Easy lesser charms (90), XP, battle stones, pets to level 25

[fearfart]

As you may or may not know, Blizzard recently nerfed our favorite cricket legendary pet to give less pet battle XP. On top of that the XP given to player characters has been nerfed harshly aswell. There goes the neighbourhood. But fear not kind fellow-players, for there may yet be hope for those of us wishing to level pets for the achievements, or gain some bonus xp on an alt.

First of all, you're going to need a strong flying pet. The pets we will be killing are mainly aquatic, and their health ranges from 860 to 1200+ if rare. The ideal choice would be a guardian cub, for his Reckless strike ability which will 2-shot all but the hardiest or luckiest of pets we shall encounter. There is a small chance that the third pet we face will not be aquatic, but flying instead. Once again the guardian cub comes to our aid with his magic attack - onyx bite. For those of you who do not have a guardian cub or do not wish to put in the effort to level one just yet, the moths all over the vale and in krassarang wilds are very strong to use aswell.

What you're going to be doing once you've got your flying pet ready to rumble and your optional safari hat sitting firmly on top of your head is moving towards the lake south of the mogu'shan palace. There are two places where you will be killing pets. The first is near a small well construction, also near the legendary pandaren tamer Aki the Chosen. The pets you are looking to face are eternal striders and frogs. The great thing about eternal striders is that they wil either open with a heal or a non-damaging sleep ability. They might also open with pump but that will not do damage on the first turn. Therefore, you can put out any lowlevel pet first, have him attack once, and switch to your flying pet killing machine.

Should you face a frog first, i recommend to use a lowlevel pet of atleast lvl 6, to not die in one turn and get 0 xp.

Now, should you have competition on this spot (or murder it all before respawn happens) there's another bunch of eternal striders to the west of this very same lake. In the event that this TOO is occupied, you can move up to the small lake near the golden pagode, where the tidehunter rare mob resides. This might be risky on a PvP server though.

The experienced battlers amongst you may say: Fearfart, there are places with many more striders to be killed, such as the daily questing lake-spot for the golden lotus. To this I say that you are correct, but these spots are far away from the factional shrines, far away from a stable master and subject to high traffic and phasing.

The results of farming these spots with a guardian cub have been the following:

Avg xp per hour: 4 million, not rested at level 88 and 89.
3 flawless battle stones over a course of 5 hours (these sell for 10k on my realm)
2 flawless aquatic stones (BoP)
1 flawless flying stone (BoP)
8 new level 25 pets

[Neer]

As you may or may not know, Blizzard recently nerfed our favorite cricket legendary pet to give less pet battle XP. On top of that the XP given to player characters has been nerfed harshly aswell. There goes the neighbourhood. But fear not kind fellow-players, for there may yet be hope for those of us wishing to level pets for the achievements, or gain some bonus xp on an alt.

First of all, you're going to need a strong flying pet. The pets we will be killing are mainly aquatic, and their health ranges from 860 to 1200+ if rare. The ideal choice would be a guardian cub, for his Reckless strike ability which will 2-shot all but the hardiest or luckiest of pets we shall encounter. There is a small chance that the third pet we face will not be aquatic, but flying instead. Once again the guardian cub comes to our aid with his magic attack - onyx bite. For those of you who do not have a guardian cub or do not wish to put in the effort to level one just yet, the moths all over the vale and in krassarang wilds are very strong to use aswell.

What you're going to be doing once you've got your flying pet ready to rumble and your optional safari hat sitting firmly on top of your head is moving towards the lake south of the mogu'shan palace. There are two places where you will be killing pets. The first is near a small well construction, also near the legendary pandaren tamer Aki the Chosen. The pets you are looking to face are eternal striders and frogs. The great thing about eternal striders is that they wil either open with a heal or a non-damaging sleep ability. They might also open with pump but that will not do damage on the first turn. Therefore, you can put out any lowlevel pet first, have him attack once, and switch to your flying pet killing machine.

Should you face a frog first, i recommend to use a lowlevel pet of atleast lvl 6, to not die in one turn and get 0 xp.

Now, should you have competition on this spot (or murder it all before respawn happens) there's another bunch of eternal striders to the west of this very same lake. In the event that this TOO is occupied, you can move up to the small lake near the golden pagode, where the tidehunter rare mob resides. This might be risky on a PvP server though.

The experienced battlers amongst you may say: Fearfart, there are places with many more striders to be killed, such as the daily questing lake-spot for the golden lotus. To this I say that you are correct, but these spots are far away from the factional shrines, far away from a stable master and subject to high traffic and phasing.

The results of farming these spots with a guardian cub have been the following:

Avg xp per hour: 4 million, not rested at level 88 and 89.
3 flawless battle stones over a course of 5 hours (these sell for 10k on my realm)
2 flawless aquatic stones (BoP)
1 flawless flying stone (BoP)
8 new level 25 pets

Very Informative, excellent guide without pictures Have +5 rep! <3

[Lemour]

Nice guide, just what I needed to save my day! Here, have 5 rep

[power]

Well written guide, will most likely be using this to level my alts 88-90.Would appreciate any advice on how to set up Pokehbuddy + battlepet swapper plugins in Honorbuddy to level my pets using 1x guardian cub as a ringer.

[comodo]

Another good pet could be the JC crafted Jade Owl, it is a magic pet, so all aquatic abilities got reduced on it, and got a skillset of a flying pet, so deals increased dmg on aquatic pets.

[fearfart]

Jade owl is indeed a fantastic option, with his reduced damage taken from water

Thank you for the addition, repped

[Kuri]

hi, I have just tried wit hmy hunter level 16, killed all three pets with my first one and got 1399xp with full heirlooms, though it will be bigger deal

[superxdude]

pet battle XP scales with your level. You are not going to get 4 million XP at level 16

[Pari4h]

Thank you for the guide.

+5 rep

[Morgusified]

Very nice guide, would be awesome if someone could automate this with a bot.

[superxdude]

More on this, with two accounts, I have now leveled 4 toons to 90 just dueling each other. 15 90s over two accounts.

I sell the flawless battle stones for about 3-5k each, which I get about once every 150-200 battles.