Pets and mounts are why I continue to play, with pets being #1. I’ve been bummed with the lack of new content for battling, but kept hoping something was in the works. It breaks my heart to think pet battling might be a thing of the past. Pet battling is what got me back into WoW after leaving for a year or so.
If it wasn’t for pets, I would ignore Legion Remix.
Pet battles are a big part of the game for us. Xu-Fu’s site, and Warcraftpets are daily visits in our home. I can’t always engage in dungeons or raiding for long due to health issues, and the pet aspect keeps me coming back. I’ve spent a bundle in the shop on pets (and on tokens… to buy more pets). I am always running into people doing the dailys - what is the harm in keeping it going? It’s such a unique and fun way to wind down and relax in the game. Much of the content I wouldn’t even bother with if there wasn’t a battle pet involved as a reward. Please don’t ruin this.
Aranesh,
You are an absolute legend with your pet battle site. Thank you for all of your hard work over the years to develop something that makes it so userfriendly and engaging with other players.
BLIZZARD -
To that end, pet collecting and battling is my FAVORITE part of the game. Collecting for vanity sake is more or less transmogging to me with no skill. It takes real effort and dedictation to level up those pets and learn strategies etc. To remove this to the game would be a DEEP WOUND to LOYAL players of the game, many of whom only play the game for this feature.
I sincerely ask Blizzard to PLEASE reconsider any modifications that would make pets a vanity item instead of what it’s grown to become to so many - a fun challenging way of engaging with the game in a different way than dungeons, raids and open world content provide. It was HEARTBREAKING enough to not have any wild pets in Karesh with the excuse being it’s a dead world. If that was the reasoning, then why does Argus have pets. Regardless, collectors look forward to collecting AND LEVELING pets. Please do not take this away from us permanently. Open world battling was fun and doesn’t require as much time as a pet battle dungeon or even the celestial tournament does week after week to finally buy pets from vendors.
Blizzard, please consider the pet battle community in this decision as you do with many other radical changes to the game. Let our voices be heard. Thank you.
I’ve been playing since Burning Crusade. Had a 4 year break during Legion/BFA. I’d enjoyed collecting pet companions, and when they offered pet battles, I shied away from the PVP portion, but loved the wild aspect.
One of the things that brought me back… pet collecting. I finally finished off items that I’d started and not completed with pet challenges and achievements.
I did questlines and stories I’d never started. I made alts, and worked on content old & new to me to start getting the other pets from class halls. I went and farmed mounts & pet drops to finish achievements (Ready for raiding).
I hunted down questlines for pets I’d never gotten. I finished the celestial tournament – something that had been on my to do list but I hadn’t found the fabulous xufu’s website at that time to help me with some challenges I couldn’t figure out.
My new guild is more active, so I’ve been dipping my toes back into raiding. Not something that I really want to do, but its about options. If I’m going to pay money, let me do what I want within the game.
I want to keep collecting. I want new pet battling options, new trainers, new challenges. I’d love to see new pet dungeons across the various expansions. Reuse the existing assets. Find a way to reuse & revitalize zones, areas that have little reason to visit, by putting in content that keeps people (pet battlers, collectors & achievement hunters) out in the world.
Please don’t do away with pet battling/collecting. If it turns into archaeology, where nothing new is added, its a big loss. You spent time & money on it, keep it updated to ensure interest & activity (and subscriptions) going.
I would have to say thing like the pet battling system has been what has kept me in WoW for at least the last 2 expansions.
I have found the Raiding and Dungeon scene to become so repetitive and not to mention toxic that I just no longer bother with it to be honest, so I find other parts of the game more enjoyable now.
The loss or even further scaling back of an already sadly neglected part of the game seems such a waste. I get it isn’t for everyone but at least keep options available for people to enjoy all aspects of the game, you never know when another player who hasn’t tried it will give it a go and suddenly decide they want to try to collect the other 2000 pets 
A big reason that I keep my subscription is collecting and battling pets. I would like to see Blizzard go in the other direction and implement a large pet activity, like the celestial tournament or even a full blown pet battling dungeon. Then use that to gauge interest. Once an expansion comes out and I have done the family battler, and any other achievements related to pets, there isn’t much left to do, aside from world quests. Put something pet battle heavy and lets see how the pet battling community turns out.
