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The Tempest Unleashed Event is live starting this week, and there's a new pet to collect! [source]

Players can pick up a quest offered in Stormwind or Orgrimmar, "A Primal Threat". Completing this quest will reward the Primal Stormling (pictured right).

This Stormling will only be available during the event, which will end on November 28, 2022 when the expansion goes live. However, the pet is cageable, so players can check the Auction House after the event has ended.

Don't miss out on this new, neat looking battle pet. Make sure to log in and take part in the Primal Invasions!

Also This Week: Twitch Drops

Blizzard's Twitch Drops promotion begins this week, with the Dragon Kite (pictured right) as the first reward. [source]

Connect your Bnet account to your Twitch account and watching Dragonflight WoW streams on Twitch to earn this pet. More information on how, plus information on Ichabod (new pet, coming soon), can be found here.

Wowhead recently participated in an interview with Associate Game Director Jeremy Feasel and Lead Software Engineer May Flores Garcia. [source]

Among the various topics covered, there was a brief discussion on Pet Battle improvements.

In response to a question about updates or rework for Pet Battles, Feasel had the following to say:

Pet battles is one of those awesome evergreen systems that we would like to, definitely make it easier for players to onboard into. I think we have some plans for looking into that and I'd like to announce today, but we would definitely like to make pet battles continue to be an ongoing evergreen system, that is easy for players to get into and play with. One of the advancements that we did make to the pet battle I know for hardcore pet battlers, in Dragonflight is that the pet battle bonus event is no longer exactly tied with the week that it was. It's now a bonus to other bonus events so that you can have a Super Squirt Day more often. It will no longer be a Super Squirt Day in like two and a half years. It'll come up more frequently.

We'll have to wait and see what exactly "a bonus to other bonus events" means. The good news is that collectors and battlers won't have to wait for the Pet Battle Bonus Event and the Squirt encounter to align (resulting in "Super Squirt Day") in order to efficiently and quickly level battle pets. Hopefully we'll see these bonus days more often in the near future.

Pilgrim's Bounty
The Pilgrim's Bounty event is live in-game this week. Don't miss out on two battle pets, Bush Chicken and Plump Turkey.

Players have a chance to find the Bush Chicken (pictured right) hidden in their Pilgrim's Bounty daily reward bags.

The Plump Turkey (pictured left) is the reward for completing the Pilgrim meta-achievement.

Some would say chicken is a great alternative to turkey, but why not both!

Blizzard Anniversary Pack
Blizzard is having a special sale, going on until November 28, 2022. [source]


If you're missing out on previous expansion CE mounts and pets (from Mists of Pandaria and on), this bundle might be for you.

Discounts are added if you already own any of the mounts or pets part of the pack. Check out the article linked above for more information on what's included.

UPDATE #2: A second hidden pet was also found thanks to a joint effort between the Secret Finding Discord and WarcraftPets Discord!

Earn the Honorary Dryad title from a short quest chain in Valdrakken, and gather up 3 Hornswog Hunks and 1 Honey Snack. Then head over to The Azure Span to find the Primal Bear Cub (located between the Theron's Watch flightpath and Rhonin's Shield flightpath). Interact with it to receive the Snowclaw Cub.

UPDATE: The first hidden battle pet has been found! Thanks to the Secret Finding Discord, players can add the Bugbiter Tortoise. Acquire a Petrified Dragon Egg and Eroded Fossil and speak with Cymre Brightblade to receive your new turtle! Note that Cymre might not be spawned unless the World Quest Brightblade's Bones is up.

This pet is currently bugged and will not show up in the Pet Journal when learned. Using the command /summonpet Bugbiter Tortoise does work though.

Unfortunately, due to technical constraints on our end we'll have to wait to include this pet to our database. We'll add it as soon as possible, thank you for your patience and understanding!



Dragonflight is live this week! Explore the Dragon Isles, capture new pets, battle new trainers, and earn some awesome achievements and rewards!

New Pets In Dragonflight
The expansion brings us 90+ new battle pets, not including the 3 pets collectible during the Dragonflight pre-patch (Crystalline Mini-Monster, Primal Stormling, Secretive Frogduck).


Some highlights include:

• 38 wild pets to capture
• 18 pets from Dragonflight vendors
• 8 profession crafted pets (3 pictured above)
• 7 quest rewards
• 4 pets rewarded from achievements
• ...and more!

Check out all Dragonflight pets!

There are a handful of elusive pets that made a brief appearance during Dragonflight Alpha and Beta, but have since gone into hiding. It's unclear if they simply didn't make it to release and will be available in a future patch, or if there's some secret involved. Whenever and wherever they pop up, we'll update our database as soon as we can. Thanks for your patience and understanding!

New Trainers, Challenges, Achievements
Battlers can find new Pet Battle World Quests on the Dragon Isles. There are 8 new encounters.

Complete each of these WQs with a full team of level 25 pets to earn the Battle on the Dragon Isles achievement.

All 8 encounters are available at all times and are repeatable, even if their associated WQ is not active. This makes it more convenient for the next new addition.

All About Family

Looking for something a little more challenging? There are new "Family" achievements and meta-achievement!

Similar to the other Family Fighter-style challenges, defeating all 8 of the new encounters with a full team of level 25 battle pets from the same family will award you with progress toward Family Battler of the Dragon Isles. This achievement rewards the pet Lady Feathersworth (pictured right).

Check out Xu-Fu's for strategies and ideas on how to defeat the elite 8 and earn yourself a new pet!

A Break From Battling
If you need a break from battling, there's another new achievement to earn while exploring the Dragon Isles. Capture at least one of every new wild pet to earn the Dragon Isles Safari achievement.

Some Dragon Isle wild pets have certain conditions that must be met before they appear. Check out the list for conditionally spawned Dragonflight pets. Additional information can be found in each pet page's Notes section.

A handful of Dragonflight wild pets come in multiple skins, so if your goal is to collect all colors, keep an eye out as you hunt through each zone.

There are more achievements related to battle pets, plus quests and treasures. Head out to the Dragon Isles to discover more!

Support A Streamer For A New Pet
In addition to Dragonflight's release, there's another special event that may interest pet collectors.

Tune into an eligible Twitch streamer that's streaming WoW starting November 28 at 3pm PST (GMT+8), and gift them x2 Twitch Subscriptions to earn the new pet, Ichabod (pictured below).


For more information on how to accomplish this, check out our forum post. A list of eligible streamers for this pet can be found here.

This special promotion ends December 12th, so don't wait too long if you'd like to add Ichabod to your collection. Be sure to claim any earned Twitch rewards before the end date, as they won't be redeemable after the promotion ends.

We'll be including this new pet to our database as soon as possible.