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Mists of Pandaria: Pet Battles
We will hear more about Mists of Pandaria in the upcoming weeks, but while we are waiting for new announcements we can review the new pet battle system that is coming in Mists of Pandaria.

Previous Coverage:





General
  • Pets will be account wide.
  • The battle system will be accessible to all players from a low level.
  • The battle system works with almost every pet.
  • Rare pets will not give any combat advantage, but may give a cosmetic advantage.
  • Your pet journal will display info on all your pets, including stats, skills, and also drop locations and lore info for the pets you don't have yet. It will also let you manage your teams and battle parts of the system.
  • You will be able to customize your pet with names or visuals for the abilities.
  • Every pet can use 3 abilities in a battle at one time with a total of 6 abilities to swap around between battles.
  • Every time you level you will also increase the stats of your pet.
  • The current pet level cap is 25.
  • You will level multiple pets to build your team, which consists of 3 slots for pets during battle.

Collecting
  • Most pets will become tradable, even after being leveled.
  • There will be Wild Pets that you can find in the world and engage in battle with. After defeating it, you will be able to get that pet and add it to your Pet Journal.
  • Wild Pets have random stats, some of them will be very good at tanking, some will have a CC ability, and so on.
  • Some pets will only be found during a specific season, while it's raining, or during the day or the night. For example, some of them will only spawn in the spring, when it's raining, in Elwynn Forest at night!
  • There will be at least one unique pet per zone.

Battle
  • There will be both PvE battles against Wild Pets and PvP battles against other players.
  • It will be a simple turn based combat system.
  • You can fight with a team of 3 pets.
  • There will be a queuing system so that you will be able to find a fight pretty fast depending on the level of your pets.
  • Winning battles will earn experience and levels for your pets.

Customization
  • You will finally be able to name your pets, and see that name in battle.
  • You can obtain items for your pets.
  • You will have an item slot for your pet and might be able to socket gems in the item.
  • There will be individual builds of abilities for each pet and different teams.
  • There will be Pet Masters in the world who will let you earn Master abilities when you beat them. For example, beating the master of mechanical pets will get you a new ability for your pet.


Blue Posts
Originally Posted by Blizzard Entertainment
Cross Realm Raids and a Lack of Community
Unfortunately, that opinion is very subjective. The continued popularity of the cross-realm LFD tool, and now the LFR, indicates that a great number of players are just fine with using it for quicker access, rather than attempting to group up with people on the same realm.

Also, implying that every group in LFD/LFR is filled with people you'd gladly never group up with again is exaggerating the actual situation. There are many of us who use the tools a lot, and rarely experience this.

Having said all that, the future BattleTag system will go a long way to improving the ability to build and maintain cross-realm friendships, eliminating the need to fill groups with as many 'randoms'.

[...] We're always looking for feedback and ways to improve our features. Player feedback regarding dungeon groups and long wait-times contributed to the development of the dungeon finder tool in the first place. Now, in response to new feedback, BattleTags will address some of the issues players currently face when meeting potential friends on different realms.

No, unfortunately some people don't always enjoy the groups they find themselves in through the Dungeon Finder. But do you believe limiting the pool of players to your own realm, or offering an incentive to manually search for your own group will solve this?

Finishing a dungeon with a great group before the Dungeon Finder tool was available was indeed a fantastic experience, but I personally still get that feeling now when I'm grouped with a nice bunch of people. (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)

Extra Character Slots
There are on-going discussions about how we want to handle this issue. If I recall correctly, there were some ideas brought up at BlizzCon about what we could potentially do to alleviate the concerns about extra character slots, but I don't have any more information on a specific decision right now. (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)

New Warcraft Fan Art
The World of Warcraft Fan Art Section has been updated with five new pieces of fan artwork.




Curse Weekly Roundup
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This article was originally published in forum thread: Mists of Pandaria: Pet Battles, Blue Posts, Fan Art, Curse Weekly Roundup started by chaud View original post
Published on 2012-01-12 04:35 AM
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  1. Chickat's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Lightfist View Post
    That's his point. It isn't an inspired little mini-game, it's just a shameless rip-off to try and squeeze out more playtime; what's worse, people are applauding this.





