5.1 PTR: Battle Pet Additions and Improvements

Live Posted 2012/11/24 at 11:40 AM by perculia

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Several new wild pets have been added, mostly to fill out pet families that were scarce on capturable pets, like Mechanicals and Dragonkin. Click here for a full list of all the new wild pets, their locations, screenshots, and abilities.

To get players revisiting some well-loved dungeons, Blizzard added 12 BoE pets that drop from select bosses in Blackwing Lair, Temple of Ahn'Qiraj, Molten Core, and Naxxramas. Check out the full list here! Collecting them all rewards players with Raiding with Leashes and Mr. Bigglesworth.

Darkmoon Isle has four new pets from tokens, pet battles, and rewards. Click here to read more.

Defeating the new Pandaria tamers awards you one of the following: Pandaren Air Spirit, Pandaren Earth Spirit, Pandaren Fire Spirit, Pandaren Water Spirit.

Pet Battle Improvements

There are several Pet Battle UI improvements, including improved sort features, wild pet levels indicated on zone maps, several tooltip improvements, and wild pet quality displayed in the UI. Check out our screenshots and preview of all the changes.

Players can upgrade the quality of their pets with Battle-Stones.
Flawless Battle-Stones upgrade pets to rare quality. There is a general-purpose stone (Flawless Battle-Stone) as well as stones that are family-specific.

Flawless Battle-Stone is BoE and can be sold on the AH, but family-specific stones are BoP. These are acquired by battling pets of the same family, or from Pet Tamer daily quests.

When using a stone on a pet, their levels decrease in a similar manner to capturing a wild battle pet: no levels lost from 1-15, one level lost from 16-20, two levels lost from 21-25.

Polished Battle-Stone upgrades pets to uncommon-quality and is available for 0 Justice Points.

Pet Tamers

Defeating the Grand Master tamer rewards you with I Choose You and a sack of in the mail!

A Darkmoon Faire pet tamer has been added, Jeremy Feasel. Defeating him rewards Darkmoon Pet Supplies, which has a small chance for Darkmoon Eye to be inside.

New Pet Tamers have been added for Pandaren Spirit Tamer, which turns into four daily quests. Defeating these trainers rewards you with a choice between these four pets: Pandaren Air Spirit, Pandaren Earth Spirit, Pandaren Fire Spirit, Pandaren Water Spirit. If you want to collect all four, there's a chance to get them in Pandaren Spirit Pet Supplies, plus they're BoE. To learn more about these pets, check out our preview of the Pandaren Spirit Tamer.

Comment by sltrhouseExcited for a reason to do old content other than transmog!Comment by 627828This post was from a user who has deleted their account.Comment by PurpleDruidGirlStill no Mechanical or Humanoid pets for Pandaria..

Also the type specific battle stones, are they going to be able to upgrade that type to epic so we can fight Grandmasters on an equal level?Comment by 509157This post was from a user who has deleted their account.Comment by InterestI swear I'm having deja vu.

Well until I saw the new pets, that is.Comment by regmaAh. So Mr. Bigglesworth will be a reward and not a drop.Comment by LinensI can't wait to have Mr. Bigglesworth :DComment by lokuvWill we get the 'I Choose You' achv (along with the 3k) if we've already defeated her pre-patch?Comment by InterestWill we get the 'I Choose You' achv (along with the 3k) if we've already defeated her pre-patch?Comment by 1003879This post was from a user who has deleted their account.Comment by zomg5Aw man no pets from tbc and wotlk raids :(
Would be nice to have a mini gruul as a petComment by baldie80Still no Mechanical or Humanoid pets for Pandaria..