General "Guide" to unlocking ports to WC/DM/GNOMER with pet battles

necroaqua

Grandfathered
Intro to Pet Battling
With a focus on unlocking the Dalaran portals to Wailing Caverns, Deadmines, and Gnomer (and Strath and BRD in BFA)

The goal of this “guide” is to unlock the portal from Legion Dalaran (and actually the BfA city too) to WC and DM (and gnomer). It is not a short or easy journey...so really this is just an intro to pet battling with a bit of streamlining. I didn’t really plan on making this a full guide - these are mostly just my notes on what I did and how I went about it. I don’t plan on keeping it up to date or even formatting it nicely. Basically all of the strats are taken from various guides (linked in whatever section), with my notes/updates on top of them. Again, this is not something I will keep up to date or even work on formatting nicely - its an info dump that hopefully someone will find helpful if they want to unlock the ports. But since you only need to unlock things once per account, I can’t really go back and test/fix new things.

Also sorry F2P players - pet battles aren't available to trial accounts. For vets - if you pick up game time and unlock the ports, they WILL be available and usable once your sub lapses (but no more pet battling).

I'll also note that you'll need a level 110 to accept the WC/DM quests and a 120 if you want to accept the gnomer/strath/BRD quests.

Guide parts:
  1. Pet Battling Mechanics
  2. Phase 1 - first pets and first leveling strat
  3. Phase 2 - unlock MoP trainer dailies and safari hat
  4. Phase 3 - level shit up
  5. Phase 4 - dungeons

Mechanics
Hopefully you’ve played pokemon, because this shit is like pokemon. This is going to go over the very basics - feel free to skip if you’ve ever done any pet battles before. Pets have 3 stats - health, power, and speed. HP is obvious, Power is more damage, speed determines who goes first.

Breeds - Pets can often have different breeds. Get the addon (see phase 1) to make it easy. Pets breeds basically consist of two stat bonuses. Health is H, Power is P, Speed is S, and Balanced (some of all 3) is B. So you’ll often see pets referred to as S/S or H/P or P/S or B/B, etc, etc. Various pets will prefer stats based on their family and moveset. Many pets, especially those that come from holidays or boss drops, will only have one breed.

Family - Each pet has a family that it belongs to. Each family has a family it resists and a family it is weak too. Families also have a special ability. You can hover over the family in game to see. This can influence what breed and moves you might take. For example, Humanoid pets gain 4% of their total health if they deal damage that turn - so H/H is a good breed for them.

Moves - Theres a ton of moves. Read them. Take note of their cooldown, if it is a multi-round move, if it gives any buffs/debuffs, or if it has any other synergies. Also note moves that say something like “this always goes first” have “priority”. A move will priority will always go before normal moves, regardless of speed. If both pets use a priority move, then speed matters again. Also keep an eye out for “false swipe” moves - those that deal damage, but won’t reduce a pet below 1HP. You definitely want one of these to help you catch pets. You can always pass the turn as well. Useful when managing cooldowns or avoiding certain damage-on-hit things.

Movesets - Each pet has 3 move slots, and each slot has 2 choices. The combination of these moves will often be referred to like this: (1,2,2). So first move in slot 1, second move in slots 2 and 3.

Experience/Levels - Pets start at level 1 and max level is 25. A pet will gain experience if it “participates” in the fight and is alive at the end. This is further defined as the pet having been active at the end of the turn. Options are: leveling pet needs to either start the fight and attack once. Leveling pet is swapped in and then swapped out the next turn. Leveling pet comes in after another pet dies (and is swapped out first thing). Also if the active pet dies on the last turn and the pet comes in.

You can get https://www.wowhead.com/item=116429/flawless-battle-training-stone which will give a pet a single level. Save those for leveling something at 24 or 23. Some of them have pet family restrictions. You can get https://www.wowhead.com/item=122457/ultimate-battle-training-stone which will instantly level a pet to 25. Definitely make good use of those.

Rarity. Your pets can be trash (gray), common (white), uncommon (green), or rare (blue). Most pets you’ll want rare if you can. Enemy trainer pets can also be epic/legendary (with higher stats than your pets). Wild pets almost always have random rarity/breeds, so you can search several spawns to try to find a rare one. You can use a Flawless Battle Stone to upgrade a pet to rare (from anything). So save those and use them appropriately. Some have pet family restrictions, so use those first if you can.

Capturing Pets - You can capture a pet by throwing a trap at them when their HP is <35%. Using a False Swipe pet makes this very easy to set up. You can only catch 1 of the enemy pets in a battle and you still need to win the battle, so make sure you have some decent pets who can finish off the other enemies. Pets will usually lose 2 levels when you catch them. You might only be able to catch pets that are equal to or below your currently highest leveled pet.

Caging Pets - Many pets can be caged and then traded/bought/sold. This can be a great way to get pets that drop from raid bosses, and you might be able to make some money too. You can’t learn a pet that is higher than your highest level pet - but once you’ve gotten a single pet to level 25, you can buy any of them. Battle pets are also account-wide, so when buying a pet - check undermine journal to see if there are cheap ones on another server. You can mail the BoA epic guild tabards to a level one to transfer gold (at a 75% loss, but shouldn’t be an issue for 200g or whatever). Example - check https://theunderminejournal.com/#us/bloodscalp/battlepet/1155

Healing - You can heal/revive pets in a few ways. First is that at the end of a battle, your living pets gain some health. Second is that many pets have healing moves. Third is the “Revive Battle Pets” ability on a 8min cd. This starts at 3-4 mins cooldown when you log in to prevent insta healing on other toons. Fourth is that any stable master (turn on the minimap icon for them) will heal your pets for 10 silver. Finally you can get consumable pet bandages which will heal your pet (you’ll get a ton, use liberally).

PHASE 1 - START THAT SHIT
First thing. Gonna need a couple of addons.
  • Pet Breeds - Shows Pet Breeds using the 2 letter system (anytime you see H/H or P/P or whatever, this is what its referring to).
  • http://www.curse.com/addons/wow/petbattle-info - Shows the enemy pet’s moves and cooldowns.
  • Optionally, the Rematch addon. It isn’t required, but it is an amazing overlay that includes things like a queue of leveling pets, saved teams (including a “leveling pet” slot) for a given trainer, saved notes (copy + paste from guides/wowhead comments to avoid alt tabbing), better filters, and a whole ton more. If you plan to do any pet battling after unlocking the dungeons, then this is a very good addon to grab.
So we’re gonna start with the assumption that you have no leveled pets. Hopefully you’ve picked up some random pets in the time that you’ve been playing wow. And maybe you’ve kept some BoA pet charms or tokens or stones. Check your bank. We’re mostly looking for https://www.wowhead.com/item=122457/ultimate-battle-training-stone - you can actually get one on each toon for simply having a level 3 garrison. Hopefully you either haven’t done the quest or saved the reward. Take all your 100+ toons and do https://www.wowhead.com/quest=38242 if you haven’t already.

