Pet Battle Wintrading 6.2 - Win a match every 30 sec.

[Rabitted]

Hello Ownedcore.
This is my third guide and this one will be a bit shorter than my previous ones. I used this method about a week ago and won 3500 pvp pet battles in 6 days.

DISCLAIMER: As many others have speculated not all accounts will match and, although some theories have been crafterd, people are still not 100% certain what the hidden restrictions are. This guide is meant to perfect the wintrade between accounts that are able to match. To read more about this and find out if your accounts match, scroll down the the "Additional Information" section.

How to wintrade PvP pet battles and win a match ever 30 seconds.

First, let's look at what you can gain from doing this.

• This farm is done with the "Find Battle" system and counts toward achievements such as Legendary Pet Brawler, Legendary Pet Battler and No Time To Heal.
  Note: Deadly Pet Brawler will NOT be gained because you will not use a full team of level 25 pets for this method.
• This farm can be done from your garrison and can thus count toward the Draenor Pet Brawler achievement.
• This farm will also allow you to level your pets, making it useful to level your roster of pets which would count towards achievements such as
  Rookie Pet Mob and Pro Pet Mob.
  Note: As this guide is posted (14/7) until the 18th there is an active pet battle bonus event which increases the pet battle experience gained by 200%. Very helpful if you want to level your pet while wintrading.
  
  

Step 1 - Account Setup

• For this farm to work you will need two accounts. One account that is to win every match and one that will forfeit.
  Note: You can NOT use two accounts on a single Bnet as only one account at a time is allowed to pet battle on a single Bnet.
• The winning and losing account needs at two level 25 pets and at least one low level pet (same level on both accounts).
• OPTIONAL: If you want to also level your pets the winning accounts needs a large pool of low level pets, about 50 pets per 1000 wins would be a rough estimate. The account I used had about 400 low level pets ranging from 1-16 and after the farm I had no pet below level 16.The losing account needs at least one pet of every level, but I would advice you to have atleast two in case of any mishaps during the farm.

Step 2 - The Golden Macro
This farm is very efficient thanks to a certain macro used on both the winning and losing account, with only a little tweak in the code between the accounts. See images below:


This macro will both queue up, accept the queue and forfeit the game on the losing account. As seen in the images the first two lines of the code is exactly the same for both parts, however the losing account must add the third line to also forfeit the active match with the same key. I will post the full macro below:

/script C_PetBattles.StartPVPMatchmaking();
/run PetBattleQueueReadyFrame.AcceptButton:Click()
/script C_PetBattles.ForfeitGame()

For your own comfort, bind this macro to an easy to access key because you will use it a lot.


Step 3 - The Location
Although this farm can be done in any location the absolute best spot to do this farm is within your own garrison, because if you enter a match while inside your garrison the spot where you fight will always be a certain location within the garrison. If you're already standing ontop of that spot there will be no loading screen between each battle. Below I have two images showing the optimal spot in both the alliance and horde garrison:

Note: You want to stand inside the tunnel and not ontop of the wall in the alliance garrison.


Step 4 - Wintrading
The "Find Battle" algorithms is very easy to manipulate because of the fact that very few players queue with pets below level 25.
I have listed the steps on how to begin the actual wintrade below:

1. To begin the actual wintrade, both accounts should put level 25 pets in two of the three available pet slots. In the third slot you want to put a low level pet, preferbly below level 20 and downwards. It's important that both the losing and winning account has three pets of the same level. For example both can put in a level 1 pet or both put in a level 13 pet, just make sure the levels match on both accounts and the algorithm will match the accounts 99% of the time.
   
   If you want to level your pets the low level pet must ALWAYS be in the first pet battle slot on the winning account. If you only want to gain fast wins, NEVER put the low level pet in the first slot on the winning account. This is valid because only the pet in first slot recieves experience from wins when the opponent instantly forfeits. Additionally any level difference will result in longer queue times and if the difference is greater than +3 or -3 levels the queue almost never pop at all.
   
   
2. Queue up on both accounts using the macro I provided above and wait about 20 seconds for the algorithms to search for a worth opponent.
   
   
3. If the queue popped simultaneously on both accounts, congratz you matched! Accept queue on both accounts and when the match begins, press the macro once more on the losing account to instantly forfeit the match.
   
   
4. OPTIONAL: If you decided to also level your pets, you have to switch to another pet every time the current pet levels up on winning account to continously match the losing team's setup. When you are out of pets of a certain level, switch to a different level pet on the losing account and match that pet's level on the winning account.
   

Note: There is potential to fully automate the wintrading if you decide to not level your pets since the battling is done with a single button press, however I do not recommend this if you value any of the accounts used.


Additional information

• There are rumors that only certain accounts are able to match up against each other, and I can confirm that not all accounts will match. I tested with five different accounts but only two were able to match. To test if two accounts can match, simply put two level 25 pets and one low level pet in the slots on both accounts (use same level on the low level pets) and queue up. If over one minute passes without any queue, the Bnets can most certainly not match eachother.
• The two matching accounts I used were able to match despite using characters on different servers / battlegroups / factions / levels / zone location / expansion location (Outlands vs Northerend for example). As long as we had 2/3 pets level 25 and matched the levels on our lower level pets the queue was always less than 30 sec with a 99% matching rate with over 3500 successful matches.
• If you happen to match up against other players, try changing the level of the third pet on both the winning and losing account to avoid matching up to the "infiltrators" again.
• The winning account can use items such as the Safari Hat to level the pets faster, however this is increases the rate at which you have to replace the low level pet and thus requires more active gameplay.

