Badlands - Tamable Rares added in 5.1

Tabbs - Tamed

When the magic wand of rare tamable pets was waved over Badlands this zone saw eight new additions. There are now a total of seventeen rares that call Badlands their home. You can see the other nine in this post: Badlands Rare Spawns.

One of the news rares in this zone sports a totally unique look, and that is Tabbs the cat (pictured on the right). This cat looks like a cross between Pogeyan (hunched, shiny look with red eyes) and Araga (coloration). You can find her sleeping along the mountainside just behind a small camp.

The rest of these new tamable beasts aren't unique, but there are still some pretty neat looking ones that low level hunters may find interesting. I think Blackshell the Impenetrable has a very attractive coloration (which is strangely enough not even close to black) that isn't very common.

Zormus, the dark purple warp stalker, shares the same look as only one other mob in the game, and that is Gezzarak the Huntress. Gezzarak is a spawned mob for the quest Adversarial Blood up in Skettis. The addition of this rare not only allows lower level hunters to have this model as a pet earlier, but it will also save people from having to farm for Shadow Dust and then Time-Lost Scrolls x10 to summon her.

Badlands Rare Spawns

There are a total of nine rare spawns in the Badlands. They range from level 46 - 48 and three of them can be tamed by hunters. One of them, Zaricotl, has a totally unique skin and is tamable by hunters in any spec who are at least level 48.

They do not share spawn timers and they all seem to be on fairly similar timers which range somewhere in the 30min to 2hr + range.

Here is a map where all of their spawn points/patrol areas are. ~

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Some visuals of each rare in order by level and corresponding to the above map. ~

Zaricotl

Zaricotl is a level 48 aggressive rare carrion bird that can be found south east of Dustwind Dig in Badlands. (I have indicated where he can be found in yellow on the map below.)  He drops the typical green item and a decent amount of experience for toons around his level.

He is also especially desirable as a hunter pet as he has a totally unique model. He is the only tamable white vulture in the game.