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Absolutely brilliant! Would love to see some of these ideas expanded upon by blizzard.Maybe if people took pet battles more seriously we could work towards it standing alongside raiding/pvp/m+.
Thats alot of hopium for a minigame that got evoker soar nerfed :)
While I'm not holding my breath for anything meaningful happening with pet battles any time soon, I hope someone at Blizz sees this and takes note. It would be great to make pet battling something that more people are interested in and form more of a community alongside the other content facets of the game.
Pet battles are abandoned. No hope.
Sweet jebusOn the one hand there are a lot of changes here I'd like... on the other I hope a lot of it never gets implemented cuz I like how one-and-done the system is for now lol
Can you make one of these for fishing? Ive always thought fishing could be much more interesting on so many levels and a lot of these concepts are things ive thought of. Making it more of a mini game and part of a faction/guild group (kind of similar to Anglers in MoP but more involved).
I just want to be able to summon two at a time for RP. That, and more humanoid ones. That way, I can have a full team of little urchins out doing my bidding, Oliver Twist style. XD
Great content. I would love to purchase all of this off the store next patch if Blizzard are willing to design it. My wallet is so ready for this content, I'm so excited!
Thank you Wowhead for posting this. Also, to Remte and DragonsafterDark for the editing help!
This looks like a bulletproof concept from a game director. Blizzard, use it AND pay for it! Done.
haha yeah sure. why doesn't blizzard update archaeology while they're at it
Most of these sound terrible lol, if you want full-fledged pokemon it's right there
Wow, impressive article. Thank you
having rematch directly integrating sound awesome. Default UI is useless for batteling, especially in dungeons.amazing article, i don't think will integrate all of this soon, but some picking ideas and be nice, especially life improvements, or the leveling/rarity increase/stable, those are not much to implement and can benefit easilly to all
With all those ideas pet battles would be too much complicated. They were made for chillin as side thing to do and should stay simple.
What an amazing article, FlipMethod! Thanks for the time and effort it must have taken. Great job, well done!Some of the ideas are great, and I would love to see them implemented. There are a few that I can immediately see could be abused by the players, but it's up to the developers to make them less susceptible to abuse.As someone who, up until two (or is it three already?) expansions ago, owned almost every pet in the game, including the ultra rares from cards and promotions, I have lost interest in the pet battle system due to its repetitive nature. However, when I was into it, I loved it. I leveled all of my pets to 25, caught every wild pet, and enjoyed the epic pet battle quests. I never did PvP battles, though. It would be great to implement a bracket system to make it friendly for those who only want to engage in some light (and friendly;-) PvP for a weekly quest, etc.It's sad that, as far as I know, Blizzard has scrapped the pet battle mobile app. I agree that it would be a great way to "play WoW away from WoW."Once again, a great article with so much content that could truly benefit the live version of the pet battle system.The WoW development team is now the biggest it has ever been, so there is a chance for some changes. Just as they revisited all professions and are planning to do the same with archaeology, the pet battle system is another aspect that deserves to be looked at and improved after so many years.
This would take alot of new tech and balancing that they already don't have time for. They have alot to fix and balance with PVP and even PVE. I think that much work for pet battles would greater serve the main parts of the game.
Here is my feedback list.Delete pet battles, undo the nerf of soar and assign the developers to bug fixing and class balancing.
INCREDIBLE! there are soooo many brilliant improvements. Maybe one more thing - why to have limited space for pets you can have? I know, you can extend to 2000 with the item, but truthfully, I have already deleted more combinations, so i can store additional pets.I would LOVE to see at least something from this great list to go live one day :)