Pet Battle System now on Beta Realms (Early Version)
This build of the beta introduced a very early version of the Pet Battle System!


I want to be the very best!
Picking up Pet Battle Training on the beta is pretty easy, all you need to do is visit the trainer in your capital city and pick up the 2 abilities.



Update - Almost forgot about those, added something about the Pet Battle Masters.

Tracking Pets
The pet tracking changed slightly since our first preview, you now track 2 types of pets: the ones that you can't capture and are only here to let you gain XPs will show up as a small yellow dot on your map. The ones you can actually capture will show up with an easily noticeable green icon and will be flagged as capturable in their tooltip.



Fight!
The fight is started by right clicking a pet creature when you're in range (approximately 30 yards). The camera will rotate around your character and the game will switch to Pet Battle mode. From this screen you can:

  • See the status of all your pets at the top left of your screen.
  • Control the abilities of your active pet at the bottom.
  • Switch between pets and see them by clicking the 4th icon on the bar.
  • Capture pets when they're low on life!
  • You can also surrender but that sounds pretty wimpy to be honest.
The battle is pretty simple, weaknesses and strengths are already implemented and if you pick the wrong type of pet you will get your ass kicked pretty fast. It ends whenever the enemy is defeated or captured.



Pet Battle Masters
The Pet Battle System will also have fights against NPCs, some of the achievements datamined last night point to "Pet Battle Masters" that you have to defeat on every continent.

Category Name Points
Pet BattlesTaming Eastern Kingdoms
Defeat all of the master pet tamers in Eastern Kingdoms.
0
Pet BattlesTaming Kalimdor
Defeat all of the master pet tamers in Kalimdor.
0
Pet BattlesTaming Northrend
Defeat all of the master pet tamers in Northrend.
0
Pet BattlesTaming Outland
Defeat all of the master pet tamers in Outland.
0
Pet BattlesTaming Pandaria
Defeat all of the master pet tamers in Pandaria.
0
Pet BattlesTaming the Wild
Defeat a master pet tamer.
0


Finding New Pets
How are you going to know where to find new pets for your collection? Easy, Blizzard is going to integrate a full encyclopedia directly in the game. Maps aren't implemented yet but currently, the info page of any pet will already tell you where you can find it!



Pet Family Passive Bonuses
Newly added are passive bonuses for all pet families.

  • Aquatic - Purity - The duration of harmful damage over time effects is reduced on Aquatic pets.
  • Beast - Enrage - Beasts deal 25% extra damage below half health.
  • Critter - Elusive - Critters break out of crowd control effects more quickly.
  • Dragonkin - Execute - Deals 50% additional damage to targets with less than 25% health.
  • Elemental - Weather Immune - Elementals ignore all weather effects.
  • Flying - Swiftness - Flying creatures gain 50% extra speed while above 50% health.
  • Humanoid - Recovery - Humanoids recover 2% of their maximum health every time they attack.
  • Magic - Spellshield - Magic pets cannot be dealt more than 50% of their maximum health in one attack.
  • Mechanical - Comes back to life once per battle, returning to 25% health.
  • Undead - Damned - Undead pets return to life for one round when killed.


Pet Battle Abilities
If you missed the update last week, check out the updated list of pet battle abilities on WoWDB!


The tooltips for individual abilities will show you which pets the attack is strong against, and which pets the attack is weak against. The page will also show you which pets can learn the abilities. On each pet's page, we have listed all of the spells that the pet can learn. We will continue to add features as the system is fully implemented in the beta.

This article was originally published in forum thread: Pet Battle System now on Beta Realms (Early Version) started by Boubouille View original post
Comments 261 Comments
  1. Xinxang's Avatar
    first? dd


    Infracted.
  1. Setonas's Avatar
    "First" kids need a life

    Awesome, will have to test out these pet battles!
  1. Azahel's Avatar
    It does look a lot like Pokemon, even visually...
    That's great!
  1. Kelmart's Avatar
    I was really excited about this. However it looks like of boring atm, hope its just the early version. If not will just be using it to get some pets :/
  1. mmocc077b07168's Avatar
    I am famous! -Thørlinn in the vid.
  1. riztek's Avatar
    This gonna be a good time killer
  1. Nest's Avatar
    Looks more balanced than the real PvP.
    Pet battles is one of the best additions in MoP, really like it.
  1. krezzoch's Avatar
    2nd? pet system looks awesome!
  1. Umbrokill's Avatar
    Pokemon is great, WoW is great... This is awesome!
  1. colester's Avatar
    Gotta catch them all!! I had to say it sorry. :/
  1. Idletime's Avatar
    My mother always said if you can't say something nice then don't say anything. I'll keep looking for the game I started playing 7 years ago, I know it's around here somewhere.
  1. emmac727's Avatar
    100 gold just to learn how to battle seems a little excessive to me especially since this was meant for all levels
  1. Wreckeded's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Kelmart View Post
    I was really excited about this. However it looks like of boring atm, hope its just the early version. If not will just be using it to get some pets :/
    Needs some cheesy Turn based battle music.
  1. Die Hard's Avatar
    Jesus, imagine what they could have done with their development time instead of creating this nonsense.
  1. Ehnoah's Avatar
    What for Hacks he used? To get this avaliable?

    Because it is NOT Working, you have NO Pets so what for "hack" he used? to get the Pets?

    (I learned 120 Pets)
  1. quras's Avatar
    WTF! How far we have fallen.
  1. Aberration's Avatar
    Soooo excited for this.
  1. wazeh's Avatar
    is blizzard really not going to have any problems with Pokemon rights?
  1. Killmaim Deathbringer's Avatar
    Actually. This seems like a goodway to kill time when waiting for raids and such. I know as a pet collector I'm going to love this.
  1. AsgardFM's Avatar
    I wonder, what happens to world PvP when you're engaging in a Pet Battle like that? Can the opposing faction just swoop down and obliterate you while you're trying to capture something, will you be instantly classed as neutral (think Sanctuary zone conditions) or will you phase out for the duration of the fight?

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