My Darkmoon Faire Pro Pet Team

If you’re having trouble beating Jeremy Feasel at the Darkmoon Faire, I’ve found a pretty good pet battle team that will give you a win every time (as long as you don’t bad RNG and miss your big attacks).  Here are the pets I used and the abilities I chose for them (all pets are level 25 and Rare quality):

Stop, the Wild Crimson Hatchling

• Breath
• Healing Flame
• Deep Breath

Kelvin, the Fel Flame

• Flame Breath
• Immolate
• Conflagrate

Sheldon, the Fluxfire Feline

• Claw
• Wind-Up
• Supercharge

Each of these pets have abilities that are strong against Feasel’s team: Judgement, the Darkmoon Eye, Honky-Tonk, the Darkmoon Tonk and Fezwick, the Darkmoon Monkey.  I like to face Judgement first, so I’ll keep forfeiting matches if Honky-Tonk leads off.

Vs. Judgement

Dragonkin are strong against Magic pets and Stop’s damaging abilities, Breath and Deep Breath, can do major damage when they connect.  Judgement will counter these attacks by using Darkmoon Curse first, which will reduce the damage you deal for two rounds.  Since Stop has a speed advantage over Judgement, he’ll use Breath two rounds in a row, the first will hit for a good chunk and the second will do half as much, under the effects of the Curse.  On the third round, Stop will initiate Deep Breath, which takes an additional round to charge.  When Deep Breath goes off, it should be enough to knockdown Judgement for good, if not, one more Breath should finish him off.  I wouldn’t worry about using Healing Flame, but if your pet is really low (around 400 hp or less), go ahead and use it before you start Deep Breath.

Vs. Honky-Tonk

At this point, Stop will be pretty low on health, but if he’s lucky, Honky will use Lock-On, which will allow Stop to use one Breath on the tonk.  Honky will then finish off Stop with either the second use of Lock-On or a Missile to the face.  Kelvin will jump in next, since Elementals are strong against Mechanical pets.  He’ll start off using Immolate, which will leave a Burning debuff on Honky for four rounds.  Kelvin will then follow-up with Conflagrate, which does double damage when Honky has the Burning debuff.  It shouldn’t take long for Honky to go down, as long as Kelvin keeps the Burning debuff rolling on the tonk.  Even though Honky will come back alive (thanks to Mechanical pet’s passive self-rez ability) after Kelvin destroys him, the Burning debuff and a single Flame Breath attack should finish off the Darkmoon Tonk.

The only problem you might have with Honky is if the Shock and Awe manages to stun your pet, which will allow Honky to get a free hit in.  I’ve only seen this happen to Kelvin once or twice and it’s only a 25% chance to get stunned, so don’t be too worried about it.

Vs. Fezwick

Fezwick will join the fray and immediately use Clobber, which never seems to miss and will stun Kelvin.  Sheldon will then tag in for Kelvin and will begin to charge up the biggest attack combo of the battle.  Fez’s Banana Barrage can be pretty annoying, but won’t be a problem for Sheldon to handle.  Sheldon will first use Supercharge and follow-up with Wind-Up, which is a Mechanical ability that is strong against Beasts.  With this combo of Supercharge, Wind-Up and the Beast damage bonus, Sheldon will usually crit Fez for about 2500 to 2800 damage, more than enough to take out the Darkmoon Monkey.

With this setup, I can defeat Feasel’s team in one attempt.  But that might all change in patch 5.2, when a wrench will be thrown in all Fluxfire Felines, no pun intended.  Because their Supercharge/Wind-Up combo is so powerful, all Fluxfire Felines will be getting nerfed.  The damage bonus from Supercharge will go from 150% to 125% and Wind-Up will be replaced by a new ability called Flux, which damages the enemy team (dispersed and probably for less damage than Wind-Up would deal).  Might have to change my line-up for 5.2, but I’ll be definitely taking advantage of my current team for now.

Good luck in defeating Jeremy Feasel and getting that Darkmoon Eye!

WarFare Theater: The King’s Purchase

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This was my Furtive Father Winter gift to Xsinthis of The Golden Crusade.  I also gave him a pair of Landro’s favorite mini raid pets to boot.  The event was put together by Akabeko of Red Cow Rise and there was a pretty good turnout.  I had a lot of fun putting this together for Xsinthis, it has definitely been a while since I last made a WarFare Theater post.  Hopefully this will kickstart more of these in the future, lol.