Pet battling and collecting is the only thing I keep returning to retail for. Heck, it’s the reason I was so excited to play MoP Classic as well - to relive how it all began! I love pet battle dungeons and the planning it would take to get the perfect team. If Blizz doesn’t change their plans and takes away this aspect of the game, I truly don’t have any interest in continuing my subscriptions.
I have leveled a few of my characters doing pet battles. It is also a great way to farm reputation too when I’m done with the usual stuff. I really noticed them being missing in the karesh zone.
I do pet battles more than anything in wow. I just needed to say something here to do my part in keeping PB’s in the game.
I would completely agree…I love both collecting and battling pets, and this is the literal main reason that I play began to play WOW. It is an avenue for collectors to enter the game and then expand to other game content.
I also agree that the system needs to be updated to keep up interest. While safari is fun for collecting, we need another set of pet dungeons or a big tournament to garner more interest again. Hey, we have homes coming soon, why not set up interactions with the pets, an area for battling, in the yard? Something similar to the Garrison set-up. Loooookkkkk, if we can add excitement and dimension to the pets, more people will be interested, especially collectors! The game overall needs to continue to offer different content to stay relevant.
Also, Xu-Fu, you are amazing!! Thank you so much for the love and content that you have put into the site. I’ve been visiting or years, for help and support. Please continue to put the polite but persistent pressure on Blizzard to do the right thing and keep / update the pet battling system. This is a crucial part of the fan base, and we deserve the support to continue with the content we love.
Thanks all,
Starfish
That is simply lazy creation. “Let’s not make new content! Let’s just reshuffle an old expansion.”
I get the resources are limited, but some of the stuff they do is just embarrassing. Like having two versions of the same zone, with a human appearing brass dragon who does absolutely nothing but stand around, waiting for you to want to see the past version.
I don’t even know what to say. Pet battling has been one of the most meaningful and consistent parts of my World of Warcraft journey. I started during the long, long days of Siege of Orgrimmar, and pet battles gave me a sense of discovery and purpose. Building my first real roster, finally conquering the Celestial Tournament, and then later tackling all the Family achievements - those were some of my favorite memories in the game. Going on Safari, carefully choosing the breeds I want for each new pet, was the highlight at the start of each new expansion and major patch. Pet battling has always been a happy, relaxing space ever since, regardless of what else was going on in the game.
Even more special is the community that has grown around it. Xu-Fu’s Guides, WarcraftPets, and the Discords have been such an incredible resource, but more importantly, a gathering place for players who share the same love of this little corner of WoW. The creativity and care people have put into strategies, collections, and helping others has always felt like a fresh breeze of wholesomeness in the wider game.
Hearing that pet battling is being phased out has honestly left me heartbroken, defeated. It feels like losing a quiet friend who has been by my side through every expansion. Even when other parts of the game changed or moved on, pet battles were always there - a mix of peace and personal challenge I could always return to.
I’m old. A few years ago, I was hoping that WoW would outlast me, so I didn’t have to lose it. I was concerned that WoW would end, but in those years, I never expected this.
To Aranesh and everyone who has shared their love and passion for this part of the game, thank you. You made something that truly mattered to people. I can only hope the devs understand what they’re taking away, and how deeply this feature has connected so many of us for so long.
Thank you, you’re amazing. I absolutely support your plea.
I love Pet Battles, and always have, it’s my favourite part of any new zone. 
You are 100% missing the point of pet battles. For us pet battlers, the popularity has not lapsed. There wasn’t much added to this xpac like there was in Dragon Flight. To click on a wild pet, have it added to your collection and not be able to level it or use it in a pet battle is rediculous. There is nothing exciting about this new change at all.
Adding my voice to people wanting to keep pet battles active. Even if we don’t get a lot of new content right now, at least keep it rolling as-is.
I’m adding my voice here. I’m not used to post here… but for many of us, this isn’t a side mini-game it’s how we enjoy WoW. We collect, plan teams, share guides, and we’ve kept the scene going for years, often with little official attention.
When updates slowed down, participation naturally dropped, but that’s a content cadence issue, not a sign that people stopped caring. Removing Pet Battles would erase years of player investment in collections, achievements, and rare pets, undermine the guides, tools, and resources volunteers have built, and take away one of the game’s most accessible, low-pressure ways to play between raids, Mythic+, and PvP.
Instead of removing the feature, please keep it and commit to small, predictable updates, such as introducing a handful of new pets or rotating objectives each season. A seasonal “Pet Week” with bonus stones or charms and a simple meta-achievement would help keep the community engaged. A brief developer note setting expectations and providing lightweight support with no major rework would provide the transparency people are asking for.