Thank you for reading this guide - Please leave your feedback in the comment section!

[gippy]

Nice guide and good info.

About your additional information, when i did it to the 5k wins/1k max pet level wins and to level pets to sell i noticed that after many wins the accounts would stop matching up so i'd have to open a new bnet to start again, What i would do to quickly get myself a set of pets on the new account, would be to give my other account a few cageable pets then carry the account to each zone, capturing various levels so i'd have the level range to level some 25s by wintrading.

If the accounts are matched, they'll match as you said no matter where you make the character but once they stop matching, the same applys but in the way of not matching. I have noticed that after some patchs, the accounts start to match again so maybe a patch resets it or something so its good to check in on them once in awhile.

Wintrading the deadly petbrawler works, its just its not always guaranteed you'd match up with your account, i'd say 60% of the time you did at peak times, more so at non-peak. Also i noticed the more you queued, the less it seemed like you'd get matched. This was just done like signing at the exact same time, like normal old wintrading.

[Rabitted]

Thanks for the input @gippy
About the incident of a decline in matching after several successful ones. I was told by a friend that you would stop matching after about 400-500 consecutive wins, and I was also told to be able to counter this by letting the losing account win 3 games in every 100 I played. As if there was a hidden mmr that would differenciate too much if I would not let the losing account win, ever. But these are vague speculations that I can not prove to be true and hence I decided to not include that in the guide.

On the subject of the deadly pet brawler, what i mentioned in my guide is that it does not work with the method I provided since I advice to use low level pets. But it might very well work out semi well if both accounts use only level 25 pets as you stated.

[JhonnyQ]

Can you be banned for doing this?
If I don't have a 2nd Bnet Account, what are the steps I have to do, to set this up? Get a new Battle.net Account, Buy Legion + Battlechest, Buy a Subscription? Get some Pets to the new Account. (New Account can't autolearn a lvl 25 Pet, so it has to level a set of pets to 25?)

[emanon_wk]

Can you be banned for doing this?

Yes you can, especially if you fully automate this process.
Otherwise its rather unlikely, but still possible.

Its always a good idea to use non-main accounts to be safe.

[Rabitted]

Hey JohnnyQ.
As we know from blizzard's previous behaviour towards "abusing" the system, I can only tell you to do it at your own risk. However as this wintrade does not affect any other players nor damage any ranking system they probably do not bother searching their playerbase for this kind of "abuse". I know many that have done 5000 wins in a week and they havent recieved any notice from the department. But just to be safe, don't let the word out to people in game about what you're up to if you intend to do this farm.

To answer your question about how to set this up if you currently do not own a 2nd account:
You simply buy the base game (a battlechest), This includes a month of gaemtime which should be sufficient for you to finish all your goals with the wintrade. On your new account head straight to your town and learn how to battle from the pet battle trainer, unlock the 3 pet slots etc. Finally you can actually trade level 24 pets over to this new account and then level them to 25 manually. As you are not granted any level 90 or 100 boost if you only purchase the base game, the best way to level them to 25 would be to either get the character to vale of eternal blossom with help of a mage and do some PVE battles in that zone or perhaps you can do the Wintrade but this time let the new acc win with the level 24 pets until they've reached level 25. There are possibly more options for you but I can't think of any right now.

[Aeon1c]

Very nice guide. +Rep
Probably won't use it on Main Account though, risk of getting banned for this is quite real.

[mirdanek84]

I have "multiple" licenses on account, does it matter if I do it with some random lincese or not. Not sure how bans work, are bans global per battle.net account or just per license?

[Rabitted]

Hello Mirdanek84
As far as I know, Bans are license only. However, You should not worry too much, I used my main account and a friend of mine even asked a GM before beginning his wintrade, the GM basicly said its a grey area and that the probability for a ban is very low unless you are very loud about it ingame.

[gippy]

No idea if you want to add it into your guide but you can still get xp from pet battles, if you let the battle last for over a minute. I suppose its a way to slowly level your alts semi afk while you farm battles.

[Rabitted]

I'll keep it out of the actual guide since its focus was just how to optimize the method of wintrading, but good input none the less. Thanks gippy!

[rdruid69]

No idea if you want to add it into your guide but you can still get xp from pet battles, if you let the battle last for over a minute. I suppose its a way to slowly level your alts semi afk while you farm battles.

Yeah I fully level a dk ally from 58 to 90 back in Cata. He never leave stormwind lol Suddenly my account stop matching anyone so I don't think if spending 20 dollars on another account that will 99% probably won't match makes any sense. Too bad cause the pet battle achiev from WoD is my only WoD achiev missing FeelsBadMan

[Mirrors]

Very nice guide. +Rep
Probably won't use it on Main Account though, risk of getting banned for this is quite real.

What exactly would be ban worthy if you're just using macros and no automation?

[Rabitted]

Hello Mirrors!
The fact that you are abusing a system and playing in an unintended way can be consiered a bannable offense. It has happened in similar cases in the past (exploring out of bounds etc.), although I have never heard of anyone being banned for anything pet battle related.

[Mirrors]

Hello Mirrors!
The fact that you are abusing a system and playing in an unintended way can be consiered a bannable offense. It has happened in similar cases in the past (exploring out of bounds etc.), although I have never heard of anyone being banned for anything pet battle related.

I see what you mean. I automated pet battles to a degree when I was farming Beakinator for the Draenor Pet Brawler using two separate macros but nothing bad ever came of it.