    The hypocrisy of the WoW community is staggering. Would you mind explaining to me how it's only Blizzard's job to cater to their subscribers and make them happy if the subscribers in question are casuals or unskilled?

    You will still have your raids so you can feel like a special snowflake. This is a SIMPLE thing to add since its such "ripoff", so it isn't taking that much time to develop. Allot of people want this, and whether you want this or not is irrelevant. Stop being selfish.
  1. kynthrus's Avatar
    Man Nintendo is gonna be pissed.
  1. Puck's Avatar
    Okay seriously people, stop complaining about optional content. At least you have something to do during raid lock outs.
  1. Byniri's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Lightfist View Post
    That's his point. It isn't an inspired little mini-game, it's just a shameless rip-off to try and squeeze out more playtime; what's worse, people are applauding this.





    The hypocrisy of the WoW community is staggering. Would you mind explaining to me how it's only Blizzard's job to cater to their subscribers and make them happy if the subscribers in question are casuals or unskilled?
    So according to you, only 'casual' and unskilled players will use this? What a joke.

    If you're too 'hardcore' for a fun OPTIONAL quest, go brag about doing Heroic Raids.





    Quote Originally Posted by Vook View Post
    Was hoping Blizz would scrap World of Pokecraft...sigh.

    If you don't like it, DON'T USE IT. It's NOT required for anything.
  1. Chickat's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Airwaves View Post
    I like wow. I like Pokemon. If I want to play wow i will go on wow. If I want to play Pokemon i will go whip out my old gameboy, smash in yellow and get playing. I for one see this as a waste of time and resources when stuff like the old races still look like shit. If stuff like that was already done i couldn't care less if they added pet battles.
    Rift has public quests, If wow was adding public quests to the list f things then i could say the same thing you did. (If i want to play wow ill play wow. If i want to play rift ill play rift. See what i did there? This is a simple amazing thing they are adding to the game. I dont think blizzard should add new arenas to wow, but i don't go around bashing every time they do because im not selfish.
  1. Lightfist's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Chickat View Post
    You will still have your raids so you can feel like a special snowflake. This is a SIMPLE thing to add since its such "ripoff", so it isn't taking that much time to develop. Allot of people want this, and whether you want this or not is irrelevant. Stop being selfish.
    On the contrary, it being completely unoriginal and a shameless ripoff doesn't mean they don't have to take the time to give every single pet stats and moves, create the battle system, create this "wild pet" encounter shit, make the queue for it (because apparently we're too lazy to play Pokemon), make the ridiculous "Minipet Master" gym leaders, etc.

    And if you want this, get an emulator and play Pokemon on your computer. Every time a blatant ripoff of WoW is announced, the community (rightly) denounces it - but this is somehow okay?

    ---------- Post added 2012-01-12 at 12:32 AM ----------

    Quote Originally Posted by Byniri View Post
    So according to you, only 'casual' and unskilled players will use this? What a joke.

    If you're too 'hardcore' for a fun OPTIONAL quest, go brag about doing Heroic Raids.
    No, according to me I constantly see people bitching about how Blizzard needs to do this or that to serve the people who "don't have time to play the game," then turn around and say that they don't have to cater to people who do "have time" to play the game.
  1. angelx7x's Avatar
    i wouldn't call it so much a -ripoff- but more paying homage. plus, if i can play pokemon without actually having to buy the games then it's win-win for me >.> (because playing them for me now would entail buying not only the games, but the platform on which to play them, as i lost my GBA years ago, and don't have a DS)
  1. Byniri's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Lightfist View Post
    On the contrary, it being completely unoriginal and a shameless ripoff doesn't mean they don't have to take the time to give every single pet stats and moves, create the battle system, create this "wild pet" encounter shit, make the queue for it (because apparently we're too lazy to play Pokemon), make the ridiculous "Minipet Master" gym leaders, etc.

    And if you want this, get an emulator and play Pokemon on your computer. Every time a blatant ripoff of WoW is announced, the community (rightly) denounces it - but this is somehow okay?
    Because this isn't an entire game based off of it.