If you don’t have a single stone and don’t have any level 25 pets - make a demon hunter and do the quests to get a garrison and then the resources to upgrade it to lvl 3 so that you at least have one.

When you get some stones, then here is what you want to use them on.
  1. False Swipe pet (see below)
  2. Zandalari Anklerender/Kneebiter (P/P or P/S)
  3. Anubisath Idol (drops from AQ40 - easy to farm but can take weeks depending on rng, but see about buying one from AH)
Even if you only have one stone, getting a level 25 false swipe pet will allow you to catch more pets and purchase level 25 pets from the AH (if you want to throw money at this). Good false swipe pets are the Terrible Turnip (from MoP, so you might have it - also usually cheap to buy), molten corgi (from wow 10th anniversary, check your bags), corgnelius (from a mission in legion class hall), scraps (AH or from chests in legion if you did the questline), Corgi pup (200 timewarped badges, but only sold during anniversaries), or Grumpy (easy/quick quest in valsharah https://www.wowhead.com/quest=39015/grumpy ). I'd recommend the Turnip or Grumpy. The Terrible Turnip is a very solid pet who can heal your team. If you don’t have a turnup, Grumpy takes like 2 seconds to get and has a move called Howl which boosts your next attack - a Howl + Superbark (the false swipe move) will knock most things down to catch range and still can’t kill them.

Zandalari anklerenders/kneebiters (either one works) have a cool combo of Black Claw (gives a debuff that adds damage to each hit) and a stampede move which hits several times. Its a great combo that is useful for many strats. They also both have a “if this kills a pet, heal up” move - which makes them fairly self-sufficient when carrying a pet (especially against critters). Our first leveling strat requires it (and not the black claw combo). These are usually fairly cheap on the AH.

Finally Anubisath Idol is a beast of a pet. Its already rare and only has one breed (H/H which is amazing for humanoids). The idol has attack moves in slot one. Slot two has sandstorm (changes weather, weather reduces damage taken for all pets) and a damage reduction option. And slot 3 has Deflection (aka protect in pokemon) which will completely negate the opponents attacks that turn. As a humanoid, it heals each turn it does damage, so between healing, damage reduction, and deflect - you’ve got a pet that will live for a loooooong time. Its also one of the two pets we need for the MoP leveling strategy.

Then we need to catch some pets. Consider waiting to catch pets until you have 3 pets at level 25 (including your false swipe pet). You can also check the AH to see if there are any level 25 pets for sale really cheap. They probably won’t be particularly good, but getting some pets of various families is a solid idea.


GO CATCH
  • Emerald Proto-Whelp (catch 3 uncommon or rare P/P). Can use stones to upgrade bad ones of the right breed.
  • If you want to level up a lowbie (see leveling strats post), then you’ll want to catch 3x Northern Hawk Owl. They are always rare with a single breed, and you don't have to level them since they are caught at level 23 and can start carrying immediately. Catch 3 of them to rotate between them so you don't need to heal as much.
So how to best catch pets? Equip 3 random pets. Check the target pet for pet/breed/rarity. Forfeit first thing. If it was the right pet/breed/rarity, switch to your false swipe pet and two high level backups and re-battle. Catch the pet you want and KO the others.

For low level wild pets, killing them is often faster than forfeiting, and you’ll get more respawns.


LEVELING STRATS:

The second post has all the leveling strats.

Theres a huge section on MoP Tamers (requires Idol + Emerald Proto-Drake). These require you to have done the pet trainer battles of classic, outlands, wotlk, and cata - but that will unlock you the safari hat and is worth it. This is what phase 2 is all about.

For just grinding - there are smaller sections on killing critters (requires Zandalari ankle/knee and 90+ level) or aquatics (requires one of the above birds, can be done on any level).

I’d recommend leaving a toon at a grinding spot and then moving to phase 2. See how far you can get in phase 2 with just the few pets you have leveled. When you run into a trainer you can’t beat - then level up a pet from below that counters it. Once you’ve finished phase 2 you’ll want to come back and level up the pets required for the dungeon(s) you want to complete.

PET LIST
IN GENERAL:
  • Anubisath Idol
  • Emerald Proto-Drake (get 2 or 3, P/P ideally)(green or blue)
  • False Swipe pet (like terrible turnip)
  • Rabbit (S/S) - useful in so many fights, allows defeating thundering spirit
  • Mechanical Pandaren Dragonling - useful in many fights, allows defeating thundering spirit
  • https://www.wowhead.com/npc=97126/northern-hawk-owl - very solid flying pet, useful if you want to level pets and a lowbie toon. always rare and a good breed and you catch at level 23
WAILING CAVERNS
  • Iron Starlette or Runeforged Servitor. Prob worth having 2 total of these
  • Unborn Val’kyr (B/B). May want to use an upgrade stone if you have one.
  • Dream Whelpling (optional, but similar to emerald proto-whelp). Use the NPC in legion dalaran to queue for LFG, solo xavius and then you can catch pets. Get rare/uncommon ones. P/P ideal, but P/S and P/B not terrible.
  • 2 Zandalari Anklerender/Kneebiter. P/P or P/B or P/S. Ikky is an ok backup.
  • An aquatic frog or strider?
DEADMINES
  • Mechanical Pandaren Dragonling
  • Menagerie Custodian/Cogblade Raptor/Lil Bling/Rocket Chicken
  • Snail (H/P ideally, but H/B works) - https://www.wowhead.com/npc=98446/mudshell-conch (better H/P breed) or https://www.wowhead.com/npc=64352/rapana-whelk (easier to find, plenty of spawns, but slightly worse H/B breed)
  • Rabbit (x2)(S/S). Spring Rabbits are always S/S and are super cheap on AH, but are green. Check dalaran for the special carpet to find dust bunnies. Otherwise any S/S rabbit - ideally rare.
  • Pandaren Fire Spirit or Pandaren Water Spirit or Blossoming Ancient or Broot/Blossoming Ancient (if you already have it)
GNOMEREGAN
  • Blossoming Ancient (if $$$) or Broot (if have druid 105+) or Singing Sunflower or Fozling?
  • Immolate/Conflag Elemental(s) - like Pandaren Fire Spirit, Pheonix Hatchling, Spirit of Summer, Fel Flame, etc
  • 2 Snails (H/P ideally, but H/B works)
  • 1+ Frog (with water jet/healing wave/frog kiss)(easy to find while grinding at mistfall village)
  • 1 Strider (easy to find a rare one when grinding in mistfall village)
  • A couple of single pets with https://www.wowhead.com/pet-ability=906/lightning-shield - there are some on Isle of Thunder that are also elemental, which is great. Prob not worth farming for rare versions - green will do.
  • 2x Bunnies and a Zandalari Knee/Ankle, which you should already have by now
STRATHOLME
  • Chitterspine Skitterling (catch a P/S from nazjatar)(can prob be replaced with ikky/zandalari kneebiter if you don't have BfA - but its worth catching one if you do)
  • Lil Bling
  • Rabbit x2
  • Mech Panda Dragonling and/or Emerald Proto Whelp
  • Humanoid (like your Idol)
  • Any decent beast
  • Another critter with Scratch (or another bunny)