Shared Topic: What raid-drop pets would you like to see?

Wow, it’s been a long time since I’ve done one of these, lol.  Last week’s Shared Topic from Blog Azeroth comes from Effraeti who asks:

If a future patch adds more raid-dropped pets like those introduced in 5.1, what pets would you like to see?  What raid and boss would they be available from?

I’m a big fan of these new pet drops on old raid bosses, so I hope Blizz continues with this idea.  Here are my pet ideas for future boss drops (all images from Wowhead).

Thaddius – Naxxramas

I’ve always thought Thaddius was a cool-looking boss, I think he would have been a better pet than the Giant Bone Spider from Maexxna.

Icehowl – Trial of the Crusader

Blizzard seriously needs to give us an Abominable Greench pet for Winter Veil already.  Combine that with a Kun-Lai Runt and a mini Icehowl and we could have an all-Yeti team, RAWR!

Orgrim’s Hammer and Skybreaker – Icecrown Citadel

The Darkmoon Zeppelin needs some company in the air.  How about give us some mini Lootships to battle it?

Flame Leviathan – Ulduar

Speaking of needing some company, I’d like to see a real tank battle between the Darkmoon Tonk and the king of tanks, Flame Leviathan.

Razorscale – Ulduar

 The all-proto drake team:  the red Proto-Drake Whelp, the Emerald Proto-Whelp and the mini Razorscale!

 Occu’thar – Baradin Hold

Scarier than the Core Hound Pup, but would be just as deadly in pet battles.

 Omnotron Defense System – Blackwing Descent

Golem pets, yes!

 Rhyolith – Firelands

Enemy pets beware: if you manage to break his shell, you might get burned with mini Rhyo’s fiery underneath!

 Baleroc – Firelands

I think Mini Tyrael needs a nemesis.  Mini Baleroc is the perfect candidate.

 Conclave of Wind – Throne of the Four Winds

These Djinns just look cool.  Who wouldn’t want miniatures of these guys?

Morchok – Dragon Soul

Mini Morchok says give us Mor pets, Blizz!

Rock’em, Sock’em, Clock’em!

 

Finally finished off the last two bosses and reached rank 4 last night in the Brawler’s guild, woot!  I had some trouble with Ixx, the Starship Troopers-look-a-like bug, trying to stay in the middle of his hitbox so that I could quickly move to avoid his Devastating Thrust ability.  But once I found the sweet spot, he went down quick.  Mazhareen the tiger, who looks exactly like Loque’nahak, was a one-shot; he hits harder the lower his health is, so I threw a Hammer of Justice right at 10% to stun him and quickly finished him off.

So I headed straight over to Paul North and bought my new companion pet, Clock’em.  He looks awesome with those gloves!

Clock’em shares the same model as the Clockwork Gnome, except for the gloves of course, but their move sets differ:

Clock’em

• Jab
• Overtune
• Kick
• Haymaker
• Counterstrike
• Dodge

Clockwork Gnome

• Metal Fist
• Repair
• Build Turret
• Railgun
• Blitz
• Launch Rocket

The difference between the two pets is that Clock’em doesn’t have a healing ability and seems to be built to take down other pets with quick strikes and interrupts.  The Clockwork Gnome may take a little longer to dispatch pets, but his moves will definitely deliver the pain when they connect.

A Couple Quick Pet Battle Notes

I did noticed the change that Blizz did to pet battle XP yesterday.  Before, when you won a pet battle, the pet XP would be distributed among all your alive pets that performed at least one ability, even any level 25 pets.  Now its been changed so that any level 25 pet will not be calculated in the distribution of XP and all of it goes to the lower level pets, so this makes leveling your pets much easier and faster.  Also, don’t forget your Safari Hat for the additional 10% pet XP gain too!

Blizz is also looking to add Lesser Charms of Good Fortune and XP gains for toons below level 90 for successful pet battles.  The Charms seems to be a good idea for those who have their reputations maxed out and no longer want to do dailies for them.  I’m close to Exalted with the Dominance Offensive, so I’m excited about this change.  The XP boost for your low-level toons is great too, I’ll be utilizing this while leveling my other toons to 90 when picking wild pet fights and replacing any low quality pets with rares that I’ve missed.

