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This week's Beta build added many new Pet Battle achievements, ranging from collecting to battling. [source]
New Achievements and Rewards
Many new achievements were added to Shadowlands Beta. Here are the most notable ones.
Shadowlands Safari
This is a straightforward collecting achievement where players must capture at least one of each Shadowlands wild pet.
There are 21 new wild pets in Shadowlands.
- Ardenweald - 3
- Bastion - 8
- Maldraxxus - 5
- Revendreth - 5
Family Exorcist
Ready for a challenge? The first is probably a familiar one!
Following in Family Familiar's footsteps, we now have a Shadowlands version.
There are 10 achievements that must be completed to earn the meta-achievement, Family Exorcist. Each achievement requires battlers defeat 9 out of 11 possible NPC trainers with a team of level 25 pets from one pet family.
- Aquatic Apparitions
- Beast Busters
- Creepy Critters
- Deathly Dragonkin
- Eerie Elementals
- Flickering Fliers
- Haunted Humanoids
- Mummified Magics
- Macabre Mechanicals
- Unholy Undead
Currently, trainers cannot be battled on Beta if their World Quest isn't active. It's unclear if this is intended, or if there are any plans to make the trainers always available in the future.
Completing all 10 achievements will earn Family Exorcist and a new pet, Spriggan Trickster (pictured above, right)!
Abhorrent Adversaries of the Afterlife
The Family-achievement isn't the only challenge coming in Shadowlands. In the same vein as Tiny Terrors of Tanaan, players will need to defeat 10 different Shadowlands Boss pets.
These pets are all level 25 legendary pets (level does not scale), and each is a repeatable, single-pet encounter.
Defeating all 10 pets will earn players the Abhorrent Adversaries of the Afterlife achievement and Winterleaf Spriggan pet (pictured above, right)!
With the changes to certain pet abilities coming in the Shadowlands Pre-Patch (9.0), some fan-favorite strategies might need to be adjusted to overcome these tougher encounters. We look forward to all of the teams and tactics the Pet Battling community comes up with!
Are the Wild Pets associated with each Covenant only found in those zones? Like do i have to be a part of that covenant to obtain those pets?
Hopefully they don't include fights like Durian Strongfruit (?) from Legion who you couldn't repeat battle each day.
21 wild pets for a new expansion seemed quite low at first tbh... but I guess they'll add 2/3 per raid, then must be achievements and any to be bought with charms.
Where are we up to for Raiding With Leashes... Warlords next?