New to pet battles need some advice!

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Wow! impressive progress!

I envy you being able to do it all for the first time.

OMG you captured a P/P Nexus Whelpling already?? Wow.

To your questions specifically:

An exact statement is that to qualify for XP, a pet must be in at the end of at least one round. There are three ways you make your level pet eligible for XP:

i). start the bettle with it, and make it use at least one ability.
ii). bring it in second, when your first pet dies, and instantly swap it out again
iii). have it brought in third. automatically, when your second pet has just suicided with Explode or similar, and all opposing pets are dead.

Your current problem is that you are whipping it out before the end of the round. Make it use an ability, then swap it out. Yes, this is dangerous for a level 1, but it’s a risk you have to take. Once it gets above level 1, it can take a hit and you can keep grinding. In Valley, a lot of the Critters start with a heal, which is nice.

Yes, every alt can do the WQ. People with 10 alts can gather Charms very quickly by doing the quests multiple times.

Advice is easy, but there are several different directions you can work on, so you can choose which aspect to work on.

Right now, you are in a very … temporary … place. You have just one (very good!) level 25. Soon you will have half-a-dozen 25s, and your priorities will change.

I might summarise your current priorities as:

• Increase the effectiveness of your roster. You need moar good all-rounder Blue 25s to help with capturing and wild levelling.

I have to smile at you talking about buying. Like the city kid who is asked “Where does milk come from?” and says “The shop”. You should establish some pet-farming habits. Like:

Teroclaw Hatchling. This is a guaranteed easy and quick reward from doing a few quests in Talador. GREAT farmer of critters and Aquatics!
Anubisath Idol: 10% drop from AQ40 (Your Void-Scarred Anub may substitute for it sometimes)
Chrominius: 25% drop from Blackwing Lair

This is the last day of the week before reset, so a good evening for running old raids towards getting some drops, and working towards your Raiding with Leashes achievements.

raiding with leashes - Wowhead Search

would be a good thing to do tonight. You might get lucky!

• When you have half a dozen to a dozen good 25s, you need to establish routines you can do to level pets and earn Charms. While you can complete BfA WQ with Level 1s now, those Level 1s will get XP to become level 2 and 3, and then it won’t work as easily.

• You should open Dailies in all the continents up to Pandaria. Your Emperor Crab will easily defeat all of the Kalimdor tamers on its own. When you have done that, each will allow you to do a daily challenge battle that will give good XP to your lower level pets to get them started. When you open Pandaria, you get very good dailies for high leveling XP, and open more. Start here: https://www.wowhead.com/achievement=6602/taming-kalimdor#comments

• Keep farming the BfA WQ for Charms, on all your alts. I have a post here about how to do almost all of them with just three Level 25s

New pet battler here

Farming PPC without “gear”. As Exris said, while there is RNG variiation, on average there are usually 20-40 PPC per day available from World Quests. Most of the WQ are unreasonably easy. Here is a post I made about how to farm them all with just three pets. and here’s another: https://eu.battle.net/forums/en/wow/topic/17623172161 Ikky: Black Claw → Flock (-> Savage Talon if the first opponent pet is still alive). If the first opponent pet dies during Flock, you have a choice of appl…

• You can expand your information sources. Most of the information for battling is focused on people who already have more pets, because having just one or a dozen pets is a stage that doesn’t last long, but no harm to start looking at them:

There’s Xu-Fu’s, for readymade strats,

https://wow-petguide.com/

and also these guides

Most Used Pets

Powerleveling Guide

If you use Discord, or even if you just want to use it in a web browser, theree is the Warcraft Pets Discord:

Join the WarcraftPets Discord Server!

and Xu-Fu’s has a Discord too: https://discord.gg/z4dxYUq

Both Discords are very friendly places. Pet battlers have the nicest and most helpful communities.

and of course Wowhead.com is as always a fount of information about how and where to acquire pets.

So if I were you right now I would

• get my first Raiding with Leashes run-through done,
• pick up my Teroclaw
• capture an (ideally Blue H/H) Unborn Val’kyr (they’re easy now)
• earn as many Charms as possible. First purchases: a few bandages, a Blue stone for Ikky and your White Nexus Whelpling
• work on levelling your Starlette and Kneebiter by any means possible for farming Charms from WQ. Teroclaw and Anubisath and Chrominius and Valk would be your next levelling targets).

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Ask again with any more soecific questions!