How do I start with pet battles?

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Audrey only sells you one pet - your race’s pet. For Night Elves, that is the Horned Owl.

This video from Hazelnutty is very approachable, but has the approximate density of osmium. There is a LOT in it. Definitely a good start.

How to Get Started with Pet Battles From Scratch

You will want at least three addons to start:

• Rematch
• Pet Tracker
• BattlePet Breed ID

You may choose others later, but you won’t regret getting used to these.

You can optionally buy pets at the Auction House, or start farming them. You can also capture pets in the wild.

Here is a list of the most used pets (at level 25, which you ain’t at yet, obviously).

Most Used Pets

I also have a big post here

Guide: How to get your first pet to 25

This is the first of a four-part guide to get into pet battling. The other three parts are: Part 2: Guide: After your first Level 25 Part 3: Guide: Your early pet roster Part 4: Guide: Your First Safaris When pet battlers talk about pets and strategies, we always assume we mean pets that are at Level 25, and Blue (Rare) quality. Getting at least one pet to Level 25 is a Big Deal at the start of pet battling. It means you can use that Level 25 to demolish lower level battles, and help capt…

about how to get your first pet to 25. That is significant because you can only uncage and learn tradable pets up to the highet level you have, so until you have at least one pet at 25, you can’t usefully buy level 25 pets.

For high-level players, doing the Dragonflight Lubbins questline is definitely a fast way to get a pet to 25. That is explained in the post, as Approach 5.

Once you have a pet at 25, I have a further post explaining the things you might choose to do next, here:

Guide: After your first Level 25

This is a follow-on from my guide How to get your first pet to 25 Last revised May 2021, patch 9.0.5. It assumes that you have got your first pet or two to 25, and are now looking around for what to do next. There are several directions you can go. You can follow one closely, or make progress on them all at the same time. Much depends on what you want to achieve with pets. For some people, the Collecting aspect is most important; for others, it’s the challenges and Achievements in battling.…

There are two really helpful sites devoted to pet battles

Xu-Fu’s: https://www.wow-petguide.com/
Warcraft Pets: https://www.warcraftpets.com/

Do bookmark them both. They are probably too advanced for you right now, but you will find them useful.

Each also has a Discord associated. Very friendly Discords.

PLEASE ask anything else you might want to know!

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Edit: Sorry, I omitted the link to my first guide. It’s added now.