I have over 700 shiny pet charms in my bank, collecting dust, because eventually you reach a point where they are good for nothing. I would like to propose that the option be introduced to convert these to polished pet charms. However, I do think the exchange rate should be terrible, something like 25 shiny pet charm for one polished pet charm. The rate needs to be so bad that no one would go out of their way to farm the obsolete pet charms, but give us a few dozen polished pet charms for those of us who have accumulated them over the last few years.
Agree/disagree?
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there are still pets you can buy with the old coins. I have spent lots trying to get the breeds I want and still don’t have lol.
Agree 100% and the rate is close to what I was thinking. 20 shiny to 1 polished.
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I dumped my mass surplus of shiny pet charms into stones before the change. This is a great idea because the content which awards shiny pet charms is still very relevent for battle pet enthusiasts even though the currency is not.
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I would agree 100%. Eventually, we will have nothing left to buy with the charms, and an ability to convert them would be nice.
IF they don’t want to give us conversion, it would be nice if we could get a vendor that will sell us things for the charms. Even if it was just pet treats or embiggening biscuits…that sort of thing.
I’m not sure why they don’t realize that they messed up changing it and just have ONE currency regardless of where the content is for charms.
Would like to see this be a thing…they actually fix it so all the old charms are now new charms. Does it matter if someone is doing legion pet battles over Bfa/SL/DF pet battles?
What I’ve learned is already with doing Bfa/SL/DF I just don’t have the play time to do more than 4 chars daily and all the good WQ that are up…if someone has no life and wants to do 10hrs a day of pet battles for relevant charms, why not let them? Most people will just have options and maybe do an hour or so for them. Why would that be a bad thing?
I do the daily pet battle near my garrison (Horde) only because it is a very fast way to get a pet from 1-13 and on a non lvl 70, I get about 15k xp a day from doing something that takes about 5mins. The 2 charms aren’t why I do it, and if they had no charms I wouldn’t care. So for WoD/MoP dailies that give the old charms…I think there are other reasons people do these.
TLDR: Just make 1 pet charm currency and change the old ones into new ones.
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what vendors-xpac can we use shiny?
They were used in WoD and earlier so the main place is in your Garrison. if you didn’t play WoD at all then it is a bit of set up to get rolling. There are probably some vendors in Pandaria too (Timeless Isle maybe?) but I didn’t play Pandaria so it is a bit of a gap in my knowledge.
Pretty sure only places you can use Shinies now is in Dalaran or at the Menagerie in your Level 3 Garrison.
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The old pets bought with those still sell quite well actually. I slowly aquire them from a daily pet battle with Ashlei (to level pets) and sell the pet occasionally.
Okay, but…for those of us who don’t want to cage and sell pets, it would be nice to something else to do with these charms.
I’m all for conversion or just making them all one charm type, but at this point, I’ve gotten everything I want with them and have nothing further to do with them. And the pet prices for things that I can buy with them isn’t really worth my time on my server.
So here’s just another voice, many years later, asking for them to PLEASE offer us a way to either convert them or make them all one token.
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Its not that I don’t have a life …I do…just that I live alone with my Cat named Mouse and my two parakeets…Beaks and Chi-Chi…but I am also disabled too…no other half or kids at home…so I can really stack up the charms if I want too and I did during Shadowlands I came out of SL too Dragon Flight with over 66,000 pet charms.
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I can see that allowing this would alter the value of pets that only use the old charms for purchase. I’m not sure that still matters after all this time (personal opinion), given the limited # of pets on the old charms. I wouldn’t mind seeing these converted over.
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In your Garrison and in the pet store in Dalaran, if you’re Alliance, there is an NPC next to Lio the Lioness named Tiffy Trapspring.
If you’re Horde, the NPC is Giada Goldleash, next to Serr’ah.
These NPCs sell four pets and three toys.
The mistake in the selection of these items is that there’s nothing you can buy that needs to be replenished. If they sold things like pet treats or bandages, yes, these Shiny Pet Charms would have some ongoing use. But once you have all the pets and the toys, what else can you do with them? You could, I suppose, sell the pets on the Auction House.
Of course, we have Dev stupidity to blame for this. (And I don’t care who objects to me saying that. They did a stupid thing; they can own it and be called out for it.) Once they realized that we were able to stockpile our charms, they just had to create a new currency, because they didn’t want us to be able to buy our new pets right away.
They might have solved this by putting them behind rep gates. God knows that use that for everything else. Or time gates. Just don’t release the new pets until later in the expansion.
Instead we have this nonsense of two currencies to deal with, one of which purchases only permanent items; and consequently, will become obsolete once we’ve purchased everything they can buy.
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I was going with a hyperbole argument. I was not being literal, though I get there are some people who do a lot of pet battles.
If I had played SL and had my alt army with access to BfA mission board/WQ and SL mission board/WQ, just with the mission boards over the course of an expansion, you can easily get 10k charms.
Currently DF, no mission table/board and only 1 WQ and it is LAME 6/7 days of the week. I get they know people will alt farm these but when I have the choice to farm 10x a battle that gives 20 charms vs 12 charms…I’ll be over in BfA with the 20 charm battle.
66k charms though…what no one has asked is how many blue stones and +1 marks did you get too? I am already picturing you with like 2 alts and all bags filled with charms and stones 
Try 3 Bank alts with banks full of blue stones and +1 lvl stones…I came into Shadowlands with 35,000+ pet charms…my army of alts for BfA was 16 each day doing all pet battles around…Shadowlands army of 12 and Shadowlands was giving out tons of pet charms too…and I still getting them even though I brought that one pet that cost 10,000 pet charms…I brought 2 of them one for myself and one for a Guildmate that doesn’t have the time to work pet battles …brought her the 5K one from Dragon Flight too…I can’t even figure out how to count all those other stones though…there are so many…counting the pet charms was easy they stack too 1,000 and were all on one bank toon.
All my alts that I have been leveling up in Dragon Flight all I do is pet battles in DF and swing back too BfA and do them too…plus add in mining and doing dragon races …cause they are fast and easy gold too…
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I have six alts who just sit and do the SL mission board getting 0-30 pet charms a day each as well as the DF pet battle. Sometimes head out to BFA areas for battles as well.
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