Shore Crab

One of the best pets for leveling others and fighting epic, legendary, artifact, and beasts of legend pets.

This pet is my #1 pet so far. Great for leveling other pets when it hits 25. Combination of the sheild (c-ya later dots!) and healing is great for not having to bandages or revive after battles. I highly recommend finding a rare Shore Crab, Strand Crab, or Strand Crawler to help with leveling other pets. I has even become an all star in pvp pet battles.

I love this guy, he is my number three, rotate throught the other two slots the ones I want to level, then bring in this guy to clean up. Shell, mist and then snap. Also good to cast mist if need to bring cockroach back on for armaggeddon and health a little low.

I cannot even begin to guess why this one is ranked so low. It's unglamorous, perhaps? In any case, the venerable Shore Crab is a powerhouse for leveling and for taking on tough tamer battles. It tanks and its multi-turn front-line heal keeps squishier higher-DPS pets going. And it is common enough that you can grab a decent one in most areas of Azeroth for whatever level range you need. 

This crab became my premier battler very quickly when I found out I could take on 3  x level 11's at level 8.

My new strategy became capture higher level pets to use on his team as back up. Still, I had very little cause to call on them with "Lefty" at the helm.

I noticed the guy above stated mist before shell, I feel since shell lasted longer, start shell, then mist so you have 3 uninterupted rounds of snappage before having to refresh.

This pet is amazing. Using Snap (Beast), Renewing Mists, and Shell Shield.

Start with Renewing Mists, then shell shield, then snap your way to the win. The combination of keeping mists+shield up is ~150+ damage mitigated per round. The shield also works for DoTs, effectively making them do no damage.

Amazingly, now my favorite pet.

They also have an amazing amount of health, my rare is sitting at 1670 at level 23. 1806 Health at level 25.

This guy is a crazy good tanking and power levelling pet. I take Snap (critter dmg), Healing Wave, and Shell Shield. I start combat with Shell Shield up - maintain that, and snap my way to victory with occasional healing waves. I like to use this guy around Half Hill with a low level pet in my group, I start combat with that pet and then kill everything with the crab. With +dmg to critters you clear a team in no time with very little loss of health overall. 

I found a whole bunch of them underwater in Silithus. Tossed on my Kalu'ak Fishing Pole and dived in. Unfortunately, every single one of them keeps telling me "pet battle area is obstructed".

UPDATE: the bug where you cannot initiate combat while swimming is known and WoW is actively working on it.

Battled and almost lost my winning streak to this sneaky Crab, but trapped him at Westfall Longshore (41, 76) you'll have no prob finding them, they're all over the beach :D

Got a rare one on my first shot today! He's so cute :)