Post by drazzl on Mar 9, 2015 1:10:05 GMT
6.1 brought a nerf to the intro questline to unlock the Pet Menagerie building. Originally it was 3 boss battles to unlock and required you to have multiple maxxed out pet teams to complete. Post-nerf, there is a warm-up fetch quest that awards you a barttle stone that levels any pet instantly to level 25. Then, the 3 fights are easy enough they can be completed by single level 25 pet for the most part.
Well, you can do this intro questline on each level 100 with a level 3 Garrison (takes less then 10 minutes), so more alts means more free leveled pets. More level 25 pets opens up many more options for you to tackle other challenges. I'd recommend getting 1 pet of each type so you have flexibility in facing more challenges.
The Pet Menagerie opens up a daily quest that awards several tokens. This quest is not account-bound, so it is repeatable across all of your alts. This is easy to do once you've beaten the first time and know what team to use. These tokens may be traded in to the vendor there to turn any pet into rare quality and to buy levels. You'll get about 7 tokens per quest and it takes 3 tokens to buy a level and 15 to make a pet rare. Seeing as this one battle set to repeat, it doesn't take long to abuse (about 3-5 minutes per toon) and you can buy several levels a day for a pet. As such, it is very easy to add into a daily routine where you update your missions and collect your herbs and ore.
One thing to watch out for, the ability to heal your pets via your personal cd or the pet handler does not function for the first 3 minutes you've logged on to a toon. This slows the rate you can toon hop and spam out all of these battles. I imagine this was a built-in balance to prevent players from battling out in the world and toon hopping back to a pet handler to heal up with no downtime.
To speed this up further, the level 2 Pet Menagerie offers another daily pet battle that can only be done once per day for more tokens, and the pet trainers out in the world also award the same currency. While this can easily become a grind, it is a much faster and easier grind then before. Since the daily is located in your garrison, there is no need to wander the world for high level tamers or develop specialized teams to power level pets. You don't even need to use the lowbie pet you're trying to level, you can level him via proxxy using only your best pets.
Well, you can do this intro questline on each level 100 with a level 3 Garrison (takes less then 10 minutes), so more alts means more free leveled pets. More level 25 pets opens up many more options for you to tackle other challenges. I'd recommend getting 1 pet of each type so you have flexibility in facing more challenges.
The Pet Menagerie opens up a daily quest that awards several tokens. This quest is not account-bound, so it is repeatable across all of your alts. This is easy to do once you've beaten the first time and know what team to use. These tokens may be traded in to the vendor there to turn any pet into rare quality and to buy levels. You'll get about 7 tokens per quest and it takes 3 tokens to buy a level and 15 to make a pet rare. Seeing as this one battle set to repeat, it doesn't take long to abuse (about 3-5 minutes per toon) and you can buy several levels a day for a pet. As such, it is very easy to add into a daily routine where you update your missions and collect your herbs and ore.
One thing to watch out for, the ability to heal your pets via your personal cd or the pet handler does not function for the first 3 minutes you've logged on to a toon. This slows the rate you can toon hop and spam out all of these battles. I imagine this was a built-in balance to prevent players from battling out in the world and toon hopping back to a pet handler to heal up with no downtime.
To speed this up further, the level 2 Pet Menagerie offers another daily pet battle that can only be done once per day for more tokens, and the pet trainers out in the world also award the same currency. While this can easily become a grind, it is a much faster and easier grind then before. Since the daily is located in your garrison, there is no need to wander the world for high level tamers or develop specialized teams to power level pets. You don't even need to use the lowbie pet you're trying to level, you can level him via proxxy using only your best pets.