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Pet Battle System

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Previewed at BlizzCon 2011, the Pet Battle System will allow formerly non-combat pets aka companions to become battle pets and battle each other for bragging rights, leveling, and addition of abilities.

1 Background
2 Information
3 Details
4 References
5 See also
6 External links

Background Edit

From the official World of Warcraft: Mists of Pandaria website:^[1]

For years, your faithful vanity pets have accompanied you on countless adventures. They've provided you with comfort, company, sometimes even with entertainment and hours of fun. Maybe you only have a handful of pets you really love, or maybe you have made it your quest to capture as many of them as you can. The fact remains, heroes love their little companions... and in Mists of Pandaria, they will take the spotlight in a brand-new way.

Information Edit

This system will act much like a secondary profession and will be available to all players.^[2]

Companions will now be able to battle each other in a new turn-based combat system to level up and unlock new abilities. Pets will also be able to encounter and battle pets in the wild to capture them for the player.^[1] Players will be able to fight with teams of pets up to 3 for each player at a time.^[3] Customization, progress status, abilities and info will be tracked in a new Pet Journal.^[3]

Eventually you will be able to seek out new master pet trainer NPCs to learn new pet abilities from them if your pet is worthy and can defeat the trainer's pet.^[1]

Engaging in pet battles may award the player experience similar to gathering professions.^[4] Players may disable invites to pet battles.^[4]

To get the highest percentage possible of participants, Blizzard has decided that players will not know the identity of players they are fighting against. This is to avoid trash-talking. Another way they are hoping to diminish the negativity involved in some aspects of PvP, they are also only recording wins.^[5]

Details Edit

Some more details were released during the March 2012 press event:^[6]

Battles

A battle will feature a player and his 3 pets standing on each side of the screen, with 1 pet will move towards the middle as the active combatant.
- On each turn, you can use 1 of the active pet's 3 abilities or swap to a different pet.
- Possibly 2 general abilities that you could use once per game.
- No record of your losses will be kept, only a running total of your victories.

Pets

Name your pets.
Each pet will have 6 possible abilities that you can unlock and pick 3 from for each fight.
Pets have 4 stats: health, attack, defense, and movement, which acts like an initiative roll, deciding who attacks first.
Pets are leveled individually and you unlock pet slots by earning achievements in pet battles.

Other

You will not see other players' names or be able to chat during pet battles.

Limitations Edit

General limitations:

If the Beta holds true, you will need to be level 90 before you can engage in pet battles, since the pet battle trainers will only allow you to learn [Battle Pet Training] at level 90.^{[citation needed]} Later in the beta or when the expansion is released, you may be able to learn at a level as low as 5.^[7]

Known limitations on pets that can be used for battle:

Trading pets:^[8]
- Players can trade Blizzard Store pets excluding [Guardian Cub] (because it's not BoP and it's unique).
- Collector's Edition and other limited edition pets (like [Mini Tyrael] or BlizzCon pets) will not be tradable, either.
Pets excluded from battle system:^[8]
- Currently the exceptions are pets with humanoid children models. They will not be included in pet battle system.
- Nor will the [Guardian Cub].

Pet Journal Edit

Main article: Pet Journal

You will track all your battle pets via the Pet Journal and build teams to battle other player's pet teams. This will be the main UI for the system when not in battle.

Battle pet classes overview Edit

edit Battle pet classes overview

Pets will fall into one of 10 possible pet classes. Each pet class has its own strengths and weaknesses when up against certain other companion classes.^[9]^[10]^[11]^[12]

Aquatic^[12] - Aquatic attacks deal bonus damage to Elemental companions and less damage to Magic companions.
Beast - Beast attacks deal bonus damage to Critter companions and less damage to Flying companions.
Critter - Critter attacks deal bonus damage to Undead companions and less damage to Humanoid companions.
Dragonkin^[12] - Dragonkin attacks deal bonus damage to Magic companions and less damage to Undead companions.
Elemental - Elemental attacks do more damage to Mechanical companions and less to Critter companions.
Flying - Flying attacks deal bonus damage to Aquatic companions and less damage to Dragonkin companions.
Humanoid - Humanoid attacks do more damage to Dragonkin and less to Beast companions.
Magic^[10] (not Mystical,^[13] or Mythical^[11]) - Magical attacks deal bonus damage to Flying and less damage to Mechanical companions.
Mechanical - Mechanical attacks deal bonus damage to Beast companions and less damage to Elemental companions.
Undead - Undead attacks do more damage to Humanoid companions and less to Aquatic companions.

Battle pet passive abilities Edit

edit Battle pet class passives

Each battle pet of particular class/type will share a specific passive ability:^[12]^[14]

Aquatic: [Purity]^ω ϖ - The duration of harmful damage over time effects is reduced on Aquatic pets.
Beast: [Enrage]^ω ϖ - Beasts deal 25% extra damage below half health.
Critter: [Elusive]^ω ϖ - Critters break out of crowd control effects more quickly.
Dragonkin: [Execute]^ω ϖ - Deals 50% additional damage to targets with less than 25% health.
Elemental: [Weather Immune]^ω ϖ - Elementals ignore all weather effects.
Flying: [Swiftness]^ω ϖ - Flying creatures gain 50% extra speed while above 50% health.
Humanoid: [Recovery]^ω ϖ - Humanoids recover 2% of their maximum health every time they attack.
Magic: [Spellshield]^ω ϖ - Magic pets cannot be dealt more than 50% of their maximum health in one attack.
Mechanical: [Failsafe]^ω ϖ^[15] - Comes back to life once per battle, returning to 25% health.
Undead: [Damned]^ω ϖ - Undead pets return to life for one round when killed.