UPDATE: There have been a few reports that winning a queued pet PVP match has a chance to reward Pet Charms and battlestones.
Also, it should be noted that Garrison Perks have been removed. This includes the reduced cooldown on
Revive Battle Pets from the Menagerie. The ability now has a standard 8 minute cooldown even while in Draenor.
The Menagerie dailies are now account-wide as of 7.0.3. [
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The pre-expansion patch is here — It introduces a new event-exclusive pet, Pet Battle changes and tuning, plus quality of life improvements. Is your collection ready to face the Burning Legion? [
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Patch 7.0.3 New Pets and Models
96 new pets have been added to the game! Keep in mind these pets cannot be collected yet, and will only be available once Legion is released.
Players can have a small taste of what's to come and preview all of the new pets in the Pet Journal — which pet are you most excited to collect in the expansion?
The pre-expansion patch isn't without its goodies!
Two new pets will be available to collect prior to Legion's release.
The first pet,
Felbat Pup (pictured right), is an event-exclusive pet that uses a new bat model.
It can be purchased during the upcoming Demon Invasion event. This World Event is scheduled to begin early August of this year.
Completing open world scenarios will reward Nethershards, which can be spent at special vendors in Stormwind, Orgrimmar or near each of the invasion points.
Check out
Wowhead's guide to Demon Invasions for more information on how to acquire this new pet!
Be sure to take part in these invasion scenarios as the Felbat Pup is considered event-exclusive. Once Legion is released, this pet will likely no longer be purchasable. It can be caged though, so it may pop up on the Auction House from time to time.
The second pet is the
Nursery Spider (pictured left), sold by none other than Breanni in Dalaran.
It costs 200 gold and players can pick up this little arachnid right now! Better have a battlestone ready; it's base quality is uncommon (green).
Updated Models
The Felbat Pup isn't the only pet with a new look. A few existing pet models have been updated with fluffier, less-polygonal appearances.
These updated pet models include
(examples pictured above)...
- Sheep
- Squirrels
- Mice and Rats
- Rabbits, Bunnies, and Hares
- Crow and Raven
With the large influx of new pets and model updates, we're still diligently working on updating the WarcraftPets database.
Thank you for your patience and your
continued support. Stay tuned, we'll be rolling out new pet profiles and updates in the coming weeks.
Changes and Updates
A few changes were made to pet-related activities.
- Pet Charm rewards from Draenor Pet Battle dailies have been reduced (roughly cut in half).
- The Brawler's Guild is now on hiatus. We hope collectors managed to collect Clock'em! If not, don't worry. The Brawler's Guild will return at an undisclosed date during Legion.
In addition to the changes listed above, there are also some quality of life updates.
- Players can now use spells, abilities, and other toys while transformed using the Magic Pet Mirror. Entering combat will still remove the costume.
- Promotional pets and companions purchased from the Blizzard Store now initially appear in the Pet Journal as wrapped gifts that players can click on to 'open', causing an unwrapping animation (example pictured right). This special effect cannot be applied to pets by players.
- The Pet Journal now has additional search functionality, search and filter by pet ability! Example: Typing "Flock" into the search bar in the journal will return a list of pets with the Flock ability. This can sometimes lead to mixed results, however, as some abilities share names with zones (Howl and Howling Fjord, for example).
- Bonkers can now be caged. This battle pet comes in multiple breeds, so it's a great time to clean up (or add to) your collection!
- A new category was added as a source in the Pet Journal — Discovery. Currently only two pets can be filtered using this new category, both upcoming Class Order Hall Mission rewarded pets.
Pet Battle Tuning
Blizzard
first announced possible pet tuning changes during Legion Alpha, and have since updated that list with
additional changes.
A few changes were scrapped, however nearly all of the proposed adjustments are now live. The following is a list of the Pet Battle tuning changes released in today's pre-expansion patch.
- Undead racial - During its invulnerability round, the active Undead pet will now do -25% damage.
- Frog Kiss and Sleeping Gas, both now have a 1-round cooldown.
- Base damage for the following abilities has been reduced by approximately 15%: Thunderbolt, Avalanche, Grave Destruction, Carpnado, Arcane Storm, and Psionic Storm
- Thunderbolt and Avalanche now have a 5-round cooldown.
- Graves' base stats have been changed. At level 25, Graves' Speed is now 244 (was 211), Power is 297 (was 314), and Health is 1587 (was 1668).
- Graves' abilities Consume Corpse and Grave Destruction have been swapped.
- Cleave damage has been reduced by 25%.
- Shell Armor duration reduced from 3 rounds to 2.
- The damage bonus from Howl now only affects one attack.
- Pandaren Water Spirit's Whirlpool and Geyser now share the same ability slot.
There are also a few undocumented changes. Please note that we're currently investigating these unlisted changes, and that ability tooltips on pet pages may not appear properly yet.
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