Mechanical Beasts and Where to Find Them - Taming Mechanicals for Hunters

By BendakWoW Updated: 2022/11/07

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Sabertron is located inside a cave on the largest island off the coast of Stormsong Valley (cave entrance is at 35, 32.7).

Inside is a Sabertron of each color but they will be inactive at first. In order to activate one and make it tameable, you must kill the Sabertron Technician inside the cave. Once you kill the technician, he activates Sabertron as he dies. You can tame it from there with no special tricks (other than worrying about others trying to kill it for the quest).

By default, the technician will always activate the red Sabertron (whenever there is no Sabertron world quest active).

When the Sabertron world quest is active, the technician will activate a random color of Sabertron other than red. This color will remain the same for the whole time the world quest is active, so you can't repeatedly kill him hoping for the color you want. At this point, it is not known if the colors will be on a rotation or be truly random.

Killing all 5 colors also grants the Sabertron Assemble achievement.

ArachnodronesElectrified KeyStep One: Killing Doctor Weavil

Go to Alcaz Island in Dustwallow Marsh. The island is newly updated for patch 7.1 and is now populated by level 110 robots and other potent defenses. Flying is not possible on the island. If you get there and see no robots, talk to Zidormi outside of Theramore and ask her to show you Theramore before it was destroyed. This should properly phase you.

At the center of the island, inside the largest building on the top floor, you'll find Doctor Weavil, who has a chance to drop an Electrified Key when killed.

You'll have to fight your way past some of his minions on the lower floor, and his guard dog. Or you could just go in Hunter style by running past everything and feigning death.

Doctor Weavil has some deadly abilities, but you should be able to mostly ignore these if you are max level. We're still listing them here for those attempting it at a lower level.

Important Ability #1 - Mind Shatter: Stay at least 10 yards away from Doctor Weavil to avoid the damage component of this ability (you will still be stunned). Easiest way is to pet tank him in the far corner of his lab and then stand near the stairs to outrange it.

Important Ability #2 - Drudge Bolt Volley: Every 15-20 sec, Weavil will cast this and hit everyone in the room. Each cast adds a stack of Drudge Sludge, and at 10 stacks you will die instantly. The only way to reset the stacks is to use Aspect of the Turtle to block one of the volleys. I recommend doing this at around 6 or 7 stacks. This should let the debuff fall off and restart. However, if your DPS isn't quick enough your pet will still die at 10 stacks. Be ready to resurrect it.

Multiple people can tap him and his respawn time is about 5 minutes. The drop rate on Electrified Key is fairly low, so it might take a few kills to get one.

You can usually find Electrified Keys on the auction house if you don't want to farm one yourself.

Step Two: Pick an Arachnodrone to tame

Copper Arachnodrone: Found outside the building on the nortern part of the island. Surrounded by robots and patrols which you need to kill before engaging.

Silver Arachnodrone: Located underground in a prison cell. The entrance to the prison is right outside of Doctor Weavil's building on the ground. Go inside, head to the end of the hall, turn right and swim under water to the other side. There are lots of robots to kill along the way.

Golden Arachnodrone: Located on the southern end of the island inside the watch tower. The tower is guarded by elite security bots, and the most deadly obstacle is the turret inside of the tower. This turret must be killed before you try taming. While the turret can kill you in just a few hits, it does hardly any damage to your pet. Pet tank and DPS it down.

Step Three: Taming an Arachnodrone

Walk up to one of the Arachnodrones in melee range and use your Electrified Key with it selected. This will make it attackable.

The Arachnodrone must be brought below 30% health in order to tame.

Very Important: Interrupt Maximum Repair before the cast finishes. If you don't interrupt it, the Arachnodrone will heal to full health. This won't occur more often than the cooldown of your interrupt.

Watch for the Savage Willpower buff to be removed at 30% health. When this happens, dismiss your current pet and begin your tame.

The Electrified Key is consumed on use and you'll need to get another one to tame a different color. Respawn time is very quick.

Model GU-4RD-3RModel GU-4RD-3RDustwallow MarshSavage Willpower

Camouflage is highly recommended to traverse the island. Land mines and turrets are deadly and will kill you in a few hits. Another option is running through the worst areas with Aspect of the Turtle.