I know both Sorak and Slice have to be excited about these changes! =P

ArvAsh Ketchum, WoW Pet Battle Tamer

When Mists of Pandaria first came out, I really didn’t spend too much time on Pet Battles.  My goal was to quickly get Arv to 90 and work on his professions and the many reputations to get as raid ready as I could.  I caught a couple of pets that were scattered around Orgrimmar and I remember Navi trying to get me some Tiny Bog Beasts out in the Wetlands, but my team was too low-level to battle.  So after achieving the Pandaren Ambassador achievement and getting all the 5.0 reputations to Exalted a couple of weeks ago, I finally decided to go on a Pet Battle Blitz and go and catch them all.  Before MoP, I had around 180 pets, which I thought was a lot, but I didn’t realize there was almost three times more than that to catch all over Azeroth.

I wanted to level up an all TCG team, consisting of my Spectral Tiger Cub, Ethereal Soul-Trader and Rocket Chicken, but got as far as level 6 before I realized that the Cub and Trader were both Magic types.  I thought that diversity would benefit me as I made my way to level 25, so I switched out the Trader for my Celestial Dragon.  Diversity didn’t last long though; one of my first rare captures was a Nether Faerie Dragon in Feralas.  The Faerie was tearing up most of the wild pet battles I was encountering, so I switched it for the Rocket Chicken.  This team served me well, and so the Spectral Tiger Cub, Celestial Dragon and Nether Faerie Dragon became my first pets to reach level 25.

While leveling my team and capturing new pets and defeating the Tamers around Azeroth, I picked up a lot of the Pet Battle achievements, which helped pushed me over the 15,000 achievement points mark.  All these Pet Battle achievements also give me a couple new pets, the Jade Tentacle and Venus, and I also got Porcupette from a Pet Supply bag.

Some pets, though, were not so easy to catch, namely the Minfernal, Silithid Hatchling and Scourged Whelpling.  I parked some of my alts in their respective spawn points and would log in everyday for a couple of minutes to see if any were up.  I was actually surprised that the Minfernal was the first one I caught out of the three, with Cross-Realm Zoning there were a lot of people camping Felwood for these guys.  The Scourged Whelpling took the longest and I hardly saw anyone else looking for them.

Raid Pets

In patch 5.1, Blizzard released 12 new pets that can be obtained by defeating bosses in the older raids, specifically Blackwing Lair, Temple of Ahn’Qiraj, Molten Core and Naxxramas.  Here is a list of the pets and the bosses they drop from:

Blackwing Lair

• Untamed Hatchling – drops from Razorgore the Untamed
• Death Talon Whelpguard – drops from Broodlord Lashlayer
• Chrominius – drops from Chromaggus

Temple of Ahn’Qiraj

• Mini Mindslayer – drops from The Prophet Skeram
• Viscidus Globule – drops from Viscidus
• Anubisath Idol – drops from Emperor Vek’lor

Molten Core

• Corefire Imp – drops from Magmadar
• Harbinger of Flame – drops from Sulfuron Harbinger
• Ashstone Core – drops from Golemagg the Incinerator

Naxxramas

• Giant Bone Spider – drops from Maexxna
• Stitched Pup – drops from Gluth
• Fungal Abomination – drops from Loatheb

I was able to get 7 of the 12 pets on drops and I bought the other 5 from the Auction House.  The Untamed Hatchling and Viscidus Globule were good buys, since Razorgore and Viscidus can be tough to solo without the right class or spec.  Collecting all 12 pets grants you an achievement and a nifty new pet for fans of Naxxramas and Austin Powers:

Mr. Bigglesworth

And I didn’t know Mr. Bigglesworth’s whiskers glowed, lol.

Battle Stones

I’ve managed to collect 8 Battle-Stones so far, one being a Flawless that can be used on any pet and the rest family specific.  My first Battle-Stone was a Mechanical one, so I decided to throw it on my Personal World Destroyer to upgrade him from an Uncommon to a Rare.

