fly near it, dismount, tag while falling, and when close to the ground use the Flexweave Underlay tinker.

At this point it will fly down to you. Wait till it casts Harsh Moonlight then hit deterrence and start taming.

That's all folks.

Comment by 1019948

My 1st attempt failed because a couple of idiots on my own side (Alliance) decided to kill him before I had the chance to tame.

Started camping shortly after that (about 6P.M.) - still pissed off about how players from my own side could be such asswipes - left the game on in the background while watching movies...etc.

At exactly 3 am (I was just about to give up and go to sleep) my NPC started screaming and there he was. Being an Engineer definitely has it's advantages as I flew higher and dismounted...fired serpent sting (to keep aggro) and then hit my parachute immediately. As I floated down slowly I was not hit by moonfire at all until just as I landed and immediate dropped an Ice Trap down and voila! Tame went smoothly and he was mine! Big plus being 3am - no one was around this time.

Also got Ankha earlier that day purely by accident so it was a good day (even with the idiot factor)

Comment by Nexsa

I failed at this quite a bit. I was a new to level 85 when I did this, so this is to help any other new 85s who don't have the gear yet and have found this beauty.

1. Got onto the tree that is behind the statue. It's tricky to get on and I killed myself a few times and had to wait out the res timer and hope nobody showed up to tame him.

2. Used haste and stamina food.

3. Used a flask of steel skin.

3. Have a potion of speed.

4. Make a macro: /use potion of speed
/cast Deterrence
/cast Tame Beast

5. Mount up on a flying mount and press space bar to move up. You can go up just a bit so when you dismount the fall back to the tree does no damage.

6. Now that you're in firing range, get ready to remove your mount buff and shoot with Arcane Shot.

7. Watch his cast bar for the spell Harsh Moonlight. It has a 2 sec cast, so get ready to hit the macro just before it's cast.

8. You should now have tamed him.

When I did this process, I had 107k health with the buffs I mentioned. I ended the taming with just about 5000 health left. That's right, I just made it by the skin of my teeth. Worth it though. Great looking bird spirit beast.

Good luck fellow hunters!

Comment by c0ch3s3

Tamed Banny using the "pop disengage mid fall and land in the water method" today at 1:41 searver time on Emerald Dream.
After many failed attempts at using the "stand on top of the tree" method (mostly beacuse it would take too long for me to land on the tree and someone else would tame or kill him), I got it on my first try using the "disengage" method. Thanks for the tips!

Comment by bjuke

12:50AM Server Time 3:50AM Eastern Time.
US Tichondrius

Found and Tamed.

Comment by iamhavoc

Ok this is a funny story, i just tamed Ankha and was going to build his spec this horde hunter (kelgar) came down and ganked me. I followed him and there he was trying to tame Ban'thalos. I already have this pet so it didn't matter to me, but it was time for revenge, so i killed him every time he tried to tame it while asking somebody in trade to bring a hunter and come get him. nobody wanted to come so after killing him for the 6th time i decided to try and tame another one, and it worked so now i have 2 ... 2:15 server time Emerald Dream

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