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It's unclear if there are additional prerequisites, such as level 25 Artifact Knowledge or artifact weapon level 35.
Crackers has a fun and unique interaction. Target this pet and emote /whistle, and it will sit on your character's shoulder! (pictured right) This will work for any class, not just Rogue.
Pet Battle Dungeon Achievement
This achievement is earned after players complete the challenge version of the Pet Battle Dungeon (no healing or reviving while inside).
The reward for the achievement is a new pet, Son of Skum (pictured right), which happens to also be one of the pet "boss" encounters you'll find while running the dungeon!
Death Knight and Monk Pet Updates
Keep in mind that this content is previewed from the PTR and is subject to change.
These pets can be purchased by max level players from a vendor found within the respective Order Hall. Each pet costs 10k Order Resources, and is BoP and not cageable.
Although these are pets sold by a vendor, purchasing them is not that simple.
In order to even view the pets on the vendors, players must first complete their class mount questline.
According to Blizzard's 'What's Next' recap from BlizzCon of last year, the class mount quests will only be available after players complete the Broken Shore intro-scenario and quests, and have earned max Legionfall reputation.
After completing the class mount storyline and unlocking the class pets on the vendor, players must then rank up their artifact weapon to level 43. This includes empowering the weapon, and learning the new artifact traits coming in Patch 7.2.
Check out Wowhead's guide to empowering artifact weapons in 7.2 for more information on the process of progressing your weapon further.
Monks will need to earn the achievement Power Ascended before they can buy their class pet, Ban-Fu, Cub of Ban-Lu (pictured above).
Death Knights must empower and unlock all traits for all three artifact weapons. The ability to purchase each of the three new whelpling battle pets is tied to the corresponding weapon:
- Maw of the Damned - Blood Whelpling
- Blades of the Fallen Prince - Frost Whelpling
- Apocalypse - Unholy Whelpling
A Rogue pet, Crackers, is currently listed in the PTR Pet Journal, but it's still unknown how this companion will be obtained.
Check out all 7.2 datamined pets
These new class pets will likely be long-term goals for many collectors and will require a substantial time investment. Will you be going after these pets?
Being addicted to this stupid game AND wanting to have some semblance of a life is hard enough. Grind is one thing, but Legion is just wearing me down. Max levelling every class I do as a matter of course, eventually, but if Blizzard expect me/us to create a dozen max-levelled, max rep, max geared mains just to get our pets/mounts, they are bloody crazy. I will walk away from the game forever before I will let my OCPD destroy my life to that level. That insane level of committment is NOT a game!
Whether you're for or against the DK and Monk pets, feel free to leave feedback on the US Bnet 7.2 PTR thread (started by our very own Adumbledore!):
https://us.battle.net/forums/en/wow/topic/20753098752
Remember: feedback will be better received and taken seriously so long as it's constructive, respectful, and on-topic.
I was already being turned off to pet collecting due to the alliance/horde PvP pets that I would have to grind out multiple ranks of prestiege on 2 factions. Then these types of pets are in the works? If those go live I think I will be done with pet collecting as it becomes far far more work than I feel is worth the reward. I can understand some pets being hard to obtain, and some impossible to obtain due to limited amounts of them availble (Vanilla CE, Murky, Tyrael, etc.). This is too much.
I agree that this is getting crazy. I love collecting but not to this extent. Feels like apunishment or something. Please go post on the ptr forums. Only 24 posts there so far. Blizz will never pay attention if we don't at least say someething.
Well, looks like very few people will be obtaining both of these pets, thanks Blizzard. How come the Druid, Shaman, and DH/Warlock class pets are not that difficult to obtain but you have to literally beat the World of Warcraft to obtain the DK/Monk pets??
I was already disheartened by the current PvP honor grind for pets, but this potential alt leveling/AP/questing grind really sucks all of the fun out of pet collecting for me. At least if these pets were cageable it would seem a tiny bit more collector friendly.
