Bring Out Your Pets

Posted by J.E. Douglas at 7:00 AM

Mommar here.

I will admit that when Blizzard announced the inclusion of battle pets in the World of Warcraft universe I was at the minimum skeptical.   Warcraft is a beautiful if a simplistic game of its own.  It's as complicated as you want it to be and is playable at many levels.  But who really wanted to add Pokemon type action to the mix.   It would get a lot of 12 yr old kids wanting to play,  muddying up a lot of the ambiance that is found in the game.

Even with my questions on just how popular or annoying this addition would be,  an opportunity arose of buying and selling pets.   Even with the announcement that captured 'wild pets' wouldn't be tradeable I still had hopes of a very nice lucrative business opportunity.

Now that patch 5.3 is on us,  and many players are looking for other things to do.  Much of the rumbling on the boards are flipping maximum level pets for profit.  The same as when your buying weapons and armor at low cost to sell at a much higher profit.   It's a proven tactic that works over and over again.

But a major difference between armor purchases and the pets you can purchase is that you can level those pets to be worth more.   Even leveling a pet 5 levels from its original level.  Take for instance a pet you purchase at level 5.  Do a quick search on your auction house and they may flip between 5g to 25g.  Taking that pet and as your leveling a lower toon,  doing a few pet battles you have a pet at level 10 rather quickly.    Announcing the pet (especially if it's a popular pet in demand) in trade chat,   the buyers will be running for your wares.   Remember you can have 3 of the same pet in your book so instead of just selling one at a time,  have three to sell.

This becomes much more profitable when you buy a level 20 pet and sell it at level 25.  Level 25 pets are in seriously high demand as more and more players become uninspired with the day to day grind.   Investing a 1000g for the level 20 pet and selling for 25,000g or more at level 25.   There is a larger gap of time needed to level that pet to 25 but the profits are much higher.

Two places to look for information on speeding up this new profit machine.

The gang at Warcraftpets.com give you the top 25 pets in demand across a lot of servers.

Warcraft Top 25 Pet

The gang at Wowinsider gives a pretty good guide on how to level your battle pets faster than just meandering along hoping to get a good fight.

Wow Insider Fast Pet Leveling

Now remember your milage may vary when it comes to the profitability and demand for certain pets.  If you see 20 of the same tradeable pet in the auction house at level 25,  your profit margin will be lowered.   Same with the low end of the tradable pet market.   Demand can drive prices down in a heartbeat.

Still this is a good time to open up a new branch of your goblin gold making machine and try something new.

Good luck and Good Hunting

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