any clue on prices for pets in shadowlands yet? wondering how many polished pet charms we will need

so far you'll need 3000 charms for the pets we know about. DragonsAfterDark has a summary of all the currencies needed for pets in shadowlands here
https://wow-petguide.com/index.php?News=248

thanks a ton so my 12k pet charms will do me fine :)

But(!), how about pet stones? Are they still 15 charms for a Flawless and 60 for an Ultimate Battle-Stone?

Notice there are a couple quest/battles missing from Bastion list. Have I got something set wrong again :) Not seeing Cliffs of Bastion or Mega Bite.

Edit: Mega Bite is the world quest today, but he is still not being cooperative and letting you battle him :) (edited)

I remember reading that a couple of the new battles don't work on the Beta. Those are probably the ones missing.

jawbone can't be engaged and the 3rd pet from stratios is very buggy. we don't want to have people upload strats for fights that are clearly not working properly and are definitely going to be changed anyway (edited)

Understand and agree 100% thanks.

Will add this for anyone else wanting to do the "Heroic Measures" LOL....

1. Add this to a macro on live to grab a pet in your journal you have the mouse hovering over and it will "quick cage" it for you

/run C_PetJournal.CagePetByID(GetMouseFocus().petID)

2. Then once you have all the pets in your bag, copy the toon to beta. Once in beta with that toon, add this macro to like the 1 key and just spam it ;) all pets will be put back in the journal.

#showtooltip Pet Cage
/use pet cage

Is there a secret I'm missing on getting any good pets from the import? 90% of all the strats here use pets I don't have. Even tried deleting all toons and reimporting them.. but by golly, i have silly ones out the ying yang ;) like 3 of every cat there is... snakes, chickens, moths..

The Character Copy for PTR and Beta frankly doesn't work for pets.

Your copied account comes across with the original 1000 pet limit, even if you have upgraded your roster to 2000 on live.

Internally, it seems that pets are held in a simple 2000-slot list, with the first pets you learned first. So when your character is copied over, the first 1000 you learned are all that are brought with you. And, of course, for a lot of us who came up the intended way, that means that we are left with the various wild pets we collected on our road to Zookeeper, and not the power-creep pets from more recent expansions.


This makes testing more a matter of trying to game the import system than of, y'know, actual testing. SOMEBODY in Blizzard needs to be told to get that working right.

Character Copy is an unusable mess for any attempt at pet testing.

The Beta testers who made these strats have used heroic measures, like caging all their tradable pets on live before copying, and then deleting pets and learning the ones from the cages on Beta.

i was caging pets for every encounter. before rematch worked on the beta i had retail running in the background just for that and while looking at a trainer's team i caged every single pet that might be useful (and i don't have on beta) on retail and then copied them to the beta. all in all i think i transferred like 90-120 pets individually

also updating the pet journal limitation did work for me back on the 8.3 ptr, so there must be a difference between the ptr and beta accounts

what was really annoying was getting non tradable pets with certain breeds on the beta before the addons were working... when you have to capture a new one without knowing the breed and then leveling it with fights since leveling stones are buggy on the beta (edited)

OMG, @Gráinne.. that last statement was the one I think I was looking for :) That makes so much sence.. Thank you so much. ---------- "/emote Runs off to live to cage pets"

If you didn't do much on beta, maybe you wanna try this... https://twitter.com/patf0rd/status/1297488029972602880 (please read all of the replies there) (edited)

Thanks Lazey :) Had not done anything on that server.. worked fine... alot easier for sure.

I was really looking forward to testing the pet battles in beta and caged and copied roughly 120 of the most used pets with my main toon. Unfortunately, so far, I have not been able to use the battle pet leveling stones, only the upgrade to rare stones, so that was a bummer (server is Oribos, haven't tried any other).

The pain was in getting the best breeds of non-tradeable pets and leveling them. I took a chance and uploaded the Pet Breed ID add-on and even though WoW says it's out-of-date, it will show the pet breeds, which is a help.

What I found very strange is that, through the first 3 zones I have now levelled in beta, I have yet to see the first live battle pet to engage and/or capture. Has anybody else had the same (weird) experience?

Just dinged 60 and hope that the pet battle WQ's will work as I put a hell of a lot of work and time into getting a suitable stable of battle pets to (hopefully) contribute to some more strategies, as I am a huge fan of this site.

Wild pet battles are not yet active in Shadowlands zones. Every zone has 4 tamer pet battles, one will be active in each zone for 24h (daily reset). (Mega Bite in Bastion still not playable). BreedID addon has known pets in its data, for new pets you want see breeds. (out of date for addons doesn't mean they won't work, they only have an old version number but have a chance to still do their job when Blizzard didn't change some of the functions they need. (edited)