As for BFA I’ve hit my main goal of Aotc and not to far off from my goal of all 15+s done. I’m thinking about trying out pet battles to spice things up. Any tips on how to get started, and what exactly should I be doing? Like collecting is that the primary goal?
Collect, trade, train, and battle! Rewards like achievements, more pets, mounts, transmog, and titles.
If you want to jump into the game straight away, you could always buy some lvl25 pets off the Auction House. Or if you’re really strapped for cash, let me know. I’m sure I could find three or four in my collection you could have.
Good luck!
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As was stated…start off on the Auction House. There are a TON of low cost pets…even high level ones.
Next…start looking for pet battle dailies. If you have more than 1 level 120…it really helps. I have 12…if a pet battle daily shows up for the coins…do it on every character.
Download a few add ons that help. I’m not on my wow computer at the moment but I’ll chime in tomorrow with a few add ons that really help.
Collect…go out into the world and fight them pets! If you want you can start in the lower level areas.
Look up on Wowhead how to beat tougher bosses (pet battle bosses). Wowhead is invaluable for tips (comments section).
Use your collected coins to get the item to turn pets rare (if you have a regular or green one). Or you can use them to buy items to level pets by 1 level or even 25.
Some people go around doing pet battles to get rates…I just catch 1, white or green, then use a stone on it and turn it rare. It saves so much time…I rarely if ever even level pets anymore. Just do battles for the coins…table missions for the coins…and use the coins to buy leveling stones. I average about 1000 coins every 7-10 days or so…Ive slowed down a bit though lately.
Good luck!
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There are a few channels on Youtube that cover pet battling quite a bit. I know Hazelnutty usually covers all the pet challenges in new zones, and she may have some basic getting started videos also. Good place to start.
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Wait… you can get mounts from pet battles?
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There are a few different approaches to take, depending on what you do and don’t enjoy.
The most relaxed pace is to focus on hunting down wild pets to capture, perhaps doing some levelling along the way to get a feel for a few different pets.
If you want to follow the original trainer questline, you already have enough high level pets to just roll over everything until outland, maybe even Northrend (where you start to be unable to simply outlevel the opponents.
If you want to jump straight to the endgame dungeons and achievements, you will need to collect and level a fairly large number of specific pets to follow the guides (there’s some fun in puzzling out fights for oneself, but as the dungeons get less forgiving, I personally find they also get less fun, but individual tastes vary).
I can’t give any advice on PvP battles - I avoid that side of things, but there’s a meta and, from what I’ve heard, a limited pool of active opponents.
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The primary resource I use;
https://www.warcraftpets.com/wow-pet-battles/
As for specific mounts, you’ll have to do your own research, I’m afraid. I used to know a site that had the specific Pets = Mounts listed, but I can’t find it now. Examples include the falcosaur mounts from Legion, the Honeyback Harvester & Shadowbarb in BfA.
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must-have addon: rematch
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Start in goldshire and follow the questline to battle the trainers. Collect in each zone while training your pets. Can boost a pet to 25 instantly with 50 pet tokens at pet shop in dalaran. Look for the gold paws on map as they are rare boss pets. You should always try to keep different pet types trained within your rosters since some types do better against others. Same with abilities. Stay diverse on the move or customize to each zone’s main type for advantage in farming
There are a few pets that are extremely good and can carry alot of pet battles by themselves, such as Anubisath Idol, Mechanical Dragonling, and Unborn Valkyr. Getting a stable fo 5-10 “must have” pets to level 25 will make your life much easier when you go to farm up other pets levels.
You can google to find the “best” overall pets and then get those and get em leveled then its just amatter of filling out your stable with 3-5 of each family of level 25’s. After that things get much easier.
If you have a WoD rank 3 garrison, I believe the Pet Menagerie still works there and is a great source of pet items and ways to level your pets up.
My suggestion is to find all the pet syou want, gather them all up, then when its the bonus EXP for pet battles, go and powerlevel them all. You can Powerlevel a pet with master fights pretty dang fast during bonus EXP.
Some useful sites…
https://www.wow-petguide.com/
This is where pet battlers upload their ‘strats’ for defeating things like world quests and the pet dungeons.
https://www.warcraftpets.com/
This is where pet battlers often are at making trades and discussing things. As well as all the up to date pet news that tends to be left to a footnote on other sites.
Both of those sites will have lists for what pets are the most used, AKA: Unborn Val’kyr from Wrath of the Lich King zones.
https://simplearmory.com
A stamp collection for your pet collection! Also works on mounts. Battle Pets tab is for wild ones, and Companions are for drops or achievement ones.
Useful addons:
Rematch: Let’s you save teams for battles based on the NPC you have selected. Also an option to automatically load those teams. Has a leveling pet queue that you can fill up. You can right click a spot in the team and choose “add level pet here” and it will automatically go down the list as you go.
PetBreedID: Simple addon, much like Coords. It’s just telling you info that is in the game already but was left hidden from players for some reason. H=Health, P=Power, S=Speed, B=Balanced (a bit of all)
BattlePetBinds: Let’s you simply push 1,2,3 for abilities… and F for forfeit. Also F1, F2, and F3 to quickly swap pets.
tdBattlePetScript: Well now that you have teams all setup, ever feel like this is something that could be even easier? You’ll notice on Xufu’s that there are “Script” buttons… you click that and paste it into this addon under your team on rematch and bam… now you only have to push one button! 
Important Notes: On May 3rd, it will be a pet battling planetary alignment. The highest XP yielding fight will be in our garrisons during the pet battle week. With your Safari Hat on, you can get a pet from 1 to 25 in two battles. Each one taking just about 1 minute. There are usually groups up in premade for “Squirt” (the npc).
If you want a lot of pets leveled, head to Xufu’s and go to the Draenor section. Choose “Deebs, Tyri, and Puzzle” (Squirts team, a bit outdated method on the sites part) to see all the teams others have come up with. A fairly popular and easy to get team is the Enchanted Broom from the horde’s argent tourney blood elf vendor, and the Boneshard from ICC. Though there are other teams, including a few purely wild pet teams. If you focus on getting one of these setup you can power level all the rest for as long as you can tolerate it. 
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To catch them is your real test. To train them is your cause.
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They used to require that you have personally trained a lvl 25 pet before you could add one that you’d bought/traded for. Has that changed?
Also, most holidays have pets that can only be acquired during the holiday or for a lot of gold on the AH outside the holiday.
The Noblegarden Bunny is quite a good pet. (Rabbits in general are.)