State of Battle Pets in Dragonflight - Community Feedback List

Live Posted 2023/08/17 at 12:59 AM by Anshlun

Flip MethodTwitchTwitterOverviewGeneral System ImprovementsMore Frequent Balance ChangesAdding Gear Slots for Each PetGear Examples

Racial Passive - Give current pet racials (or a lesser version of them) to a pet not of that race.

Equippable Abilities - Give a pet a new ability outside of their standard 6 choices.

Timed Equipment - Activates an effect after a set number of turns or actions.
Example: A goblin bomb explodes after 4 turns, taking a % of all pets' health, or perhaps a tar- trap that detonates after 3 turns that reduces all of a certain team’s speed. Equipment could activate only once or every X turns depending on the spell effect.

Example: A flashlight that prevents the user from suffering the effects of “Darkness”. Or green dragon’s blessing that gives increased healing under the effects of “Sunny Day”.

Example: Petbox (Starts the battle with a charge of blocking the first skill cast on the equipped pet.

Example: When this Pet attacks prevent triggering of Failsafe Mechanisms on a mechanical pet or allow stunning of a critter.

Stat-Up Use itemElective Mode - Remove the either-or Pick for AbilitiesPet Battler Society Reputation - FamePassive Leveling from The Stable, and Summoned Companion LevelingPet/Trainer AurasFaster and more Dynamic Battle AnimationsMore Music in the BattlesLet Color Variants Feel More ExcitingShow Skins/Color Variants on the AHMake Parts of the Add-on Rematch Part of the Default UIExperience as a Secondary Way to Increase RarityGround Mounts set as a “background”Allow Flying/Underwater CapturesIncentives for Same-Type TeamsRebalance the RacialsPVE ContentBattle Tower or TournamentRaid-style Battle or MultiplayerQuestlines or Dailies from PetsGlimmerogg Snail Racing Pets ShowcaseA New Celestial Tournament or New ContendersBetter Weeklies

Certain number of PvE trainers defeated.

Defeat X, Y, and Z, trainers in a certain amount of time.

Catch a rare alternate color pet

Defeat the celestial battle with pets from BFA and Dragonflight only.

New CagesIncentives to Battle Trainers

Limit rewards available per week

Give a proxy hall where the Pet Battler Society has access to all pets and the trainer sends their team. If a daily is up you can battle the “proxy trainer” for rewards. (these shortcuts could be unlocked by defeating the original trainer a set number of times or with different teams, similar to being rewarded with a Dungeon Teleport by timing a 20 Mythic Key)

Battle that WQ trainer from a Temporal Anomaly Battle Book which teleports you to that location for the battle only. (no actual teleports)

New Pet Incentivized BattlesRatIron StarletteIkkyGhastly RatRatRecapture Wild Pets for Additional RewardsLore BookPVP ContentPvP Queue Button HighlightPvP CommunicationPvP Queue FailsafeWeekly of “Kill 30 Opposing Pets in PvP” instead of “Win 10 Matches”Customize Battle AnimationsBattlefield StandardPick/Ban System for PvP Matches/Ranked PvP matchesHow they could work in Pet Battles

Player 1 goes First and chooses from the list of all available pets to ban Anomalus from being playable for the match.

Player 2 goes Second and chooses from the list of all available pets to ban Ikky from being playable for the match.

Player 1 now goes and chooses from the list of all pets that the player owns to select and have Ohuna Companion be on their team of three pets.

Player 2 now goes and chooses from the list of all pets that the player owns to select and have Bakar Companion be on their team of three pets.

Player 1 now goes and chooses from the list of all available pets to ban Anubisath Idol from being playable for the match.

Player 2 now goes and chooses from the list of all available pets to ban Father Winter’s Helper from being playable for the match.

Player 1 now goes and chooses from the list of all pets that the player owns to select and have Chrominius be on their team of three pets.

Player 2 is now choosing their pick for their second pet.

Continue until each player has selected 3 pets for battle.

Pet Battle Mobile AppLadder Tracking

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Comment by dougmacacoThis is impressive and an amazing work! Thanks for working on it, and thanksto Wowhead to post it. I hope the devs see this.Comment by ToneriShort message of appreciation for the author, you did a great job !Comment by SoulebreakerI really don't want gear for my pets. There are too many of them, and my bags already get over-burdened. I do think the pet battle weekly needs changed though. Hardly anyone pvps pets.Comment by Faol4n90Some Ideas were pretty great... some are... kind of boring and useless (at least for me ^^) like the One with the "Pet Lore"...
Since I'm more the Kind of PvE-Battler i don't care this much about PvP (ether with Pets, nor with my Chars ^^). But at least the points that would prevent the Frustration you get when you go into PvP-Petbattles are great... Win 10 PvP-Battles for a Stone that does the Same that I do in like 2-3 Battles against Squirt every 20 days? Nope thanks... even the time waiting for the 10 battles to even start is more time invest, than doing the 2-3 Battles against Squirt ^^ And i also have to WIN all of these... even a Close lose like last Enemy Pet survived with 5% HP gives nothing for Quest and I have to do another one... NOPE, thanks!

