Which pets to use battle stones on

If more than one is logged in at a time, the earliest log-on is the only one that can battle, upgrade, or cage pets. Battle Stones Gameplay Pet Battles. Is this a bug? I tried to repair the game but it said the game does not need repaired. Rest are all bind-to-account. Do you realise you have to first summon and then target a pet to use upgrade stones on it? Cycling through each breed will tweak the overall stats of the pet. Curious about the actual formula used to calculate each pet's battle stats?

The quality of captured wild pets is random. As of patch 5. There is no accurate way to determine a pet's quality prior to the start of a battle. Different qualities aren't limited only to wild pets—many rare World drops and special non-wild companions have had their stats boosted. Check your Pet Journal to see the color-coded rarity of your non-wild pets. Battle-Stones were introduced in patch 5. Battle-Stones can be found in the Tamer daily reward bag, or randomly awarded to you after defeating a wild pet in battle.

There's also a small chance to earn one by defeating a player in a queued PVP match. Defeating a higher level pet increases your chances of getting a stone. Polished Battle-Stones can be purchased for 1, Justice Points. Additionally, the trainers in Stormwind and Orgrimmar will trade one Marked Flawless Battle-Stone in exchange for three of a kind family-specific Flawless Battle-Stone.

Pet breeds are used to determine the primary stats Health, Power, Speed of your battle pets. So if you want to maximize your pets' fighting potential, understanding how breeds and breed IDs work is crucial. Due to the depth and complexity of pet breeds and their ID system, we've developed this section of our Guide to Battle Pets as a stand-alone guide:.

A new quest will pop up once your first pet reaches level 3. Defeating each of these NPCs will reward a nice chunk of experience for your pets, as well a Sack of Pet Supplies which has the chance to drop the Porcupette companion, among the always-useful pet bandages.

There are two parts of the quest chain for each continent. The first part involves defeating numerous Master Pet Tamers, and the second requires you to triumph over the Grand Master Tamer. After you've bested the Grand Master Tamer, dailies from each Tamer will unlock for that continent. All the dailies continue to reward experience for your companions, however only the Grand Master daily quest will reward the Sack of Pet Supplies. Keep in mind that these quests are optional, and are not necessary to continue leveling and capturing companions.

They are also account-wide, so if you complete the quest chain on one character, you will not be able to complete it again on another. However, any progress that you've made will be saved and you can pick up where you left off in the quest chain on another character. The dailies that you've unlocked will also be accessible by all your toons.

For more information on each Pet Tamer and the complete quest chain, take a look at this post in our forums. To battle against a randomly chosen player and their team of companions, simply hit the Find Battle button in your Pet Journal.

The queuing system will attempt to match your team up with an opponent's team of similar level. However, unlike the PVE version, the PVP combat system is timed and any ability for each round must be chosen within that time limit otherwise it will assume you have passed a turn.

A time penalty is applied if you take more than 15 seconds to choose an action, resulting in progressively shorter round timers for you. Additionally, during a queued Pet Battle you will not be able to speak with your opponent or see their name, realm, or guild.

You won't be able to capture any of their companions either. But let's be honest, the main focus is the battle between pets — may the best tamer win! With over wild pets to find and capture, it's not unlikely that your collection will soon feel bloated and cluttered. There are a few ways to organize your collection, but there are also some restrictions to keep in mind.

So what can you do to make sure your collection is neat and tidy but falls under these rules? There are two ways to rid your Pet Journal of unwanted duplicates: releasing and caging. The first way to clean house or barn, in this case is to release any extra pets. To do this, right-click on a minipet's name in your journal, and select the "Release" option in the menu.

Doing so will remove this pet from your collection. Certain hard to obtain pets and promotional companions will not have the release option unless you've reached the duplicate cap x3 for that specific pet. This is to help prevent any accidental removal of unique and rare companions. But before you begin to release your duplicates, check to see if they allow you to cage them instead The second option is to cage a pet. You can accomplish in the same way you release one.

After caging a companion, it will appear in your inventory. It will retain its stats and level, and this information will be visible when hovering over the item. Post by Kel » May 13th, , pm Huh, odd. So you're saying the drop rate seems to go up once you get all your pets to rares? Is that just an evil trick they play on us? Currently I have a very small stash of about 4 or 5 stones, one of them is a Flawless Battle-Stone that I'm saving for something very special. But I can't do the dailies every day, and I only do the Pandaria loop.