Fight your way inside the large central building marked on the map below (or run past everything and Feign Death) and go up the stairs at the far end of the room. Inside the next room you will find Model GU-4RD-3R.

Keep your current pet summoned and DPS him down normally, using your pet to tank.

When his health drops below 30% the Savage Willpower buff should be removed. Dismiss your current pet, pop Aspect of the Turtle, and begin your tame.

Respawn time is approximately 5 minutes.

FrienderFrienderGnomeregan

Enter Gnomeregan and jump down at The Hall of Gears as seen on your map. Next, head the Launch Bay and jump down there too. Now head to the Engineering Labs. See map directions below if you need help.

At the Engineering Labs, take the elevator to the lower level. You should see Friender sleeping in the middle of the room.

On 3 of the walls, you will see a series of buttons. There is a 6, 7, and 8-button puzzle. All 3 must be solved (in any order) to wake up Friender.

In order to solve these puzzles, you must light up all of the buttons. Clicking a button will turn it on/off, as well as turn on/off the buttons surrounding it. As these puzzles start in random states with each instance reset, there is no way to make a definitive guide.

A trick to easily completing these puzzles is to find the first unlit button, then click the button to its right. Keep doing this (left to right) for any unlit buttons and eventually the puzzle should be solved. If the unlit button is on the far right, then start over and click the first button on the left. You may need to loop through it several times to get all of the buttons lit.

Once the 3 puzzles are solved, Friender will become hostile and will start running around the room.

Friender will kill you in 1 or 2 hits, and cannot be crowd controlled. The trick here is to cast Aspect of the Turtle right before casting Tame Beast. This lets you survive the hits and complete the tame.

Treble and RushTrebleRush

To make it easier to see puddles of oil on the ground, go to your graphics options and turn "Ground Clutter" to its lowest setting.

Reference the maps below to locate each pet. These maps are rough approximations of each path.

Once they reach the end of their path, they turn around and move in the opposite direction along the same path.

Once you locate the trail of oil puddles, follow it until it ends. If you see an oil puddle appear in front of you, then you know you're headed in the right direction. If instead a puddle of oil disappears, then you're headed in the wrong direction.

In order to reveal them, you need to cast Flare. Don't cast it right on top of the last puddle, but cast it where you think the next puddle may appear. The key is to anticipate their next position.

Once revealed, use some form of crowd control such as Freezing Trap or Binding Shot in order to lock them down, as once they leave the area of your Flare they become invisible again.

Once crowd controlled, you can begin your tame!

Treble is a black Mechanowolf found in Highmountain:Rush is a red Mechanowolf found in Azsuna:Proto StriderProto-StriderLoch ModanOptimoOptimoLoch ModanSentient Mechano StriderSentient MechanostriderPrismatic Punch CardElectrocutioner LegResilient CircuitsGnomereganGrime-Encrusted ObjectThe Sparklematic 5200Grime-Encrusted ObjectSparklematic-Wrapped BoxYellow Punch CardMatrix Punchograph 3005-BYellow Punch CardBlue Punch CardElectrocutioner 6000Electrocutioner LegElectrocutioner LegElectrocutioner 6000Matrix Punchograph 3005-CBlue Punch CardRed Punch CardMatrix Punchograph 3005-DRed Punch CardPrismatic Punch CardPrismatic Punch CardSentient MechanostriderElectrocutioner LegResilient CircuitsExhilarationIron JuggernautsSiege of OrgrimmarQuick facts

Requires level 90+

You can only craft one Juggernaut per week (the boss drops can only be looted weekly).

Boss drops are found in Normal, Heroic, or Mythic Siege of Orgrimmar (not LFR).

Bosses only drop 1 part, regardless of how many Hunters are present.

If you don't see the boss drop, make sure everyone in your group loots the boss. Then it should show up on the corpse.

As of patch 7.1, Galakras can now be soloed, so any level 110 Hunter should have no problem taming an Iron Juggernaut on their own. Simply shoot him twice with the same cannon to bring him down.

