Patch 6.2: New World of Warcraft Battle Pets

Patch 6.2 brings the new zone of Tanaan jungle to explore plus a new raid and other new goodies, and the developers have given us an awesomely large group of pets to battle, buy, and find.

There's even a quest to get your own Fel Pup, which is one of the neatest looking pets added to the game recently (because who needs another snake, rate, or beetle, right?).

Here's a quick rundown of the pets you'll want to seek out in patch 6.2 and where to find (or buy) them.

Pets Galore in Your Garrison

The first place to go for pets is your garrison. Your level three garrison menagerie will feature a few new tenants including "Exotic Pets and Accessories" vendor Giada Goldleash and

The pets and pet toys available from Giada are purchasable with pet charms. New pets include:

• Bloodthorn Hatchling (50 pet charms)
• Dusty Sporewing (50 pet charms)
• Glowing Sporebat (50 pet charms)
• Lost Netherpup (200 pet charms)

You can also buy a "Magic Pet Mirror," an "Indestructible Bone," or a "Spirit Wand" as toys for your pets. The Spirit Wand looks pretty awesome since it turns your companion pet into a spectral version. Cool!

Note: If you're alliance, your pet vendor will be named Tiffy Trapspring.

You'll also want to be on the lookout for a garrison mission that will reward you with a Cinder Pup. Additionally, a vendor named Trader Darakk (for Horde) or Trader Araanda (for Alliance) will sell you a pet named Crusher. The pet costs 1000g.

After you build your shipyard, look for a naval mission called "Orphaned Aquatic Animal Rescue," which will reward you with the Left Shark pet, which is a reference to Katy Perry's performance at the Superbowl Halftime Show.

Hopefully, you've fished your way to a level three Fishing Shack (I haven't, boooo!), because you can catch a Felmouth Frenzy Lunker, which is something Nat Pagle will have an interest in - he'll get you access to a Sea Calf and a Land Shark.

New Pets in Tanaan Jungle and Beyond

There are four new regular pets you can find crawling about in Tanaan Jungle for you to catch, and the density of level-100 mobs means it's helpful to go find these pets if you're well-geared or a stealth class (I often use my rogue to stalk my pet prey).

Put these four pets on your list when you visit Tanaan Jungle:

1. Bloodbeak (Flyer)
2. Cerulean Moth (Flyer)
3. Violet Firefly (Flyer)
4. Fen Crab (Aquatic)

Bonus! There's a quest called "A Fel Pup of My Own," which will reward you with the Fel Pup. To get the pup, you'll want to kill a mob named Ceraxas who lives in the Temple of Sha'naar.

Go to the southern area of the zone in the west to find the temple. After you kill Ceraxas, an "Abandoned Fel Pup" will appear with a quest icon above its head.

Additionally, there are several "fel-corrupted" legendary pets around Tanaan Jungle for you to defeat. After defeating any one of these legendary pets, you'll get a goodie bag that has gold, pet charms, and pet bandages.

You can also get a fel-touched battle-training stone, which will give any pet you choose 5 levels instantly. The legendary reward bag also has a chance to include one of these four pets:

• Nightmare Bell
• Periwinkle Calf
• Seaborne Spore
• Zangar Spore

Very cool! Beating all the legendary pets will also reward you with the achievement Tiny Terrors in Tanaan.

Also, after you've completed all your quest lines in Tanaan Jungle, look for the quest "Treasure: Cipher Shard." This quest is only available after you've done all the quests; you'll get ported out of the area where the quest is located if you try to access it early.

Your pet reward will be the Shard of Cyrukh, which is a tribute to the quest chain in the Burning Crusade-era quest chain that eventually led players to kill Cyrukh the Firelord. Do you remember that quest? I do, so many years ago :)

If you're a raider, you can also try for the Corrupted Nest Guardian, which drops from Shadow-Lord Iskar in Hellfire Citidel.

New Darkmoon Faire Pets

I'll cover these pets more in detail when the Darkmoon Faire arrives again, but for now, know that you'll want to get your fishing pole ready to catch a bevy of Darkmoon Daggermaw, which are used as currency at the Faire.

You can purchase leashes for Blorp (a fish) for 50 Darkmoon Daggermaw or the Ghostshell Crab (your own mini Ghostcrawler) for 100 Darkmoon Daggermaw.

You'll also want to play the "Whack a Mole" game at the Darkmoon Faire since there's an achievement called That's Whack, which will reward you with a mini Hogger pet named Hogs.

Have I missed any pets? Let me know, and I'll add them to this list (and where to find them)!

Get Multiple Pet Quest Dailies with Multiple Pet Menageries

I just leveled up my rogue and at level 100, I built her a pet menagerie (just like my main, a warlock). My rogue is my second level 100 toon, and I figured the daily quest from the pet menagerie building would be account wide.... but it's not!

Therefore, don't neglect building your pet menagerie on your alts! You'll get to do the pet daily "Scrappin" with every menagerie you build!

I can't decide if I feel like a noob learning this information or whether I should feel excited that I get more pet dailies.... probably a little bit of both!

And, just for fun, because I'm bored today:

Setting Up Your Garrison Pet Menagerie

After upgrading your Garrison to level 3, you'll be eligible to build your very own Pet Menagerie that offers you a daily pet battle and currency to buy pet accessories. In addition, your finished Menagerie will feature a few of your favorite pets hanging around each day. It's nice for them to get some fresh air, right?

To build your Menagerie, you'll first need to complete a starter quest that requires you fight three opponents scattered around your Garrison. As of this writing, I'm not sure if you'll always face the same set of pets for your starter quest, but the following pets are the battles I faced (perhaps a fellow pet battler can clarify if this initial quest is always the same?).

The pets you'll face are "Boss" pets that take 50% less damage and they each have a lot of hitpoints. However, each battle puts your team of three against a single boss pet, so think of these boss pets like you're fighting three pets in one.

One pet you'll face is named Gorefu. He's an Aquatic that looks like a tiny hippo. You might do well with a set of flyers against this opponent, but you can mix it up to find pets that use strong attacks.

I personally used an Enchanted Broom, a Fungal Moth, and a Gilnean Raven. The Broom will take less damage from Gorefu since it's a Magic pet, and it has a Mechanical attack that makes him take more damage.

The best way to beat him could be to stack 3 Enchanted Brooms, but I didn't have that, so I tacked on a Fungal Moth and the Gilnean Raven. Not too difficult once you get your team up and running.

The second pet you'll face is named Carrotus Maximus, and he's an Elemental that looks like a Terrible Turnip.

You'll want to try and find Critters that deal Aquatic damage so they'll take less damage fro Carrotus and deal extra damage with their attacks. This pet actually took a few tries to find the right combo.

I first tried using a 3-snail team with Acidic Goo + Dive. Unfortunately, Carrotus Maximus has an annoying ability called "cleanse," which sometimes removes your Acidic Goo. I tried a few times with a snail team, but I kept getting RNG'd to Hellfire and back.

Carrotus also heals excessively with Leech Seed that he seems to cast with wild abandon, which means the fight can take a while.

Rather than beat my head against the wall with a snail team, I tried a frog team instead to try and out-heal the dumb turnip. Even with the Frog team, I BARELY lived at the end. RNG is RNG I guess.

Your third fight will be against Gnawface, a Critter that's a basic rat. Just bring out the spiders and scare some arachnophobia into this easy fight.

Seriously. Pack some Brittle Webbing and Swarm that little rat to death. Take a look at the HP on my team AFTER I fought him:

Once your Managerie is up and running, you'll have a daily pet quest available from Serr'ah, and one of your fights will be against Stitches Jr!!! Too cool!