World of Warcraft: Forever hunter pets
From the beta client, build 1.60.1.70338, read 11 Oct 2026.
Pick a family to see everything it can learn.
- Bat, eats fungus, fruit
- Bear, eats meat, fish, cheese, bread, fungus, fruit
- Bird of Prey was Owl, eats meat
- Boar, eats meat, fish, cheese, bread, fungus, fruit
- Carrion Bird, eats meat, fish
- Cat, eats meat, fish
- Core Hound, eats meat
- Crab, eats fish, bread, fungus, fruit
- Crocolisk, eats meat, fish
- Fox new, eats meat
- Gorilla, eats fungus, fruit
- Hyena, eats meat, fruit
- Raptor, eats meat
- Scorpid, eats meat
- Spider, eats meat
- Tallstrider, eats cheese, fungus, fruit
- Turtle, eats fish, fungus, fruit, raw fish
- Wind Serpent, eats fish, cheese, bread
- Wolf, eats meat
World of Warcraft: Forever beta client, build 1.60.1.70338 of , read , re-read within 14 days. 19 families, 37 abilities. Names, descriptions and icons belong to Blizzard Entertainment.
How to use
- Families. Pick one for its diet, its bonus and every ability it learns, rank by rank, with the level, Focus cost and cooldown the client gives each.
- Abilities. Every ability, every rank, and the families that learn it. Type to filter.
- What they eat. The whole diet grid, and each food's families.
- Shared and unique. Shared means the client's shared pet list, and the page names who learns it. Unique means one family only.
- Numbers. For a level 60 pet, capped at the highest level a rank scales to, the same reading Wowhead gives.
- Tags. "Was Owl" or "was Screech" means the same family or spell under its Classic Era name.
- Links. Each family and ability links to Wowhead. A family Wowhead has no page for yet lands on its pet list.
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Common questions
How many hunter pet families are there in World of Warcraft: Forever?
The beta client, build 1.60.1.70338, lists 19 pet families, each with its own diet, its own family bonus and its own abilities. New since Classic Era by name: Fox. Renamed under the same family id: Bird of Prey (Era's Owl). Whether every family can be tamed in the beta is not something the tables say.
What do hunter pets eat in World of Warcraft: Forever?
It depends on the family. The client marks each family with the food types it accepts, from eight kinds: meat, fish, cheese, bread, fungus, fruit, raw meat and raw fish. Some families eat one kind and some eat most of them, and the diet view on this page shows the whole grid.
How does a hunter pet learn abilities in Forever?
Through Beast Training, as in the original game. The beta client still carries the Beast Training skill, whose own text says it lets you train your pet with abilities you have learned how to teach, and its interface text says you gain training points by raising your pet's loyalty and level. What each rank costs in points is set by the game's servers, not by the tables this page reads, so it is not shown.
Which pet abilities are new in Forever?
By name, 10 abilities on the beta client's pet lists are not in Classic Era's: Dismember, Dust Cloud, Mine!, Pinch, Savage Rend, Sonic Blast, Swipe, Tendon Rip, Trickster's Dance and Web. Renamed on the same spells: Demoralizing Screech (Era's Screech). Each is tagged on the page. Era had Cobra Reflexes and Forever's lists do not.
What are the family bonuses?
Each family's own passive in the client changes its damage, armour and health by a percentage. The page shows the three numbers on every family, read from that passive, so a family that hits harder, takes hits better or has more health is a matter of record rather than reputation.
What has Blizzard changed about pets in the beta?
Blizzard's beta development notes of 24 September 2026 name three pet changes: Tame Beast no longer works on beasts above the hunter's level, Furious Howl's attack power bonus came down, and a fault that stopped pet happiness falling at full loyalty was fixed. The build this page reads may sit on either side of those changes.
What do the levels and the numbers next to each rank mean?
The level is the one the client attaches to that rank. The numbers in the wording are for a level 60 pet, or the highest level the rank scales to, which is the same reading Wowhead gives. Where a rank shows no level, the client's spell tables carry none for it, and we do not guess.
Where does this data come from?
From the World of Warcraft: Forever beta client itself, through the wago.tools mirror of its database tables. The page says which build it was read from and on which date, and the data is re-read at least every 14 days because beta numbers change between builds.
What changed
Build 1.60.1.70334 to 1.60.1.70338
- No pet family or ability changed in this build.
Build 1.60.1.70291 to 1.60.1.70334
- No pet family or ability changed in this build.
Build 1.60.1.70245 to 1.60.1.70291
- No pet family or ability changed in this build.
Build 1.60.1.70235 to 1.60.1.70245
- No pet family or ability changed in this build.
Build 1.60.1.70205 to 1.60.1.70235
- No pet family or ability changed in this build.
Build 1.60.1.70170 to 1.60.1.70205
- No pet family or ability changed in this build.
Build 1.60.1.70124 to 1.60.1.70170
- Arcane Resistance can now be learned by Fox.
- Cower can now be learned by Fox.
- Fire Resistance can now be learned by Fox.
- Frost Resistance can now be learned by Fox.
- Furious Howl wording changed at ranks 1 to 4.
- Great Stamina can now be learned by Fox.
- Growl can now be learned by Fox.
- Intimidation can now be learned by Fox.
- Natural Armor can now be learned by Fox.
- Nature Resistance can now be learned by Fox.
- Pet Aggression can now be learned by Fox.
- Pet Hardiness can now be learned by Fox.
- Pet Recovery can now be learned by Fox.
- Pet Resistance can now be learned by Fox.
- Shadow Resistance can now be learned by Fox.
- Sonic Blast was added, learned by Bat.
- Thunderstomp rank 4 wording changed.
- Trickster's Dance rank 1 wording changed.
Build 1.60.1.70058 to 1.60.1.70124
- No pet family or ability changed in this build.
Build 1.60.1.70009 to 1.60.1.70058
- No pet family or ability changed in this build.
The tool
- Family bonuses, Wowhead links for every family and ability, who learns each shared ability, and a compact picker whose panel scrolls into view.
Added
- The tool went live, read from build 1.60.1.70009.