WoW Forever Spider Hunter Pet Guide: Tames, Bite Ranks and Raid Use

The spider hunter pet in WoW Forever is a meat-eating damage pet with a 1.07 damage modifier, medium health, low armor and exactly one attack skill, Bite. Tame Naraxis in Duskwood at 86.4, 47.5 for the only red spider skin, farm Bite up to rank 7 from other spiders, and steal rank 8 from a worg, because no spider on the Classic baseline teaches it.

Among world of warcraft forever hunter pets, spiders sit near the bottom of the ladder: cats hit harder, bats and owls get free utility, and your spider gets a nice silhouette. Pick one for the look, the rarity or pure spite, then read on so it at least dies with max rank Bite.

What Forever changes for hunter pets

WoW Forever is the Classic+ branch Blizzard announced at BlizzCon 2026, with launch set for November 4, 2026. The hunter changes that touch pets are already public, and they matter more than any spider stat.

• Pets now scale with the hunter’s own stats, so every point of Agility you wear also feeds the spider.
• Marksmanship gets Lone Wolf early in the tree, a flat 20% damage bonus for having no active pet at all.
• Beast Mastery gets Summon Hawk, which adds up to two temporary hawks next to your regular pet.
• Traps now work in combat, which makes trap and tame far less of a gamble.
• Humans and the new Skyborne race can now roll hunter, so more players will be fighting over the same rares.

Everything else about the classic plus hunter pet, from family modifiers to training points, runs on the 1.15 Classic baseline below until the beta proves otherwise.

Spider family stats and where it ranks

Stat	Spider	Cat, for comparison
Health modifier	1.00, medium	1.00
Armor modifier	1.00, low	1.00
Damage modifier	1.07, high	1.10, highest in the game
Diet	Meat	Meat, fish
Family skill	None	Claw, Dash, Prowl
Attack speed	2.0 on almost every spider	2.0 on most cats

Bats, owls and wind serpents carry the exact same 1.00, 1.00, 1.07 spread and still get Screech, Dive or Lightning Breath on top. The spider gets Bite, Growl and nothing else, which is why players have parked it in D tier for years.

Two spiders break the 2.0 rule: Spire Spiderling swings at 1.5 and Spawn of Mar’li at 1.4. Faster swings do not raise DPS, since each hit gets smaller, but they smooth out threat and push back enemy casts more often.

How to tame a spider without dying

WoW Forever pet taming follows the Classic rules: you unlock Tame Beast through the level 10 hunter class quest, and the target must be your level or lower.

1. Use Beast Lore first to confirm the spider is tameable and to check its level and diet.
2. Dismiss your current pet or park it with a Stable Master, because you get one active pet and two stable slots.
3. Put down Freezing Trap, pull with Concussive Shot and start the tame once the spider is frozen.
4. Keep Aspect of the Monkey up, because Tame Beast drops your armor by 100% for its full 20 second channel.
5. If you have Wyvern Sting, it is a second sleep for the tame that the trap failed to hold.
6. Feed the new spider with Feed Pet right away, because a fresh tame arrives unhappy and disloyal.

A tamed low level spider does not scale up to you. Tame near your own level, or enjoy leveling a pet that gets one-shot by everything you kill.

Best spider tame spots with coordinates

Your first WoW Forever spider tame should come from your own starting zone, and every later swap should line up with the next Bite rank. Coordinates are listed where the spawn point is fixed and confirmed; open spawns are described by area.

