I only found out about the Wanderer’s Festival very late in the beta but I’m so glad I did because I really wanted to be there for the first one on live. It just so happened that we finished the Valley of the Four Winds earlier today so I was excited to be on and get the achievement and see the hatchling pets. Cool was even there to experience it with me.

Wanderer's Festival

There are never many hatchlings around and I was afraid that they’d all be gone very fast as a lot of people had arrived before the festival even started. So I did a trial run with one of the spiny terrapins in the area to see how hard the capture would be. It was a bad idea because my first two pets were not doing too well. Not that I thought they would primarily due to the level and I realised it was a bad idea because it was nearing 9pm as my battle ended.

I was worried that my pet rez would not be up in time for the 8min CD but as I came out of the match I had a 4min wait instead. So I carefully watched the time and stayed relatively close to the hatchling while I filled in the time with some fishing. As I counted down the last minute, I engaged the hatchling and set out to capture it – no matter what the quality. It turned out to be a common one but I was amazed to capture it before my first pet died. Unfortunately, the second pet in the opposing team finished off my first and second so I was worried about my third pet dying and losing my caged one in the process.

Luckily my frog kicked ass and I managed to win. :D Just check out the levels and state of my pets when the whole thing was over.

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Wanderer's Festival Hatchling

By the time I came out of my battle, everyone had left except for a lone fisherwoman. I noticed another festival hatchling close by so I attempted another capture. It turned out to be another common variety but sadly I lost the battle to the uncommon pet in the team.

The only thing I regret was the fact that Chen started singing when I went into the first battle so I missed pretty much all of his performance by the time I came out.

I’ve also been trying a number of Pet Battle addons over the last few days and there are a few that I love right now – PetJournal Enhanced, BattlePetCount and PetBattleQualityGlow.

Are there any ‘must haves’ for you?