Because I don’t understand why people who do pet battles already have the flying mount meanwhile people who farm every rare and WQ are still behind and stuck around 9-10k rep in Nazjatar.
Pet battles are not supposed to be a core game mechanic
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I have had to advise much of my guild and friends through pet battles because the rep is too good to miss.
I want to play pvp for rep. Why do I need to do quests ?
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Thankfully, they aren’t a “core game mechanic”. But yes, if you do refuse to do Pet Battles, then you might miss out on something.
I hardly have any Pets fit for a Pet Battle either, which is a shame, but I’ll live with the consequences.
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Having to do optional content for a huge start in getting rep sorted is donkey bollocks, i was a reset ahead of most people and the battle pet kiddies literally flew through the rep cause “LOL 250 rep a daily” and then 250 more rep for beating each legendary once. Sod off blizz.
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I was gobsmacked to win a pet battle in Naz for the first time and didn’t think much of the rep it gave. Then I handed in the item it awards. Now that’s a lot of rep! It does seem rather generous for such a niche part of the overall game.
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I didn’t win a single pet battle and I’m flying already.
Here’s a couple tips. Hunt down the coral ancients and hope for the rep drop.
Buy a contract and zerg old zone WQs, you’ll get roughly 200/300 rep for clearing all 6 zones.
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Lol this QQ. You people really can’t bare when you can’t have it all right away?
Let me tell you a secret. I have been playing this game for 14 years now and until 1 month ago the only content I’ve never done was Pet Battles. I then decided one afternoon I want to get the hang of it to use it to my advantage and eventually it took me few days to get into it.
Now I was able to use it to my advantage and get more rep in Naz and Mec.
If I was able to do so, you can as well. But for the love fo god, don’t QQ if you don’t want to spend time on it.
I don’t PVP so I am missing PVP related quests in Naz and Mec. Am I to QQ here why there is completelly optional content I choose to skip?
Regards,
Imm
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You’re not stuck at certain reputation. Next day there will be new dailies nad WQ and you get higher rep.
People that do everything just get more rewards. It’s quite normal. If you do more activities in the game you get more stuff. Getting flying is not a race, just do it at your own pace.
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Yesterday I missed 124 rep points to get revered with waveblades. The only thing left was the pet battle. Armed with stubbornness and the wrong pets I tried, and retried and again, at least 13 times before the boss granted me victory by boredom.
I will not do them again, ever.
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This is what I hate about WoW’s Pet Battles (and what makes me appreciate the Pokemon games so much more).
Today it was the critter snail quest. Okay, so I pick 3 Beast-type pets and kill it no problem, right? Nope! It just wipes the floor with me, barely losing 50% of its health.
Okay…I pick some of my other Beast-type pets and try again. No luck. Another team…no luck. And again. And again. And again.
And as is always the outcome with these Pet Battles, I end up going to Wowhead to read some 100%-guranteed-win-strategy that a random dude has posted.
Then I pick those 3 pets and use the abilities as the guide tells me to, and then I win.
It’s so stupid.
Where’s the logic?!
There’s no way to decipher which kind of pets or which kind of abilities to use.
It’s not like Pokemon. If you’re up against a Fire-type Pokemon and you use a Water-type, then you know you’ve got what you need if your level is also comparable.
But in WoW’s Pet Battles, it matters not. It’s a Critter-type pet? Pick Beast-type and think you win? Nope, you still lose! Because what really wins in WoW’s Pet Battles is a combo of very specific abilities that has nothing to do with the pet family or anything. It’s usually just some broken overpowered crap that only comes from a few specific pets, and if you don’t have them, then it sucks to be you.
I mean, it’s not even hard. It’s just obnoxious. The “difficulty” is made so that there’s a handful specific pets and abilities that work amongst the 800+ pets and 2500+ abilities that exist.
It suuuuuuuuuuucks! 
