Best Add-Ons for Pet Battles

I tried to narrow this list down to only 3 but after a lot of thought I realized that there are 4 add-ons that I cant be without. If anyone of these add-ons are not working I am dead in the water when it comes to my daily routine when it comes to pet battling in the World of Warcraft.

Battle Pet Binds - This is a very light weight add-on that is only used for displaying the keys that you can hit instead of clicking with your mouse. I use this when I am recording the pet battles for the posts I write and publish both here and on YouTube. I also get lazy and when I am doing 2 or 3 dozen PVP matches in a row I like to be able to just use the keyboard instead of the mouse.

Battle Pet BreedID - This is also very light weight and it puts the breed beside the pets in the AH, Pet Battle UI, and in your pet journal. Knowing the breeds of your pets cannot be understated, so this add-on is defiantly a "must have".

Pet Battle Teams - If you have multiple teams you use for dailies or PVP you need something to keep them. This add-on will save team builds and the moves you chose for each pet based on what was selected when you locked the team. With out this add-on I would be relying on memory or keeping some type of written record, neither of which are good for your sanity.

Pet Tracker - This is the largest most involved add-on that i use, it will show you way more information than you need but is one of the best "all-in-one" add-on out there and EVERY pet battler should have this add-on. There are a lot of guides out there to show you how to use this add-on. Josh Augustine has a great review of this add-on at his site and there is an episode of his podcast where he talks about the Pros and Cons of using Pet Tracker.

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Defeating the Thundering Pandaren Spirit Tamer

This strategy is set up to be able to kill all three of the enemy pets with two pets and carry another along for the ride to level. This daily yields about 4600 XP (with Safari Hat equipped). The main reason this strategy works is because the AI for these NPCs is predicable. I do this on a daily basis for the Bag of Loot, Pet XP, and a little bit of gold. This is one of three of these Pandaren spirits that you can carry a pet along to level with. Check out the strategy posts I wrote for the Flowing Pandaren Spirit, the Burning Pandaren Spirit and the Whispering Pandaren Spirit.

The Location

The Thundering Pandaren Spirit is Located in Kun-Lai summit just North East of the Shrine of Two Moons.

The Daily Quest

You will pick up the quest – Defeat the Thundering Pandaren Spirit from him at his location. Upon completion, this quest will reward you with:

11 or 19 gold (depending on your level)
Pandaren Spirit Pet Supplies
5 x Valor Points
2 x Lesser Charm of Good Fortune

The Fix

Here is the set up you will need to have in order to roll over this fight;

Pet Slot 1             Carry Pet (must be able to survive a 600 damage attack)

Pet Slot 2             Alpine Hare (any rabbit w/ 300+ Speed): Flurry > Dodge > Burrow
Pet Slot 3             Lil’ Smoky:  Missile > Toxic Smoke > Sticky Grenade

The Fight

Pandaren Earth Spirit - Abilities: Crystal Prison > Rupture > Stone Shot

Start out with your carry pet. The Pandaren Earth Spirit will cast Crystal Prison first so your first move will be a pass. His second attack will be Rupture which will deal about 500-550 damage to your carried pet. So, the carry pet needs to have enough health to withstand a hit. Switch in your rabbit and use Burrow to avoid one Stone Shot . Next use Flurry for two turns, then use Dodge to avoid the Rupture in and also the following Stone Shot . Use Flurry once, and then start again with Burrow, rinsing and repeating till the Earth Spirit is dead.

So here is the sequence you will use repeatedly no matter what the enemy pet does;

Burrow >> Flurry >> Flurry >> Dodge >> Flurry (RR)

Don’t worry if your Rabbit is very low on health, he will not get hit again during the rest of this fight.

Sludgy - Abilities: Creeping Ooze > Expunge > Ooze Touch

Mechanicals take less damage from 2 out of 3 of Sludgy's attacks, and when possessing Beast type ability, can put out a lot of damage to get him down quick.

When Sludgy comes out, switch to your mechanical. I will start with Sticky Grenade then Toxic Smoke. Keep using Missile until Toxic Smoke wears off then refresh it, if he isn’t dead by this point he will be by the first Missile attack. For this fight all the mechanical pet you use has to do is kill this enemy pet. It’s fine if you mechanical pet dies as long as Sludgy is dead as well.

Darnak the Tunneler - Abilities: Stoneskin > Burrow > Stone Rush

Switch your rabbit back in as soon as Darnak comes out; he will do Stoneskin when you swap. Next use Flurry for one round, and when Darnak submerges, use Dodge, which avoids not only the Burrow, but also the following Stone Rush after he emerges. Continue with Flurry for the next 2 turns, the second Flurry will not be answered back because by this point he has no abilities that are off cool down for him to use. Finally use Burrow   which avoids Stone Rush. Now rinse and repeat until he is dead.

