My level 70 hunter just tamed a level 70 pet in TBC Classic. The loyalty is stuck on 1 after hours of questing. Will I be able to level the loyalty up to 6 for this pet? I don’t want to waste time. If that isn’t possible, seems pointless to have level 70 pets to tame. Thank you.
If I recall properly, loyalty was never a fast grind.
I could be remembering wrong though.
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It might be better to ask in the Hunter or TBC Classic forums, but as far as I know it does - it’s just a slow grind. Feeding it might help too.
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Keeping it fed enough to be always “happy” will help it gain loyalty.
I think, but don’t know, that fighting enemies at the pets level or higher also helps loyalty.
Yeah, keep it happy by feeding it. Neutral is slower and unhappy will lose loyalty. You can actually have one run off, from what i heard back then.
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That’s true. I had it happen on a fairly new tame. Thank goodness it wasn’t a rare/challenge tame.
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Wasnt sure if just a rumor. I still have my first pet from Vanilla. 
I don’t think it’s my first one, but I still have my main pet from Vanilla.
I just posted this in the bug report, but I can post it here to make it easy.
This is for lvl 70, with a lvl 70 pet starting at Loyalty Level 1. I did some experimenting recently and here is what I discovered. I’ve tested this with a couple of different pets now in SLAB boost and I am pretty sure it’s accurate as during my experiments while running a stop watch, I was only off by a few seconds as to when the loyalty level would increase.
First, you can get loyatly from your pet, even if it is the same level as you. Even at lvl 70. There are 2 requirements. XP and Time.
While we don’t gain XP at level 70 and if your pet is level 70, it doesn’t gain XP either, but there it is still tracked as if you are leveling from 70 to 71. To level from 70 to 71 it takes approximately 1,232,000 xp. To meet the XP requirement for each level of loyalty, your would need to earn 5% of that amount which is around 61,600 xp for each loyalty level. Important, the XP can only come from killing mobs.
The second factor is time. Each loyalty level takes an increasing amount of time with your pet being active and fully fed. Here is the basic rundown showing XP and time.
From Loyalty Level 1 to 2 it takes 61,600 xp (no time requirement)
From Loyalty Level 2 to 3 it takes 61,600 xp and 30 minutes with pet active and fully fed.
From Loyalty Level 3 to 4 it takes 61,600 xp and 45 minutes with pet active and fully fed.
From Loyalty Level 4 to 5 it takes 61,600 xp and 60 minutes with pet active and fully fed.
From Loyalty Level 5 to 6 it takes 61,600 xp and 90 minutes with pet active and fully fed.
You are able to “pre-load” the XP and as soon as you meet the time requirment the loyalty level will increase. This is why sometimes you get an increase in loyalty level while standing around at the auction house doing nothing.
While my experimenting was with lvl 70, at any level if you know how much XP it takes for you to get to the next level and calculate 5% of that, you can figure out the XP requirement part of Loyalty. The only remaining factor would be time.
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