Materials needed

Pile of Juggernaut Parts dropped from Iron Juggernaut (Normal mode or higher)

Blackfuse's Power Core dropped from Siegecrafter Blackfuse (Normal mode or higher)

One of the following paint buckets: Bucket of Blue Paint, Bucket of Teal Paint, Bucket of Green Paint, Bucket of Grey Paint found hidden throughout Siege of Orgrimmar

Paint Bucket Locations

Bucket of Green Paint: Between the Dark Shaman and General Nazgrim, in the Cleft of Shadows, inside a hut on the ground (Map Location)

Bucket of Blue Paint: Underneath Malkorok, in the Kor'kron Barracks, in the corner of the northwest room (Map Location)

Bucket of Teal Paint: Inside the Spoils of Pandaria encounter area, western corner (Map Location)

Bucket of Grey Paint: Found in the passageway between Paragons of the Klaxxi and Garrosh Hellscream, behind some crates (Map Location)

Crafting and TamingDeactivated Grey JuggernautDeactivated Blue JuggernautDeactivated Teal JuggernautDeactivated Green JuggernautA-Me 02A-Me 02Un'Goro CraterA-Me 01A-Me 02Iron Will

Her melee attacks will kill you quickly, so use abilities such as Concussive Shot to kite her around the cave as you DPS. You must keep a constant distance.

Turn off your pet's Growl and establish threat yourself before you send your pet in to attack, or else she will kill your pet.

When her Iron Will buff disappears at 30% health, you are ready to tame. At this point you need to dismiss your existing pet, then use Aspect of the Turtle immediately before taming to survive the hits.

TektonTektonElwynn ForestFreezing TrapBinding ShotWar-Iron AxebeakWar-Iron AxebeakTanaan JungleDeranged Iron EngineerAspect of the TurtleWar-Iron AxebeakWeaponized RabbotWeaponized RabbotDun MoroghHaywire Battle ChickenHaywire Battle-ChickenLoch ModanN.U.T.Z.N.U.T.Z.Azshara

Head to the Secret Lab and make your way inside the largest building at the north end of the lab. In the back room you will find "An Intern's Journal" book on the ground. Click on it to read the book.

Head back outside and activate the following devices in this exact order (see image below for visual reference).

Click the lever labeled "Thorium Manifold."

Click the button labeled "Anti-Matter Containment."

Click the lever labeled "Flux Containment Release."

Click the console labeled "Hydro-Sync Router."

N.U.T.Z. will be summoned nearby. You will know you were successful if one of the goblins yells that NUTZ has spawned.

Use Aspect of the Turtle before you begin taming to survive the hits.

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Comments

Comment by kintotech

oh my god. Treble and Rush. Megaman References!

Comment by Serabi

A note on Friender: It's possible to get unsolvable patterns, requiring an instance reset in order to fix it.

Comment by avatar1337

All of these puzzles are so cool! The first players to discover these things must be extraordinary detectives.

Comment by Nighteye

SO excited to tame some mechanicals! That little bunny is the first one I will find!

Comment by kjn2day1

Tested: Mechanical Rocket Chicken in Goblin starter zone is not tameable.

Comment by gunsotsu

Why would you make it so goblin and gnome hunters can only take mechanical all pets just to.allow every hunter to tame mechanical pets... That is a bad move.

Comment by Rivenlea

Great guide, thank you for posting! I've already tamed the Weaponized Rabbot (I logged out last night at its spawn so I could tame it asap, got it when I logged in 10 minutes after patch went live!) and Sentient Mechanostrider thanks to you. Still looking for Optimo as he doesn't seem to be up on my realm yet.

For anyone who may be as confused as I was about the door you're meant to open with the Prismatic Punch Card for the Sentient Mechanostrider, here's a helpful video showing the whole process for getting to this mob as well as the map location for the door. I spent 20 minutes looking for the door before deciding to check YouTube, so I hope this helps!

Comment by voltrain

I did the Sentient Mechano Strider at level 30 (full heirloom gear), it really didn't damage me at all. Got the proc on the 4th or 5th auto-attack then started the tame. Very painless.

I did queue for the dungeon, so most of it was cleared out (we did all the bonus bosses), but even after that, there was stuff I needed to kill in order to hit 30, and to clear the path. Just pulling one or two at a time with my pet's taunt on, it wasn't really an issue (again, full heirloom gear).

