Gnomeregan Pet Dungeon - Pets Used For Each Encounter

I'm pretty much done collecting the Gnomeregan Pet Dungeon pets, but I wanted to leave this here for future reference in case I decide to go back.


Pets I use for Gnomeregan Pet Dungeon:

1. First encounter - Felclaw Marsuul, Fire Beetle, Crispin
2. Ice elemental encounter - Lead with Shimmershell Snail
3. Poison elemental encounter - Lead with Abyssal Eel
4. Fire elemental encounter - Lead with Rusty Snail
5. Console encounter - Scooter the Snail (Shell Shield), Silkbead Snail (Acidic Goo), Lost Platysaur
6. Rat encounter - Lead with Barrier Hermit (P/S)
7. Cockroach encounter - Lead with Saurolisk Hatchling
8. Undead Rat “boss” - Elusive Skimmer, Infected Squirrel, Whiskers the Rat
9. Mechanical wolf encounter - Lead with Enchanted Cauldron
10. Mechanostrider encounter - Lead with Gooey Sha-ling
11. Mehcanical tiger encounter - Lead with Orphaned Felbat
12. Last boss - Servant of Demidos, Tinytron, Spawn of G’nathus (or any pet with Lightning Shield, Fire Shield, or Heat Up)

For enemy backline pets, follow a general rule of thumb:

• Mechanical with the “turret” attack - use a pet with a ‘thorns-type’ ability (Lightning Shield, Heat Up, etc.), preferably not an Elemental pet
• All other mechanical pets - use any pet with elemental attacks
• Undead - use Aquatics with critter attacks (or Dust Bunny (P/S))
• Critter - use any hard hitting Beast attacks do the trick (Fel Piglet and Thaumaturgical Piglet)

8.1.5 PTR: New Pets From Raiding With Leashes VI, Children's Week, DMF

DMF balloon companions cannot battle and are not cageable.
We're kicking off 2019 with a new PTR cycle. Patch 8.1.5 PTR is up and new Pet Battle content was added.

At least 20 new pets so far:

• Raiding with Leashes VI: Pets of Pandaria (Mogu'shan Vaults, Terrace of Endless Spring, and Heart of Fear)

- 11 dropped pets and 1 meta-achievement reward

• Children's Week updates

- 4 new pets

• Darkmoon Faire additions

- 3 new pets

• Last but not least, 1 pet from "A Quest"

Some of my personal favorites/highlights of the RWL6 set.
Full list of 8.1.5 datamined pets can be found here.

The Pet Journal doesn't list specific bosses for the RWLVI pets yet. It's interesting that there are only 3 MoP raids listed for the achievement too. The last raids, Throne of Thunder and Siege of Ogrimmar are missing from this set of RWL pets. Will these 2 raids get their own RWL treatment? Or will they simply not be included? There are a number of pets that already drop from these raids, but we'll have to wait and see if they'll be grandfathered into RWL or if they'll stay as separate, standalone drops. Whatever Blizzard decides it may set precedence for future similar situations where pets are released as drops from raid bosses ahead of that particular raid's corresponding RWL achievement.

List of existing MoP-raid dropped pets (Throne of Thunder & Siege of Orgimmar):

• Blackfuse Bombling
• Droplet of Y'Shaarj
• Gooey Sha-ling
• Ji-Kun Hatchling
• Kovok
• Living Fluid
• Living Sandling
• Pygmy Direhorn
• Son of Animus
• Viscous Horror

The Brawler's Guild will also be making its return. No new pets from there so far, but the 2 previously released pets (Clock'em and Tylarr Gronnden) will be available again. Same requirements as before.

That's it for now. They only announced the return of the Brawler's Guild and Children's Week updates during last year's BlizzCon preview of 8.1.5, but it's possible more Pet Battle content (even more than RWL6?!) could be added in this upcoming patch. We'll have to wait and see.

Island Expedition Pet Trading

Here is a list of duplicate Island Expedition pets that I have.

Last updated February 18, 2019

Pets I have available to trade:

• Giggling Flame x4
• Playful Frostkin x3
• Mischievous Zephyr x4
• Captain Nibs x3
• Snapper x6
• Sandshell Chitterer x4
• Thistlebrush Bud x5
• Deathsting Scorpid x3
• Thunderscale Whelpling x4
• Laughing Stonekin x3
• Sparkleshell Sandcrawler x2
• Littlehoof x2
• Kindleweb Spiderling x2
• Bloodstone Tunneler x2
• Sunscale Hatchling
• Inky
• Snort
• Kunchong Hatchling
• Muskflank Calfling
• False Knucklebump

Pets that I need:

• Leatherwing Screecher - TY Rohannah!
• Rotting Ghoul - TY @ArchmageV!

Save the Dates - Battle of Dazar'alor Raid Pets

There are 4 new battle pets from the Battle of Dazar'alor raid:

• Child of Pa'ku - drops from Conclave of the Chosen encounter

- January 22 Normal and Heroic
- February 12 LFR wing 2

• Spawn of Krag'wa (Mythic only) - drops from Conclave of the Chosen encounter

- January 29 Mythic

• Thunder Lizard Runt - drops from Conclave of the Chosen encounter

- January 22 Normal and Heroic
- February 12 LFR wing 2

• Enchanted Tiki Mask - recipe drops from King Rastakhan encounter

- January 22 Normal and Heroic
- February 12 LFR wing 2

It's unclear if the non-mythic pets will drop on all difficulties, and if the Enchanted Tiki Mask enchanting recipe will drop on all difficulties. We'll have to wait and see.

You can view the official Blizzard BoD raid preview and schedule here.