BFA Pet Battle Updates (blue post)

[Quintessence]

Blizzard has provided some information on Pet Battle updates coming to BFA Beta. Feel free to test this content out in the near future and leave some constructive feedback. (if there's an EU version of this blue post, could someone link it please?)

https://us.battle.net/forums/en/wow/topic/20762158027

Highlights:

• Notable pets and abilities changed ("nerfed")
• Several new Pet Battle mechanics
• New pet currency (can still purchase items with existing currency)
• BFA Pet Battle content will consist of WQs (for now?), max player level content
• BFA Pet Battle World Quests will scale to your highest active pets' level

[Flohsakk]

Besides all of the usual stuff I really wish for:

• With all the plans they have for new healing spells (effects based on active pet's health, auras healing based on last hit taken etc.) I hope they re-work battle pet healing to make it more clear. I think not a single tooltip for existing static heals represents what healing numbers you'll see in fight...

• Rethink/Rework of damage on shielded battle pets, now. That stuff is so f***** up if you look into it, the calculation as it is works and we get along with it but it makes no sense and maybe blocks future ideas for changes, new abilities etc.

• Test & complete stuff... I haven't done Argus pet battles for a while but I expect the icon of all 18 opponents still is the Antaen Cannon and nothing "unique" related to the pets, I reported this since PTR was up but it looks like "they" were done with pet battle for Legion (okay later they added PvP brawler, but these are achievements, nothing "pet battle developers" have to deal with). I really love challenges in pet battle PvE, but sometimes I'd like they think about stuff twice before they throw it at players (thinking of ability-combos that made pets nearly immune to damage or the like)

• Do not screw pet battle difficulty with scaling functionailty. It's very unlikely that collectors/battlers challenge these fights with low-level pets, but the 2nd and 3rd ability unlock at pet level 2&4 and so they have to choose enemy abilities on Slot 1&2 wisely & balance things around this - let's hope things won't get too difficult for beginners or trivial for experienced players. No one wants fights, were your best option is to use level 2 pets only to avoid that 3rd enemy ability

[Quintessence]

Update: Some insight from game dev Jeremy Feasel (Muffinus) on current Pet Battle philosophies (why pets and abilities have/will be changed).

[url]https://us.battle.net/forums/en/wow/topic/20762158027?page=2#post-24[/url]