Shop Smart, Shop Pet… Smart Achievement
I mentioned a while back that one of my WotLK goals was to get the 50 mini-pet Achievement (and the awesome skunk pet that comes with it!). I realized a few days ago how close I’m getting to the 50 mark, so I decided to start looking for the last few pets that I need.
I’ve always used WarcraftPets.com to look through the different pets and find new ones that I can get, but they recently started a great new function that lets you track your pet collection and find new ones more easily. If you are interested in getting the 50 (or 75) mini-pet Achievement, I highly recommend using this tool to help you keep track of everything.
They’re Mine, All Mine!
Right now, I’m at 44 pets, so I need 6 more for the Achievement. Here’s my collection so far, broken down into categories as to how they are obtained. If you’re looking to start your own collection, a lot of these can be obtained fairly easily.
Rare Drop - 1
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Green Wing Macaw
Vendors - 30
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Ancona Chicken
Black Kingsnake
Blue Dragonhawk Hatchling
Blue Moth
Bombay Cat
Brown Prairie Dog
Brown Rabbit
Brown Snake
Cockatiel
Cockroach
Cornish Rex Cat
Crimson Snake
Ghostly Skull
Golden Dragonhawk Hatchling
Great Horned Owl
Hawk Owl
Mana Wyrmling
Orange Tabby
Red Dragonhawk Hatchling
Red Moth
Senegal
Siamese Cat
Silver Dragonhawk Hatchling
Silver Tabby Cat
Snowshoe Rabbit
Tree Frog
White Kitten
White Moth
Wood Frog
Yellow Moth
Quested - 6
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Jubling
Mechanical Chicken
Miniwing
Smolderweb Hatchling
Westfall Chicken
Worg Pup
Created - 3
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Lil’ Smoky
Mechanical Squirrel
Tranquil Mechanical Yeti
Seasonal - 3
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Father Winter’s Helper
Peddlefeet
Winter’s Little Helper
Other - 1
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Baby Blizzard Bear
Sorting Through The Rest
According to Warcraft Pets, there are currently 111 mini-pets in game, counting all sources (drops, quests, vendors, TCG loot, etc), but there are a bunch of pets that I either can’t (e.g., one-time event) or won’t (e.g., TCG loot) obtain. After throwing out all of those, there are a total of 84 pets that I can get, and I have 44 of them so far. So I’ve got 40 pets remaining to try and get my hands on.
Rare Drop - 10
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Azure Whelpling
Phoenix Hatchling
Mojo
Black Tabby
Crimson Whelpling
Dark Whelpling
Disgusting Oozeling
Emerald Whelpling
Firefly
Hyacinth Macaw
Rep Grind - 7
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Tiny Sporebat - Exalted with Sporregar
Pengu - Exalted with The Kal’uak
Nether Ray Fry - Exalted with Sha’tari Skyguard
Cobra Hatchling - Chance to get it at Revered with The Oracles
Proto-Drake Whelp - Chance to get it at Revered with The Oracles
Tickbird Hatchling - Chance to get it at Revered with The Oracles
White Tickbird Hatchling - Chance to get it at Revered with The Oracles
Fishing - 6
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Toothy
Snarly
Muckbreat
Magical Crawdad
Chuck
Giant Sewer Rat
Created - 1
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Lifelike Toad
Seasonal - 13
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Tiny Snowman
Whiskers the Rat
Willy
Winter Reindeer
Wolpertinger
Speedy
Spirit of Competition
Spirit of Summer
Scorchling
Sinister Squashling
Peanut
Mr. Wiggles
Egbert
Achievements - 3
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Stinker
Little Fawn
Kirin Tor Familiar
Moving Forward
Of those 40 pets, not all are good choices for obtaining immediately-ish. The seasonal pets obviously have to wait until their season comes around, and two of the three Achievement pets are rewards for getting pets, so I’ll have to wait to get them. The Kirin Tor Familiar, though, might be a good option, if a bit difficult to get.
The Lifelike Toad is definitely a great option. The recipe is a world drop, so it’s a bit difficult to get, but the mats aren’t bad at all and I’m sure I can find someone to make it easily. So there’s one of the 6.
It’s looking like anything else going to be a grind of some sort, whether it be rep or mobs. I think I’ll probably go for one or two of the dragon whelplings, because I’ve always admired them ever since I started playing WoW, but never had the money to buy one or the desire to grind the drop until now.
I think I’ll go with this:
Lifelike Toad
Pengu
2 of the dragon whelplings
2 of the Oracle-Revered pets
And that’ll be 50!
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I haven’t tried grinding for the whelps in awhile, but expect to spend several days (bare minimum) trying to acquire them - or spending several thousand gold to buy them. The whelps are 1/1000 drops, I believe.
If you’re doing this on a Hordie, you can try and farm the black tabby - the cat drops best off the Dalaran Spellscribes at about a 20% or so drop rate.
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I would go after the Black Tabby, but the mob that it drops from is a rare spawn itself, and then it only has a 20% chance of dropping from it. I think I’d rather go after one of the whelplings where I can at least be killing things on a constant basis.
Edit: You know, after thinking about this, the Black Tabby may not be a bad idea. I could just park an alt at the spot where the Spellscribe spawns. I might do that too.
Cobra Hatchling - Chance to get it at Revered with The Oracles
Tickbird Hatchling - Chance to get it at Revered with The Oracles
White Tickbird Hatchling - Chance to get it at Revered with The Oracles
While these hatchlings are all earned through rep grinding, and hatching an egg, you can frequently find the Cobra and Tickbirds in the AH, as people will get multiples of them while attempting for the the mount that comes from the same egg. I picked up all 3 of those for about 10GP each, although I have seen them listed as high as 300GP each.
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That’s a good point, Adam. The pet items are BoU instead of BoP so people can put them into the AH. I don’t think I’ve seen any for sale on my server, but it’s definitely something to keep in mind.
A very sorround sound blog here… aaah what I meant there was you keep a good balance.. :).. I for one had a small dog.. Not of a particular breed just a street dog who I used to feed ocassionally…Turned out she would go nuts on anybody who tried to approach me.. Geesh!