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#FFW Persuasion to Pet Battle

January 14, 2013 by kamaliaetalia

When Mists of Pandaria was first announced, the Pet Battles feature didn’t particularly excite me. I barely remembered to summon the companion pets I already had, and I didn’t long for the pets I didn’t have enough to expend much energy in trying to acquire them. Later, as I watched my friends succumbing to Pet Battle Fever and (like Effy) observed that Pet Battles + OCD Tendencies = Bad Combination, I determined to not tumble down that rabbit hole.

Then my Furtive Father Winter 2012 donor, the lovely Kialesse, sent me an in-game mail to let me know that Real Life had crit her rather sorrowfully over the holidays. Attached to the message was a Pandaren Air Spirit.

I was awed by this generous gift. What Kia didn’t realize, though, was that she’d really given me two pets — the Pandaren Air Spirit became my 125th pet, granting me in addition the Brilliant Kaliri!

After receiving Kia’s magnificent gift, I felt like it would be a churlish response indeed to let such a treasure of a pet lie sleeping in my Pet Journal.

And so, off to the Battle Pet Trainer I went. I chose the Brilliant Kaliri as my first Battle Pet, naming it Kiamore in honor of Kialesse. As I unlocked the other two slots on my team, I brought in the Pandaren Air Spirit and my Pandaren Monk — another generous Winter Veil gift from a dear blogging friend.

I’ll spare you the blitz of newbie Pet Battle achievements, except for a couple —

— that, with alts already stationed in most of the capital cities, were a cinch to accomplish.

In the long run, I’d like to complete the Tamer achievements, so I also made sure to visit the two faction–specific tamers.


I’m not, however, going to go after the Safari achievements. I’m already feeling like my Altoholic credentials are slipping because I haven’t yet got a second character — let alone a third or a fourth or more! — to 90.

Many thanks again to Kia for a sweet FFW gift!

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  1. on January 15, 2013 at 12:59 am Cymre

    What a wonderful gift albeit under such sad conditions. Glad to see you’re taking up the ‘battling’ mentality even if it’s slowly. I should have gone against my better judgement and sent you a pet gift for Winter Veil anyway.


    • on January 15, 2013 at 11:00 am kamaliaetalia

      Pet battles are kind of fun 🙂 I’m very glad that it’s an account-wide feature, though it is a bit of a pain to have to turn off pet tracking on characters that I don’t want to be distracted by it 😛


  2. on January 15, 2013 at 3:05 pm Navimie

    Yes, I saw Kia was having a hard time over Christmas 😦 her blog has been so quiet of late. I missed talking to her brain. But I’m glad you didn’t get forgotten!


    • on January 15, 2013 at 3:33 pm kamaliaetalia

      Aye — I would have been content just with her in-game note to let me know that RL had gone pear-shaped. I hope things are starting to sort themselves out for her.


  3. on February 2, 2013 at 5:39 am And the Winner Is … « Tome of the Ancient

    […] The tale of how Kamalia finally answered the siren’s call of Pet Battles […]


  4. on January 2, 2014 at 9:01 pm all grown up | Kamalia et alia

    […] to reach maximum level is the pet that persuaded me to give pet battling a try — my lovely #FFW_2012 gift from […]


  5. on March 5, 2014 at 11:06 am Ten Things About Pet Battles | Kamalia et alia

    […] Your first day pet battling. I wrote about this when it happened; I was given a Pandaren Air Spirit for #FFW2102 and felt that I shouldn’t let such a fancy […]



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