Wow, this feels like Blizzard trying to suck the fun out of pet collecting. Playing alts is all fine and dandy. Requiring that much of a time sink (maxing out THREE weapons?) is not fun and no longer qualifies that toon as an alt. I'm all for new pets (who among us isn't), but how about putting some realistic requirements on getting them instead? Grinding is not fun. Depending on RNG is not fun. Having to switch mains and focus almost solely on a toon you might not even like is ridiculous.
Do. Not. Want.
I've no problem with each class having a unique pet. I do have a problem with said pet requiring almost a main-swap just to obtain.
I don't think it's reasonable to lock a pet behind: leveling to 110, finishing the main class hall campaign & the additional campaign added in 7.2, maxing out the new rep added in 7.2, completing a class mount quest chain, grinding out millions upon millions of AP to max out a weapon, and collecting 10k resources. PER. PET.
I don't mind a reasonable grind once a time (insane), but this looks en feels realy INSANE to me.
Requring us to basically main a class to get a pet-that stinks. I'm in the middle of grinding Prestige 7 on a 2nd character, and it's already going far beyond what seems like fun to me. I'm glad Blizzard has added a lot of new pets this expansion, but they are really making avid pet collectors suffer.
I have one spec on each of my toons. I don't like healing, never have. The majority of what they are expecting for the new pets are out of my realm of possibliliy. I have a hard time now getting excited about doing the world quests over and over again. It's enough of a grind to get resources enough for just doing missions. For a non-raiding, non-pvp, non-dungeon running person who enjoys leveling, crafting, and pet collecting, this has gotten to be a nightmare already. I play the game to relax.
honestly the amount of time to invest in order to obtain the monk and DK pets compared to the other class ones just seems cruel. Could say the same for the PVP ones and million gold cost one as well. I don't understand how they think grinds of that magnitude is fun for anyone.
My word. This is depressing.
Blizzard is changing pet collecting into character collecting and I'm not interested. It's one thing to lure us to new classes by developing a fun, interesting questline for a new, shiny pet, Shaman, for example, but the requirements for the DK and the Monk pets are beyond realistic.
I do OTHER things in the game besides collect pets. Yes, it is my first priority but I also raid with my guild on casual Sunday night. Archeology is another passion so I spent 4 hours last evening collecting 600 bone fragments for the new Moose mount.
Slogged my way through the Brawler's Guild for the new pet. Hard, really hard, but not out-of-reach.
Working on the Dutiful Squire every day. Dislike PVP and spend most of my time dead as a door nail but I am Rank 3 closing in on Rank 4.
Going to the ecky Demon Hunter Order Hall to fight the boss everyday for the elusive Hateful Eye. Not bad, just boring.
I added my feedback to the PTR thread. I fear it won't be enough, but I highly encourage everyone here to please, please go do the same. More collectors need to speak up about this, or it will simply appear that we're the noisy minority and the majority are ok with this path.
Well this is really taking the fun out of getting these pets.. I really want to have them but this isn't fun... I want to have them all but these pets I will put in the category unabtainable
Booooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
All of us avid pet colectors need to complain to blizzard about this. If enough voices are heard maybe they will change this awful grind to get the dk and monk pets. I have already sent several messages to blizzard on how i feel about it. This is crap and we need to band together and COMPLAIN. MAYBE THEY WILL CHANGE IT IF ENOUGH PLAYERS SOUND OFF!!! I already have on many forums.
Well, at least I'm gonna get the Frost Whelpling fairly easily simply because I'm lucky and one of my alts is a frost death knight with all traits on live. Not looking forward to wasting AP by sinking it into weapons I'm literally never going to use just for the other two pets, though.
It's certainly DOABLE - on my main I have two weapons at 35 and I by no means grind AP all day every day - but it's still kinda asinine to require this just for pets. I get that it's class flavour but... :(
I agree its too much, I am a casual player that is(was?)#1 on KT as a pet collector. It is just too much. I will not be doing all 3 weapon paths on any of my toons. I must finally give up the one thing I really excelled at on wow and forget the pets that require dungeons that are not cageable and pets that require me to do class lines like healing that I do not do. For selfish me, this is not acceptable.