As a pet collector I really loved the whole pet dungeons of the past. Was really hoping we would see a new one in War Within.
No pet dungeon has been announced for TWW.
I don’t think it’s likely we’ll see another one. I recall some dev saying that the uptake was less than full, something you can see in the completion rates in Achievements.
Personally, I did them, but I didn’t like them. The original Celestial Tournament was wonderful in its time - a hard challenge in those days, on an infinite sunny Sunday afternoon.
It was quite a step down from that to the tedious depressing grind of disappointment in Wailing Caverns.
Maybe the BRD model, which somewhat moved back towards the CT ideam if it had been more pleasant … but I think that was too late; most people who weren’t completionists had already tuned out of the idea.
Pet dungeons were fun, but once you did your 9 weeks and got the currency for the pets there was no reason to go back-same can be said for regular dungeons yes, but takes far more time to get everything you need/want. Wailing Caverns was a bit different as it had the very rare pet that could drop from the bag.
Having the portals to various places around the world is nice and convenient but the non-replayability of the dungeons themselves was just very depressing.
I’m still doing the dungeons. They’d probably get more use if they just added more reward pets to them. (Although I don’t like wasting my time on pets that will not be useful in the future, and that accounts for about 90% of all pets in the game. Most of them will see no action whatsoever except to level them.)
I was looking at some of the rewards from the Celestial Tournament, and beyond the pets, there’s nothing worth buying. But seriously??? Three Celestial Coins to buy one blue stone? Should be the other way around. One Celestial Coin to buy three blue stones. I’d get them.
But beyond Tricorne and the Mechanical Cockroach, I haven’t seen any strats involving any of the other pet rewards.
That is how valuable and difficult to get Stones were in Mists.
Pet PvE, in the form of World Quests and Dungeons, has wreaked hyperinflation on rewards, and you, as a new player, now consider this normal.
I might also note that Pet PvP has added no rewards over the same period. The reward for the Weekly is the same as it was in Mists.