Post by Miyari
Following last week's
Cataclysm Mount Guide and our pre-Cataclysm guide to
The Shattering companion pets, I've put together a detailed guide to all of the new
Cataclysm companion pets! Find out which professions can craft pets, get lucky with archaeology and get your entire guild together to slaughter thousands of critters! What fun!
Check out the fully detailed guide, including a list of all of the new companion pets and detailed information on how to get them, after the break!
Achievements
The method for obtaining this little guy is pretty straightforward - simple, mindless slaughter of thousands upon thousands of critters (50,000 to be exact) with the help of your guildies, and you will earn the right to purchase this pet from the guild vendor . Seems kind of strange that your reward for slaying so many critters is another critter. Sadistic, really. I wonder if he knows.
Obtaining this stunning little beauty will take a little time, as your guild must obtain the achievement
, which requires a total of 55 unique Exalted factions among your guild members. Only guild members who are Revered with the guild will have their Exalted factions count towards that total. Upon reaching this goal, you will be able to purchase the
Dark Phoenix Hatchling from your faction's guild vendor.
These assistants are available to be purchased from the guild vendor once your guild has looted a whopping from creatures! I'm sure this will probably add up fast in larger guilds who are clearing a lot of raid content and killing high-reward bosses, but for smaller guilds this may be a bit of a challenge!
When a Guild Herald has been summoned, he will grant players access to the guild vendor for 5 minutes and allow you to buy/sell items. He will remain stationary and despawn after those 5 minutes are up, and can only be summoned once every 4 hours. Oh well, at least he looks cool.
These assistants are available to be purchased from the guild vendor upon earning
Alliance Slayer or
Horde Slayer! You must also reach Honored reputation with you guild before being able to purchase one. These guys are just "light" versions of the Guild Heralds documented above, and offer the same guild vendor access for 5 minutes. The main difference is that the Guild Page has an 8 hour cooldown, whereas the Herald has a 4 hour cooldown.
This little guy is rewarded upon completing the ever-popular
Lost In The Deeps daily quest 10 times. This quest is one of the randomly chosen daily quests available from
Therazane questgivers in
Deepholm, and most likely will not be available every day. Unfortunately, this means that if your luck is bad it may take quite a while to meet the objectives of this achievement - but when you do, you get a little rock buddy out of the deal! You were going to do the daily quests anyway, right?
Archaeology
The rare
Clockwork Gnome is available to talented archaeologists who are lucky enough to discover it upon solving a Dwarf artifact! Upon solving a Dwarven artifact, you will be given a new project to assemble, and there is a chance to randomly discover fragments of this rare artifact! You must then collect 0
Dwarf Archaeology Fragment to complete the project - thankfully, this artifact has 3 keystone slots so up to 3
Dwarf Rune Stone can be used to count as 36 fragments. Upon assembling the project you will create the
Clockwork Gnome, which teaches a
Jeeves-style companion pet!
The rare
Fossilized Hatchling is available to talented archaeologists who are lucky enough to discover it upon solving a Fossil artifact! Upon solving a Fossil artifact, you will be given a new project to assemble, and there is a chance to randomly discover fragments of this rare artifact! You must then collect 5
Fossil Archaeology Fragment to complete the project. Upon assembling the project you will create the
Fossilized Hatchling, allowing you to summon this awesome little skeletal badboy!
The epic quality
Crawling Claw is available to extremely talented archaeologists who are lucky enough to discover it upon solving a Tol'vir artifact! Upon solving a Tol'vir artifact, you will be given a new project to assemble, and there is a chance to randomly discover fragments of this rare artifact! You must then collect a whopping 0
Tol'vir Archaeology Fragment to complete the project - thankfully, this artifact has 3 keystone slots as well, so up to 3
Tol'vir Hieroglyphic can be used to count as 36 fragments. Upon assembling the project you will create the
Crawling Claw! Awesome!
Rare Drops
This wily fox pet drops has an extremely low chance of dropping from the
Baradin Fox which roam around
Tol Barad. This is just yet another one of those grind pets, you'll either be that guy who gets it in his first 50 kills or the one that farms it until the end of time and never sees it drop. Good luck!
