With so many pets in my collection right now, I wasn’t sure if I could pick ten favourites but I thought I should have a go as there are some that stand out after all these years. Originally proposed by Swenyola here is my contribution in order of play.
1. Tranquil Mechanical Yeti
Back in vanilla, this was a gift from Fatboyflash when he found out how much I liked his and made another.
2. Hyacinth Macaw
I can’t tell you how much time I spent farming the pirates in Stranglethorn so when JKo offered to farm one for me, he wasn’t kidding when he said he was really lucky with pet drops. I still can’t believe he farmed mine in MINUTES!
3. Pandaren Monk
One of many gifts Coolidge has bought for me over the years but may possibly be my favourite. The Celestial Steed comes a close second though, even though it’s a mount.
4. Magical Crawdad
Considering this took FIVE Mr Pinchys to collect, how could I not include it?
5. Sand Scarab
I’ve been lucky to receive a few gifts from Arvash but this may be my favourite after my love of Uldum.
6. Landro’s Lil XT
The venue of one of my weekly hangouts (when I can), this was a Winter Veil gift from Herculano.
7. Guardian Cub
As part of my Secret Santa gift from Angelya last year.
8. Lil’ Tarecgosa
I was so excited about collecting this pet but we never managed to finish building the staff in-guild. Thanks to the generosity of a few in Shadow Rising, I can now say I have one.
9. Sunreaver Micro-Sentry
After trying to farm this for a while, Luxy surprised me by telling me she had an extra one.
10. Tuskarr Kite
One of my newest pets, the Tuskarr Kite was a recent birthday present from Navi.
There are a few others that come to mind like the Crimson Whelping which I farmed for weeks during vanilla or the Vampiric Batling (dropped by Prince Tenris Mirkblood as part of the Scourge Invasion in 2008).
Thanks so much to the generosity of all my friends who have helped me on my quest to collect all the non-combat and battle pets over the years.
Ohh thanks for doing the post! I have loads of favourite pets too but I thought a top 100 companion pets post might be a bit too much… haha.
You have a good top 10, I rate quite a few of them high up as well. I actually forgot about my Hyacinth Macaw. I logged in one day to find a guildie had mailed one to me and he wrote “what’s gold if you can’t buy presents for guild friends” … a few days later he quit the game. So, that ones pretty special to me too… I guess I got it the easy way haha.
Sure! It was actually easier than I thought when I went through the collection. What a nice guildie you had there.
Nice choices, as hard as I try I can’t narrow a list down to 10, so many are my favorites.
I guess you can look at it as 10 for whatever reason (looks, sentiment, hard to get) to make it easier. At least it worked for me :P
Nice choices!
Your screenshots always looks so perfect!
Aww, thx Luxy. :)
Whoo! One of mine made the list :D
Of course! It’s only last because of the timeline :)
Woohoo, Scarab Power!
I could have said the first pet you gave me but it was a choice of three – maybe Cymre is Cleopatra reincarnated…. :)