I know most of us have moved on from Twitter, but for World of Warcraft information sometimes that’s the only place I can get it from. I am not in the Midnight Alpha – but tons of content creators I follow are, and this little bit of information that was released really stood out to me.
MrGM posted about how pet battles in Midnight have changed – at least when it comes to capturing. You no longer battle 3 pets in the open world and attempt to cage, instead you just.. throw a cage, and catch it. The new method removes pet battles from the equation – at least for Midnight. This is NOT retroactive to other zones.
As someone who really enjoys pet battling, and who enjoys capturing pets, this troubles me. I’m concerned that Blizzard is going to slowly phase out pet battles all together. I’m concerned that they’re done with one of the only aspects of the game I interact with on an almost daily basis.
In comments (of course) there is a LOT of speculation, comments like it’s because of Nintendo. I’m not sure if I’d go that far, we’ve seen pets move to the very end of the line in a number of expansions now and I’m just worried that this will be one more system that they cut out completely.
Thoughts? Let me know in comments. As always, happy gaming, no matter where you find yourself.
A Pixel Nomad 
I like battle pets but I never have time to or think to battle them. For me this change just means I will have all the ones from Midnight.
But I definitely know how you feel. My poor poor archeologist weeps with you.
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This is very very sad. Both me and my dad are enjoyers of pet battles, we can sit and discuss pet battles up to like an hour at a time. Pet battles is almost the only thing my dad does in the game, he doesn’t raid, he doesn’t do dungeons above the occasional random heroic, he doesn’t run old content to farm transmog or mounts – he does pet battles and the occasional delve and open world content. Do I have to break his heart now by telling him this?? He pet battles completely without any addons, he comes up with and remembers all his strats in his head, rarely does he even look at other peoples strats for tips and tricks. If they start to phase out pet battles to eventually remove them me and dad will be very very sad..
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