BFA: Unlocking Vendors/Pets

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Update: As of Patch 8.1, players can unlock a vendor that will sell opposing factions’ BFA pets.

Obtain A Shady Message to begin a follower mission that unlocks the vendor Olly (H) or Dodger (A).

Currently, the only known way to obtain this item is from PVP Pet Battle wins (queued).

Certain vendor restrictions apply. These new vendors will not sell pets that are gated or locked by reputation, and the Horde vendor will not sell Bumbles, which requires an Alliance-only achievement.

Many BFA vendor pets have prerequisites before they show up on the listed vendor. Some vendors also require extra steps to have them appear. Here’s a consolidated list of those Battle For Azeroth vendors and vendor pets.

VENDORS

Nigel Rifthold (A & H)
Note: You do not have to do the quest chain to “save” Nigel before completing the process below.

  • Head to Anyport (western coast of Drustvar)
  • Buy 10 Tirasreli Gourmet Chocolate from Xun Xun Sweetflower
  • Travel to 52,31 in Drustvar (west of Fallhaven, just above the “F” in the name)
  • Climb up a hill and enter a tree house
  • Loot the chest that’s inside if you haven’t already
  • Click on the chest a second time (consumes the chocolates), Nigel will appear and be a vendor.

Shoak (H & A)

  • Horde - Complete quests: “Killing Cannibals”, “Just Say No to Cannibalism” and “Shoak’s on the Menu” to get this NPC to appear in Gloom Hollow, Nazmir.
  • Alliance - Head to 55,36 and find Kajosh. Complete the quest chain. Shoak will appear in the Horde camp, Gloom Hallow (Alliance can interact with him, but you’ll agro the camp).
  • Alternatively, Alliance can purchase the same pets (once unlocked) from Blind Wunja.

Jenoh (H)

  • Complete the quest chain that starts with “A Lost Flute”

VENDOR PETS

Ranishu Runt - sold by Jenoh (H)
Complete Jenoh’s quest chain, plus “Charging the Batteries”, and “Ranishu Are Resources”

Accursed Hexxer - sold by Shoak (H) OR Blind Wunja (A & H)
Complete the quest “An Ancient Curse”

Swamp Toad - sold by Shoak (H)
Complete the “Torga’s Eternal Return” storyline, which then opens the quest chain that begins with “To Gloom Hollow”

Lil’ Tika - sold by Happy Holaua (H)
Complete the quest “Lil’ Tika”

Lil’ Ben’fon - sold by Happy Holaua (H)
Complete Cala Cruzpot’s quest chain

Child of Jani - sold by Happy Holaua (H & A)
Earn the “Get Hek’d” achievement

Mechanical Prairie Dog - sold by Dana Pull (A)
Complete the quest chain that starts with “An Explosive Opportunity”

Greatwing Macaw - sold by Dana Pull (A)
Complete the quest “Rodrigo’s Revenge”

Smoochums - sold by Nigel Rifthold (A & H)
Complete Abby Lewis’ quest chain

Frenzied Cottontail - sold by Nigel Rifthold (A & H)
Kill the Cottontail Matron rare elite

Drustvar Piglet - sold by Nigel Rifthold (A)
Complete the quests at Carver’s Harbor, Drustvar, ending with “Cured Ham”

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And of course, it posts as my alt. No idea how to edit atm, but I’ll include links to quests, achievements and vendors once I’m able to post links.

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I expected that thread to transfer to the new forum.
I guess I’m keeping the old forum bookmarked for important read only threads.

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@Quin, for some reason, the forums are changing your active character to the last character you were logged into the game with, which is why you were logged into your alt. I REALLY hope it’s a bug. I have a post in general discussion about it.

Keep in mind these are just the vendors with pre-requisites. There’s other vendors that automatically are unlocked. (And a few of THOSE vendors have pets that only unlock after doing specific questlines, which Quin also listed)

Also, it’s MUCH easier for Alliance to buy pets from Blind Wunja than Shoak. She has the same pets for Alliance once you unlock them. Shoak is inside of a Horde city and you will die if you try to buy from him as Alliance, so just buy from Blind Wunja. Shoak is better to buy from as Horde, as he also has a Horde-only pet that’s unlocked via a questline.

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lol, you’ve been unmasked.

It had one of my alts active at first too.

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How’d you reply to your own post? When I try it tells me someone else has to post first and I can’t until that happens. Or if I swap characters and then try (like you’ve done above), I got silenced instead.

Just be careful swapping characters back and forth, these auto-silence rules seem easily triggered. At least in the one experience I’ve had with them.

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I have no clue. I was trying to figure out how to edit it so that it uses my main toon instead of my alt (doesn’t look like there’s an option for that), and eventually gave up and posted on my main.

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Thanks for this. Have been collecting the pets for years but just starting to get into battles. I bookmarked this because it will help.

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Do you have any recommendation of which battle pet to buy with polished charms on the various vendors you have listed? Like if you just spend your first chunk of charms on a pet, but WISHED you bought a different pet instead, what would it be?

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And in order to edit (if you’ve not discovered this already), you’ll have to change back to the character that posted and then you can see the extra options at the bottom of the post.

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Updated OP with Wowhead links to quests, NPCs, etc.

(Off topic, not having forum “Trust Level” be account-wide is annoying and tedious, as I have to “grind” the level on an alt to edit/add external links. All because I accidentally posted the OP on an alt and can’t change it to my main. sigh)

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You can surround the link with tick marks (`) to get around checking for the external link. It would work just like the old forum.

link here

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Updated OP to include a note about the unlocking a new vendor in Patch 8.1, sells opposite factions’ BFA pets.

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I have completed the quest line as far as I know. I have gotten the completion for it in the Tiresgarde Sound area, and I can’t find the quest. Somehow I’m still not seeing the mechanical prairie dog in the vendor, am I doing something wrong?

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