#80 Karazhan

The new raiding with leashes achievement is out! Find out what pets await you in that fantastic raid of Karazhan! 

Alludra the Mage here helping you find all the pets

One of the big events in 5.3 is the all new raiding with leashes achievement, this one is attunement style which has a lot to do with burning crusade attunements.

This first segment about the all new raiding with leashes takes us to Karazhan.

Karazhan has 4 pets in it! Yay!

The big bad wolf Opera Event has a chance to drop the Lil Bad Wolf pet. Please note, this means that you actually have to get the big bad wolf event for you to get a chance! Fun right??

The Curator can drop the Managere Custodian.

Terestian Illhoof, the guy behind that hidden door in the library room with the imps can drop the Fiendish Imp.

And finally Prince Malchezaar can drop the Netherspace Abyssal. To unlock him though you not only have to get through the fiendish Chess Event, but also kill Attuman the Huntsman and Moroes.

And guys, chess is as fiendish as ever! Big thanks to The Jaded Hunter for an excellent strategy that has me one-shotting this guy each and every time, regardless of faction.

#74 Throne of Thunder (Updated!)

The pets of the Throne of Thunder raid, where they are and how to get them! 

New happy updated version!!

Alludra the Mage here catching the pets to beat you in duels!

I've had a really great run in pvp battles, can ya tell?

It's a good thing too because blizzard did something terrible  Guys, they put pets in progression raiding. Don't believe me, well let's head on over to, the Throne of Thunder! 

The Living Sandling is the first pet in the zone you...might come across. This little guy is a raid wide drop, which means he can drop off trash or bosses alike. While this is great, I want you to think back at how often raid zone drops have dropped for you in the past. And now think of a pet with that chance.  I thought he was a raid wide drop but it turns out he dropps from the council of elders. (I should know better then to do research while sick...) Wowhead is currently reporting a 4% drop rate, so....yay... 

The next pet is the Son of Animus who drops from none other than the Dark Animus. He's a cool looking mechanical pet that seems to have a crazy low drop rate.

Finally there is the Ji-Kun Hatchling dropping from Ji-Kun and proving that no raid boss should participate in take your child to work day. this flying pet has a reported  1% drop rate so keep those feathers crossed.

Don't worry though all these guys also drop in LFR, but that also means you have to run with the people you find in an LFR. 

I suggest saving your Mogu Runes of Fate for Ji-Kun and the Dark Animus for a second chance at those pets.

Maaan....like I didn't already want a raid team...

#65 AQ 40

Part 3 of 4 of raiding with leashes takes us to AQ 40! What pets will we find, can we solo a level 60 40-man raid? Why are the twin emperors so darned difficult?

Alludra the Mage here, helping you out in your epic quest to build the ultimate pet army!

Part 3 of four in our quest for raiding with leashes has us going back to the raids to get the next three pets we need!

AQ 40! Man I wish I had memories of this place in it's prime. Sadly I wasn't even high enough level to help with the opening event of the place. But that's not going to stop me from diving pretty deep to get the pets found here!

The first pet of AQ 40 is the mini mindslayer and drops off the first boss in the place the Prophet Skeram, talk about convenient right? Well don't get used to it. This guy is still a cake walk and if you solo him you don't have to worry about that mind control mechanic! Talk about easy!

The Viscidus Globule drops off of Viscidus, a boss that has until 5.1 been impossible to solo because of his mechanics. The trick here is to use frost abilities to freeze him quickly. Mages and DK's can have it pretty easy, but hunters, priests, and just about anyone else with frost abilities can get this guy down quick! The biggest hassle to him nowadays is the amount of raid between you and him!

Anubisath Idol, a humanoid pet drops off Vek'lor of the twin emperors fame. This is the one fight I had no idea how to solo, so, I didn't! I dragged a friend or two along for the ride. I'm not saying it's impossible, I'm saying I didn't want to try!

And that's it. The whole raid takes less time than ever now, and if you run it with a friend like I did, you can have tons of fun  getting the pets and the mounts that can't be used elsewhere.

heh, mounts...

#62 Blackwing Lair

More on old raids and new pets! This week we trek into Blackwing Lair, home of many beasties that were, before 5.1, completely unsoloable!




(Image incoming due to stupid low drop rate on *one* pet!)

Alludra the Mage here helping you find all the cool pets!

Let's talk about more raid pets! This time in Blackwing Lair, which is a bit more tricky to solo!

BWL is another raid that requires an attunement. Don't have it? kill mobs outside the BRS portal until they drop the quest giving item 'Blackhand'sCommand' then run upper black rock spire and complete the quest by touching the orb behind the last boss.

I have found that currently you need to do this to zone in. If you try to use the portal to the raid at the end of the instance, you will have to be in a raid group.

Okay we are in...so now what?

Razorgore the Untamed drops the Untamed Hatchling.

The Broodloard Lashlayer, you know that fun boss just after the suppression room, drops the Death Talon Whelpguard.

And finally, Chromaggus drops Chrominius. Make sure you pick up some hourglass sand. Trust me on this.

Razorgore is still tricky, but thanks to Blizzard is now totally soloable. You just have to drop the mind control to kill the mobs. It's time consuming, but you can do it!

And...trust me on the hourglass sand...yeah...

#61 Molten Core

Pets are in raids now! But don't worry! You can totally solo Molten Core!!

Alludra the Mage here, helping you build your ultimate pet battle team!

So we can get pets in the wild, we can buy pets, and win them as prizes but now pets are found as boss drops! More specifically, raid boss drops!

Don't worry guys, these aren't exactly bleeding edge raids, in fact I'm talking about Molten Core.

There are three pets in the molten core, and sadly they aren't a guaranteed drop! So you might have to pull out those alts, luckily, the place is easily solo able on a level 85.

So who are you looking for? Well you want to start with Magmadar who drops the Corefire Imp, a humanoid pet!

Next I like to drop in on Golemagg the Incinerator, who has the elemental Ashstone Core.

Finally it's over to the Harbinger of Flame who drops another humanoid, Salfurion Harbinger!
   (Edit: I seem to have gotten these two reversed, the Sulfirion Harbringer drops the Harbringer of    
    flame! Totally my mistake, make fun of me at will!) 

If you are worried about mechanics of these fights, Blizzard assures us they have done what they can to make these raids more soloable, and by taking the 'be in a raid' requirement off these guys and letting you skip a fair amount of trash, I'm finding molten core a fun easy jaunt that takes under 30 minutes.

Unless I get lost. ...I tend to get lost a lot...

Unfortunately you still need to get attuned to the raid, so have fun running that last BRD.