i just started doing pet battles a couple weeks ago, and i used to only look for blue pets. then i learned about the breeds and trying to get the safari achievements done before my game time ran out (finished Battle Safari last night 10 minutes before my time ran out!). once i really started on the Safari’s, i took whatever quality as long as the breed was right and used the upgrade stones when i got them. and when Legion WQ’s would have them, id have 15 characters to run them thru!
i still have a ton of green and lower quality to go. maybe 8.2 will make WoW fun again and ill be able to knock several of those out and make them blue too.
Off topic, but I wish battle pet leveling had got an extra 5 levels every expansion or something. I enjoyed the feature at first, even helped run a lil tournament once, but without any sense of progression after MoP the whole thing just felt stagnant to me. Ended up selling most of my cageable pets since I wasn’t using them anymore.
I know progression isn’t really the point of a pokemon clone after a certain point though (and definitely not if we’re talking about the card game).
I’m so lazy about it that I’ve gone all the way out there and decided nope not feeling it today. I still need two of the pets and one day I swear I’ll get them
I think the original plan was to add levels every expansion. However, I don’t think Blizzard expected people to collect 1000+ pets at the time either. I suspect some people will be getting close to the 2000 pet limit with different breeds and such. Leveling so many pets every two years could be burdensome.
Instead the progression is a little different. Mainly through the Family Battler achievements and the dungeons being added.
I played all through warlords and have enough tokens to level up pets for the next few expansions. All my pets are rare and level 25 (at least one of each. I dont typically do it with multiples) except for a few recent additions I haven’t bothered with because of a lack of excitement.
I think I have like 953 unique pets and have multiples of some fun ones like hate spark. Cant remember if I still have 3 dmf rabbits.
As long as it’s the breed I want, I’ll take a lowly grey quality and toss a stone onto it. As long as you have the upgrade stones, there’s not much reason to keep catching until you get a rare.
They definitely did - I have 3 of them that I use in pet PVP every once in a while. It isn’t that good a comp, but I’ve gotten a few lols when other team sees 3 unborns and surrenders.
Depends on the pet and what I am doing. I leveled up my mage doing wild pet battles in Bfa. Since I was after the experience I did enough battles to keep only the best. Wild pets that want to kill themselves or that are hard to find I take what I get and use a stone.
When hunting for Battle Pets, I’ll aim for pets that are Rare Quality in nature. If there is no Rare Quality pet to earn, I’ll terminate the match and move on to another Battle Pet in the area.
It’s like you said. Rarity at the end of the day doesn’t matter. Level doesn’t matter. You can stone it, you can level it up. The only thing you can’t change is its breed. If it’s not a super rare pet like the Minfernal that you’ll catch no matter what, then I simply hunt for the breed I want and catch it.
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