OTHER GOOD OPTIONS (helpful if you need new families for safari hat)

https://www.wowhead.com/notable-battle-pets-by-family-guide
  • https://www.wowhead.com/npc=98386/eldritch-manafiend and/or https://www.wowhead.com/npc=98385/erudite-manafiend - solid backup pet that is always rare and caught at level 23)
  • Chrominus
  • Yellow Moth (or other moths) (P/P)
  • Axebeaks/Crow/Gilnean Raven (nocturnal strike combos) (S/S if possible)
  • Kun-Lai Runt (P/P)
  • Nordrassil Wisp (S/S)
  • Darkmoon Tonk
  • Sunreaver Micro Sentry
  • Fragment of Anger
  • Mr Bigglesworth
  • Snails (H/P is best, but H/B works and rapana whelks are easy to farm)
  • Rabbits (S/S)
  • Black Claw + Stampede pets (zandalari ankle/knee, ikky, chitterspine skitterling, foulfeather)
Don’t rely on Teroclaw Hatchling or Howlbomb strategies you see in guides/comments as those got nerfed.


Phase 2 - this is TF2 so lets get a hat
Basically we need to beat the tamers in classic up through pandaland in order to unlock the full set of pandaria trainers we need. That also puts us at 39/40 towards the safari hat - so swap over to the other faction and do the very first trainer quest to get us the hat.


I’m not going to go into these fights. The wowhead comment below breaks it down in the separate achievement pages, and those tend to have the coords and basic strats for beating them. Early trainers are low level, but they will ramp up to level 25 and then be epic quality. Once you get to the pandaland trainers, you can use the MoP Tamer Dailies section to defeat those. The ones before that are all you. Your Idol and Emerald proto-drake will do a lot of work because they are so useful - but look at the enemy pet lineups and consider countering them with whatever level 25 pets you might have. Iron Starlette is a notable way to get past a number of difficult pets due to the Wind Up > Supercharge > Wind Up combo. Black Claw + Stampede/Flock (Zandalari Ankle/Knee or Ikky) are also good combos that can take down tough opponents (especially magic opponents that can only take max ⅓ their HP in a single hit).

https://www.wowhead.com/achievement=7499/taming-the-world#comments:id=2139836

Don’t forget to swap to a toon of the opposite faction and do 1 trainer over there to hit 40/40.

Once you’ve gotten the pandaland trainers done, the pet trainer in shrine will have a couple more quests for you - pick up the one for the elemental spirits. Three out of the four spirits can be done with our Idol/Drake combo. The fourth one can’t, but a rabbit and a mechanical pandaren dragonling can take it down - and those are two pets that are good to level anyways.

Turning in that quest allows you to choose one of the four spirits as a pet. All 4 pets can be gotten from the bags that you get from their daily quests - so you can eventually get them all (they can also be caged and bought/sold on AH). Here are my notes on your options:
  • Pandaren Fire Spirit - A solid elemental type pet with a strong Immolate/Conflagrate combo. Can be used for WC and GNOMER. Probably the best choice if you only care about these dungeons.
  • Pandaren Water Spirit - A solid aquatic with water and heal moves. Can be useful for WC. Note that a lot of strats used it for howlbombs due to it having Whirlpool and Geyser - but howl was nerfed and those are now on the same move slot. Still a solid elemental pet though.
  • Pandaren Earth Spirit - Not really useful for our dungeon runs, but this is the fight that we can’t easily do with idol/whelp, so it might be harder to farm if you’re looking to collect them all. But the fight is fairly easy once you level up a few pets...so not super important.
Phase 3 - level that shit up
At this point you should have your safari hat (wear at all time when leveling pets), the dailies for pandaland trainers and elemental spirits, and at least the Idol/Drake ready to level things up.

So go back up to that list of pets. Start obtaining and leveling up the ones from WC and/or Deadmines. Note that completing WC/Deadmines for the first time will give you a purple upgrade stone - so you can use that to level a pet for the next dungeon. Keep an eye out for the Sign of the Critter week - as its triple experience. So doing dailies that week will level pets from 1-25 in like 3 trainer fights.

If you have any stones that give one level to a pet (or a specific family of pets), then those are good to use at 23/24 which take the most experience. You can find these with BfA pet battle dailies to help you level.

Now, the HOW to grind is below in the MoP Tamer Dailies section. Do that loop once per day. Pick some toon that is less than max level but won’t have trouble if they aggro and you that alt can level up from the exp from battles and dailies.

Once you’ve cleared the trainers, if you want to grind more that day, look at the grinding strats. Theres one that can be done on any level toon. I made an allied race char and corpse ran it over to the village. It’ll sit there grinding pets and sitting in dungeon queues until it hits max level and unlocks the racial armor.

If you don’t care about leveling a lowbie - theres some other good options. A 90+ can grind critters with one of the many level 25 beasts that has a devour-esque move that heals if it gets a kill.

Theres also boring strats on repeatable trainer battles in legion that are supposedly very fast, but very monotonous. The trainers rotate daily and I don’t know what pets are required to do that, but you can look it up if you have a ton of pets. I’m assuming you don’t want to level a ton of pets just to enable leveling the limited number of pets we need.

Finally check if the darkmoon faire is in town. There are two pet tamers that you can battle daily and give good exp (and like 15 dmf tickets per day). Check their wowhead pages for possible setups to see if you have the pets to beat them with a carry pet. Might as well do those for the tickets if nothing else - the darkmoon tonk is a really good pet to buy, and you can work towards that 1000 ticket mount.

