Battle Pets on Mobile App

While using the Mobile App for the command table and an overview of the world quests is great, I feel like it would be something that’d be fun to play if pet battles were adapted to the platform. There could even be small quests associated with battles, such that a player could progress “The Very Best” quest in the mobile app.

A fully featured mobile experience could be a very large undertaking for sure considering the breadth of player collections so far. Managing potentially thousands of critters with different move sets and stats. But I’d recommend collaborating with the designers of Rematch who created a fantastic one window UI for browsing the pets, displaying the team on deck, and creating easy access to user created teams, with tabs for levelling and the like.

Just queuing for generically programmatic pet battles and PvP battles would be much more engaging than just checking in on the command table.

Long term the scope of complexity could increase to richer experiences of course. Imagine being able to jump in, seeing the map of the Shadowlands or Zandalar, clicking on a pet battle that’s available, then seeing a pop-up to “Battle Now!”. Suddenly that quest in Valdisdall “Beasts of Burden” doesn’t just rot there, but you’re fighting Andurs and Rydyr in sequence. Leveraging the existing world of warcraft’s creative assets in this way would be a big boon for someone riding the subway.

Looking at the “Similar to” side bar, there’s a few posts from a year ago and beyond that didn’t get a lot of attention. With none on the Pet Battle Forum it seems.

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We really need this. I think Pet Battles are a perfect fit for mobile.

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If you search this forum for “mobile” you can see dozens of threads about this over the past few years. Consensus seems to be that yeah, would be nice, but also would be a pretty major project. And what’s in it for Blizzard?

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MUA’s numbers on mobile providing value for pets which happen to be at least a modest revenue stream from the Blizzard store.
But yes it’d be a relatively big project, like full feature scope would probably be Islands/Torghast sized I’d imagine.

Just one of those long wish list features though I think about when I contemplate reinstalling the mobile app

would love to see pet battles added to app. auction house, putting follower missions only on the phone. I dont like follower missions and only do them to gain resources mainly anima.

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I adore these ideas. Thank you for sharing.