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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
• Family Exorcist
• Abhorrent Adversaries of the Afterlife

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.

• Crystalsnap
• Briarpaw
• Chittermaw
• Mistwing
• Sewer Creeper
• The Countess
• Digallo
• Gelatinous
• Kostos
• Glurp

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!

UPDATE: There's a possible bug that can lock players out of Pet Battle progress/content when server transferring or faction swapping. Use character services with caution until Blizzard resolves this issue. [source]


The Shadowlands Pre-Patch is live this week! There's a new pet available from the Death's Rising Event, and the Pet Journal has been updated with all upcoming expansion pets. Additionally, some existing pet abilities received updates. [source]

Scourge Event Pet
A new pet will be available from the Death's Rising Event, the Putrid Geist (pictured right).

This pet is sold by event vendors for 20 Argent Commendation (not to be confused with the older, similarly named version of this currency). Players can complete the Death's Rising Event campaign and new dailies to earn Commendations.

Check out Wowhead's guide to the Shadowlands' Death's Rising to learn more!

Upcoming Shadowlands Pets
Players can now preview over 100 new pets in the Pet Journal. We've also updated our database to include these pets for your viewing pleasure.

Get ready to pledge yourself to a Covenant in Shadowlands, and earn one of the Renown pets (pictured below) plus much more.


Check out all upcoming Shadowlands battle pets

These battle pets will be available once the expansion officially launches. Which battle pet are you looking forward to the most?

Pet Ability Changes
Some pet abilities have been re-balanced. Changes include:

• Flock-like abilities
• Aquatic pet family passive
• Decreased or increased damage for select abilities
• Cooldown and other changes

Check out the full list of updated abilities

Shadowlands is nearly upon us. There will be many new pets to collect, challenges to overcome, and achievements to earn — we can't wait!