How come there isn't a Battle Pet Essence?

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Because the pokemon minigame does not use your talents or abilities.

Frankly a fishing essence would make more sense.

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OP came up with a unique and creative troll post, people started to bite, and the Blue decided to reward his creativity with a responsive troll himself. And people continue to bite even after the trolling is called all.

Well played all around!

Also, in before some devs decide to add a pet battle essence that simply does something fun, like reward 5% extra pet XP, in patch 8.2.1. Or maybe a set of them, like one adds XP, another increases the size of your pet, another makes them glow or sparkle. It could be a whole thing like mount equipment!

Of course, the ultimate troll by the devs would to make an essence obtainable through pet battles do some really OP damage/healing buff, making it BiS for most classes and specs.

And we’ll know that we have the OP to thank for getting this ball rolling!

/moo :cow:

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Apologies. It’s really hard to tell on the forums. People really do get offended by the most ridiculous things.

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all good. that’s why when i am being sarcastic, i tend to use exclamation points or emojis at the end.
take care. =]

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What would a pet battle essence even do? Have a tiny blood-stained bunny-rabbit rip Azshara’s face off?

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There should also be a RP Essence. It’s even a server type!

To get a RP Essence you have to write a high-scoring TRP profile (minus points for misspelling, gratuitous conditional tense and inaccuracy to lore), assemble a coordinated transmog, and flawlessly play out your race’s accent, with inflection, in /say and /emote fifty times.

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Id honestly like this. Id do pet battles again if there was a cool essence.

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Major Power: Moar Polished Pet Charms/battlestones from rewards, or reduced PPC cost when purchasing from pet vendors
Minor Power: Enlarge any summoned battle pet (same effect as the pet biscuit, but is passively applied), or some sort of automatically applied cosmetic effect on your summoned pet

:stuck_out_tongue:

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I think if more people tried pet battles they would like it.

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OP has over 700 unique pets. I am pretty sure he likes it. I am still not too sure he was being sarcastic either.

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how to win at world pvp using pet battle essence

pet swarm… use massive amount of spiders and other nasty creepy stuff people are afraid of and watch them freak out and forget what they are doing and die

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Who’s afraid of spiders!?

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there are lots of people trust me when me and my best friend play together she freaks out about spiders in game

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That’s just silly. I mean it’s already silly irl but I can recognize phobias, but ingame seems a bit extreme heh.

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Yes! ALL of the yes. Take the yes from other things and give it to this!

Bonus points if we got to pick which pet attacked. Id love to see my Stuffed Elekk Plushie save Azeroth.

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Is there a fishing essence?

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I feel Essences are a disappointingly missed opportunity for transformative systems that let players customise their end game a bit more than just combat.

I’d love minor powers that increase rep gain, or increase island drop rates, or give us new missions that reward island drops, or the like. A way for combat-oriented players to increase their power, but for the rest of us to increase our ability to do what we want to do, too, be it pet battles or collecting or crafting.

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Ah yes, because you’ve gained so much player power and gear from pet battles.
It’s bad enough that PvE/PvPers have to do PvP/PvE, don’t force everyone to do Pet Battles too.