I did pet battle content religiously throughout MoP and WoD. Had pretty much all of the ‘staple’ pets at max level and cleared everything I could at least once. I didn’t play much at all during Legion/BFA though, so I’ve not really done anything relating to those expansions (at least pet battle-wise).
Since I’ve been playing Shadowlands a tonne I wanted to get back into it, but I’m super overwhelmed by the content I’ve missed - as well as all the new pets (some of which pop up constantly in strategy recommendations etc). I could basically just use a sense of direction.
Advice on recommended pets from Legion/BFA to go grab, content to clear asap etc would be much appreciated. Also feel free to link any up to date guides/resources! A lot of what I could find online seems pretty outdated unfortunately.
See also my comment below that about which breeds to get.
How to level
Here are your best levelling methods - basically, wait for Legion tamers or Squirt:
Strategies
Here is your compendium of all battle strategies
Agenda:
Currency
Get yourself set up with doing all the Shadowlands pet world quests, so that you can farm Polished Pet Charms with them. BfA World quests also give Polished Pet Charms, so you will do those too to get currency.
With your Polished Pet Charms, you can buy Yellow Levelling Stones, Blue Raring Stones, even Purple Level 25 Boosting Stones. You can also buy Bandages and Treats if you need to. When you are stocked with these, you can use your Charms to buy pets.
Raiding with Leashes
You should probably do the Raiding with Leashes achievements, running through old raids solo, to fill in some pet drops:
Pet Dungeons
Go to the Pet Shop in Legion Dalaran, and pick up the quest
This leads you to a pet version of Wailing Caverns. After that, there are Deadmines, Gnomeregan, Stratholme and Blackrock Depths. In each pet dungeon, there are ways to earn pets - from the quests, from drops, from the currency and vendor each has.
The Celestial Tournament is a lot easier now than it used to be, with the power creep in pets. You might consider going nack there to earn the rest of the pets from it.
Shadowlands Pets
Expanding your roster
With all the new pets, you may get up close to the 1000 pets limit.
Do the Battle on the Broken Isles achievement (30 different Legion tamers) to get your roster expanded to 1500.
You can then buy a Pet Portal to expand it further to 2000 in BfA, with 1000 Polished Pet Charms.
I think that covers pretty much everything, thanks so much for taking the time!
Also good to see you’re still around and doing well! I remember seeing you post here a lot back when I first picked up pet battles yeaaars ago. Thanks again!