Phase 4 - Dungeon time.
There are already plenty of guides out on wowhead and such that go over how to clear these dungeons, so rather than reinvent the wheel, I’m just gonna link them and give general advice.

Note that the first time you clear the dungeon, you CAN heal. Bring a stack of those bandages and ignore the silly comments on “fight this last because you can use a skunk to heal your team” because we don’t care. Don’t worry about your pets surviving any given fight if you can beat the opponent as you can heal up later. Guides will also suggest having 2+ copies of a few pets for if/when one dies. You can get by with 1 most of the time, though some fights will use 2 of the same pet on a single team - so look for that.

If you’re having trouble with any particular fight - go to the wowhead comments for that specific NPC. Usually there will be several strats in the comments. Find one you have the pets for or is close enough. And remember that RNG can fuck you over, so sometimes it just takes a few tries.

This guide is good for WC: https://www.wowhead.com/pet-battle-challenge-dungeon-wailing-caverns

This one is a bit out of date, but can contain alternate strats if the above ones aren’t working:

https://www.wowhead.com/wailing-caverns-pet-battle-challenge-dungeon-with-6-pets

For deadmines go here:

https://www.wowhead.com/pet-battle-challenge-dungeon-deadmines-guide

And finally gnomer if you care:

https://www.wowhead.com/guides/pet-battle-challenge-gnomeregan

Strath is still new and guides are somewhat meh, but its easy to do the first time:

https://www.wowhead.com/guides/stratholme-pet-battle-challenge-dungeon

BRD too as of 8.3. This one looks hard, tho it may have gotten nerfed?

https://www.wowhead.com/guides/pet-battle-challenge-dungeon-blackrock-depths




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Hey - you did it. Pat yourself on the back. How much time did you waste to get a measly teleport or three? Well, as long as you’re happy. Broken Isles Dal is that much better of a hearth for your twink. Or if you can find the pet area in the BfA city, you can port from there too.

So now you either hate pet battles and are done for a while, or you’re looking for more. If you’re looking for more…
  • WC and DEADMINES and GNOMER and STRATH challenge mode. You can repeat these dungeons once per week without being able to heal/revive to earn some rewards.
  • Celestial Tournament. This is a big challenge (no heal/revive) on the timeless isle. Theres a set of 3 weekly rotating tamers and then the 4 celestials. The 3 weekly groups means you’ll need a solid stable of pets depending on the strat. Might require some adapting if you’re missing some pets. The first completion gives you 3 tokens, and each one after that gives a single token. You can buy the really cool celestial pets for 3 tokens each, so you can buy one really quickly, but will need 10 total completions to get all 4 celestial pets. GL. https://www.wowhead.com/guides/defeating-the-celestial-tournament-pet-battles
  • Elekk Plushie. Theres some fun achievements for getting an Elekk Plushie to 25 and for having an Elekk plushie on your team while fighting a ton of trainers. The plushie is not actually alive so it mostly just sits there - though it has a ton of HP to tank hits and has a couple of non-useless moves.
  • PvP Pet Battles. IDK - its like pokemon. Build some cancerous combo and try it out.
  • Pet collection. Go look up cool/interesting/good pets and farm them. Theres legion class hall pets, secret pets like the hivemind mount, old raid boss pets, etc, etc.
  • Start leveling pets to sell. If you don’t mind the leveling part of things, consider leveling pets to 25 and selling them. You can also turn uncommon pets rare with extra stones to further increase the price.
 
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MoP Tamer Dailies
This guide is lifted from the link above with minor edits from my experience. Credit to the original poster for everything - just copying it here for ease of use.

Introduction
You can do Battle Pet Tamer fights once per day for tons of experience (2-3 pets from 1-25 every day). Mist of Pandaria in particular has a ton of fights that require a team of only 2 pets. You’ll also get a bunch of [Sack of Pet Supplies], which can contain various pet treats, trash, and occasionally upgrade stones (upgrades your pets to blue).

This guide is designed for beginners. You will be able to complete every single strategy here with only 2 pets: an Emerald Proto-Whelp and an Anubisath Idol. Theres always some RNG involved - so if it doesn't work, heal up and try again.

Prereqs
  • Unlocked Pandaria Tamers (aka, get the safari hat). Do the Taming the World Achievement [see wowhead link] (requires beating all masters and grand masters in kalimdor, eastern kingdoms, outlands, northrend, panderia, and then doing the first (easy) master on the opposite faction. This will take several hours and isn’t too hard - but might require a pet or two of each type and some luck. And later areas will require level 25 pets of the right type. But you’ll be rewarded with a number of pet supply bags and eventually the Safari Hat which provides 10% bonus exp for your pets
  • Anubisath Idol at level 25 and a green/blue P/P Emerald Proto-Whelp (can get away with not quite level 25 on some fights and it’ll quickly be 25).
Anubisath Idol
  • Drops in AQ40 from Twin Emperors. Can do once per week per high level toon that can clear it.
  • Can be bought/sold on the AH. Look at Undermine Journal to see if there are any sold on other realms for cheap. You can buy the epic guild tabards, mail them to a level 1 toon on any server, and then sell them for ¼ the value. You might be able to pick up an Idol for ~200g.
  • If you already have a level 25 pet, then you can buy a level 25 version and use it. Since you can only learn a pet if you have a pet of the same level (or higher), someone brand new at pet battles will need to stick with a level 1.
  • The Idol only has one breed (H/H) and is always rare quality.
  • Due to its high health, defensive moveset, and humanoid passive (heals 4% health each round) - this thing will live for a long time.
  • If you have an ultimate battle stone (you can get one for each toon with a level 3 garrison in WoD - check your bank), then this is a great target for it.
Emerald Proto-Whelp
  • This pet can not be caged/traded/sold - so you’ll have to catch one.
  • Go to northern Scholazar Basin, and check for a P/P breed of any quality (Poor, Common, Uncommon, Rare).
  • Whittle it down to <35% health and attempt to capture it. Each attempt to capture it that misses will increase the chances that your next will succeed. You’ll need to kill the other two pets after you’ve trapped it.
  • Consider using random level 1 pets to search for the P/P breed and forfeiting instantly. If it isn’t a P/P pet, then move on. If it is, switch to level 25 pets to capture it.
  • Pets with a “False Swipe” move (cannot reduce the enemy’s HP below 1) are very useful to whittle opponents down without killing them. A [Terrible Turnip] or [Molten Corgi] are good options (and might be worth an ultimate battle stone if you have extras).
  • This pet will be obtained around level 19-20. Don’t bother using an ultimate battle stone to raise it to 25. It can probably handle a few fights and will level up fast.
  • If it is not uncommon (green) or rare (blue) quality, then considering using a Flawless Battle Stone to bring it to rare. Flawless stones can be purchased for 15 Polished Pet Charms
  • These are great pets in general, considering picking up 2-3 P/P versions if you can find them.

