Forums survey on pet battling

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Hi I know the forums are a small part of the community. But I’m interested in players thoughts on pet battling.

Do you pet battle regularly ?

Have you tried pet battling in the past , found it wasn’t for you?

Do you like to just collect the pets? Do you lvl them up at all or happy to have them at lvl 1 ?

I’ve asked friends and guildies and none of them pet battle at all , never done the dungeons etc. Last time they did any form pet battling was in the garrison all the way back in WoD.

Pets sell all the time on the auction house so maybe myself and guildies are just a minority. Like to hear your thoughts and experience with the system implemented since MoP.
For those who don’t do it , are you ever going to give a try further down the line.

Thanks.

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Nope.

Tried it, it’s okay, but it has nothing to do with my favourite type of content (m+), so I don’t waste time on it. Takes too much time to level pets and stuff.

I just collect them. Once in a while (1-2 times a year) I do a pet battle to complete a calling, and that’s about it. Other than that, I collect pets, but don’t make them battle.

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No

yes this

I don’t collect them, if I loot a pet I usually link it to my wife and ask if she wants to have it - she likes to collect them while I don’t care at all

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I used to but not anymore

It was fun for me when it first came out, but then each expansion added ridiculously OP elite pets and things have become too serious

I used to level them up but over the years I would just collect all of them

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I do the tamers fights in Shadowlands that give Polished Pet Charms, because I still need them for the 10k pet. But I don’t do them in the BfA regions.

For me, pet battles are the best “side content” and I love it since MoP. But I intentionally treat it as a side thing to do. The most pet battles I did back in MoP at the end of the expansion when there was nothing else to do (at least for me).

So at the moment I don’t level them up, I’m just collecting them. Maybe one day there will be nothing else to do again and I’ll start levelling them again.

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If I was going to try it again , I really want those 4 celestial pets from the timless isle. They look so good honestly.

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i do it regularly for the BFA World Quests :smiley:

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Stats, based on Wowhead numbers, which are off in one way, and off in the opposite direction another way, so add error bars to taste:

About 8% of the overall playerbase are “caught up with the content” in PVE pets (10% BRD, 9% Abhorrent Adversaries, 8% Family Exorcist)

About 20-30%of the overall playerbase significant progress (34% Safari Hat, 22% Battle on the Broken Isles, 20% Battle in the Shadowlands, 37% 1000+ battles)

About a sixth have significant sized collections (17% 1000 pets)

PvP has always had a very niche following, and the devs have said they don’t really want to follow that up and make it a competitive thing, so 3% Family Brawler, 1% Deadly Pet Brawler, and some fraction of a percent for 5000 PvP wins. That deserves several threads on its own just to explain why the difference from PvE.

I myself find it very handy for easy WQs. Considering the quality of Shadowlands world quests, my alts are all thankful for them.

I tried it in the long, long 5.3, and really liked having a reason to revisit the old zones. I have “completed the content” long ago (apart from 5K PvP wins, because life’s too short)

I level everything, and make sure to choose my breeds carefully.

I used to make a side-hustle on pets on the AH, but just don’t bother any more. It is still viable, if you make alts on different realms and flip between; not so easy on a single server.

If you want to know more, or get involved, you really want to join the Discord. It’s the friendliest gang in WoW! https://discord.gg/967Vu7G

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Never played a single battle, not even the intro/training.

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im a collector and a tamer but now im battling just for wq.

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Good achievement to earn. Getting it will build your roster quite well.

I only started Pet Battle during BFA (quite late in the expac).
I enjoy the Achievements, and trying to do those you find out about good pet to go an acquire.
I do some WoD pet battles on alts, they earn shiny charms, level other pets and earn xp (about a level every 10 days).

The dungeons are a bit trick (not as hard as the Elek Plushie one) but give teleports around the world. Going straight to Stratholme is hand to get north of Eastern Kingdoms.

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If it’s any inspiration, here’s a thread from someone who wanted the Crazy for Cats title, and got Xu-Fu from a standing start

“I think it was about a month or less from me knowing absolutely nothing about pets and having had this Crazy for Cats achievement pinned for forever, thinking I was never gonna get it, to actually getting it!!!”

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I do like pet battles, there is only a huge problem, that there is a severe lack of content.

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Not as much as I’d like since I used to be addicted to it.

I have over 100 lvl 25 pets which used to be a lot, and probably now is just okay.
In MoP I did this a lot, especially with the release of the Celestial Tournament.
It’s weird that my interest has waned since Pet Battle Dungeons sound like an absolute blast, but I only did the Deadmines one.

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Nope

Yes. Or well, i can enjoy doing some pet battles while leveling.

I dont really collect pets, i just get them randomly from content i do. I think i have like 3-4 at max level :sweat_smile:

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I enjoy battle pets in general, especially collecting them. I never skip a Super Squirt day for mass-leveling and while I generally enjoy pet dungeons, I have precious little time for WoW these days so they are sort of on the back burner. Achievements-wise I’m sitting on 103/186 right now.

The one thing I have absolutely zero interest in is PvP pet battling. Never cared for it, never will.

The “Family Familiar” style achievements are obnoxiously long and absolutely awful and I don’t bother with them. I’ll take the missing points over that nonsense.

So yeah, I do pet battling and I enjoy some of its aspects, albeit not all. I sort of wish there was some PvE system/minigame in place which matches you against randomized AI teams.

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Do you pet battle regularly ?
No

Have you tried pet battling in the past , found it wasn’t for you?
I did it for some mount related achievements etc, but it never really appealed to me in any meaningful way. I guess playing Pokemon and having a tamongochi as a kid burnt me out on pet catching games?

Do you like to just collect the pets?
I don’t collect pets - I only take what NPCs throw at me from quests rewards etc.

Do you lvl them up at all or happy to have them at lvl 1?
I’ve only been lvling extra ones I have up because the mission table gives lots of free pet tokens. There lvl doesn’t matter to me personally as I don’t pet battle now outside of the two NPCs in darkmoon faire.

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Not really.

I have done it. I did it fairly extensively when I wanted to earn the Safari Hat.

I didn’t enjoy it. Whenever a new expansion is released and there is some reason to do pet battles again (because they reward something I want), I just look up tactics on Wowhead and try that. I’m not interested in it other than the reward.

I don’t collect ‘all of them’. I just want the ones I like and will use (not for battles, but for having around).

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Do you pet battle regularly ?

Nope.

Have you tried pet battling in the past , found it wasn’t for you?

The only time I did it was for the Uldum mount in BFA.

Do you like to just collect the pets? Do you lvl them up at all or happy to have them at lvl 1 ?

I’ve only levelled up the couple required to complete the mount quest line, the rest are level 1 (apart from one for which I got a bonus xp reward and used it to get rid of it).

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No, I hate it.