MoP Companion Guide

[Oratory]

Also see my MoP Mount Guide.

I'm not including wild pets in this guide as there are already others that do a fine job. This is for pets obtained outside the pet battle system - there are surprisingly few.

Mists of Pandaria Companion Pet Guide

Purchasable

• Will Larsons teaches Gilnean Raven. ALLIANCE ONLY.
• Matty teaches Shore Crawler. HORDE ONLY.
• Nat Pagle sells Tiny Goldfish for 250g if you are exalted with The Anglers
• Guild vendors will sell Thundering Serpent Hatchling for 300g once the Guild Achievement Challenge Conquerors: Gold - Guild Edition is unlocked.

Crafted

Engineering:

• Mechanical Pandaren Dragonling

Inscription:

• Chi-Ji Kite
• Yu'lon Kite

Jewelcrafting:

• Jade Owl
• Sapphire Cub

Achievements & Quests(ish)
Several achievements reward pets upon completion. They will arrive in the mail as soon as the achievement is awarded.

• Complete Going to Need More Leashes by collecting 250 different pets to earn Feral Vermling.
• Complete That's a Lot of Pet Food by collecting 400 different pets to earn Venus.
• Complete Pro Pet Mob by leveling 75 pets to level 25 to earn Singing Cricket.
• Complete Time to Open a Pet Store by earning 400 Pet Battle Achievement Points to earn Jade Tentacle.
• Complete Ling-Ting's Herbal Journey, a heroic dungeon achievement to earn Hopling.

• When harvesting your farm with the Tillers, you have a chance to pick up an Ominous Seed. Plant this seed and it will grow into a Terrible Turnip.
• Reach Best Friend status with Sho (Tillers sub-reputation) and he will mail you Red Cricket
• Complete any Daily Pet Battle Quest for a Sack of Pet Supplies, which may contain Porcupette.

Enemy Drops

• Aqua Strider drops from Nalash Verdantis, a rare mob in Dread Wastes.
• Darkmoon Rabbit drops from Darkmoon Rabbit, a boss mob in a cave just outside the Darkmoon Faire.
  
  • Killing the rabbit also awards the achievement That Rabbit's Dynamite!
  • How to actually kill him is still unknown. He has 75 million HP and applies a DoT that deals 25% of your max HP per second and reduces healing by 100%. Pets (hunter/warlock) don't get the debuff and can very slowly wittle him down if the player doesn't attack him. Indalamar's Holy Hand Grenade is expected to be involved with this rabbit but no source has been found.

You can obtain 18 pets by this point.


Out-of-Game

• Lucky Quilen Cub comes with the Digital Deluxe Edition or Collectors Edition of Mists of Pandaria.
• Baneling comes with the Collectors Edition of Starcraft: Heart of the Swarm

Unknown
The following pets have been datamined but have no known source. They may end up not being available at all. Or they may be lost and should be wild pets.

• Imbued Jade Fragment (teaches Grinder)
• Jade Crane Chick
• Pandaren Water Spirit

[Renley]

Each race learns a different companion from the battle pet trainer.

Draenei - Blue Moth
Dwarf - Snowshoe Rabbit
Gnome - Snowshoe Rabbit
Human - Orange Tabby Cat
Night Elf - Great Horned Owl
Worgen - Gilnean Raven
Blood Elf - Golden Dragonhawk Hatchling
Goblin - Shore Crawler
Orc - Black Kingsnake
Tauren - Brown Prairie Dog
Troll - Black Kingsnake
Undead - Undercity Cockroach
Pandaren - Jade Crane Chick

Imbued Jade Fragment drops off of a rarespawn, Karr the Darkener.

No idea about the Pandaren Water Spirit though. If I had to guess, it comes from a questline/lore achievment.

[WarTV]

thanks for the awesome work. Again !