Intro to Pet Battles
In the guide I use these parameters: [Pet name] [(Skillset)]

- The number 1 – 3 in front of the pet names signify which pet you start with and which pet gets switched in next.
- Skillset: 1,1,1 means the first ability slot for all three abilities. 2,2,2 means the second ability slot for all three abilities. 1,2,2 means the first ability slot for the first ability, and the second ability slot for the second and third ability.
- Concerning carry pets and XP: Usually, I switch in the carry pet when my first pet dies, then immediately switch the carry pet out for the last lvl 25 pet. This way, you will get xp without having to make an action or take a hit. In some battles, I let the carry pet switch in at a different time for tactical purposes.
- Carry pets will gain exp when they end a turn as the active pet
- Lead with carry pet and use an ability turn 1
- Swap into the carry pet (counts as being active at the end) and immediately swapping out
- Swapping the carry pet in after a pet dies and immediately swapping out
- If the active pet kills the final enemy pet with a self-destruct move like explode


Final Notes
  • Pet battles give decent experience - so consider leaving a 90-119 character in Pandaland to do the battles on. They just need to be able to fly in panderia.
  • If you already have done pet battles to get the Safari Hat, use it (obviously)

BATTLE PET EXP CHART FOR THESE BOSSES

From https://www.warcraftpets.com/community/forum/viewtopic.php?t=8829

Yellow = a single fight will level you up
Light blue = a single fight might level you up depending on how far into the level you are

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Aki the Chosen
(31,74) Valley of Eternal Blossoms
1: Carry pet (may need 300ish HP)
2: Anubisath Idol (1,1,1)
3: Emerald Proto-Whelp (2,?,1)

vs Chirrup
- Attack with your Carry pet > switch to Anubisath Idol
- Sandstorm > Crush until Chirrup dies

vs Stormlash
- Deflect > Sandstorm > Crush until Stormlash dies
- If Stormlash cast Thunderstorm again, then immediately recast Sandstorm

vs Whiskers
- From here on, cast Deflection when Whiskers has dived, Sandstorm when off cooldown, Crush as a filler
- Switch to Emerald Proto-Whelp when your Anubisath Idol dies
- Chain cast Emerald Bite, unless Whiskers has Dive off cooldown (then cast Proto-Strike)

(( Can heal at Mistfall Village stable master as you leave ))

Thundering Pandaren Spirit (EXTRA)
(65,94) Townlong Steppes
This one is too hard to do with the Idol/Proto-Drake setup. But a Rabbit (S/S) and Mechanical Pandaren Dragonling are good pets that you should probably get and level.
  1. Carry pet (600+ish hp?)
  2. S/S or H/S? Rabbit [2,2,1]
  3. Mechanical Pandaren Dragonling [1,1,2]
vs Pandaren Earth Spirit
- Carry pet attacks/passes for first 2 turns (likely stunned)
- Swap to Rabbit
- Burrow > Flurry > Dodge > Flurry x2 (repeat until dead)

vs Sludgy
- Switch to Mechanical Pandaren Dragonling
- Breath > Decoy
- Breath until dead

vs Darnak
- Switch to Rabbit
- Flurry > Dodge > Flurry x2 > Burrow (repeat)

From https://www.wowhead.com/npc=68465/thundering-pandaren-spirit#comments:id=2874865
Courageous Yon
(35,73) Kun-Lai Summit
1: Emerald Proto-Whelp (2,2,1)
2: Carry pet
3: Anubisath Idol [-] (2,2,1)

vs Piqua
- Emerald Bite > Emerald Presence > Emerald Bite until Piqua dies

vs Lapin
- Emerald Presence > Proto-Strike > Emerald Bite until your Emerald Proto-Whelp dies
- Switch to Carry pet > switch to Anubisath Idol
- Stoneskin > Demolish until Lapin dies

vs Bleat
(- If your Emerald Proto-Whelp is still alive at this point, cast Emerald Bite until it dies > switch to Carry pet > switch to Anubisath Idol)(With RNG you can actually kill Bleat with your Proto-Whelp. Just pass until it dies so we can get the carry pet in)
- From here on, cast Deflection when Bleat has the Chew buff, recast Stoneskin when there is 1-turn left on your buff, Demolish as a filler

( Honestly I switched from my blue whelp to a green one to avoid soloing the entire fight on accident… )
Burning Pandaren Spirit
(56,41) Townlong Steppes
1: Anubisath Idol (1,2,1)
2: Emerald Proto-Whelp (2,2,1)
3: Carry pet (should have 500HP to survive)

vs Crimson
- Crush > Stoneskin > Crush until Crimson dies

vs Pandaren Fire Spirit
- Deflection
- Switch to Carry pet > switch to Emerald Proto-Whelp
- Emerald Presence > Proto-Strike > Emerald Bite until Pandaren Fire Spirit dies

vs Glowy
- Emerald Presence > Emerald Bite until the end

- Notes: If, at any point in the fight, your Emerald Proto-Whelp dies, then switch to Anubisath Idol, cast and maintain Stoneskin, and chain cast Crush (and cast Deflection when Pandaren Fire Spirit has Conflagrate off cooldown).
Seeker Zusshi
(36,52) Townlong Steppes
1: Anubisath Idol (1,1,1)
2: Emerald Proto-Whelp (2,2,1)
3: Carry pet

vs Diamond

- Sandstorm > Deflection
- From here on, cast Deflection when Diamond has Howling Blast off cooldown, Sandstorm when off cooldown, Crush as a filler

vs Mollus
- Switch to Emerald Proto-Whelp (If Idol is trapped, attack twice and deflect the dive)
- Proto-Strike (if dive is off cooldown) > Emerald Presence
- From here on, cast Proto-Strike when off cooldown, Emerald Presence when there is 1-turn left on your buff, Emerald Bite as a filler

vs Skimmer

- Emerald Bite until your Emerald Proto-Whelp dies
- Switch to Carry pet > switch to Anubisath Idol
- From here on, cast Deflection when Skimmer has the Pump buff, Sandstorm when off cooldown, Crush as a filler
Wastewalker Shu
(55,38) Dread Wastes
1: Carry pet (should have 500HP to survive aoe)
1: Anubisath Idol (1,1,1)
2: Emerald Proto-Whelp (2,2,2)