But especially the "Mobile App" would be awesome... fight Trainers like the Celestial Tournament from everywhere would be great!

Also so many great Ideas, but since Pet Battles get less and less people interested, I guess Blizz won't put much effort into it. Like in both guilds I am with my Chars , there are only 2 other People i know that even do Pet Battles and both are doing them only to collect Pets (like fighting wild Pets to catch them). None of them even thought about doing like the Pet Dungeons or so. Collectors... Yes... but Battlers... nope... and this has to do with Blizzard not really carrying about this Feature that much since launch. Like nearly nothing new since MoP besides the Pet Dungeons.

I guess there are only two ways Blizz would start again to pay more attention on this System:
1. Since Bobby "FatFrog" Kotick is still in Charge, he would only allow development of new and interesting things like the ones above, if there would be a way to make money out of it... like more Pets only obtainable via Battle.net-Shop or the Mobile App costing Money (and maybe even costs money additionally like a new WoW-Subscription with like 2 Bucks a month more to use the App "for free"
2. More people get engaged in Pet Battles and start loving it and are doing more with their Pets than just collect them, so Blizzard sees that people are really interested in the System and maybe want more things for it.

And since - in my experience - many people loose interest in Pet Battles kinda fast and get back to the "Collection Aspect" of the whole system (cause of e.g. above written problems with PvP), i guess the second option won't be a thing. It's a vicious circle... Blizz won't change much till people will use the System more often, but since Blizzard doesn't change something, kinda no one will start using the Systems or lose interest kinda fast :/

But TLDR:
I would love to see kinda all this features come to live at one point. Even the ones i think I would not use (frequently) ^^Comment by iAkdenizWOWComment by CerisePinkThis looks terrible.Comment by Faol4n90Most of these sound terrible lol, if you want full-fledged pokemon it's right thereNow I’ve heard many say things to the effect of “If you like that why not just go play Pokemon” and to that I say; “If you like WoW, why not just go play any other MMO”. The response across the board is, it's just not the same.Comment by SoleniaAs a mobile game connected to the main game it would be greatComment by Faol4n90INCREDIBLE! 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 :)Comment by Schnieder6I agree with most of this. Allowing other avenues of progression for vertical power would be nice; stabled pet xp, xp to increase rarity. And horizontal content to alleviate/expedite downtime/rewards would also be nice; relocating trainer after x defeats, pet battle reputation, better weeklies.

I worry that too much horizontal power would harm the system as a whole; gear/power slots, stat boosts. Especially when calling for more frequent balancing updates, also asking for more complexity to horizontal power seems like an incongruency.Comment by gh0sth4ndPick and Ban system could be problematic, would be okay for rated content but not for unrated content since new player often have a very limited pool of battle pets at level 25. Aside from that i love it and if blizz would only do half of what is suggested it would still be a great improvement.Comment by whereswaldo333Blizzard, if you're reading this and happen to stumble down to the comments section, please make this a reality. These ideas are more groundbreaking than a brand new shovel. Please.Comment by kalistohThats alot of hopium for a minigame that got evoker soar nerfed :)Comment by RyderThe one and only thing they should consider doing to improve pet battles in wow before this giant post is to make the speed of the battles adjustable
E.g X2 or X5

It is so slow that I can’t bother anymore.Comment by Civil4794cool, can't wait for blizzard to not do anything with pet battle for years to comeComment by ElitheOverall, there are many great ideas but they look like parts of different systems stitched together.

Also, it's a bit weird that the actual bug and disparity feedback was not included. This is what you should do first before everything else can get started.Comment by BloodredThats alot of hopium for a minigame that got evoker soar nerfed :)Comment by Msbubuwow so passionate,ya I stop playing pet battle around bfa change like this may give it some life and bring me backComment by McDennyAnd please, no more 5k pvp pet battles.
At least let me que up.with friends or award credit from.pvp pet duels (put them back btw)Comment by saiadarPet battles are abandoned. No hope.Here is my feedback list.
Delete pet battles, undo the nerf of soar and assign the developers to bug fixing and class balancing.

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