They look really cool!
They have different abilities and attributes and battle pets can really kick other battle pets's butts!
You can battle other players's battle pets for fun, or go up against a loner/duo/trio of these out in the wild.
There are a handful of very nice-looking battle pets in the game. Actually, as a credit to their very artistic designers and animators, they are all nice-looking. I should say there are some extremely nice looking battle pets.
Some of these also happen to be extremely potent fighters as well.
Most of the dragonkin battle pets fall into both categories.
Years ago, while out questing on a Horde character in Feralas, I got as what seemed at the time as a lucky drop, a Sprite Darter Hatchling companion. At the time, I think it was a quest reward.
Today, the creature is a world drop. So the odds of getting one now are vanishingly small. Saying it is rare is an understatement. It looks very cool; its hide a study in pastel blues and greens. If you want, read more about these Faerie Dragon creatures from the standpoint of the lore.
It was the first dragonkin battle pet I started leveling. They are quite powerful. You can cast a Moonfire spell which creates one of those 'weather' effects in the battle which lasts 9 rounds. This particular weather effect buffs magic to do more damage. For a dragonkin, that works out really well because they just happen to be stocked with magic abilities.
All this is very cruel to merely mention to you if you are a WoW player and you do not have any dragonkin battle pets yet. So I am going to tell you how to get your own dragonkin pet without spending real money in the Blizzard online store on the web or spending gold in the auction house either.
Fly to Feralas, at the closest flightmaster on the map to Dire Maul. You don't need to go into the instance but you do need to go into the courtyard. The easiest way to reach it is on a flying mount, if you have one. If you do not, then go in the main entrance to the ruins and enter the courtyard.
Inside the courtyard there will be a half dozen of these creatures up almost all the time! I think if you kill one another will take its place within several minutes or so.
One or two people battling them will probably never have to wait for more to spawn, so long as they actually fight each battle and do not forfeit because they do not like the quality of the one they are up against.
I think about 1/4 or 1/5 of the ones I fought were uncommon (green) quality. So far, I have not capture a rare (blue) one yet but I hope will.
Note that these Nether Faerie
These are a semi-transparent aqua-colored creature. If you walk through your capital with on summoned, flittering along beside you, I think you will get some "Where did you get that from?" queries from people who seriously want to know; at least in October 2012. After that, probably most people will know!
If you are really patient, you can capture a level 12 Spawn of Onyxia but be prepared to wait hours for them to appear.
The spot they appear in is in front of Onyxia's cave entrance (dozens of yards north of it) — or just to the left or right of it a couple dozen yard, and this is due east of Mudsprocket. Due east means straight to the right of Mudsprocket on your Dustwallow Marsh zone map.
You can get the Nether Faerie Drake so fast in the Dire Maul ruins in Feralas, I strongly urge you to start there, getting at least an uncommon (green) quality one before you leave that spot. If you just want it for looks and do not care about using it in battles, then you can at a minimum win a poor one your first fight.
Then, head over to Dustwallow Marsh from time to time until you can grab yourself a common (white) or uncommon (green) quality Spawn of Onyxia. You quite likely will not be able to get a better quality one than common the first time you go. It will take many trips, that is many spawnings, before you actually get a blue on.
Remember when you are doing pet battles to capture a particular kind, to use pets in your fight that are not too far above that pet's level in order to capture it. Otherwise, a spell can crit or triple proc and you will be looking at a dead — not captured — would-be pet. Believe me, this has happened to me before!
As you level your battle pets, keep at least a couple at about every 2-3 levels in the game. Someone remarked to me that they were just going to level a few of their pets. That may be a good strategy but sometimes capturing pets is faster because it is very possible then to jump a level this way, particularly at lower levels.
If you kill a rare (blue) quality Spawn of Onyxia in a battle because you got in with 2-3 pets that were really too high level to combat it without creaming it instead of capturing it, you will be sad.
When you are feeling really patient someday, you might want to truck back to Feralas and start killing Noxious Whelps. There is a dragonkin battle pet you can get off them but it has a very low drop rate; slightly less than 1/1000. Considering I only see them spawn about 8-10 at a time along 2/3 of the outer banks of the lake in northern Feralas, you are likely going to have to run "ring around the lake" over 100 times.
After about 4, I got bored and decided to move on to Dire Maul which was infinitely more gratifying.
If this post has whetted your appetite for creatures like this, take a look at the list of Dragon Whelps at WoW Companions.
Most people probably already know this but being able to use battle pets in fights requires you to pay 100 golds to the battle pet master trainer, like by the druid trainer in Stormwind or the flightmaster in Orgrimmar, and the character that pays it has to be at least level 5.
The good news is, once this fee is paid, all of your characters on all of your realms on both the Horde and the Alliance faction will be able to do battle pets.
Note if you want to find where a combat pet spawns on a map, take a look at its page on wowhead.com and if you are currently looking at its page on wowpedia.org then click the link on that page that takes you to its wowhead.com page. At the top of the WowHead page for each of them, there is a zone map with silver dots marking the location where the creature usually spawns. That is where you want to go — with a set of appropriate level pets in your three slots!
If you are serious or curious about battle pets, here are three web sites you must visit in order to pretty quickly become an expert.
- Alludra's Pets - she has had a pet blog and a pretty voice for a very long time
- Battle Pet Battles - very nice video podcast (vlog) by author of the Power Word: Gold vlog
- Warcraft Pets - terrific encyclopedia-style web site about battle pets; kind of a wiki meets beastiary (beastopedia?) by Eli who has been producing the most authoritative site about fishing in WoW for years
These 3 sites are produced by people who are well known in the WoW community from other WoW web sites they have had at for a while, and some guest appearances on others' web sites and podcasts.
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