tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9139205590317840868.post786297135070302371..comments2024-02-25T11:19:44.035+11:00Comments on The Daily Frostwolf - Druid Edition: Pet battles - what can breathe life into them again?Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger18125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9139205590317840868.post-74150558753972425052015-03-16T10:20:03.434+11:002015-03-16T10:20:03.434+11:00I think the new 6.1 pets are helping me get back i...I think the new 6.1 pets are helping me get back into pet collecting!McTackyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12096767343970299964noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9139205590317840868.post-1321826953132897682015-02-24T10:10:35.696+11:002015-02-24T10:10:35.696+11:00I find the garrison has decreased my will to pet b...I find the garrison has decreased my will to pet battle in the world. But I am trying to get out and pet battle again.Navimiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08504557372435466448noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9139205590317840868.post-17847334155888536692015-02-24T10:09:19.900+11:002015-02-24T10:09:19.900+11:00Should totally laud that! Crooked is amazingly ast...Should totally laud that! Crooked is amazingly astute!Navimiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08504557372435466448noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9139205590317840868.post-11688108718037318542015-02-24T10:08:17.441+11:002015-02-24T10:08:17.441+11:00I don't do the draenor circuit at all and I th...I don't do the draenor circuit at all and I think no flying is why. I would love to see more in default UI!Navimiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08504557372435466448noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9139205590317840868.post-42601391272220805302015-02-22T05:23:09.403+11:002015-02-22T05:23:09.403+11:00I wouldn't say I am an avid pet battler but I ...I wouldn't say I am an avid pet battler but I like that the choice is there. I tend to level my alts up in different ways so one of mine did pet battles however there seems to be an awful lot of time travelling involved to get the pets which is get when levelling but maybe not so much once you are in WoD.<br />I had thought that the garrisons would revive my pet levelling as I had imagined that the pet building would be somewhere where I could train up lower level pets and earn items to change quality since most of mine are low and green. Then after I might actually be able to go out and beat trainers that need specific pets.<br />Mostly I just use them as a companion pet :)Gwendlyn Dhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08406012956048624786noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9139205590317840868.post-85579913489668096862015-02-21T22:52:27.324+11:002015-02-21T22:52:27.324+11:00I used to do the tamers in MoP a lot because of th...I used to do the tamers in MoP a lot because of the convenience of flying, now I don't bother. Actually pretty much everything Crooked said. You're right, Blizzard should hire Crooked for those ideas!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14768527792021887387noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9139205590317840868.post-86428291744185254432015-02-21T21:35:19.125+11:002015-02-21T21:35:19.125+11:00I'm still trying to level up my collection so ...I'm still trying to level up my collection so it's a slow and tedious slog. At least the Draenor circuit only takes around 40mins but I don't always do that every night. I've backed up my teams so I can easily restore them if need be but I would love to see them add some more integration to the default UI. The less addons the better.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9139205590317840868.post-88883903651878613272015-02-21T20:29:30.253+11:002015-02-21T20:29:30.253+11:00Those are great ideas Crooked! You should work fo...Those are great ideas Crooked! You should work for Blizzard!<br />I love the idea of a daily catch a pet and deliver it to someone. Or taking your pet on a tour. Kinda like a Children's Week thing.