Level	Spider	Zone	Where to look
3 to 4	Night Web Spider	Tirisfal Glades	Horde start area, knows Bite 1
5 to 6	Forest Spider	Elwynn Forest	Alliance start zone, knows Bite 1
7 to 8	Webwood Venomfang	Teldrassil	Night elf start zone, knows Bite 1
8 to 9	Mine Spider	Elwynn Forest	Jasperlode Mine, entrance near 62, 55
15, rare	Krethis Shadowspinner	Silverpine Forest	Skittering Dark cave, around 35.7, 8.0
24 to 25	Black Widow Hatchling	Duskwood	Path toward the Naraxis cave
27, rare	Naraxis	Duskwood	Cave east of Darkshire at 86.4, 47.5
35 to 40	Darkmist Spider	Dustwallow Marsh	Darkmist Cavern north of Brackenwall, around 31, 20
45 to 49	Greater Lava Spider	Searing Gorge	South-west part of the zone, lava tarantula skin
54 to 55	Plague Lurker	Western Plaguelands	Knows Bite 7 when tamed
55 to 56	Spire Spiderling	Blackrock Spire	Dungeon spider area, 1.5 attack speed
57 to 58	Rock Stalker	Silithus	Open world, tan spider skin
60	Spawn of Mar’li	Zul’Gurub	Hatched during the Mar’li raid fight, 1.4 attack speed

Spider skills and where to farm every rank

The full list of WoW Forever hunter pet abilities a spider can hold is short: Bite from the wild, Cower from other families, and the trainer passives. You learn a rank by taming a beast that already knows it and keeping it out in combat until the rank shows in your training window, then you teach it to the spider.

Bite rank	Pet level	TP	Damage	Where to learn it
1	1	1	7 to 9	Night Web Spider, Forest Spider, Webwood Venomfang, Githyiss the Vile
2	8	4	16 to 18	Vicious Night Web Spider, Forest Lurker, Webwood Silkspinner, Lady Sathrah, Tarantula
3	16	7	24 to 28	Deepmoss Creeper, Wood Lurker, Greater Tarantula, Green Recluse, Shanda the Spinner
4	24	10	31 to 37	Naraxis, Leech Widow, Giant Moss Creeper, Wildthorn Lurker
5	32	13	40 to 48	Plains Creeper, Giant Plains Creeper, Darkfang Spider, Darkfang Creeper
6	40	17	49 to 59	Deathstrike Tarantula, Timberweb Recluse
7	48	21	66 to 80	Rekk’tilac, Cave Creeper, Plague Lurker
8	56	25	81 to 99	No spider teaches it; tame Bloodaxe Worg in Blackrock Spire

Rank 8 is the sadistic part. The only Classic source of Bite rank 8 is a worg deep in Blackrock Spire, so bring a group, tame the dog, learn the rank, and abandon it without eye contact.

Trainer skill	Max rank	Pet level	TP for max rank	Effect at max rank
Growl	7	60	0	Taunt for 415 threat
Great Stamina	10	60	185	Plus 40 Stamina
Natural Armor	10	60	150	Plus 1000 armor
Fire, Frost, Nature, Shadow, Arcane Resistance	5 each	60	105 each	Plus 140 to that school

Cower also works on spiders, but you learn it from other families. Rank 6 costs 18 TP and comes from Frostsaber Cub in Winterspring or Monstrous Plaguebat in Eastern Plaguelands.

Build	Skills at level 60	TP used
Solo and leveling	Bite 8, Growl 7, Great Stamina 10, Natural Armor 7	285 of 300
Raid	Bite 8, Great Stamina 9, Fire Resistance 5, Cower 6	298 of 300
PvP	Bite 8, Great Stamina 10, Natural Armor 6, Cower 6	278 of 300

Best named spider tames: rares, uniques and looks

WoW Forever rare tames are where the spider family finally earns its bag space. Stats are identical to regular spiders, so you are camping for a skin, a pre-learned Bite rank and the look on other players’ faces.

