Maybe you are right.
I mean, I am fine with the collection aspect staying at least. That thing works well for me. I agree they keep maintaining it reasonably well.
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They are indeed “underrated”(unappreciated) compared to mundane and pointless grinds like farming for months to get the ugliest mount in the game (e.g. TLP), but they are still not that great because they can be scripted from strats found on the web so the skill required is very little (you can mainly be skillful at using addons etc. compared to others but that’s not a huge deal for at least 1/3rd of players).
Basically in terms of gameplay richness: the battle mechanics of classes in PvE and PvP >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> battle pets >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> grinding to get a mount you won’t even use.
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welcome to pet battles! signed: an avid collector!
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well that’s what i thought but leveling pets is the fun part for me, i take the quests from the orgrimmar guy and then i just go there and try to beat the different trainers, and do the quests he gives me, i look for counters ( for example elemental attacks do more damage against mechanical pets )
you’ll be able to beat pets that are higher level than yours and get a difficulty bonus, and you need to be careful if the enemy pet counters your type and it will be really hard for you
but eventually you’ll have a pet at level 25 and you can boost pets and then be able to dungeons and pvp
the cool part is not at the end imo, because at the start you don’t have a lot of pets to counter whichever one you’re against so you have to struggle a little bit and be creative and work with what you have instead of just getting the best pet available
tho don’t feel like you have to pet battle for any reason, just do a little bit of them when you’re bored or something
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This is the hazard of looking too far ahead before you’re ready, and then feeling “Why am I not there yet?”
You won’t feel comfortable until either
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You set yourself a more modest goal, like get a specific roster of 12 or so pets to 25, (so that you can then take on more difficult content) or get the Safari achievements or
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You outright buy a team of 25s, enough to skip the initial roster-building stage almost entirely.
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I think you are off on both counts. This mini-game is so extremely easier if you have the best pets: that if I started right now from zero: I would still try to get (gradually) the best pets and not rely on silly strats like “level-1-only strats” unless you actually don’t care about pets and only care about world quests but that’s off topic.
Regarding the buying 3 pets of 25 is also wrong because levelling 3 pets is extremely easy; e.g. learn how to do the tour of WoD and MoP trainers for 5k+ xp each; and there are more tricks to speed that up I may not know.
Oh, by now I know ALL the tricks. I wrote some of them. And I have also looked at Schmusedecke’s roster. So I knew exactly what was possible with Schmusedecke’s roster before I posted.
You won’t get around Draenor and Pandaria with only a Level 25 Fen Crab, Fragment of Suffering, and Shore Crab.
The point you are missing is that there is an level between “total beginner with no pets” and “I have a solid basic roster of 25s”. That level looks small and thin to someone who has completed the content, but it is very real and long to someone climbing it. I remember when I was in that layer back in Mists - I wrote a thread asking people “How do you stay sane when levelling so many pets?” 
Catch-up mechanics have made levelling pets SO MUCH easier tha it was back then, but it is still real.
There is also the question of direction - without a mental map for intermediate goals of how to get from A to Zoroastrianism nothing feels like progress.
I remember feeling EXACTLY this. It was AWESOME. 
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I know what you mean (I’ve also wasted a lot of time in pet battles), but I would still go with gradually getting the best pets one by one even if it takes weeks.
To say it in practice and with terms we both understand: yes you might waste a couple of days to get Baa’l but Baa’l is worth twenty 25s in end-game.
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yeah i guess. i do have some level 25 pets but i suppose they arent the best. i even tried to get into it and tried to kill all the pet tamers for the achievement but after getting hard stuck in northrend i just gave up because i was utterly frustrated and tbh i havent really touched it ever since.
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Yeah, that feeling of stuckness sucks. You set yourself the wrong goal.
It’s an easy trap to fall into, and I see it in a lot of new battlers. “I HAVE my team of (three) 25s now; let’s GO! Tear through stuff!” The conceptual error is that there is a “my team”, one team that you can use anywhere. You need a toolbox of pets with a variety of techniques you can apply to specific situations.
You can do almost anything in the pet battling game with 30-50 of the right pets, but Maxmaxmax is exactly right when he says:
That’s the way to progress at that point. Make a list of 5 or 6 pets that will get you past the next hurdle, get them, level them, achieve that short-term goal. Then you will hit something else that needs another specific pet. Get that one. And so on.
If you want to give it a go again, I’m sure I could quickly find and level a set of 25s to get you past a bump.
I have exactly 1 lvl 25 pet, but it’s probably the worst possible one - Elekk Plushie xD
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It’s required for some achievements, so it’s actually pretty important to have.
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yeah i guess, i only have 5 level 25 pets, so there isnt too much variety going on to select from for different encounters.
its just that there are so many pets to choose from i find it rather confusing i suppose as i dont know where to start or what to do or to pick first, really. i assume this is also the reason why i havent continued with it since i hit this wall.
i will most definitely give it a try again, infact i am leveling pets right now. 
its just for the every type on level 10 achievement but i hope it ll get me in the mood to give it another go.
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Check your mail. I sent you the tradeable ones from my suggested list here:
That still leaves you needing
Capturing those, I think, is a manageable goal, and when you have that set, you can take on most battles in the game, though the method may not be in a standard strat.
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When you get these pets, TRY TO LEARN THEM ONE AT A TIME. All of them are powerful and useful pets, but getting a bunch all together is quite likely to lead to confusion more than progress if you just uncage them and slot them away.
I have written a brief description of how to use each in my post or in the entry on Xu-Fu’s. Use each in one or two battles accordingto my instructions so you get the basic idea of what each one does.
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aww thanks! are you nuts you shouldnt have! 
i just got
and found the leveling process quite enjoyable. so i ll give it another proper try this time.
guess i have a lot of learnin/readin to do.
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i’m not so much a battler as a collector currently sitting on 1000+ lol - i enjoy finding the different pets 
I’m a collector and battler though have let it go a bit so far this expansion. Lack of time, I guess, as there’s so much stuff to do daily/weekly etc. I haven’t caught any wild pets yet in SL. Maybe that should be my next task in any spare time I have (hollow laugh)
I like to collect pets but I’m not at all excited about the battling side of things. I just use this site to look up strategies
I would be perfectly fine if the Pokémon aspect didn’t exist. I’m not saying it should be removed ofc.
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Pet battles can be quite addictive. The PvE side is very scripted and you can cheese it by looking up guides, if you really just want to get things done quickly.
But if you like a challenge then some fights are really hard actually.
PvP unfortunately isn’t very fun atm and there are some toxic people in that community, who like to abuse OP pets and bragg about it.