<br />I agree that Menagerie dailies should count towards draenor pet battles. Those pet battles are taking place in Draenor after all!Navimiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08504557372435466448noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9139205590317840868.post-59684425736453756912015-02-21T16:12:01.799+11:002015-02-21T16:12:01.799+11:00That would be cool except we would have to pvp pet...That would be cool except we would have to pvp pet battle i think - coz you can't go out and explore the world!Navimiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08504557372435466448noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9139205590317840868.post-56243656343026337632015-02-21T15:16:22.156+11:002015-02-21T15:16:22.156+11:00I have hardly done any archaeology. And I don'...I have hardly done any archaeology. And I don't feel like I get anything from pet battle rewards lately, so I don't feel the urge to pet battle like I used to.Navimiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08504557372435466448noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9139205590317840868.post-6323544875751299862015-02-21T15:15:36.082+11:002015-02-21T15:15:36.082+11:00I would love an ipad pet battle! Or Android. :PI would love an ipad pet battle! Or Android. :PNavimiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08504557372435466448noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9139205590317840868.post-57331331750281873102015-02-21T15:14:55.435+11:002015-02-21T15:14:55.435+11:00That addon is something that needs to be added to ...That addon is something that needs to be added to the standard UI as well - I should have mentioned that. When you have over 600 pets I can't be stuffed trying to scroll through them all trying to remember what teams I had - I have also lost all my teams and I struggle now to remember all my Elekk teams so I could complete my post - and I think adding that into the Blizz UI would help a LOT.<br /><br />You're right, I couldn't do the level cap thing again nor adding epic pets either.<br /><br />And LOL at the video - yes I know that video, we used to say that A LOT in raid :D BUT SPOREBAT IS GOOD FOR RESTO DRUIDS!!! And I do remember a time when everyone pulled out their sporebats after I whinged about the lack of haste buff in the raid and they started quoting that :D<br /><br />And, thanks for reading my pet strats. Didn't think anyone read them - they were a godsend for me after I lost my teams, I was just glad I had written them down SOMEWHERE.Navimiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08504557372435466448noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9139205590317840868.post-48236170225250073462015-02-21T13:10:29.739+11:002015-02-21T13:10:29.739+11:00The new trainers I only did once or twice. They to...The new trainers I only did once or twice. They took longer to get to (because no flying?) and the reward didn't entice me. I don't think having the menagerie helped this, it is so much more convenient.<br />The menagerie dailies at first were okay, but after I got the pets and the 500 pet charms achievement I stopped doing them.<br />Now I see this garrison monument for 2000 draenor pet battles, I'm at 126, and there is no reason for me to get out there and do it. It'll be a pure grind, probably with the same pets in the same spot. I could have been hunting for wild rares, but 2 menagerie dailies is enough to guarantee a rare upgrade, so that time spent seems wasteful in comparison.<br /><br />The relative ease of levelling and upgrading pets via menagerie dailies has taken some of the shine off of doing so. I'd be more inclined to keep doing it if they were useful, but so many of the harder pet battles require certain pets to defeat, so again it doesn't feel productive.<br /><br />Some other thought bubbles on how this could be improved:<br />-The trainers could have a different reward/currency than the menagerie dailies to encourage people to do both (maybe not every day).<br />-1 menagerie daily per day across all characters, like the mop dailies, to reduce the comparative strength of the rewards (and the chore factor)<br />-The battle training stones could give a fixed XP reward rather than 1 level. Because 1 level at level 24 is way more effective than 1 level at level 1, so you hoarde the stones rather than using immediately.<br />-Menagerie dailies should count as draenor pet battles for the monument.<br />-There could be a daily/weekly to capture and deliver a certain pet for a reward (similar to JC hut dailies)<br />-or to defeat a trainer with a certain type of pet/pets, similar to those Major Payne challenges.<br />-or 'tour' type quests where you pull a certain pet out at certain locations or doing certain tasksCrookednoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9139205590317840868.post-29850828740477868972015-02-21T10:54:31.077+11:002015-02-21T10:54:31.077+11:00I too wish the pet battles feature would come to t...I too wish the pet battles feature would come to tablets and phones (not only iPad) but one of the reasons I dislike pet battles in wow so much is that they take so long. I want to turn off the animations.Shellyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05544591109981143632noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9139205590317840868.post-16632187000990174862015-02-21T10:53:13.776+11:002015-02-21T10:53:13.776+11:00I too wish the pet battles feature would come to t...I too wish the pet battles feature would come to tablets and phones (not only iPad) but one of the reasons I dislike pet battles in wow so much is that they take so long. I want to turn off the animations.Shellyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05544591109981143632noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9139205590317840868.post-18749998092636413002015-02-21T08:56:21.911+11:002015-02-21T08:56:21.911+11:00I wonder if a portion of the time spent in pet bat...I wonder if a portion of the time spent in pet battles in the past is now spent in Garrisons.