Galvatron

The second Battle-Stone I used was a Magic one and I quickly threw that on my Poor quality Minfernal as soon as I got him.  There was no way I was going to camp Felwood any longer to search for a Rare one, lol.

Crusher

I’m still debating on what pets should receive the upgrade treatment, but I’ll have to decide soon as these Stones are taking up valuable bag space again, lol.

Pandaren Spirit Tamers

After easily defeating Grand Master Aki in the Vale of Eternal Blossoms, I finally got my chance to battle the special Pandaren Spirit Tamers.  The team I found that was pretty effective against all four (Burning – Fire, Flowing – Water, Whispering – Air and Thundering – Earth) was my Rapana Whelk, Oily Slimeling and Celestial Dragon.

Fighting the Thundering Spirit Tamer

The Whelk is really strong against the Pandaren Spirits, especially against the Earth one.  Because it’s a critter, it can avoid the stuns that the Earth Spirit likes to dish out.  And since the Spirits are part of the Elemental family and weak against Aquatic attacks, the Whelk’s Dive ability can inflict massive damage.

So my strategy is to first use the Whelk to take out the Pandaren Spirit.  I can usually take second pet the Tamer sends out to about half health before my Whelk dies, then I’ll send out my Celestial Dragon to finish the second and third pets.  I’ll use the Slimeling and its dots to clean up anything my Celestial leaves behind.

When you defeat all four Pandaren Spirit Tamers for the first time, you are rewarded with a choice of your very own Pandaren Spirit pet.  You can then defeat the Tamers as a daily quest for a chance at the other Spirit pets.  I took the Earth Spirit pet first as my reward and got really lucky and managed to get the Air and Water ones with the first daily I completed for both.  Navi was kind enough to give the Fire one to me as a present, and that finally brought my pet count to 500.  Bonus internetz points if you can figure out the reference to the Spirit pets names.

Dynames, the Pandaren Fire Spirit

Kyrios, the Pandaren Water Spirit

Exia, the Pandaren Air Spirit

Virtue, the Pandaren Earth Spirit

Pets Left to Get

The pet collecting doesn’t stop at 500…must…collect…more….

• Crawling Claw – the pet you receive while putting Tol’vir fragments together.  I haven’t seen this appear in my archy book yet, hopefully I’ll see it when I finish up the rest of the Pandaria solves.
• Baneling - the companion pet that accompanies the next Starcraft 2 expansion, Heart of the Swarm.  Will have to wait for March to get that.
• Darkmoon Eye – Jeremy Feasel wasn’t kind to me this past Darkmoon Faire, hopefully he’ll be more generous and drop this pet for me in the Darkmoon Pet Supplies bag next month.
• Imperial Moth - my mage Kerian has been doing his Imperial Silk daily, but still hasn’t found this pet yet.  Lots of Silkworms, though. ><
• Searing Scorchling – effin’ Molten Front dailies….hate ‘em, but I guess I have to go back to do them now…/sigh
• Clock’em – need to do two more Brawler’s Guild fights to reach Rank 4 four and this guy will finally be mine.
• Qiraji Guardling – have to wait until summer for this guy and then I will finally have the Kalimdor and World Safari Achievements and the Zookeeper title.  Woot!
• Singing Cricket - the reward for the Pro Pet Mob achievement, which is to raise 75 pets to level 25.  Yeah…that’s gonna be a while…
• Sumprush Rodent - these guys are available to battle and capture when someone drops a Rodent Crate in Krasarang Wilds.  The crate can be bought with 2000 Domination Point Commissions, which I am close to getting.  I plan on hosting a LBR, Laid-Back-Rodent night (or day) on Drak’tharon for anyone who would like to get this pet for themselves (my apologies to JD for borrowing his acronym, lol).  I believe Domination Point is phased, so you’ll have to quest through Krasarang until you can open the new 5.1 quests.  I’ll let everyone know when I’ll be doing the LBR party, probably sometime after the holidays.
• Thundering Serpent Hatchling – a guild reward for obtaining a gold medal on all challenge mode dungeons.   Yeah, I won’t be seeing this for a while, lol.

Whew, sorry for the long post, but that’s covers a lot of the Pet Battle Blitz I’ve done the past several weeks, now I need to do more leveling on these guys.  Hmmm, I still have to name a lot of my pets, so  stay tuned!