I can't tell if this situation is better than the former, wherein that instead of the pet being a
rare drop, it's guaranteed - but it's on a
rare spawn. The
Tiny Shale Spider will drop from
Jadefang in
Deepholm on every kill, but expect this guy to be heavily camped as both a source for a new companion pet and by hunters looking to tame it! Sounds easy enough, right? Did I mention that he's up in a tunnel that you'll have to use some very creative methods to get to? Thankfully Wowhead user
tmptfate has posted
a very detailed guide to reaching Jadefang!
Reputation
Once you have reached Honored with
Hellscream's Reach or
Baradin's Wardens, you can purchase your seagull pet from your faction's quartermaster (
Pogg for Horde,
Quartermaster Brazie for Alliance) for 0
Tol Barad Commendation, a new battleground currency awarded by completing objectives / winning in
Tol Barad.
Professions
This mechanical rabbit can be crafted by skilled Gnomish Engineers who have reached 475 skill and train the recipe from
Findle Whistlesteam in
Dalaran (Alliance players can opt to train it from
Tinkmaster Overspark in
Ironforge instead). You must be a Gnomish Engineer to learn this pattern; Goblins have a different pet available to them. The mats for these little guys aren't too rough, though the recipe does call for 8
Electrified Ether (16
Volatile Air) which could be a bit of a pain. Ultimately, expect these little guys to be a decent source of extra income for a while, as they do not bind on pickup and can be sold on the Auction House.
This strange little geode (like the ones found in
Deepholm) has a rare chance of being contained in an
Elementium Vein or
Rich Elementium Vein, and as such is only farmable by players with the appropriate level
Mining. Between my significant other and I, we've farmed well over 1200
Elementium Ore and neither of us has seen the pet drop yet, but he's definitely one of the most profitable to farm (getting all that ore AND a pet is a win-win situation)! Thankfully, this pet is not bind on pickup and can be purchased on the Auction House.
This floating lantern can be crafted by Horde
Enchanting who have reached 525 skill and purchase the
Formula: Enchanted Lantern from
Agatian Fallanos (in
Twilight Highlands) for 20
Hypnotic Dust. This pet is bind on use and can be sold on the Auction House, so Horde players will be able to obtain the other faction's
Magic Lamp and vice versa. I wouldn't expect to see too many for a while, though, as the recipe requires a
Maelstrom Crystal, which still fetch very high prices on most servers.
The Alliance version of the
Enchanting pet is a magic floating lamp that can be crafted by Alliance players who have reached 525
Enchanting skill and purchase the
Formula: Magic Lamp from
Senthii (in
Twilight Highlands) for 20
Hypnotic Dust. This pet is bind on use and can be sold on the Auction House, so Alliance players will be able to obtain the other faction's
Enchanted Lantern and vice versa. Once again, I wouldn't expect to see too many for a while, though, as the recipe requires a
Maelstrom Crystal, which still fetch very high prices on most servers.
This miniature
Void Reaver can be crafted by skilled Goblin Engineers who have reached 475 skill and train the recipe from
Didi the Wrench in
Dalaran. You must be a Goblin Engineer to learn this pattern; Gnomish have a different pet available to them. The mats for these little guys aren't too rough, though the recipe does call for 8
Electrified Ether (16
Volatile Air) which could be a bit of a pain. Ultimately, expect these little guys to be a decent source of extra income for a while, as they do not bind on pickup and can be sold on the Auction House.
Miscellaneous
- Taught by Landro's Lil' XT
- Obtained via redeeming loot card code from WoW Trading Card Game's Worldbreaker Expansion
- Binds when picked up
This replica of the
Blizzard Store's
Lil' XT can be found as a common loot card in the latest World of Warcraft Trading Card Game expansion, Worldbreaker. This little guy was apparently supposed to have a different color than
Lil' XT but this doesn't seem to be the case at this time and he is exactly the same. Thankfully, the folks over at Cryptozoic had the brilliant idea of making the pet cards
common in WoW TCG expansion from now on, so don't expect to have to pay too much for this little knock off.
This vulture-mounted fighter pet is available at the end of a long quest chain in
Mount Hyjal that players level 80+ can start at the Shrine of Aviana in
Mount Hyjal, with
Wings Over Mount Hyjal. Unfortunately, you can only choose
one of the two pets (and they are bind on pickup, so no trading from alts) - so choose wisely! These awesome little guys are a homage to the original Joust (like the quest that rewards it) and feature a ragdoll seated atop a tiny vulture.