Spider	Level	Zone	Location	Why bother
Mother Fang	10, rare	Elwynn Forest	Back of Jasperlode Mine, entrance near 62, 55	Green skin and the first rare Alliance hunters can reach
Lady Sathrah	12	Teldrassil	Open zone	Grey tarantula that knows Bite 2
Sri’skulk	13, rare	Tirisfal Glades	Venomweb Vale in eastern Tirisfal	Black widow skin for Horde starters
Krethis Shadowspinner	15, rare	Silverpine Forest	Skittering Dark, around 35.7, 8.0	Early black widow rare with a short respawn
Chatter	23, rare	Redridge Mountains	Open zone	Red tarantula that knows Bite 3
Leech Widow	24, rare	Wetlands	Open zone	Grey spider that knows Bite 4
Naraxis	27, rare	Duskwood	Cave at 86.4, 47.5	The only tameable red spider skin in the Classic data
Darkmist Widow	40, rare	Dustwallow Marsh	Back of Darkmist Cavern, around 31, 20	Jungle skin guarded by a cave full of spiders
Rekk’tilac	48, rare	Searing Gorge	South-west, among lava spiders	Lava tarantula that knows Bite 7
Gretheer	57, rare	Silithus	One of four spots in a band across central Silithus	Grey tarantula at near max level
Spire Spiderling	55 to 56	Blackrock Spire	Dungeon	Crystal skin and 1.5 attack speed
Spawn of Mar’li	60	Zul’Gurub	Mar’li encounter	Tan skin and 1.4 attack speed, the fastest spider

Look but do not bother: Shadra, Mother Smolderweb, Crystal Fang and Hedrum the Creeper cannot be tamed. Razzashi Broodwidow is flagged tameable but sits at level 61, one level above anything you will ever be.

Raid or PvP: what a spider is actually for

Short answer: neither, professionally. A spider brings no party buff, no slow, no gap closer and no defensive cooldown, only Bite on a 10 second timer and a body that stands in fire.

Blizzard has not published Forever pet family tables, pet talents or taming changes yet. Every modifier, rank, TP cost and spawn on this page is the 1.15 Classic baseline that Forever starts from, so check it against the beta before you spend six hours camping a cave.

As a wow forever raid pet, the spider loses to a cat on raw damage and to nobody on usefulness, because nobody else is worse. Marksmanship will likely skip the pet entirely for Lone Wolf, and Survival plays in melee where a pet is mostly a threat liability.

A wow forever beast mastery pet is the one case where a spider makes sense. Pet scaling from hunter stats plus two hawks means the family gap is a few percent, so a BM hunter can run Naraxis in raids and lose little more than bragging rights over cat owners.

In PvP the spider has no Dash or Dive, so a kiting target simply walks away from it. If you are hunting for the best hunter pet in wow forever for battlegrounds, take a cat or a wolf and keep the spider for screenshots.

• Fire Resistance 5 is the only resistance worth buying before Molten Core, since the pet eats AoE in that raid.
• Cower 6 keeps a raid spider from pulling boss attention off the tank.
• Growl should be turned off in any group with a real tank, unless you enjoy wipes and whispers.

Feeding, happiness and loyalty

WoW Forever pet happiness decides your damage, and a spider only eats meat. Carry Roasted Quail or Flank of Meat at high level, feed out of combat, and keep the food close to the pet’s level, because low level meat barely moves the bar.

Happiness	Pet damage	What it means
Happy	125%	Full damage plus the bonus, the only acceptable state
Content	100%	Baseline, which is already a spider’s problem
Unhappy	75%	Loyalty drops, and a disloyal pet can leave for good

Each feed restores happiness in ticks of 8, 17 or 35 points depending on how close the food is to the pet’s level. Loyalty climbs through six ranks, and each rank lowers how much food the pet needs.

1. Rebellious pets can abandon you if you let them starve, dismiss them often or get them killed repeatedly.
2. Unruly pets are still unconvinced and can still walk out.
3. Submissive pets tolerate occasional bad luck and eat less.
4. Dependable pets keep lowering their food needs.
5. Faithful pets almost never leave unless you work at it.
6. Best Friend pets need the least food and go the longest between meals.

Training points follow pet level times loyalty rank minus one, so a level 60 Best Friend spider has the full 300 TP. An abandoned pet never comes back, and the cave camp starts over.

Spider lore in Azeroth

Trolls worship spiders through Shadra, the spider loa. High Priestess Mar’li served Shadra in Zul’Gurub until Hakkar bent her to his will, which is why her fight hatches the spiderlings you can tame.

Horde players can call Shadra herself in the Hinterlands through Summoning Shadra, and she cannot be tamed, which saves everyone an awkward conversation. Deeper in Blackrock Spire, Mother Smolderweb runs a brood of her own, and Duskwood keeps its webs thick enough to explain why Darkshire never sleeps.