<br /><br />If people have a set amount of time to play and Blizz keeps adding things, something's gotta give. And if you raid, it's certainly not that.<br />Redbeardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05306063084983025771noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9139205590317840868.post-57342395785905127732015-02-21T02:12:57.922+11:002015-02-21T02:12:57.922+11:00I don't like pet battles as much as I used to,...I don't like pet battles as much as I used to, but I still enjoy them. BTW thanks for the awesome pet guide stuff.<br /><br />The reason I lost most of my interest in pet battles had absolutely nothing to do with pet battling at all. I think it is fine for what it is. It had everything to do with blizzards pet UI. When my computer crashed and I lost all my data that included all my pet team addon data. I was near the upper ends on warcraft pets and top 100 in the world on wow progress when it came to pets, so you know I loved it and did it a lot. But I lost all my teams I had saved in an add on.<br /><br />I had teams for everything. Over 100 different teams I just bounced around with and did battles. When I lost them I lost all desire to build them again. I did them all myself. No guides. Heck, I was one the first there. There were no guides. And I refused to have to do all that work finding the right teams for everything again.<br /><br />It has been some time since then and I have remade a few teams as I needed them and made new teams for the new battles this expansion. But if I ever lost them again I do not think I would even try again. Blizzard needs to allow us to have more than 1 team at a time. If I could use 100 teams up easy I am sure many others can. The UI and the limited ability of it needs to be fixed to help pet battles as a whole, in my opinion.<br />But I like pet battles and don't really think I would ever "quit" unless something like that happened to me again. I would like to see more content, but it really does not need it. It is what it is. A small distraction, a side game, a little fun here and there, and I like it as that.<br /><br />Outside of the losing everything again, what would make me quit pet battles would be one of two things, if they ever did them.<br /><br />If they raise the level cap of the pets I will quit. I am not leveling 500+ pets from 25 to 30. Hell no. I've already did all that work and I do not want to do it again.<br /><br />If they add the ability to upgrade to epic. No way I am going to farm my ass off to upgrade over 600 unique pets plus extras to get them to epic after doing all that work to get them all to rare. Hell no, I am not doing all that work again.<br /><br />I like pet battles as they are and for the space they fill in the game for me. I just do not want to repeat doing something I did already, like assembling groups for everything again, or leveling everything again, or upgrading everything again. No thank you. Been there, done that. I just want to play with them now. My needs are simple.<br /><br />BTW, I am basically leveling the new pets using the stones I get from doing the garrison pet daily on 7 characters. Nothing else to use all the token on. But I rarely do them every day, but when I do, that is what I am using the things for. Leveling new pets. Some of the garrison battles I can level 1 or 2 pets with as well. So like you, I do not "actively" level new pets any longer. I prefer to spend time with my old pets. Tiny sporebat FTW. (if you do not know what they is reference too check https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhvvNGeHHME, trust me, you will not regret it)<br /><br />Sorry of the long rant / reply, should have made that a post in its own. lolTheGrumpyElfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07621615711198405365noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9139205590317840868.post-85002934313273841602015-02-21T01:56:09.860+11:002015-02-21T01:56:09.860+11:00That's what I have wished for for months: pet ...That's what I have wished for for months: pet battles on i-pad. Yes, it can be done. Blizzard has lagged behind mobile for years, and it was a tactical business mistake. When they get caught up we players will still be there, of course, but pet battles need to be MUCH more simplified and manageable. K.C. Lovehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09114277361107148751noreply@blogger.com