vs Crusher

- Attack with your Carry pet > switch to Anubisath Idol
- From here on, cast Deflection when there is 1-turn left on your Whirlpool debuff, Sandstorm when off cooldown, Crush as a filler
- If you’re about to kill Crusher and your deflect cd is 3 turns, the consider passing once then finishing Crusher off to ensure deflection is up for Rupture

vs Pounder
- Cast Sandstorm/Crush first turn, then Deflection. From here on, cast Deflection when Pounder has Rupture off cooldown, Sandstorm when off cooldown, Crush as a filler
- Switch to Emerald Proto-Whelp when your Anubisath Idol dies
- Emerald Presence
- From here on, cast Emerald Presence when there is 1-turn left on your buff, Emerald Dream when you have less than half of your HP, Emerald Bite as a filler

vs Mutilator
- If your Idol is still alive, start with Sandstorm/Crush on turn 1/2 and then Deflect turn 3. Spam Sandstorm > Crush (Deflect if counterstrike is off cooldown) until the Idol dies.
- From here on, cast Emerald Presence when there is 1-turn left on your buff, Emerald Dream when you have less than half of your HP, Emerald Bite as a filler. (Be careful of counterstrike - heal up with Emerald Dream if its off cooldown and you’re less than full health)

(( Heal at Klaxxi'vess stable master on your way ))

Note that this is the most RNG fight of the lot. Consider switching to a Red Cricket or Chi-Chi strat once you have more pets. See wowhead comments for possible strats: https://www.wowhead.com/npc=66739/wastewalker-shu#comments
Flowing Pandaren Spirit
(61,88) Dread Wastes
1: Carry pet (should have 500HP to survive aoe)
2: Anubisath Idol (1,1,1)
3: Emerald Proto-Whelp (2,1,1)

vs Marley
- Attack with your Carry pet > switch to Anubisath Idol
- Deflection > Sandstorm
- From here on, cast Deflection when there is 1-turn left on your Whirlpool debuff or when Marley has dived, Sandstorm when off cooldown, Crush as a filler

vs Tiptoe
- Chain cast Crush, unless your Sandstorm is off cooldown (then cast it)
- Switch to Emerald Proto-Whelp when your Anubisath Idol dies
- Emerald Bite until Tiptoe dies

vs Pandaren Water Spirit
(- If your Anubisath Idol is still alive at this point, cast Crush until it dies > switch to Emerald Proto-Whelp)
- Proto-Strike when there is 1-turn left on Whirlpool and Geyser
- Emerald Bite all the way
Mo'ruk
(65,43) Karasang Wilds
1: Emerald Proto-Whelp (2,2,2)
2: Carry pet
3: Anubisath Idol (1,1,1)

vs Woodcarver
- Start with an Emerald Bite on round 1
- Then, repeat this exact sequence until Woodcarver dies: [start] Emerald Presence > Emerald Dream > 2x Emerald bite [repeat]. If you do it right, you will cast Emerald Presence each time Woodcarver has burrowed.

vs Lightstalker
- Emerald Presence > Emerald Bite until Lightstalker dies

vs Needleback
- Emerald Bite until your Emerald Proto-Whelp dies
- Switch to Carry pet > switch to Anubisath Idol
- From here on, cast Deflection when Needleback has Headbutt off cooldown, Sandstorm when off cooldown, Crush as a filler
Farmer Nishi
(46,43) Valley of the Four Winds
1: Carry pet (needs to survive one hit 800+ HP or mechanical)
2: Anubisath Idol (1,1,1)
3: Emerald Proto-Whelp (2,2,1)

vs Siren
- Attack with your Carry pet > switch to Anubisath Idol
- Deflect (if sun is out) > Sandstorm > Crush until Siren dies
- If Siren recast Sunlight, then recast Sandstorm (yes, cast sandstorm, don’t deflect)

vs Toothbreaker
- Sandstorm > wait until Toothbreaker is back > Deflection
- From here on, cast Deflection when Toothbreaker has Leech Seed off cooldown, recast Sandstorm when it fades, Crush as a filler

vs Brood of Mothran
- Switch to Emerald Proto-Whelp
- Proto-Strike > Emerald Presence
- From here on, cast Proto-Strike when off cooldown, recast Emerald Presence when there is 1-turn left on your buff, Emerald Bite as a filler

(( Can heal at Halfhill stable master on your way ))
Hyuna of the Shrines
(48,53) Jade Forest
1: Emerald Proto-Whelp (2,2,1)
2: Carry pet
3: Anubisath Idol (1,1,1)

vs Skyshaper
- Emerald Presence > Emerald Bite until Skyshaper dies

vs Fangor
- Emerald Bite > Proto-strike > Emerald Bite until your Emerald Proto Whelp dies
- Switch to Carry pet > switch to Anubisath Idol
- Crush until Fangor dies

vs Dor the Wall
(- If your Emerald Proto-Whelp is still alive at this point, cast Emerald Bite until it dies > switch to Carry pet > switch to Anubisath Idol)
- From here on, cast Deflection when Dor has Headbutt off cooldown (if both heal and headbutt are off cd and dor isn’t near full, wait a turn to deflect), Sandstorm when off cooldown, Crush as a filler
Whispering Pandaren Spirit
(29,36) Jade Forest
1: Anubisath Idol (1,1,1)
2: Carry pet
3: Emerald Proto-Whelp (2,2,2)

vs Dusty
- Deflection > Sandstorm
- From here on, cast Deflection when off cooldown, Sandstorm when off cooldown, Crush as a filler

vs Whispertail
- Crush until your Anubisath Idol dies
- Switch to Carry pet > switch to Emerald Proto-Whelp
- Emerald Presence > Emerald Bite until Whispertail dies

vs Pandaren Air Spirit
- From here on, cast Emerald Presence when there is 1-turn left on your buff, Emerald Dream if you have less than half of your HP, Emerald Bite as a filler

At this point, you’re done with Panderia. You can either…


  • Call it quits and hearth back to the inn at Mistfall Village to log out. (This is what I do)
  • Or if you’ve done the Taming Northrend/Cataclysm achievements you can…
    • Log out at the Mistfall Village inn and swap toons to a character sitting in Northrend or Deepholm to do the following battles.
    • Don't log out and instead travel to Northrend and then Deepholm to fight a few more opponents for a bit of exp. This is way less than the pandaria trainers. Its best if you have an Argent Crusader Tabard to teleport to the Argent Tournament (or engineering portal) and then use a guild cape or Dalaran Hearthstone to get back to Org/Stormwind. Your actual hearth should be set to Mistfall Village Inn to get back for tomorrow.
See https://www.warcraftpets.com/community/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=4580 for those fight details


Grind Leveling
Any level

Since the Pandarian Tamers can only be done once per day, theres also the option to grind. This strat (shamelessly stolen from wowhead comments https://www.wowhead.com/guides/battle-pets/leveling#comments:id=2257812 ) is designed for low levels to be able to safely grind high level wild pet battles. There are other spots that will be faster or require no healing, but won’t work for low level toons.