Please don’t remove a feature that still brings joy to many of us. Even a minimal, steady commitment would keep this community alive and excited. Thanks for reading and considering this.
Well, we do have a Pet Week, but yeah… it’s barely visible except the bonus experience itself.
From the only tidbit right now it seems they want engagement. But it’s like… everything requires it in one form or another.
What have been the most recent features and how did they gain traction?
Of course any ‘walkable’ content can also be a Trading Post goal, but that’s hardly a deciding factor.
In short, their most precious tools of choice are 1) periodicity 2) a collection of diverse but loosely connected rewards that while they tell you they’re a part of the same micro-universe, they can stand on their own (Usually. We don’t talk about that one drake recolour.).
This is not impossible. Well, to apply limited time to pets you go out and battle (as opposed to drops) you’d need something like Globe Yeti, “time of the day” spawns, Legion tamers, etc. This is probably the least annoying way to limit the content (maybe except the latest, don’t make it random!) to be honest. A set of 7 or 14 pets each appearing in a specific day of the week doesn’t seem particularly out of the way for either side of the fence, though it may be suspect to time zone woes. We’ve already had a taste of this with the Wanderer’s Festival.
As for the later part, though, well. I can think of a way. My way would definitely span a lot and be of roughly Darkmoon Faire’s level of scope. Or maybe twice as that. I don’t feel this is the time for this, right now. But I think the current system’s mistake is the concept is too rigid. Train this, conquer that. A couple of toys and a tabard, mostly related to the thing itself. No place for taking a step outside and thinking: “When can I use this elsewhere?”. The Delves currently have the same problem, but at least the mounts (and the carrot of help with gearing) are fairly decent. Ditto Plunderstorm, but that’s by design and the limited time is the more important “motivation”.
I don’t claim we need to throw crests into your dungeon bag. And I definitely don’t claim we need something as flashy as a mount. It didn’t end up well last time. But they’ve lately been churning out endless transmog sets which have different colour variants scattered around Trading Post, world events, promotions. Enticing quite a few to ‘complete the set’. It’s dirty, it goes against the entire “internal continuity” thing but it works. I am sure they could throw in a couple of house decor, and they said the old accomplishments will get us some… It would be a nice cameo if the pet portals that used to expand your stable, now came back as portals that your pets may pop out of, OK, now I am just being silly. 
Still, though, it seems that unfortunately the biggest barriers are related to the interface. Being told to install a bunch of addons (everyone’s fav topic right now, har, har). The bizarre interplay of Base Stats and Breeds, whichever is more important depending on the pet. No team sets. The minimap LOVING to disable “Track Pets” (a way to create a self-fulfilling prophecy). The long animations, sometimes bugging out or skipping numbers (one of the things nobody’s figured out yet). Tooltips lacking essential information (Apocalypse or Haunt come to mind, but also you need to “trust me” when I say the base crit chance is 5%). And I could see this being the problem. Because that sounds like the least fun thing to work upon (unless you’re Mutanis or Lazey :P).
I am sorry, I started with talking about the weekly, so I should tell a word or more about that. Other than including PvE elements, similar to the Timewalking weeklies including raid bosses, and making the reward more akin to the other ones, I don’t have any other ideas. And I’ve just noticed, unless Wowhead is iffy, the two mainline PvP weeklies are all limited to PvP rewards, too. That’s a little sad. Maybe just throw extra Resonance Crystals (or whatever the Midnight form is) to all of them, I am not sure. Or (applied to everything) weekly event-exclusive currency similar to Tokens of Merit, but spent on Trader’s Tender, heirloom upgrades, and unique collecting-related knickknacks such as resetting the cooldown of a chosen toy.
Just adding my voice to this to say please don’t discontinue pet battles. Aside from leveling my characters, it is my favorite part of WoW.
Please listen to the community on this one blizzard. We love pet battling. As i’ve gotten older, it’s the only thing I do.
Let us be heard, I am a very casual player. I get to the point that I hate the grind of killing the same thing over and over again. I love that I can fly around and find pets to battle and upgrade existing pets. Please do not take that away from us. This is one of the things that makes this game a welcome place to come home to.
Honestly, if it is a creativity thing, I would rather NOT have housing. We already have a personal Garrison, update that6 to allow us to decorate it instead. Let us keep our pet battle system.