Just follow this guide and you won't have any issues getting this pet.

Comment by voltrain

As of 7.0.3, you need to be level 100 in order for the buttons in Gnomeregan to be active in order to tame Friender.

Comment by Xzenowulf

so heres a random question... if i make a gnome hunter (or race change to a gnome hunter) and then tame a mechanical pet or two.. then race change to another race (such as human), do i still get to keep/use those mechanical pets previously tamed or will they be unusable till i get the imprint matrix?

Comment by TamiayTheGnome

After the Scorpion? Try looting more than once, Took me two times looting before the item showed up.

Comment by voltrain

If you don't want to mess with the adds near Axebeak, you can tame from on top of the boxes just to the east of where Axebeak is at. Then, dismiss the pet, feign death and you're good to go.

Comment by Kelai

mechanical pets. this is an awesome idea, like a laser on a shark......

Comment by dragonbane1976

I know for a fact the paint can be looted in LFR. I got them on 7/22/16 while soloing in LFR to get Thok.

Comment by jjanchan

What a great guide! Thanks for your attention to detail!

Comment by ashyko

The puzzle is actually solvable without random clicking. Each button/light you press effects the two on either side of it. Because of this, you have to pay attention to the ends and turn one of them on first, then skip a light and turn on the next. This will let you light them all pretty quickly.

Comment by Reinhawk

If you are interested in getting A-Me 02. If you go lone wolf or pet-less, you can weaken it to 30% at ranged without her getting up/moving, then move in afterwards to use aspect of the turtle and tame - you don't need to kite then.

Comment by ItsMyIsland

A-Me 02 is all wrong, put your pet away auto shoot or anything that does not involve a pet or aggro at a distance, he will just lie there. once the debuf drops off "Iron Will" pop turtle tame done. takes a few minutes but there is no fight at all. I'm on live doing this.

Comment by ItsMyIsland

Sentient Mechano Strider.... Horde Goblin Hunter, to get into Gnomeregan I used the Teleporter from Grom'gol base camp, I am an Engineer not sure if that makes a difference. Works with none engineer also.

Comment by Vynuenae

What do they eat for treats?

Comment by QuartrDollarKing

Am I the only one disappointed that they made a big deal of mechanical pets but they didn't give them a Family Ability?

Edit: They're getting one in Battle for Azeroth!

Comment by GravenTerenas

I have to say I'm a bit disappointed with the range of tameable mechanicals available. The new ones are quite cool, but what about the dozens of awesome mech models already in the game? Think Gnomeregan, Fizzcrank Airfield etc. Sadly, it seems they have decided that only mechs which are supposed to resemble animals can be hunter pets.

Comment by LordKrenzo

Last night while leveling my Goblin hunter "beast mastery" i was able to tame A-Me 02 without him even attacking me, just auto attack and dont use anything on him but cobra shot and concussive shot when the buff is gone tame away. not sure if this is a bug or intended but if you use dire beast or get too close he will start attacking you.

Comment by Acubens

Hi guys.

Within the first week of Legion release I was hunting for the Juggernaut.
So I went in Siege of Orgrimmar normal mode and was able to loot the Pile of Juggernaut Parts as well as Blackfuse's Power Core as discribed above.
Also the 4 buckets were spotted on the right place.

Important note:

When you want to use (right-click) the deactivated juggernaut item of your choice, you still have to be in Siege of Orgrimmar.

Good hunting!

Comment by Whoopee

just done a video on how to get the pet "Friender"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqJw_kb_mzc

Welsh Gaming

Comment by Veyska

Take this with a Highmountain-sized grain of salt until it's verified more thoroughly (more confirmations, confirmations for both Treble and Rush, and optimally confirmations from tracking them through a path end about-face), but at least on the westward-bound eastern end (so heading north-ish towards the cave north of Skyhorn) os his route the oil puddles Treble leaves behind are oriented almost like they're actual oil-filled pawprints (kinda' sorta'). So in the example oil puddle picture above Treble would be heading forward(-ish, it's not a precise orientation if it's even one at all) - there's a deeper dent in one of the two longer sides of the puddle and at least in the few I found (stupid phasing) before I tamed Treble a little while ago that seemed to be on the trailing side of the puddle (this also matches what I remember from trying to find him last night, but I was half-asleep and annoyed that someone else beat me to him so I'm not counting those memories as completely trustworthy :-P ).