This sequence is a bit different from the sequence you used to kill the Pandaren Earth Spirit  but if you use this sequence of attacks use repeatedly you won’t take a single point of damage and will kill the last pet in this fight;

Flurry >> Dodge >> Flurry >> Flurry >> Burrow (RR)

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Beasts of Fable: Part 1

The Beasts of Fable quest is four part chain with the first being a quest, when completed, will open three dailies that yield some nice rewards. The same goes for my posts on this. The  first post will be to explain and build the teams you will need, I will also give you some way points for Tom Tom and the path we are going to use to knock these out in lightning time. The second, third, and forth posts will cover all three of the dailies.

If you look back at the patch notes for 5.3 you will see that they made a lot of changes to these ten beasts. They say they tuned them to be harder but I beg to differ. With the right team(s) you can roll over all ten very quickly and the time you spend flying via flight points will be the largest time chuck out of the time you spend completing all three dailies back to back.

The first quest (not a daily quest yet) is called, The Beasts of Fable, and to complete this you must beat all 10 of the newly tuned legendary pets scattered through out Pandaria.

You pick up the non-daily quest from the same NPC you will eventually get the dailies from. The NPC's name is Gentle San if your Horde at the Shrine of Two Moons and if your Alliance then you need to go get it from Sara Finkleswitch at the Shrine of Seven Stars. 

Upon completion this quest will reward you with:

11 or 19 gold (depending on your level)
Red Panda
5 x Valor Points
2 x Lesser Charm of Good Fortune

Also when you complete this quest you will open up three dailies, the strategies I go over for the quest will work for the dailies just as well. 

I will assume most of you have already unlocked the dailies and don't do them because of how much of a pain in the ass just to complete the quest so you don't bother with them. But even if you haven't unlocked we need to get some teams and macros set up.

The Beasts of Fable are one of three classes, They are either Beast, Critter, and Aquatic. We are going to build three teams so you can set them up and swap them quickly. These pets are interchangeable with other in-game pets if you don't have all the pets I am suggesting at your disposal. If you are going to change them I would pay closer attention to the pet class and the specific abilities rather than the speed or attack. Not to say speed and attack aren't also important but you may do a bit of trial and error during the fights to get a suitable replacement for the ones I used.

Aquatic Killer Team

Beast Killer Team 

 Critter Killer Team

Once you have these teams built you can make 3 macros for TomTom so you can take the quickest route to all 10 of the Beasts of Fable.

Beasts of Fable Book I Macro

/way Kun-Lai Summit 35.18 56.17 Kafi /way Kun-Lai Summit 67.87 84.69 Dos'Ryga /way Jade Forest 48.42 70.96 Ka'wi the Gorger /way Jade Forest 57.04 29.12 Nitun

Beasts of Fable Book II Macro

/way Valley of the Four Winds 40.54 43.67 Lucky Yi /way Valley of the Four Winds 25.29 78.54 Greyhoof /way Krasarang Wilds 36.23 37.34 Skitterer Xi'a

Beasts of Fable Book III Macro

/way Townlong Steppes 72.26 79.78 Ti'un the Wanderer /way Vale of Eternal Blossoms 11 71 No-No /way Dread Wastes 26.18 50.27 Gorespine

The next post will be a step by step on how to use the tools I gave you in this post to your advantage.

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Completing the "Taming the World" Achievement from 39/40

If you're stuck on 39/40 for your Taming the World achievement then this post will clear it up so you can complete the achievement and get your Safari Hat.

Blizzard is still trying to ram it down our throats that we should try alliance if you're horde and horde if you're alliance. You must pick up the first pet battle quest in order to get the last tamer for the achievement, that means 39/40 are for both factions and the last is the opposite faction. I am only going to cover this from the horde side because I can't stand alliance. When I roll an alliance toon, it's to do one of these types of things and then I will delete that toon immediately after its complete.

For this one, I rolled a human priest and ran though Stormwind and up to the north side of the Dwarven District to Audrey Burnhep. when you get to her pick up the quest - Julia, The Pet Tamer.

This quest is an account quest so you have 2 choices here.

1. Run your level one human down to Julia Stevens to complete this quest, or
2. Log out and fly to Julia Stevens on your Horde toon so you don't have to spend a second longer than absolutely necessary as alliance.

I went with option 2, I flew from a flight point to Flame Star Post in the Burning Steppes and then flew to Julia Stevens' location to the south of Gold Shire.

She will be easy to beat, she only has 2 level 2 snakes, but if you are at 39/40, defeating her will get you the Taming the World achievement and your Safari Hat. The Safari Hat will be mailed to every toon you have and will ever create so when you are leveling any pets, you'll get 10% increased XP to your pets while its equipped.

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