5.2 Minipet Changes (selection of WHEE!)
Posted: Sun Dec 23, 2012 6:57 am
There's a lot of changes, but here's the batch that especially made *me* hop up and dance.
This still means my lone l'il Hordie doesn't get to do all the Pet Battles, but now I don't feel bad doing my pet dailies on almost anyone. Plus, I can send over some stacks of bandages to my other characters, rather than having to vendor them!Battle Pet Bandages now stack to 25 and are Bind to Account.
I do dailies, so I'm not *as* thrilled by this as others (I do a fair job of getting my stack) but for those who don't? This is going to be a very handy way! Although going to need to challenge your pets to do it. Not too hard, fortunately.Level capped players will now have a chance to each Lesser Charms of Good Fortune after winning a pet battle versus a Pet within 5 levels of the highest level pet on their team. Higher level pets will offer a better chance to earn a Charm.
Pet battling my way to 90! YES!Winning a pet battle versus a team within 5 levels of the player's highest level pet will now award player experience.
This? Was the *PERFECT* way, IMO, to fix that exploit. Now if a pet is killed, it *stays* killed; you can't just kill it by accident and pop back in. However, it lets you escape to 'save a rare' easily for someone, or if you disconnect by accident, you don't have to lose your pet. This is gorgeous, IMO.Fleeing a pet battle will no longer despawn the pet that was being battled, but doing so will now inflict some damage on the fleeing pet battle team.
Disconnecting from a pet battle will once again respawn the pets you were fighting.
Any pet that has been killed in a pet battle will now never respawn.
In a word: *drool* I wonder if the red panda will be a color changer, or if they're planning to put more skins in.Elite Battle Pets have been added to the game world. These rare pets will spawn alone against an entire team. A new quest has been added to track progress as these new pets are hunted down, and defeating that quest will award the new Red Panda pet.