If that rumoured-to-be-true WoW Mobile Pet Battle game is anything remotely similar to WoW’s Pet Battles in terms of its combat design, then it will be the crappiest game made since Superman 64! 
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Erm, you’re clearly NOT doing everything. Pet battles are worth a total of 3k rep, and I’m 6k towards exalted. You should be revered by now if you’re doing everything, regardless of whether you’ve touched pet battles or not.
Also, they’re not a ‘core game mechanic’, they’re just one thing that awards rep. You could easily as argue ‘why do I have to do puzzles for rep when I prefer pet battles’. Nobody is forcing you to do anything, but of course the people who do everything are going to be slightly ahead.
Still though, pet battles aside, there’s absolutely no reason why you shouldn’t be revered by now if you’re legitimately doing everything.
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There’s not, it’s just that the pets you generally see suggested typically only have 1 breed type which makes them a lot more targetable. To take the iron starlette, it’s one of the best pets against beasts, but it has 5 different breeds and the one that’s actually good is the P/P version so if you just use random pets there’s a good chance you won’t have the best breed type.
People who partake in all the content, get the most rep.
Seems fair to me.
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I’ve heard about breed types before. But it’s not shown or communicated in the game at all, so why it even exists is beyond me. Again, crap game design. Why make something an imperative part of the quality of a pet and then not visualize it at all in the game?!
Retarded game designers. 
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There’s not only a handful - just have a look on Wowhead for strats. I myself found a way to beat one of the Mechagon fights using just pets capturable on the island. Just because there are recognised strategies and so it might seem like you need a specific 3 pets to do the fights, doesn’t make it so.
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That I can agree with, you basically need to have an addon like rematch unless you wanna manually look at every pet so it is a terrible system.
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But would you not agree that the difficulty is absurd?
I mean, the pet battle world quests are not meant to be anymore time-consuming or difficult than any other world quests. They’re not rare or epic quests and they’re not group or weekly content.
So if I have 3 Beast-type pets that are epic quality and level 25, then that should be more than plenty to defeat a critter-type snail.
I mean, I can understand if Blizzard makes the Pet Dungeons hard. And the Celestial Tournament. And if you do Pet Battle PvP I can totally get that other players know how to use clever strategies.
But it’s absurd that these normal World Quests Pet Battles are so difficult that you can’t just pick a decent line-up of your favorite pets and have a fair chance. You get completely rofl-stomped if you don’t have some insane ability combo up your sleeve (which usually involves starlette, val’kyr, chrominus, and so on).
It’s so bad.
Which is why wow pet battles are honestly far, FAR better than the pokemon system. With pve content which doesn’t consist of pick the type advantage or overlevel, then spam one button until you killed every enemy pokemon. I am a pokemon fan and honestly its pve content is miles below that of wow.
I completely disagree.
In Pokemon there’s a logical way to form a winning strategy.
You see what type of Pokemon the oppoent has.
Then you make your own team consisting of the strong Pokemon type, or Pokemon of a higher level, or both.
And then you win.
And if you struggle to win, then you can use various items like potions and such, to give you that little extra you need to win.
In WoW there’s no way to form any winning strategy on your own.
Like I said, today was the critter snail.
What’s the strategy?
Pick 3 Beast-type Pets? Nope, that loses.
Pick higher level pets? Impossible, because all pet battles in WoW are with level 25 pets. Your pets are basically useless if they’re not level 25.
Use items to help you in the fight itself? There are no items, no nope, not possible!
So what’s the way to win in WoW? What’s the way to figure out which pets to use at all?
Wowhead! Addons!
How’s that in any way, shape or form, good game design? Where’s the enjoyment of just copy/pasting some strategy that a dude has posted on Wowhead and clicking the abilities in the order he has written?! How’s that at all satisfying?!
How’s it good game design to make the pet battles so difficult that you can only use a small selection of all the hundreds of pets you own, because the battles are tuned around the existence of a few, very strong ability combos.
It’s utter crap game design.
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