Although, when I finally engaged the rare cat that I’ve been trying to get since Tuesday, I now KNEW it was a rare that my overpowerful pet accidentally killed by 2 points /cry :(

But seriously, being able to sort by level so my leveled up pets are at the top is wonderful and being able to see which ones I have when mousing over in the wild, rather than having to open the panel and try to find them is just great.

Thanks so much for sharing!

I spent much of the first few days doing pet battles. I have done a little under 400 battles (in the wild), have caught a little under 200 pets and have caught 20+ rares. Sadly, I didn’t pay attention to achievements right away. If I had my “catches” would equal my “battles”. The only thing I’m disliking so far are the battles against other players. The game is matching teams in a bad way and players are taking advantage of it. Nothing sucks more than signing up for a battle with 3 level 5 pets and fighting against a level 8 and two level 1s. I have lost more PvP pet battles than I care to count. I hope Blizz can figure out how to beat the players that are stacking the odds in their favor. I’ll most likely go back to doing just battles in the wild and leave the PvP alone until I can get some pets to max level. I have a long way to go for that. Right now my highest is only level 9.

Oh, please let Cassie know about some addons I found that will make PetBattle life much more pleasant for her (and you too of course). The first is PetJournal Enhanced, found at CurseForge. This one gives you a few more options for sorting the pet list that the game doesn’t include. The second is BattlePetCount (CurseForge). This one shows the quality, and count, of battle pets you own in your tooltip as you hover your mouse over pets in your pet list and over pets both in the wild and in battle. The third one is PetBattleQualityGlow (WowInterface). This one will let you know what quality pet you are fighting by adding a slight glow of the quality color to the pet’s icon, as well as show the name of the pet in the quality color, in the battle window.

While I was searching for the sites to get these at just now, I came across two others I will try out today. One is called PetBattleTeams (CurseForge) that allows you to save up to 60 teams. And the other is BattlePetsList (CurseForge) that shows you a list of available pet types in an area. I’ll let you know how those last two work…unless you or Cassie want to try them for yourselves.

I created a panda monk last night and got him through the starter zone. That zone is beautiful. I really enjoyed it. Although, I’ll probably create another panda just to go through it again. I didn’t pay attention to much of the story as I went and really should have.

Wasn’t until I was a quarter into 86 that the stone quest dropped for him. Have only found one Lotus though – but haven’t explored outside of Jade Forest, and I’m patient.

I do have nearly half a Hyjal herb bag of tea leaves though. My Inscriptionist is just hungering for me to send him some… that he’s also an alchy just means he needs that much more.

I don’t know how different the questlines are between horde and alliance, but I’ve really been enjoying the unique styled quests – the scouting ones were a lot of fun, and the Monastery quests were great too. Can’t believe I’ve only barely scratched the surface on the questing…

I’m just sad it’s so linear – with Cata, you had two zones to level up, at least you could change things up a bit… this seems more like ‘Jade Forest 10x’ or Dungeons… Kinda meh about the replay-ability of JF. I’ve decided, at least so far, to quest on my gatherers and dungeon on my crafters.

She has her trinket now, and in all the herbing we’ve both done, we have gotten a total of 6 of the Golden Lotus. So, yeah, not so many in the first zone.

But that’s nothing near as bad as the Mote of harmony drop rate. I want my staff, damnit, and I’ve got TWO MOTES. Damnit.

Yes, they are THAT plentiful.

Me, I am figuring the spawn rate has to get nerfed sooner or later, so I’m gonna herb em all!