I'll finally have the last of the Celestial Tournament pets on Tuesday. It's been quite a grind.
The Celestial Tournament is the original pet instance. You need to defeat three random pet battlers, followed by a "final four", all without healing a single pet. This requires extensive planning and careful preparation - you need to have the exact counters to each of the battles and many of the strategies require specific breed IDs of pets to win.
I have been using two guides: https://www.wowhead.com/guides/defeating-the-celestial-tournament-pet-battles#chen-stormstout-original-strategy and https://wow-petguide.com/index.php?m=CelestialTournament
The guides were written quite some time ago and don't take into account new behavior. For example, pet battles now have a lot more randomness to them in terms of the moves used, so it's difficult to follow the guides exactly. I found this happened the most with Taran Zhu and Chen Stormsnout - the strategies I could find only worked perhaps one in every five attempts. Since you need to defeat every trainer without healing, this means that it could take 25 attempts on average if you face these two trainers.
The other issue is that the pet instances take quite a long time to complete, even if you know exactly what you are doing. An attempt takes about thirty to 45 minutes and you can't make a single mistake or you need to start over again. Since I have small children, this often means I have to do my weekly tournament early in the morning before they awaken.
One small note: For Chi Chi, if you are using the two-wisp strategy, make sure that you line up your dodge with Chi Chi's dodge or the strategy won't work.
Other Achievements: I'm really happy to finally have flying. The two new areas are much simpler to navigate and I can finally work on all the obscure exploration achievements like "find all the troll tablets" that were so cumbersome when I had to worry about aggroing mobs all the time. I've also been very slowly working on my PVP pet battles. I'm trying to do those in my Draenor garrison since each PVP battle also counts towards "Win 2000 pet battles in Draenor".
Current stats: 2380/3565 Current focus is on Pet Battles achievement: 130/169 complete.
The Celestial Tournament is the original pet instance. You need to defeat three random pet battlers, followed by a "final four", all without healing a single pet. This requires extensive planning and careful preparation - you need to have the exact counters to each of the battles and many of the strategies require specific breed IDs of pets to win.
I have been using two guides: https://www.wowhead.com/guides/defeating-the-celestial-tournament-pet-battles#chen-stormstout-original-strategy and https://wow-petguide.com/index.php?m=CelestialTournament
The guides were written quite some time ago and don't take into account new behavior. For example, pet battles now have a lot more randomness to them in terms of the moves used, so it's difficult to follow the guides exactly. I found this happened the most with Taran Zhu and Chen Stormsnout - the strategies I could find only worked perhaps one in every five attempts. Since you need to defeat every trainer without healing, this means that it could take 25 attempts on average if you face these two trainers.
The other issue is that the pet instances take quite a long time to complete, even if you know exactly what you are doing. An attempt takes about thirty to 45 minutes and you can't make a single mistake or you need to start over again. Since I have small children, this often means I have to do my weekly tournament early in the morning before they awaken.
One small note: For Chi Chi, if you are using the two-wisp strategy, make sure that you line up your dodge with Chi Chi's dodge or the strategy won't work.
Other Achievements: I'm really happy to finally have flying. The two new areas are much simpler to navigate and I can finally work on all the obscure exploration achievements like "find all the troll tablets" that were so cumbersome when I had to worry about aggroing mobs all the time. I've also been very slowly working on my PVP pet battles. I'm trying to do those in my Draenor garrison since each PVP battle also counts towards "Win 2000 pet battles in Draenor".
Current stats: 2380/3565 Current focus is on Pet Battles achievement: 130/169 complete.
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