    This is an OPTIONAL feature that they are adding in for people to have FUN with at all levels. It's freaking optional, don't do it if you don't like it. Why can't something fun be in the game, not 'hardcore' enough for you?
  1. ambigiouslynamed's Avatar
    whats the difference between combat and cosmetic advantage? and what if youre already max lv, do you keep making alts to increase the stats of ur pets? also the top left corner if looked at closely shows that until u get a specific achievement your 3rd battle slot(whatever that means) remains blocked. does that mean other things might be blocked? and more importantly does this mean other features might be blocked till you get an achievement?
  1. The Last DJ's Avatar
    Not gonna lie, I'm totally looking forward to this. Then again, I like to collect pets and was hoping that one day there'd be something to do with them. Wasn't expecting Pokemon, but fuck, it looks fun as hell. I hope being able to name your pets exists outside of the pet arena. :|
  1. Gio's Avatar
    i'll prefer grinding gear vanilla style to have something to do
  1. Dasn's Avatar
    Tranquil Mechanical Yeti with an ability called Super Shark Punch? i lol'd
  1. Lightfist's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Byniri View Post
    Because this isn't an entire game based off of it.

    This is an OPTIONAL feature that they are adding in for people to have FUN with at all levels. It's freaking optional, don't do it if you don't like it. Why can't something fun be in the game, not 'hardcore' enough for you?
    Why do you assume this is about this being 'hardcore'? Do you know what I've spent the last few days doing? Farming old instances for my transmog set. I have Loremaster, and questing is far from hardcore. Hell, if I had a copy of Pokemon Gold and a GBA right now, I'd probably be playing it.

    That's not what this is about.

    This is a shameless ripoff of a popular series shoehorned into a universe where it makes no sense for the sake of squeezing out a little more playtime from it's subscribers.
  1. UUUooo's Avatar
    Oh god I think these haters are right I am paying for wow only! They offer me pokemon for free?Its an optional addition that ads variety to the game which I can share with my in-game friends? WHAT IS THIS NONSENSE!!!2012!!!DOOMSDAY HAS COME, WE ALL GONA DIE! /shrug
  1. Queen of Hamsters's Avatar
    Am I the only one clever enough to tell the difference between WoW Pet battles and Pokemon?Seriously people, use your brains and stop the mindless whinging over an optional feature. It's just so stupid to cry about it that it's a shame to know that the same people crying can actually be found in-game.
  1. Chickat's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Lightfist View Post
    Why do you assume this is about this being 'hardcore'? Do you know what I've spent the last few days doing? Farming old instances for my transmog set. I have Loremaster, and questing is far from hardcore. Hell, if I had a copy of Pokemon Gold and a GBA right now, I'd probably be playing it.

    That's not what this is about.

    This is a shameless ripoff of a popular series shoehorned into a universe where it makes no sense for the sake of squeezing out a little more playtime from it's subscribers.

    I don't really care if you like it or not.... Why cant you let the people that WANT it just have it and leave it alone. You dont have to do it, and your opinion doesn't matter when thousands if not millions want this in the game.
  1. BrerBear's Avatar
    I've never played Pokemon.This looks interesting. Plus, I can whip out my Soul-trader beacon.
  1. greyghost's Avatar
    Wait wait let me play this game.

    I'm INFURIATED that Blizzard is not devoting more time to add more cooking content to the game but instead wastes their development time devoted to a Pokemon ripoff. Cooking system has been UNCHANGED for YEARS and Blizzard is ignoring the HUGE PLAYERBASE of people who cook food for EVERYTHING.

    MYNEEDS.
  1. Jocke's Avatar
    I think it looks so funny, i like it
  1. SiegZero's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by greyghost View Post
    Wait wait let me play this game.I'm INFURIATED that Blizzard is not devoting more time to add more cooking content to the game but instead wastes their development time devoted to a Pokemon ripoff. Cooking system has been UNCHANGED for YEARS and Blizzard is ignoring the HUGE PLAYERBASE of people who cook food for EVERYTHING.MYNEEDS.
    The funny thing is that they are revamping cooking too
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