TLDR - The oil puddles *SEEM* to be oriented such that the deeper dent on one of the longer sides is on the side the mechanowolf is coming *from*.

Comment by Jaalouro

this guide is awesome, thank you for sharing this with us! I only need friender left, but man bm spec with treble and rush is badass!

Comment by Acien06

Will it be possible for other races example humans to tame mechanical pets without engineering later on or is that still not confirmed ? Or, is it only engineers and gnome/goblins able to do that task ?

Comment by rvnender

So I went after the mecha gorilla thinking "well crap he's going to be easy" not expecting him to be level 110 and gold.

After 15 attempts, I finally got him.

I just gave up on using my pet and trying to dismiss him and tame the mech gorilla, I just solo-ed it as a BM. Kitted him through the entire place and then outside. Like I said it took me 15 tries but damnit I got him.

I think I shall name him "Cyber Winston".

The funny part was, there were a lot of horde players in that cave. They would jump in to help and this freaking thing was one shotting them. It was rather funny.

Comment by Bryvin

Can we change the title to "mechanical beasts and where to find them"? :p

Comment by omerc10696

Can other classes see the small oil droplets? I wanted to test if Demon Hunter's spectral sight can see through Rush and Treble's stealth.

Comment by hovardbehunt

Important: The iron juggernaut can be "assembled" anywhere, but you must be in SoO to call him for taming! Back to SoO I go now....

Comment by Tallywhacker

Thanks so much for the guide! I wanted to add some strategy for Doctor Weavil on
"Important Ability #2 - Drudge Bolt Volley"

If you can interrupt 2 casts in a row of Drudge Bolt Volley, the debuff should reset on both you and your pet. As BM hunter I was able to use Counter Shot (interrupt) on one, and Intimidation (stun) on a second one.

Comment by ruthven78

If you are a goblin or gnome and want to get the sheep or squirrel at lower level, switch to survival spec and using the freeze trap

Comment by Cthullik

As an aside: I just tamed A-Me 02 and it was very simple. I had a high level (106) Disc Priest put PW: Shield on me and keep it on then began attacking without another pet out. A-Me never got off her rock and once she was at 30% I tamed her without ever drawing aggro.

Comment by mhulslan

I love my Worgen BM hunter, and the mechanical pets are just plain cool. I hate to do it, but I have to rewrite a nursery rhyme.

Hunter Bo Peep
She found some sheep
The gnomes had mechanized them

She led them away
And bade them to play
With foes, but the damage surprised them!

Comment by MerlinsShadow

The A-Me 2 is not in the fungal rock cave no more ...... is it a timed spawn or something like a silver ?

Comment by tarax

On Friender - I went into Gnomer and only one panel had lights. Solved that one panel and Friender was on me. The other two panels the buttons were all dark. So I wasn't prepared as I thought I would have the other two sets of buttons to deal with first.. Dead in two shots. Came back and he was running around the room.

Like it said, easy tame. Just pop Aspect of the Turtle and Immediate start your tame.

Comment by SiIverwolf

So, for those doing this with a friend, we just found that one final component of taming these beauties, at least with the spiders, is that the mechanical beastie must be attacking you for you to be able to perform the tame. If it is hitting your friend, or trapped, your tame will fail repeatedly.

Whether bug or intentional, I'm uncertain.

Comment by rrrof711

FYI for taming Friender: Make sure you immediately activate tame beast after activating your aspect of the turtle or it will end before your tame is complete and you will eat it...

Comment by sterling32

I don't know if something changed in 7.2, but when trying to tame Model GU-4RD-3R Dr. Weavil and sometimes some of his workers keep join the fight. This didn't happen to me before the patch.

Comment by Egeiro

Some options for mechanical pet "food" for level 110 mechanical pets:
- High-Explosive Gunpowder (lvl 86)
- Ghost Iron Bolts (lvl 86)
- Handful of Obsidium Bolts (lvl 81)
- Electrified Ether (lvl 81)

Note: My level 110 mechanical pet will not eat Gearspring Parts, even though my tooltip (through Fizzwidget Feed-O-Matic add-on) lists it as "Mechanical Bits."

