How I tamed my dragonhawk in 8 easy steps
by Amanda Rivera 
May 12th 2007 at 12:34PM
Etherjammer wrote in detailing how he was able to tame a dragonhawk at level 10. Now, this was intriguing enough that I decided I needed to try it. In his blog post he describes a journey that starts in Menethil and ends in
Step one: Die: I would suggest stripping off any gear you care about and let a nasty (or three) eat you.
Step two: The jog begins: The first leg of the journey takes you up past Tarren Mill and Strahnbrad. From there follow the road west to Chillwind camp.
Step three: The plaguelands: just outside the camp the road turns left. From here head straight and cross the pond into Andorhal. Head northeast and enjoy the ruined scenery along the way.
Step four: On the road again: Eventually you will hit the road going into Eastern Plaguelands. Take this all the way to Corrin's Crossing. Now it's time to turn north.
Step five: Through the looking glass: Head along the road past Northpass Tower. Zone through the instance portal into Eversong Woods. This is the trick that makes this whole thing possible. By zoning you reset your graveyard, enabling you to resurrect at another.
Step six: Resurrection: Continue down the road until you reach Fairbreeze Village. Resurrect at the spirit healer and run. The village folks will see you and call the guards, so run as far as you can before they beat you down, then resurrect again, this time at your body.
Step seven: The taming: You will see several Crazed Dragonhawks around the west and north. Now's the time to work your hunter skills.
Step eight: Hearth and home: With your new companion by your side, return home and get to know your fiery new friend.
This is the journey I took. It took about seven minutes all told. It's a variation on Etherjammer's guide, and I thank him for sharing it with us. Do you have any tips on taming the seemingly untamable?
[via Etherjammer]
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)
Bobtheflamingninja May 12th 2007 12:47PM
my guildie rerolled a dranei hunter when the x-pac came out, and at level 20, he got a dragonhawk.
downside to this is that people kept asking where he got it.
Foussa May 12th 2007 12:52PM
Too bad those Dragonhawk are *caster* pets, with weaker stats and very little value...
Tibbsy May 12th 2007 1:16PM
A small note about this guide that should be mentioned (for the few that it affects): you can only do this if you have the Burning Crusade expansion. If you don't, you'll be stopped at the instance portal at Northpass Tower (step 5). I know a few people who started playing WoW late and haven't bought the expansion because they don't know if they'll still be playing the game as heartily once they ding 60.
Chris M May 12th 2007 1:16PM
I sat here for a good 5 minutes wondering why this is such a big deal... I tamed a Dragonhawk at level 10 as well...
I looked up at the picture.. *night* elf, not *blood* elf. I feel very, very slow.
Chris
www.chillinwithmygnomies.com May 12th 2007 1:19PM
It's not really that complex - I just ran a level 12 dwarf to the same area for a Springpaw Lynx Stalker (level 8) as it's the only place in the entire game they appear.
As long as you have beast tracking turned on, you'll survive. I died twice in EPL and both time rez'd at my body.
Well worth the effort though, I get a lot of attention from my wonderful light brown pet.
Balasan May 12th 2007 1:34PM
I still don't think this is any much harder than a horde hunter trying to get the teldrassil owl.
I got mine when I was level 20. Fun times.
Rich May 12th 2007 1:33PM
The alliance is finally getting the same badge of honor us Hordies got when we got one of your Owls at level 10-15. :P
Chris Anthony May 12th 2007 1:37PM
Thanks for the link! (It's "etherJammer", tho. :)
Do you recommend that low-level characters swim to Southshore so they can get the flight point? It seems like it would be faster to die in the Wetlands and then run across to Southshore, since you don't lose speed over water as a ghost.
-Chris Anthony
http://www.etherjammer.com/
Chris Anthony May 12th 2007 1:42PM
@5: On my first run, I died enough times in EPL to reduce my armor from 90% to 0% and then some, even with Beast Tracking on; it seemed like my aggro radius was essentially the zone radius. :) (I think I might even have had some owlbeasts and gryphons from the Hinterlands joining in... ;) I guess you used yours to better effect than I did!
