How to Get Battle Pets in WoW
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To get battle pets in WoW, you can obtain them from various sources, including vendors, mob drops, quest rewards, achievement rewards, professions, auction houses, and wild pet battles, as well as through special promotions offered by Blizzard. Additionally, you can also acquire battle pets by capturing them in the wild through pet battling, creating them through professions, or purchasing them from other players using in-game currency.
Unlocking Pet Battles
To participate in pet battles, a character must purchase Battle Pet Training from the Battle Pet Trainer in their capital city, which is available to characters on the full version of World of Warcraft but not on Trial accounts. The skill applies to all characters on your Blizzard account.
Getting Started with Pet Battles
To get started with pet battles, you can find the battle pet trainer in Stormwind or Orgrimmar, and complete the first quests in the quest chain to enable and learn the basics of pet battling, including tracking, healing, and capturing.
FAQs
Q1: How do you unlock pet battles in WoW?
To unlock pet battles in WoW, you need to purchase Battle Pet Training from the Battle Pet Trainer in your capital city.
Q2: Where can I find the battle pet trainer in WoW?
The battle pet trainer can be found in Stormwind and Orgrimmar, with Audrey Burnhep being the trainer for the Alliance and Varzok being the trainer for the Horde.
Q3: How do you get battle pets in Shadowlands?
To get battle pets in Shadowlands, you need a minimum of 3,000 Polished Pet Charms to purchase the Shadowlands pets, as well as various currency obtainable through questing or your covenant resources.
Q4: Can you catch legendary battle pets?
Legendary battle pets have higher stats than normal pets and often come with unique skills that regular pets cannot have, but they cannot be tamed and are instead created with materials from the Boutique or purchased from other players.
Q5: What is the point of pets in WoW?
Pets in WoW are companions that a player can partially control to aid them in battle, with the hunter and warlock classes being the most associated with combat pets.
Q6: How do you make battle pets rare in WoW?
Battle-Stones are items used to upgrade a battle pet to uncommon or rare quality, with the Flawless Battle-Stone being able to be used on any pet.
Q7: When did WoW get pet battles?
Pet battles were introduced in 2012 with the Mists of Pandaria expansion, offering some of the most expansive evergreen content in WoW.
Q8: Can you trade battle pets?
Wild pets you capture are not tradeable, but other pets are, and you can put them in a cage and then trade or auction them.
Q9: Can you pet battle a friend?
You can invite a friend to battle in Pet Battles, and if your friend is online, you’ll see a green light on their profile picture and you’ll be able to click the battle button.
Q10: How do you level up battle pets in WoW?
The most effective way to level up pets is fighting against trainers, which grant 5x more experience than defeating wild pets.
Q11: Can you release pets in WoW?
To get rid of a pet, you can abandon it by right-clicking its portrait and selecting Abandon Pet, but be careful not to abandon the wrong pet.
Q12: What is the rarest pet in WoW?
Some of the rarest battle pets are the ones from Recruit-a-Friend, such as the golden pig, silver pig, jade tiger, and zipao tiger.
Q13: Are battle pets in WoW Classic?
In WoW Classic, pets are called companions, and there is no collection system, with companions taking up bag and bank space.
Q14: Do pets get bigger in WoW?
Pets do increase in size as they level, but it’s only noticeable when there’s a huge difference in levels.
Q15: What is the best tank pet in WoW?
Ferocity pets tend to be best for tanking because the bonus leech from Predator’s Thirst keeps them alive more than a little bit more health from a Tenacity pet would.