Magic Pet Mirror Fun - Emote Animations

As you may already know, I'm incredibly excited about Patch 6.2, mainly because of the Magic Pet Mirror. This fun little toy is probably my favorite new feature of the upcoming patch, and will definitely be my first purchase from the new Menagerie vendor.

I did some testing on the PTR using the Pet Mirror and found out some neat things.

• Any action performed (other than walking, running, and jumping) after using the Magic Pet Mirror will remove the effect.
• The costume can be Skymirrored and/or copied by other players.
• It has a one hour cooldown, and it applies a 10 minute buff.
• Stacks with other toys but only if you use the other toys first and then the Pet Mirror.
• Stacks with Pepe/Mesmerizing Fruit Hat on a few pets, but only if you apply Pepe/Mesmerizing Fruit Hat first.
• Can't be used on pets that can't battle.
• You can perform certain emotes as the pet you mirrored!

NOTE: As of Patch 7.2/7.3, nearly all Pet Mirrored appearances can wear Pepe on their head!

The last part was the toughest to test. With a long cooldown and hundreds upon hundreds of pets to go through, it took a long time of cycling through characters to use their Pet Mirror (they don't share an account-wide cooldown on the PTR). I finally finished last night, though, and have a somewhat complete list of which Mirrored Pets have emote animations!

One thing to note about this list - Unfortunately I don't have an infinite amount of time to spend on the PTR testing each and every single pet for animations, so for pets that have the same or similar model (such as all the rabbits, cockroaches, etc.) I tested one and figured that any animations performed (or not performed) would also apply to the others that shared the same look.

So my list doesn't include EVERY pet (because, c'mon, that would be nuts), but it should cover all of the pet models.

Another point I should make - I didn't try out every single emote, just the main ones. Certain pets that are based on player-character models will probably be able to do all of the emote animations that players have.

I took some example screenshots for each tested pet (didn't capture all animations), but since there are over 70 images I'm only including the ones that I found the most interesting in this blog post. If you're interested in taking a look at all of the screenshots, I've created a gallery here.

Anyway, the list is long but I've sorted it by pet families and in alphabetical order. Some Mirrored Pets don't have any emote animations, but I included them anyway because... well, silly reasons. ;)

Latest Update: September 2, 2017

Aquatic

      

Aqua Strider

• mountspecial

Hydraling

• cower

Pandaren Water Spirit

• cower

Spiny Terrapin

• cower
• sleep

Beast

      

Albino River Calf

• cower

Bloodthorn Hatchling

• mountspecial

Bucktooth Flapper

• sit
• sleep

Direhorn Runt

• cower

Dun Morogh Cub

• dance
• sit
• sleep

Fjord Worg Pup

• sit
• sleep

Fox Kit

• dance
• sit
• sleep

Kovok

• cower

Little Black Ram

• mountspecial

Moon Moon

• sit
• sleep
• dance
• cower(?) - see image above for example

Mountain Panda

• sit
• sleep

Ravager Hatchling

• Pepe and Mesmerizing Fruit Hat

Young Talbuk

• mountspecial

Zandalari Kneebiter

• mountspecial

Zao, Calfling of Niuzao

• roar

Critter

      

Armadillo Pup

• sit
• sleep

Bandicoon Kit

• sit
• sleep

Darkmoon Hatchling

• cower
• mountspecial

Feral Vermling

• roar
• cower

Gazelle Fawn

• mountspecial

Highlands Skunk

• sit
• sleep

Nibbles

• dance
• sit
• sleep

Perky Pug

• Pepe and Mesmerizing Fruit Hat

Dragonkin

      

Chrominius

• roar
• sleep

Death Talon Whelpguard

• roar

Proto-Drake Whelp

• sleep

Discarded Experiment

• roar
• Pepe and Mesmerizing Fruit Hat

Elemental

      

