Pet Battle Changes: Flawed Reasoning

Anvilshield-sisters-of-elune · October 7, 2025, 1:43am

The Pet Battle system is being iterated on in Midnight, and changes will continue to come with future Alpha builds.

In the first builds of the Midnight Alpha, we have several goals:

For players who love collecting pets, there should be significant numbers of pets to collect.

For players who love to do pet battle combat, that will be available.

As time has passed, we’ve seen fewer and fewer players enjoying pet battle combat, so this is an area we want to iterate on.

There will be some new pets in Midnight that are capable of battling.

All parts of the pet battle system that were implemented in previous expansions should continue to operate as they have before.

We’re experimenting with some alternate methods to obtain pets in Midnight, and we expect to iterate on that, based on your feedback. Please let us know whether you’re an experienced pet battler or engaging with the system for the first time when you leave feedback.

According to the actual post, if you look at the last bullet point “All parts of the pet battle system that were implemented in previous expansions should continue to operate as they have before”. The area specifically being iterated is the Pet PvP Combat option, the weekly quest that nearly no one takes. So, instead of spending more resources on Pet Battle PvP, they are exploring new options.