How Battle Pets in World of Warcraft Changed Gaming for Me 

When Mists of Pandaria expansion came out (2012?) I was waiting for my collectors edition to arrive per mail. It was 2-3 days late, so I missed the expansion on day one. However, battle pets were introduced to the base-game and I got inmediately hooked. Those 3 days while everyone else was exploring Pandaria, I was out collecting anf battling and leveling all sorts of pets. I LOVE it!!! Did you know it's the project of just 1 dev?

This video is too good. Seriously, it’s a love letter to battle pets. I came looking for a guide because I do not “end game” grind, and fell in love with your passion. I am looking forward to expanding my BP collection now too!

What a wonderful review. I've been playing pet battles for a few years now and never considered the depth and breadth that you have described. Thank You!

Wow. Finding this video was sooo refreshing. I love actually hearing someone that is as excited about this game as I am. Definitely going to check out your other videos! ❤❤

Absolutely love this. Would love more content to learn more about it. Just started getting into WoW again after yeaaarss 🎉😊

Great video! Glad you're enjoying yourself in WoW - it always makes me smile seeing people's joy in the game. :) Incidentally, your background in Monster Taming/Battling games (my favorite game genre aside from WoW) is similar to my own, too, which was a nice surprise to see! I'm a long-time player of WoW (since early 2005) and have been a casual pet battler and collector for some time - my main content to pursue is typically hardcore Raiding or M+ Dungeons, but I do always find myself coming back to the Pet Collecting/Battling side of WoW quite often. I definitely feel people underappreciate Pet Battles! Your eloquent breakdown of the depth Pet Battles explains exactly why I love them and come back to them - as a standalone battle system it is quite fun, but alongside an entire RPG with cool people to interact with and tons of stuff to explore, collect, and do? It's too good! Anyway, all this to say I really enjoyed your enthusiasm in your video and was glad to have came across someone who feels similarly to me. :) Hope you continue enjoying your time with WoW and Pet Battles in the future!

I would love to see more battle pet content from you.

I am collecting battle pets since Mists of Pandaria and have collected more than 1,600 different pets. Still missing about 30 pets. But I was really inspired by the way you were talking about battle pets in WoW. Greetings from Germany

Great content momo!

Great vid

Love the insights here, great video man!

Oh dang, its Flip! I haven't seen you since I migrated from FFBE around the end of Shadowlands. Good to see you man, hopefully you're enjoying WoW like I've been. (And saving a bit of money as well) ;)

You can also level alts using Pet battles - especially during the special XP events. Powerleveling battle pets near Halfhill can be very fast for both pets and alts. I got several characters maxed pre-Dragonflight just using the Battle Pet system.

great vid

I have played WoW since 2007 - played a little FFBE off and on. I have been a high ranked raid leader and guild leader - wow is awesome. Welcome! I am glad you like the Pet Battles. Try more of the game too - wow has tons to offer.

This is literally me, I played Pogo and got bored and have played WoW off and on since release. Got into Dragonflight and did some Mytic dungeon crawling at 70 once that got stale I looked into the pets. I have to admit I was thinking it was just knock-off Pokémon but it's honestly what keeps me subscribed now as well.

How do you go about finding info on pets? Is there a good resource to learn what pets to target in 10.2? I had no idea about the rare colored bunny but how do you even find this exists? Would like a video to better understand the battle pet lifestyle. Things like addons for targeting pets and just what to look out for while our world questing

I never liked being so far behind so when I started during panda land. I went in on pets. It was new so I wanted to play the same time as everyone else. My goal is to own all pets lvl 25 x3 lol I’m at 1628 unique pets 1854 duplicate pets 3141 maxed to lvl 25… Now crappiest part of this was 4 years ago the max amount of pets you could hold was 1500 lol so I had to erase all my doubles and triples of npc pets. So now I had to go back and recage all of them. But that’s how I level. I level by pet battling.. welcome to the game and to the pet world My name is badcredit on emerald dream I have over 3k of pets I also sell too so I might have some you need lol Amazing video ❤

Good job! you should also do a video on the addons you use for Battling!

YEAH, almost 20 years and counting ! one of the reasons why , any other mmorpg don´t get me hooked ...

I would love for Wow to spin off pet battles to their own platform. that is something I would pay for.

I quit WoW at the beginning of Shadowlands and just came back. My battle pets were the only thing tempting me back during that absence.

Have you heard of our lord and master, Palworld? It’s SO good! It has everything I love about survival games and automation, with the breeding and theorycrafting of Pokemon!

5:30 where did you get this image? ♠

4:00 all the points you make in favor of wow battle pets are correct... but seems like you're forgetting that now you pay a 12$ monthly subscription fee, unlike in previous games (pokemon) were you paid once for the game and nothing else