Chimaera pet works awesome against Viscidus with a Hunter.
The problem I have with Blizzard on this GENERAL topic, can be summarized with how they handled Paragon rewards in Legion.
Because for a LONG time (all of BfA?), the rewards were all 1% drops and it was STUPID trying to get some of them to drop.
Finally, Blizzard relented, agreed, and made the drops something like a 60-80% drop. Considering the effort that’s INHERENTLY tied up in getting a Paragon chest in the first place, this seems fair.
…EXCEPT …
they made this change for everything BUT the Thistleleaf Adventurer pet from Val’sharah!!! It’s still a 1% drop!
WHY?? WHY, BLIZZARD? WHY???
Why and how could you possibly agree that this system SUCKS … take the time and effort to update the dynamic … and then NOT update one of them???
It is the same with how they handle one-shotting legacy content. They HAVE the tech to stop this. It’s in place for every world boss in MoP. But then you go to the Timeless Isle, and Huolon does not have 1-shot protection! The millisecond it pops, it’s dead. WHY???
It’s utterly stupid things like this that infuriate me about Blizzard.
There is no flipping reason the Thistleleaf Adventurer needs to be this hard to get. Especially when EVERY OTHER ITEM from Paragon chests was updated!!!
Because the Thistleleaf isn’t in a paragon chest. It’s in an Emissary chest, a completely different thing entirely.
They definitely kept their word. It’s not their fault you believed in the spirit of the idea and they did exactly what they said they would, no less but absolutely no more.
This is why you have to read contracts very carefully. Relying on “the spirit of the law” is a good way to lose.
I mean tomato/tomato … it’s still a 1% drop, when it shouldn’t be.
Blizzard obviously disagrees.
Blizzard didn’t promise to abolish all ridiculously low drop rates from RNG rewards. That’s just what you assumed they meant.
They promised a very specific and narrow thing, and they delivered that very specific thing. By no means does it mean they’ve suddenly become kinder, gentler, and more generous. They still love engagement driven by roulette wheel RNG.
They haven’t changed and show no real tendency to do so any time soon, simply because their entire business case is built on it.
Which brings us full circle to my complaint: yes-- it’s obvious they “disagree.”
But there’s no logic or reason behind it.
When you say “hey… you’re right, this is a bad dynamic, we should change it!”
And then you change it for everything but ONE ITEM … it makes you look stupid.
edit: Compare the recent “big win” they scored when they removed Sanguine (and others) from M+. This is analogous to them removing Sanguine from every dungeon … BUT ONE. It’s stupid.
And the “as long as you’re paying, you approve” is possibly the weakest, laziest argument there is. Very little in real life is so black and white that you utterly agree with everything, or disagree.
I wouldn’t be able to purchase ANYTHING if life worked that way. +eyeroll+
I think the only “stupid” they end up looking is “stupid rich”, which is exactly how they want to look.
Follow the money, always. The money is more important than your happiness.
If you continue to give them your time and money, their decision is the correct one.
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So, first, I thank you for bringing a pet to my attention I do not have yet, but I grumble as I have not been doing Legion emissary quests, aside from Kirin Tor for a long time… 
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What are those and do they reward any decent pets?
Emissary Quests are a special type of quest that refreshes every 3 days in Legion Broken Isles. They are there to guide and request that you complete world quests for a specific faction. Doing so will reward you with that faction’s emissary cache once you turn in the quest.
You unlock World Quests in Legion by reaching Friendly status with the 5 major factions and turning in the quest 
Uniting the Isles.
The 5 major factions are:
- The Nightfallen - Suramar zone
- Court of Farondis - Aszuna zone
- Highmountain Tribe - Highmountain zone
- Dreamweavers - Val’sharah zone
- Valarjar - Stormheim zone
More info can be found in Wowhead’s guide:
https://www.wowhead.com/guide/legion/world-quests#emissary-quests-and-rewards
This is how the Emissary Quests will appear on the world map:
Thistleleaf Adventurer has a chance to drop from the emissary cache you get from the Dreamweavers. But I do not see it on the Most Used Pets list, so not sure how popular of a pet for battling it is at this time.