Blazehound

• Pepe and Mesmerizing Fruit Hat

Cinder Kitten

• sit
• sleep
• mountspecial
• dance

Core Hound Pup

• sleep

Phoenix Hatchling

• sit
• sleep
• mountspecial

Ruby Sapling

• dance
• sleep
• sit
• cheer
• wave
• cower
• no
• yes
• laugh
• bow
• clap

Terrible Turnip

• roar

Tiny Snowman

• dance
• wave

Flying

      

Axebeak Hatchling

• sit
• cower
• mountspecial

Azure Crane Chick

• mountspecial

Blue Mini Jouster

• sit
• sleep
• mountspecial

Brilliant Kaliri

• mountspecial (different than the other flying animations)

Firewing

• sit
• sleep
• mountspecial (different than the other flying animations)

Fledgling Nether Ray

• roar
• mountspecial

Hippogryph Hatchling

• sleep
• sit

Ji-Kun Hatchling

• mountspecial

Rustberg Gull

• sit
• cower
• mountspecial

Shadow Sporebat

• Pepe and Mesmerizing Fruit Hat

Teroclaw Hatchling

• mountspecial

Wildhammer Gryphon Hatchling

• mountspecial

Humanoid

      

Anubisath Idol

• sit
• roar

Ashleaf Spriteling

• all basic player character emote animations

Bonkers

• sleep
• sit
• cower
• laugh
• wave
• cheer
• shrug

Curious Oracle Hatchling

• roar

Curious Wolvar Pup

• sit
• sleep

Dandelion Frolicker

• roar
• cower
• eat

Ethereal Soul-Trader

• roar

Father Winter's Helper

• all basic player character emote animations

Forest Sproutling

• dance

Kun-Lai Runt

• sit
• sleep

Lil' Bad Wolf

• sit
• sleep
• eat
• wave

Lurky

• dance

Ore Eater

• sit
• sleep
• eat
• cower

Moonkin Hatchling

• all basic player character emote animations
• Pepe and Mesmerizing Fruit Hat

Pandaren Monk

• Pepe and Mesmerizing Fruit Hat
• sit
• drink
• eat
• bow

Terky

• cower
• dance

Tylarr Gronnden

• sleep
• sit

Wretched Servant

• all basic player character emote animations

Wyrmy Tunkins

• sleep
• sit
• cower
• Pepe and Mesmerizing Fruit Hat

Magic

      

Harmonious Porcupette

• sit
• sleep

Jade Tiger

• sleep
• sit
• dance

Twilight Fiendling

• cower

Faceless Mindlasher

• roar
• Pepe and Mesmerizing Fruit Hat

Mechanical

      

Anodized Robo Cub

• dance
• sit
• sleep

Clock'em

• all basic player character emote animations

Clockwork Gnome

• all basic player character emote animations
• Pepe and Mesmerizing Fruit Hat

Cogblade Raptor

• Pepe and Mesmerizing Fruit Hat (only kinda for the hat)

Draenei Micro Defender

• all basic player character emote animations
• Pepe and Mesmerizing Fruit Hat

Landro's Lil' XT

• dance

Lifelike Mechanical Frostboar

• cower

Lil' Bling

• all basic player character emote animations
• Pepe and Mesmerizing Fruit Hat

Mechanopeep

• mountspecial

Rascal-Bot

• all basic player character emote animations

Undead

      

Blighthawk

• mountspecial
• sit

Cursed Birman

• sit
• sleep

Fossilized Hatchling

• mountspecial

Frostwolf Ghostpup

• sit
• sleep
• dance

Ghastly Kid

• mountspecial

Infested Bear Cub

• sit
• sleep

Macabre Marionette

• Pepe and Mesmerizing Fruit Hat
• all basic player character emote animations

Unborn Val'kyr

• sleep
• dance

Graves

• cheer
• sit
• talk

Fetish Shaman

• dance

Last but not least, some honorable mentions. :)



Bush Chicken

• Its jump animation is hilarious. It looks like it's doing a belly flop mid-air lol.

Electrified Razortooth (plus other "crocolisk" type pets) and Larva/grubs

• Jumping causes it to do a roll mid-air, pretty cute!

Direhorn Runt

• For some reason it has a tiny copy of your weapon floating above its horn. O_o