@7: It really isn't that hard. :) But I've had so many people asking where I got mine, I figured it'd be easier just to write out a guide I could point people to. (I made the video because of the "screenshot or it didn't happen" attitude - and there's no way to show that a static screenshot of a ghost in Eversong wasn't just me running to Eversong and allowing myself to die there.)
-Chris Anthony
http://www.etherjammer.com/
Amanda Rivera May 12th 2007 1:49PM
Etherjammer,
Exactly. If they are taking the time to take the journey, then getting that flightpoint is a very nice bonus. Sorry about the name. I'll get that fixed :)
X May 12th 2007 5:45PM
Unfortunatley the dragon hawks in that are have a mana bar _ANY_ pet with a blue bar has Caster stats which means they suck ass don't use pets with mana bars people.
Jason May 12th 2007 2:05PM
If you have some friends of higher level, there's a much easier way to do this. Warlock Summon :P
Dan May 12th 2007 2:39PM
Great! Now, can we get a guide for a BE grabbing a ravager from the Dranei area?
Dan May 12th 2007 5:14PM
Reset your graveyard? I assumed you could res at any GY. You used to be able to, at least - that's how I got the Moonglade FP while I was still hostile with Timbermaw. Run in the tunnel at the Felwood end, die straight away, run from Felwood GY to the one in Moonglade, res there and I was in Moonglade, alive and well. Did they change that in a recent patch?
Amanda Rivera May 12th 2007 2:47PM
Dan,
You can simply reverse this technique to get a Ravager, rezzing at the spirit healer in Menethil and taking the boat over to Azuremist. A guildy did this at level ten with his blood elf hunter and it worked out great.
Acceptable Risk May 12th 2007 2:52PM
I thought they got rid of the ability to resurrect at whatever healer you wanted. I could have sworn that the last time I tried it, I was teleported back to the one closest to my body.
When did they change it back?
theRaptor May 12th 2007 3:30PM
@14
Read the article, when you go through the portal to Ghostlands your GY resets (I think the whole area is like an instance, rather then actually being in the normal world).
Chris Anthony May 12th 2007 3:31PM
@14: They didn't change this; if you rez anywhere but your original Spirit Healer on the same continent, you'll be ported back to the original graveyard.
The key to this trick is that if you change continents or log out - and the Blood Elf and Draenei areas count as different continents - then the game resets your "original" graveyard to whichever graveyard you decide to use. In other words, the game forgets which graveyard was your original graveyard when you go through a portal or log out. If you don't do either of those things, you'll be ported back to your original graveyard.
Two things I want to try: see if a ghost can use the transporter in Lordaeron/Silvermoon, and see if going into an instance portal will reset your graveyard.
Jollydoom May 12th 2007 3:35PM
This is pretty much entirely a copy from a thottbot post I made a week after the expansion came out:
http://www.thottbot.com/?pet=Dragonhawk
Its halfway through the comments.
Please give credit where it it due.
-JollyDoom
Chris Anthony May 12th 2007 3:56PM
Following up to #16, as far as I can tell, you can't use the Orb of Translocation as a ghost, and when you go through an instance portal as a ghost (assuming you didn't die in the instance), you get ported back to your original graveyard. So I guess it's just changing continents or logging out that resets the graveyard.
JollyDoom, I'm sorry you feel slighted, but to be frank, I haven't used thottbot for months, I've never looked up Dragonhawks on it, and this is the first time I've seen your post, so if you want credit for "copying" your post I'm afraid you're going to have to look elsewhere. At the same time, I'm going to ask you to be honest: how many ways are there to get from Menethil to Eversong that you think that your way is your property? And at what point in your post on thottbot did you talk about making the run as a ghost?