We’re going to be grinding Eternal Striders behind the Goldern Lantern Inn at 35.35, 79.0 in the Vale of Eternal Blossoms.

To get there on a low level toon, you'll need to get a mage portal to Vale and might have to corpse run a bit to get to the inn (especially if you're horde). You can also get a ride on a 2-seater mount of course.
  • It's an inn, you can set hearthstone there, and you don't have to go far to log out and gain rested bonus (which apparently doesn’t apply to pet battles, but works great if you sit in dungeon/bg queues while battling).
  • There's a mailbox out front so you can pick up pet items from your higher levels or mail any stones you find.
  • Mount-haver Nik Nik is very close to the battle area for pet healing.
  • The area is safe to battle in for characters of any level, and is part of the Battlechest game, so can even be used by those without the WoD expansion. Use heirlooms to level faster.
  • Several 24-25 wild pets are there, close together, and they spawn fast enough that you shouldn't have to wait more than a minute for respawn, unless someone else is also levelling there, allowing for good, solid farming. You can do several battles back-to-back in the time it would take you to fly from one NPC tamer to another.



The easiest way to get started here is to catch 3 northern hawk owls. They will be caught at level 23 and always be rare P/S. Use one carry pet in the first slot and then 2 of the owls. Attack with your carry pet and then swap to the higher HP owl and Darkness > Nocturnal Strike > spam 1 until Nocturnal Strike is up again. When one dies, let the other one finish out that battle. After the battle, swap the dead one for your 3rd owl. This will greatly reduce how often you need to heal.

Other nocturnal strike pets can work here. An axebeak is particularly long lived - turn one it heals itself and gives itself 50% hit and 50% crit to ensure Nocturnal Strike hits. Gilnean Raven, Crow, and others will cast Darkness first and then Nocturnal Strike.

The original strat for posterity:
A Rare P/B, B/B, or P/P Imperial Eagle Chick is the single highest damage flying pet with Cyclone, Hawk Eye and Slicing Wind. It might take some time to find a rare version in the wild, so consider using a stone to upgrade a lower quality one of the correct breed. To use the eagle cast Cyclone, Hawk Eye, then Slicing Wind until you need to refresh Hawk Eye (if you need to. Once buffed the eagle can get 3 kills in 3 rounds against an all aquatic team, and because of its speed and damage it can hang on with low health).

-

With low health you need to heal often, but with the stable master so close that isn't a problem (and you could always use bandages too). You can even speed up your healing trips with the following macro:

Code:
/tar Mount-haver Nik Nik
/script SelectGossipOption(1);StaticPopup1Button1:Click()

Interact with him and then use the macro as you're turning to ride off.

-

Keep an eye out for rare opponents that you might want to catch. If you see something you want (I'd try for a P/S strider and P/P frog for our dungeons) - simpily exit the fight and switch to a false swipe pet instead of your carry. Notabe breeds…

P/S Eternal Strider
??? Dancing Water Skimmer
P/P Yellow Bellied Bullfrog
S/S Golden Civet (or Kitten)
P/B Effervescent Glowfly (really anything but H/S is solid)


90?+
Much faster and shouldn’t require much healing, but as not safe for low levels.

Collect a Zandalari Anklerender or kneebiter from the Isle of Giants (or the AH for like <1k), level it to 25 (or at least like 20), then head down to Halfhill near Farmer Nishi and farm the critters there in the neutral area. It's a consistent and stress-free experience.

The best ability setup that I've found for the Anklerender is:

1. Bite
2. Primal Cry
3. Devour

Used right you should never have to manually heal your team.

Only bring in a level 1 pet against the grasshoppers, otherwise they will die. Always start combat with your leveling pet in the first slot and have them attack on round 1. Swap in the Anklerender afterwards and he will finish things off. Have a 3rd beast (any beast) in there for the odd RNG. A strong flyer works for slot 3, as well, but the Anklerender is just as effective against off-class stuff anyway.

It might be worth rejiggering the path for the Pandaren Tamers to start/end at Halfhill so that you can do the daily loop and end at halfhill to train this way.

Squirt
Squirt is a trainer who appears as an opponent in your garrison menagerie. Squirt shows up once every 15 days. With the right setup, you can beat squirt in about a minute and a half. You can battle squirt repeatedly. And squirt gives the same exp as a pandaria trainer fight. If squirt is available during the sign of the critter week and you have your safari hat, then it only takes 2 battles to level a pet from 1-25. So 3 minutes per pet. Great way to mass level up if you get lucky with timing - but it only happens every few months.

So in order to do this you need...
* Level 3 garrison
* Level 1 pet menagerie (unlocks fighting trainers)
* Level 2 pet menagerie is nice, but optional (heal/reviving your battle pets is free and 1 less click)
* Viable pets to carry

Take a look at the wowhead page for squirt for several good strats. I also have linked a page on powerleveling that goes into a strat. THESE ALSO HAVE THE DATES WHEN SQUIRT IS AVAILABLE.

* https://www.wowhead.com/npc=79179/squirt
* https://www.wow-petguide.com/index.php?m=Powerleveling

Some basic strats
* Classic strat. Pets are hard to find, but is probably the fastest. Bronze Whelpling (S/S) + Widget the Departed (S/S) - see comment: https://www.wowhead.com/npc=79179/squirt#comments:id=2311049
* Bonestorm strat. Easier pets to find, RNG doesn't screw it up (my preferred strat). Enchanted Broom + Boneshard. See comment: https://www.wowhead.com/npc=79179/squirt#comments:id=2440757
* Solo strat. Can be soloed, but will lose occasionally to RNG. Mechanical Pandaren Dragonling. See comment: https://www.wowhead.com/npc=79179/squirt#comments:id=2153634

Overall a really really really good powerleveling strat. It just comes once every 15 days, so hard to rely on.
 
