Charmable animal

Charmable animals are a type of creature that can become an animal companion by targeting them with Charm Animal. Nearly all charmable animals are hostile, but remain passive until attacked or you attempt to charm them. In contrast, beasts are animal-like creatures that cannot be charmed.

By campaign and region

Campaign	Region	Name	Notes
Core	The Battle Isles	Hound of Balthazar Wolf	Talk to Ceira, Sworn to Fire during the Seventh Year Anniversary Celebration. Default for PvP characters.
	The Mists	Black Widow
	Varies	Moss Spider Panda	Requires Moss Spider Egg (from a Gift of the Traveler). Requires Imperial Panda License (from an Imperial Guard Lockbox).
Prophecies	Ascalon (pre-Searing)	Black Bear Melandru's Stalker Strider Warthog Wolf	Same model as Moa Bird. Same as in Nightfall. Same model as Snow Wolf.
	Ascalon	Moa Bird Melandru's Stalker	Same model as Strider.
	Shiverpeak Mountains	Black Bear Snow Wolf	Same model as Wolf.
	Kryta	Lynx
	Maguuma Jungle	Warthog	Same as in Nightfall.
	Crystal Desert	Dune Lizard
Factions	Shing Jea Island	Crane Tiger
	Kaineng City	Phoenix Reef Lurker (red)
	The Jade Sea	Reef Lurker (blue)
	Echovald Forest	Black Moa White Tiger
Nightfall	Istan	Crocodile Flamingo Warthog	Same as in Prophecies.
	Kourna and Vabbi	Jahai Rat Lion Lioness
	The Desolation	Hyena
Eye of the North	Far Shiverpeaks	Jingle Bear Mountain Eagle Polar Bear Rainbow Phoenix White Jingle Moa White Moa White Wolf	Wintersday related.       Wintersday related.
	Tarnished Coast	Iguana White Crab
	Charr Homelands	Black Wolf Raven
	Depths of Tyria	Albino Rat White Crab

By Zaishen Menagerie location

Locations of all the animals in the Menagerie.

By damage type

Slashing	Piercing	Fire	Notes
Albino Rat1 Black Bear Black Moa Black Wolf Crocodile1 Hyena Iguana1 Jahai Rat Jingle Bear Lion Lioness Lurker Lynx Melandru's Stalker Moss Spider Panda Polar Bear Racing Beetle Reef Lurker Tiger Warthog2 White Tiger White Wolf Wolf	Black Widow Crane3 Dune Lizard Flamingo3 Moa Bird3 Mountain Eagle3, 4 Phoenix3 Rainbow Phoenix3, 4 Raven4 White Crab4 White Moa4 White Jingle Moa4	Hound of Balthazar	These pets deal piercing damage when unevolved. The warthog deals blunt damage when unevolved. These pets deal slashing damage when unevolved. These pets deal slashing damage when evolved to Dire.

Notes

• Pets can be unlocked through the Zaishen Menagerie.
• Non-prestige pets can be unlocked through the Pet Unlock Pack.
• When killed, charmable animals do not drop any items, with these exceptions:
  • During special events, they will drop seasonal items (with the same frequency that foes do).
  • In Eye of the North, they drop map pieces.
• Some NPCs may have the tamed pets or have the animal allies which look like pets; they cannot be tamed by players or heroes:
  • Carlotta is the spider companion of Shadow;
  • Devourers accompany Charr during The Rise of the White Mantle and Charr-broiled Plans;
  • Old Mac and his devourer ally Joe appear in a couple of Prophecies quests and in the Norn Fighting Tournament.
  • Drake Toma is a beast tamed by the people of Ronjok;
  • Charmable Drakes are the only pets that appear with Peacekeepers;
  • Impressive Warthog is an ally tamed by Nehdukah in Plains of Jarin;
  • White wolf Snow is an ally of Master Seeker Nathaniel in Griffon's Mouth.
• Charmable animals killed count towards rewards for Vanquishing, but do not count towards accumulating points through bounties or bounty-like blessings.
• Charmable animals do not appear on the compass unless they become hostile.

Bug.On rare occasions, a charmable animal displays the name of a foe within the same zone or a foe might show the pet's name and level. This does not affect gameplay.

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Charmable animals (gallery)
Core	Black Widow Hound of Balthazar Moss Spider Panda Racing Beetle Wolf
Prophecies	Black Bear Dune Lizard Lynx Melandru's Stalker Moa Bird Warthog Wolf
Factions	Black Moa Crane Phoenix Reef Lurker (blue) Reef Lurker (red) Tiger White Tiger
Nightfall	Crocodile Flamingo Hyena Jahai Rat Lion Lioness Warthog
Eye of the North	Albino Rat Black Wolf Iguana Jingle Bear Mountain Eagle Polar Bear Rainbow Phoenix Raven White Crab White Jingle Moa White Moa White Wolf