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You can just look the pet up directly on Xu-Fu’s
https://www.wow-petguide.com/Pet/99389/Thistleleaf_Adventurer/Stats
| Owned by: | 25.77% |
|---|---|
| Strategies: | 2 |
| Popularity: | Low |
But of course strat setters will avoid using a pet that only 25% of the Xu-Fu membership has. For example, even the Dandelion Frolicker, which I wouldn’t call common, has the same abilities, better breed options, and 78% ownership. That is used in 20 strats.
You can also download your collection from Xu-Fu’s in Excel, with a column for Number of Strategies, and make your own Most Used from that. 
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Thanks!
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Thank you for a very thorough answer. I’ve both seen these and participated in these missions. I just didn’t know what they were called. I simply called them daily missions/quests, which I guess is a misnomer, since the dailies are the blue repeatable explanation point quests.
I was thinking these were something like Island Expeditions.
The list is interesting, and apparently based upon usefulness in dealing with fighting boss pets and PvP tamers.
I might see some pets as more useful than their placement would indicate. For instance, Tiny Snowman is surprisingly powerful, with an attack that does respectable damage and stuns 100% of the time in a blizzard (which he can effect). He utterly annihilates Mechanical pets. He’s indispensable to me in the Gnomeregan pet dungeon. Given his usefulness, I would have expected him to be placed higher.
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You’re welcome.
It is not, exactly.
It is not the list of Best Pets. (Thai is not possible anyway, for obvious reasons.)
It is the list of Pets Most Used In Xu-Fu’s Strats, which is the most complete collection of strats.
It’s an OK first apprroximation to a list of most useful pets, and of course it actually is the list of Best Pets To Get For Someone Using Only Xu-Fu’s Guides - which is most people - but it is not a genuine list of the pets most useful in defeating all PvE battles.
Have you ever tried SimpleArmory and/or DataforAzeroth?
About once a year, I skim those sights as a great way to just see “wtf is THAT??! How did I miss that?!?!” lol
DataforAzeroth is great in that you can do a search for two things at the same time:
1> Most common items people have
2> Items you DO NOT have
So what that search, effectively, tells you is: what is the EASIEST thing to get, that you don’t have. 
Using the logic that “if it’s the most common, it must be pretty easy to get.” A slightly flawed logic, but loosely speaking for this context, it works.
Good luck!!!
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Worth adding a note here:
Once you do “Uniting the Isles” on your main, if you have an alt that’s (as of DF) above lv35 (I think?) … all you have to do to complete “Uniting the Isles” and unlock WQs:
is simply go to Dalaran and talk to Khaghar. He has the quest, you accept it, you complete it … done and done. Takes 2 seconds.
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Yes, thank you. I had intended to include that tidbit and then completely forgot.
I guess if I have to. I don’t like Khadgar. He’s creepy. Claims to need all my help to do stuff, but he’s vastly more powerful than I am.
When I was getting the Jenafur pet, for whatever reason, he was inside the castle and greeted me at the entrance as soon as I came in. No idea what he was doing there. It might have been related to another quest.
I’ve been to that zone twice. Once to acquire the Arcane Eye pet, and once because one of the tamers for the Safari Hat was there. And I saw the castle both times, thinking, “Glad I’m not going inside that Scooby-Doo-looking haunted castle.”
So, of course, when I go to get the Jenafur pet, turns out I do have to go inside that Scooby-Doo-looking haunted castle. And what small-time villain will I encounter, I wondered, making everyone think the castle’s haunted to scare people away?
And as soon as I go inside, it’s Khadgar. Figures.
And he would have gotten away with it, too, if it hadn’t been for those meddling kids!
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Lots of history for Khadgar in that old castle. I have always enjoyed Karazhan – both in its original raid form (accessed via main door on ground level) as well as the dungeon form (accessed via side door at the upper bridge).
Should you wish to peruse more about that, here is a link: https://wowpedia.fandom.com/wiki/Khadgar#Apprenticeship_with_Medivh
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