I have yet to find any cheap options for level 110 mechanical pet "food" that can be purchased directly from vendors yet. If someone finds such an item, please reply. Thank you!

Comment by Slythistle

A lot of them are in Dwarf/Gnome starter area. I guess they like the Alliance hunters better.

Comment by Macamirunni

Would like to see them add a mechanical raptor pet or mechanical bear pet, since they already had baby battle pet versions.

Comment by 1292515

This is cool! I still hope one day they will add sharks with friggin' Lazor beams for a pet as a hunter...

Comment by tenterflex

As of today (Patch 7.3, Saturday 16th September 2017) it would seem the 8 button puzzle has been removed altogether - I could only find the 6 and 7 button puzzles, and upon solving them Friender leapt to life. Popped Aspect of the Turtle, used Tame Beast, and I had a new friend :)

Comment by paulmichaelharri

The Electrocutioner Leg drop from Electrocutioner 6000 seems to be bugged. This item is needed to tame the Sentient Mechanostrider. The boss drops 3 items - Electrocutiner Leg, Electrocutioner Lagnut, and Spidertank Oilrag. Wowhead says each of those 3 items have a 29% drop rate. I just finished the 30th kill of Electrocutioner 6000 and i have received the Electrocutioner Lagnut all 30 times. I am not good enough at stats to figure out the chances of that but it has to be somewhere in the 1 in a millions range. When you look at each of these items on Wowhead it does say you must be a certain class specialization to win these items. For the Electrocutioner Leg it says you should be a melee class for the item to drop - but.... I have seen it drop for hunters though on youtube videos and this guide says it is still a 29% drop for hunters. Please give advice.

Thanks,

Comment by 1723747

I have tried my hardest to get Rush. I followed the path for 4 hours and I kept finding the puddles and following them. But after 3 or 4 I would look around and no see anymore and no more would show up and then the ones I knew about would fade away. I only found them 4 times in 4 hrs and it was the most maddening thing I've ever done in this game. They're so spaced out and hard to see (I removed ground clutter) I never once saw them appear so I didn't know where he'd be. It was so maddening, how are you suppose to actually follow that BS

Comment by Darthias

What isn't mentioned here is the invisible 1-shot mines that are dotted slightly inside the Alcaz Island entrance. You better keep flare handy...you will be using it A LOT.

Update: The mines are NOT detectable by Flare.

Comment by fruits

I just tried to tame another Juggernaut in Siege of Orgrimmar and it won't let me. It says this creature is too high level. Huh? I've tamed 2 other ones no problem. The other times I was level 110. Now I'm 113. Could that be why? Can they not be tamed past level 110?

Comment by Kurias

It’s nice that the sabertron are tameable. Now if only they would make a mechanical saber cat mount. It might also be worth mentioning in the guide that even though there are two other new mechanical creatures in the world, neither are tamable. The V-300 sentry which is a yellow or orange mechanowolf is not tamable and neither is the black rare elite mechano saber in the same area. Both mobs are in tira garde sound near the hot spring. I just went there to check and I get a message that says, "that creature is not tamable."

Comment by moofox6

Fairly difficult to tame these now @120, they simply die way to quickly with decent gear. Also, the proximity mines can be found by using Track: Mechanical.

Comment by xgru

Just rez during battle cuz the channeling doesnt get interrupted and the heal spells work fine. But feeding my pet seems useless now I don't have to keep it happy with food in order to keep it as my pet and not attack me like it use to do.

Comment by Adflicto

Freeze Trap>Tame>1up

Comment by fruits

The V-300 SENTRY mechanowolves wandering the area around P4-N73R4 are now tameable as well.

Comment by Plufproop

What a splendid guide! Thanks very much! Have a couple from Loch Modan now thanks to this guide. My daughter and I will be using this to farm more mechanical pets. :)

Comment by BareGrylls

TRreble is 100% level 40 and you must be that high to tame him. He is not scaling. I am timewalking and just tried at level 35. You must be level 40 or higher.

Comment by shanekuchler

this is not how you get N.U.T.Z. I did exactly this, even watched a YouTube video did everything exactly, he never spawned and you can not try again at all

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