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Intro to Pet Battling
With a focus on unlocking the Dalaran portals to Wailing Caverns, Deadmines, and Gnomer
While I trust that most F2Ps have sufficient self-awareness to see "Pet Battles" and know it's not for them, you still might want to remind them of that fact upfront... ;)

Amazing work as always!
 
Awesome work Necro.
I actually had a quick look at this when I had the 3 days gametime but it all looked too hard at the time.
Based on what u’ve experienced, would it be possible to do in 3 days provided I already have a lot of pets?
Also, has it been tested that the Ports work when unsub’d? Sorry if u’ve already covered it, I’m at work so only skimmed it for now.
Thanks for ur efforts on this. :)
 
While I trust that most F2Ps have sufficient self-awareness to see "Pet Battles" and know it's not for them, you still might want to remind them of that fact upfront... ;)

Amazing work as always!

Huh. Didn't actually know that. Thats unfortunate. Finding rare pets on a f2p without a flying mount would be pretty fun actually...but I guess blizz does want people to pay for the game...

https://us.battle.net/support/en/article/3226

Awesome work Necro.
I actually had a quick look at this when I had the 3 days gametime but it all looked too hard at the time.
Based on what u’ve experienced, would it be possible to do in 3 days provided I already have a lot of pets?
Also, has it been tested that the Ports work when unsub’d? Sorry if u’ve already covered it, I’m at work so only skimmed it for now.
Thanks for ur efforts on this. :)

That would be tough. For just WC/Deadmines, you'd need to level like 13-14 pets from level 1 (and several will need to level from 18 or 23 or something) and then do the dungeons. You also need a level 90 or 100 toon to accept the dungeon quests. Gnomer would be more pets and requires level 110. It would have to be the pet battle week, maybe darkmoon faire at the same time...and even then it would probably be long days.

I haven't tested. I have a starter account attached to my account so it should get the battle pet stuff since its all account wide. Perhaps I can make an undead and get it to dal through the pally class hall if that still works...
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Awesome work Necro.
I actually had a quick look at this when I had the 3 days gametime but it all looked too hard at the time.
Based on what u’ve experienced, would it be possible to do in 3 days provided I already have a lot of pets?
Also, has it been tested that the Ports work when unsub’d? Sorry if u’ve already covered it, I’m at work so only skimmed it for now.
Thanks for ur efforts on this. :)

I haven't tested. I have a starter account attached to my account so it should get the battle pet stuff since its all account wide. Perhaps I can make an undead and get it to dal through the pally class hall if that still works...

Alrighty. Made an undead, made enough copper to fly to Light's Hope. Died over it and took the portal to dal (yay that still works). Saw a blingtron in dal - it dropped a knockoff blingtron pet that I didn't have (wooh) and then was able to take the portal to gnomer. Can't actually pet battle. But how many level 3 undeads are sitting outside gnomer?

So vets can unlock this when they have game time and they'll be able to use the ports. This requires a level 110 to accept the WC/DM quest and 120 to accept the Gnomer quest.
 
And this was the moment that i felt the backtires and in the distance a sort of cowbell fading away........

The most relevant portals for low lvl's, are acquired through beeing the great pokemon sourcerer in wow!

As i open my eyes slowly i caught a glimp from the careless troll who was driving a Fcking Icecreamtruck
 
That would be tough. For just WC/Deadmines, you'd need to level like 13-14 pets from level 1 (and several will need to level from 18 or 23 or something) and then do the dungeons. You also need a level 90 or 100 toon to accept the dungeon quests. Gnomer would be more pets and requires level 110. It would have to be the pet battle week, maybe darkmoon faire at the same time...and even then it would probably be long days.
Thanks again for this guide Necro. I think I might be ok to do it in 3 days.
I was very active during MoP and I actually got a lot of pets and leveled quite a few to 25. I even completed the Celestial Tournament to get https://www.wowhead.com/npc=72009/xu-fu-cub-of-xuen. That's my Monk's pet as it suits her class :)
So looking at your guide, it seems provided I have sufficient pets and types, so long as I beat all the pets in a dungeon, I will unlock that dungeon port? I don't even have to worry about the challenge mode and do it without them dying? If that's so, I think it should be fairly simple. Unless I've missed something?
Only issue is I'd need a level 110 Trial so hopefully they give me BFA access for 3 days. Gnomer will suck needing a 120. :(
Well, I'm looking forward to this now - get me some dungeon ports :D
 
Thanks again for this guide Necro. I think I might be ok to do it in 3 days.
I was very active during MoP and I actually got a lot of pets and leveled quite a few to 25. I even completed the Celestial Tournament to get https://www.wowhead.com/npc=72009/xu-fu-cub-of-xuen. That's my Monk's pet as it suits her class :)
So looking at your guide, it seems provided I have sufficient pets and types, so long as I beat all the pets in a dungeon, I will unlock that dungeon port? I don't even have to worry about the challenge mode and do it without them dying? If that's so, I think it should be fairly simple. Unless I've missed something?
Only issue is I'd need a level 110 Trial so hopefully they give me BFA access for 3 days. Gnomer will suck needing a 120. :(
Well, I'm looking forward to this now - get me some dungeon ports :D

Ahhh yeah if you've already got pets at level 25 then you've got a good shot at getting it in 3 days. And yeah, unlocking the ports is fairly easy - you can heal after each battle, so as long as you can beat every battle you'll unlock it. No clue if a trial account will be able to do it, but I don't see why not. I still might try to do it during the pet battle week in case you do need to level a pet or two to finish a certain fight.
 
Pet Battle Dungeon: Stratholme

It’s time to marshal your menagerie and put your best battle pets forward within the halls of Stratholme, a new Pet Battle Dungeon with Normal and Challenge difficulties. Those who prove themselves to be the very best will earn an Ultimate Battle-Training Stone after defeating the dungeon on Normal difficulty. Completing it on Challenge difficulty will grant the achievement Pet Battle Challenge: Stratholme along with the Minimancer pet. To get started on your journey, you’ll need to have earned the achievement All Growns Up! (have one level-25 pet) for Normal difficulty or Pro Pet Group (have 15 level-25 pets) for Challenge difficulty. Seek out Tizzy Gearjolt in Boralus or Radek Fuselock in Dazar’alor to get started.

8.2 brings a new pet battle dungeon with presumably a new teleport. Will eventually update with what pets you might need once there are some guides for it.

EDIT: New dungeon, new teleport, requires lvl 120 to accept, few new pets added to the list of suggestions and a generic link added.
 
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