Otherwise my wife starts hitting me in the back of the head. Apparently she feels neglected. And she's not fond of a game where you use a little human Anubisath Idol to punch bunnies till they die!

Last edited by Kel on May 13th, , pm, edited 1 time in total. Post by Peanutty » May 13th, , pm Hehe, to put it simply, you end up with a ton of stones when you don't need to use them anymore, because you don't need to use them anymore! Post by Rioriel » May 14th, , pm Peanutty wrote: See, I tell myself that, trying to justify why I keep a stash of over stones, but I know in reality I'm not going to do it.

I'm going to end up spending days scouring each zone for rares. I must be a masochist or something! Post by Graven » May 14th, , pm I just use my soulbound flawless stones as beast or flying stones. I really don't see the point in saving them for a future expansion when I have pets in my collection that can use them now.

Post by Treponem » May 16th, , pm Personally, I'd sell half of them but that's only because the 8k total I'd make on my server could be ploughed back into buying some of the more elusive pets.

If the cash isn't that important to you, I'd sit on them. It's worth looking out for their active world quests because only then they are available for fighting. Unfortunately their appearance is decided randomly, so you can't plan ahead when to challenge them. Since those tamers don't stand right next to a stablemaster you should bring enough Battle Pet Bandages with you. But in return defeating these trainers also grants your character experience and that's why especially the short fights have become a popular method for leveling.

Using heirloom gear and activating warmode you can get depending on your level, you can do this as early as level 1 as much experience doing this as you would from finishing a quest. Here follows a list of the respective tamers, together with a recommended strategy and sorted by their effectiveness in powerleveling: Odrogg World quest: Snail Fight!

Once you've completed this world quest you can't challenge them again! You get less experience from them then you would get from the other tamers listed here. In return these strategies are reliable and really fast.

Since these are short fights you'll need more bandages or more teams. Other possibilities Link copied All the tamers listed have to be active to be usable for leveling the whole day. So what alternatives are there for days on which they aren't available? Therefor it is worthwhile to fight those who also give 5x the experience just like Squirt , even though they are opposable just once the day.

Admittedly you have to count in a considerable amount of time for traveling. On the other hand you can get, besides the experience obviously, other useful rewards even pets and the daily quests grant a lot of experience to your character.

The daily routes through Pandaria and Draenor are especially popular for this reason. Oftentimes characters are parked at Crysa and Environeer Bert, or even at the Darkmoon Faire whenever it is active. Also these remaining ones are fightable only once a day as well. If you are still looking for a unrestricted way of leveling your pets the only option left is fighting wild pets. With the changes in 9.

In this situation it is clever to find a location in which are as many predictable pets of one family as possible so it becomes easy to create a team that can counter these pets the best. With the following team you'll need just seconds for one fight and your pets will barely lose health so they can used more often before needing to be healed. There also is a stablemaster nearby at the temple who makes the leveling more enjoyable.

Of course you can look for good locations yourselves. It's all a matter of having the right pets to counter the wild ones. As an example for fighting aquatic pets both Golden Dawnfeather and Pterrordax Hatchling are suitable and against critters every cat with Devour will do great.

The Feline Familiar is even effective against fliers and critters, has a strong protection and also a healing ability Devour , which is the reason why it is popular for leveling in the wilderness.

To provide a safe space for your leveling pet, a Turkey and their named variants can make any non-critter target sleep with Food Coma. Whether it should be slower or faster depends on whether you swap to a third pet or not, respectively. Tips, tricks and hints Link copied 3. It's a toy that can be used without cooldown.

You get it as a reward for the achievement Taming the World. Used on a pet as a target, but acts as a buff on you. Available at multiple pet vendors for 5 Polished Pet Charms. Available at multiple pet vendors for 10 Polished Pet Charms. The buff can run out while your character is logged out and it will also disappear when the Faire isn't active anymore. Look out for it in your calendar and prepare your teams. With those it is possible to execute an entire pet battle just by pressing one button.

The addon works for Squirt including healing via the nearby NPC! Now all you have to do is press the space button default setting to level up your pets without ever having to press something else. Since you have to push a button for every action it is not an automatic process and therefor doesn't violate Blizzard's ToS.