Pet charming guide

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This guide lists charm locations for every pet in the game. If you find a charm location that's easier to reach, feel free to add it in place of the existing one. The purpose of this guide is to assist in filling your Zaishen Menagerie, but it can easily serve as a quick reference if you just want a specific pet.

Some pets may have additional charm locations that are dependent on having a specific quest in your quest log.

All mentions of running are assuming you're a primary Ranger. If you can set up your chosen non-Ranger primary to run, it does make things easier. See the Running guide for more information on running.

Pet	Guild Wars chapter	Explorable	Nearest Town/Outpost	Notes
Albino Rat	Eye of the North	Vloxen Excavations	Umbral Grotto	The three directly in front of the zone portal will be engaged and killed by enemies, so turn right to find two of them available to charm.
Black Bear	Prophecies	Spearhead Peak	Copperhammer Mines	You'll have to fight past some Ice Imps and Siege Ice Golems to reach one. Also charmable in Pre-Searing through a trick.
Black Moa	Factions	Ferndale	Aspenwood Gate (Kurzick)	Only spawns during or after The Beak of Darkness. You can party with someone who already completed the quest without having to do the tedious quest-line yourself, and the Black Moa will appear.
Black Widow	Core	The Underworld	Temple of the Ages, Zin Ku Corridor, or Chantry of Secrets	You need a character who is Ascended, Weh no Su, or that has completed Hunted! to gain access to The Underworld. Once in the Underworld, you and your party will need to complete one quest from any Reaper other than the Reaper of the Labyrinth. Once the reward is accepted, a level 20 Black Widow of random evolution will spawn.
Black Wolf	Eye of the North	Drakkar Lake	Sifhalla	Short run to the Shrine of the Wolf Spirit. There are one or two Jotun on the way, they can be run past easily. It's either going to be a White Wolf or a Black Wolf, just rezone until it's the one you want.
Crane	Factions	Minister Cho's Estate	Ran Musu Gardens	You may have to kill a few sickened animals to secure a charm location. Luckily they don't deal any damage that max armor and some health regen can't overpower.
Crocodile	Nightfall	Lahtenda Bog	Blacktide Den	May be difficult to charm due to enemy patrols and pop-ups.
Dune Lizard	Prophecies	Prophet's Path	Heroes' Audience	Occasionally there will be enemies between you and the Dune Lizard, either bring a monk hero set to Avoid Combat or rezone for a better spawn.
Flamingo	Nightfall	Churrhir Fields	Kamadan, Jewel of Istan	Since this area is the Nightfall campaign tutorial zone, reaching one and charming it are trivial.
Hyena	Nightfall	Poisoned Outcrops	Lair of the Forgotten	Just outside the town.
Iguana	Eye of the North	Riven Earth	Rata Sum	Run all the way past them to Shaan [Collector] and then turn around and charm one. This way you avoid having to charm while under fire from Venomweavers.
Jahai Rat	Nightfall	The Mirror of Lyss	Honur Hill	Just outside the town.
Jingle Bear	Eye of the North	Ice Cliff Chasms	Eye of the North	Only available after completing all of the Wintersday quests in the outpost. Shows up with the NPC lime color instead of the normal charmable green color. If you have not completed the quests during Wintersday, you can party with someone who did, and the Jingle Bear will still appear.
Lion	Nightfall	Vehjin Mines	Basalt Grotto	They can spawn near enemies, you may have to clear a group to secure a charm location, or you can rezone and hope for one to spawn closer.
Lioness	Nightfall	Vehjin Mines	Basalt Grotto	They can spawn near enemies, you may have to clear a group to secure a charm location, or you can rezone and hope for one to spawn closer.
Lurker	Factions	Pongmei Valley	Maatu Keep	You will need to fight or run past some Jade Brotherhood, but it shouldn't be difficult. Shows up as a Reef Lurker, but only the red ones show up in this zone. In the Menagerie it's just Lurker.
Lynx	Prophecies	North Kryta Province	Lion's Arch	Just have to hit the Tengu patrols correctly, or eliminate them.
Melandru's Stalker	Prophecies	Old Ascalon	Sardelac Sanitarium	Depending on the spawn, you may have to kill a few things to securely charm it. Or just equip max armor and you'll charm it before taking much damage. Also charmable in Pre-Searing.
Moa Bird	Prophecies	Pockmark Flats	Fort Ranik	Fight or run South through Regent Valley towards the Moa Nests to find numerous Moa Birds. Same as the Strider from Pre-Searing.
Moss Spider	Core	Special	Special	One of two ways: Get a Moss Spider Egg from a Gift of the Traveler or purchase it from other players and turn it in to Emryd. Unlock it from Helena for 100 and 5 or for 50,000 Balthazar Faction.
Mountain Eagle	Eye of the North	Ice Cliff Chasms	Eye of the North	There's one near the portal to Battledepths, can be charmed without interference from Mandragor.
Phoenix	Factions	Divine Path	Imperial Sanctum	Must do the Imperial Sanctum mission to gain access to Divine Path. If you can't get a party and can't hero/hench it, buy a run.
Polar Bear	Eye of the North	Ice Cliff Chasms	Boreal Station	Easy enough charm just before the Snow Wurms.
Rainbow Phoenix	Eye of the North	Hall of Monuments	Eye of the North	Read the notes section of its article for information on how to make it appear.
Raven	Eye of the North	Sacnoth Valley	Doomlore Shrine	Fight or run through Dalada Uplands. If running, you should be wary of the Mantids that have Crippling Anguish, and Molotov Rocktail. Once in Sacnoth Valley, zoom in to first person view. Follow the path until you have a mountain on your left, then look up. Flag any heroes or henchmen safely out of range. Select the Raven and run into one of the alcoves in the rock, repeatedly hit Charm Animal and eventually it'll get close enough to charm.
Reef Lurker	Factions	Archipelagos	Cavalon	If you don't immediately see one, rezone.
Tiger	Factions	Sunqua Vale	Tsumei Village	In an area with non-aggressive enemies.
Warthog	Prophecies	Sage Lands	The Wilds	Just outside the mission town. Also charmable in Pre-Searing.
White Crab	Eye of the North	Arbor Bay	Vlox's Falls	Its spawn location can be tricky, either pull it to a safe spot or time the patrols right and make a hasty exit by resigning. You can resign very quickly if you pre-load your text entry box with /resign and then just hit Enter twice when you want to leave.
White Moa	Eye of the North	Drakkar Lake	Sifhalla	Usually doesn't spawn, keep rezoning until you see the flock just outside of the portal. Shows up as the NPC lime color instead of the normal charmable green color.
White Tiger	Factions	Ferndale	Aspenwood Gate (Kurzick)	In the same general area as the Black Moa. Wait for the first group of Dredge to engage the Kurzick Guard and run by, then play musical chairs with the patrols and this one's yours. You could also fight your way to it.
White Wolf	Eye of the North	Drakkar Lake	Sifhalla	Short run to the Shrine of the Wolf Spirit. There are one or two Jotun on the way, they can be run past easily. It's either going to be a Black Wolf or a White Wolf, just rezone until it's the one you want.
Wolf	Prophecies	Traveler's Vale	Yak's Bend	The Snow Wolf and the level 15 Elder Wolves in the Southern Shiverpeaks are the same pet. Also charmable in Pre-Searing and is the default pet for PvP characters.