I returned to World of Warcraft after 3 years and I was always big on collecting pets with all of my 24 Level 85 characters. Therefore I have a huge amount of duplicate (understatement there) pets. With the new account wide pet collecting system, is there any reason to keep them around? I ask this, because I saw an achievement where you can "steal" a pet from another player during a fight. Is that pet then permanently gone?
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There are ten, with corresponding strengths and weaknesses. I have just confirmed this in the beta:
Their strengths and weaknesses are as follows:
- Beast - takes 50% more damage from mechanical; takes 33% less damage from humanoid
- Critter - takes 50% more damage from beasts; takes 33% less damage from elemental
- Dragonkin - takes 50% more damage from humanoid; takes 33% less damage from flying
- Elemental - takes 50% more damage from aquatic; takes 33% less damage from mechanical
- Flying - takes 50% more damage from magic; takes 33% less damage from beasts
- Humanoid - takes 50% more damage from undead; takes 33% less damage from critter
- Magical - takes 50% more damage from dragonkin; takes 33% less damage from aquatic
- Mechanical - takes 50% more damage from elemental; takes 33% less damage from magical
- Undead - takes 50% more damage from critter; takes 33% less damage from dragonkin
- Aquatic - takes 50% more damage from flying; takes 33% less damage from undead
Individual battle pet skills have different postives/negatives in terms of doing damage to different pet types, so that isn't determined by the type themselves.
Once you've activated the serial key it is bound to your battle.net account, you don't need it for new extensions or for re-installing the game.
You may need it again if you are locked out of your battle.net account, you can generally use such packaging to prove you own the account. However there are generally other ways to prove it so it is not required.
So, yes. You can throw away the packaging.
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Most pets can have different base statistics (speed, power and health). If you find a pet and you really like its move-set, you could collect multiple versions of the pet in order to have a high health version and a really quick version etc.
Also, you can cage most pets and then sell them or give them away. Some pets are Bind on Pickup when you obtain them, but learning them and then caging them allows you to give them away. Being able to store a few copies allows you to free up space in your bag whilst you decide what to do with them and also not have to mess around with caging your own version just so you can cage a duplicate that you got. Basically it gives more flexibility.
I'm not completely sure what you are referring to with regards to the "steal" a pet. As far as I am aware, you cannot steal pets from other players.
If it is showing 3/3, it means you have 3 of that specific pet and you can't collect any more until you either cage them or release them.