After looking at the Battle-Stones on MMO-Champion's database, it seems like only a few will be Bind on Use, while many others will be soulbound. If this is the case, and the Bind on Use stones are a very rare drop, I don't see this being much of a problem in terms of being sold or "farmed&quo...

As to collecting rare pets being pointless, I think the real question is what's the point in capturing wild pets that are not rare? The change in 5.1 to enable flawless and polished battle-stones to be used to upgrade battle pets to rare or uncommon respectively, addresses that issue. 1. From what I...

If you are still having bad luck hope is on the horizon! Patch 5.1 you'll be able to use a Flawless Battle-stone to upgrade any pet to rare quality.