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The Dragonflight Pre-Patch is live this week, and with it comes 4 new collecting achievements and a battlestone change. [source]

New Achievements & Rewards
There are four new pet collecting achievements.

• Many More Mini Minions - rewards Crystalline Mini-Monster
• Proven Pet Parent - rewards Secretive Frogduck
• What Can I Say? They Love Me. - rewards Violet Violence
• Good Things Come in Small Packages - rewards Mister Muskoxeles

Avid collectors will be able to earn Crystalline Mini-Monster and Secretive Frogduck pets (pictured above) starting this week.

Although there are 4 new achievements, only 2 will be attainable in the pre-patch. The current total number of unique pets is 1522 (this includes no longer available and region/event-exclusive pets). A sizeable number will come with Dragonflight's launch, 100 pets, but we will still have a ways to go before reaching 1750 or even 2000.

We're working on adding all of the new critters to WarcraftPets, so stay tuned. Dragonflight is almost here!

Battlestone Change
The Dragonflight pre-patch is also bringing a quality of life upgrade: battlestones can be used on pets without having to summon them. [source]

Upgrade stones can now be applied to pets directly through the Pet Journal (was use upgrade stone on a summoned pet).

A very welcome change, especially with pet collection numbers that will eventually reach 2k.

UPDATE #2: The list of eligible Twitch Streamers for Ichabod can be found here.

UPDATE #1: Blizzard has extended the duration of the Dragon Kite Twitch Drop by one day. New end date is November 18.

Blizzard has announced upcoming Twitch Drop rewards. Tune into your favorite WoW streamer to earn two battle pets, a mount, and a toy (each earned separately). [source]

Make sure to connect your Twitch account with your Bnet account to ensure eligibility. See Blizzard's official post linked above to learn how.

Twitch Drop Pet Rewards
Dragon Kite
Starting November 15, 10am PST until November 17 18, watching Dragonflight content on Twitch (eligible channels TBA) for at least 4 hours will reward the Dragon Kite pet (pictured right). Originally, this pet was from the March of the Legion TCG pack.

Players that already own a Dragon Kite pet will be able to earn another from the Twitch Drop.

Ichabod
The second pet from Twitch Drops is new, Ichabod (pictured below) the harvest golem. Players can collect this pet starting November 28, 10am PST until December 12.

To earn this pet, you'll need to gift a WoW creator's Twitch channel (eligible channels TBA) 2 Twitch subscriptions. A Tier 1 subscription costs $4.99 USD (not including taxes where applicable).

After reaching out to Blizzard, it's been noted that Ichabod will not be a cageable. Be sure to support WoW content creators and participate in the Twitch Drops event if you'd like to collect this pet!