World of Warcraft Tips for Beginners-Whelp Pets

In World of Warcraft there are two types of pets available. Some player characters have the ability to use combat pets that will assist you in battle and there are some items that will summon combat companions for a short period of time. Then there are the companion pets, also called vanity pets or collector pets, which do not help in battle but sometimes have interesting and unique attributes that make them fun to have. In World of Warcraft, dragon whelps are possibly the most popular class of companion pet to obtain. There are other classes of World of Warcraft pets that are more highly sought after but they often require an out-of-game event or in-game holiday event to acquire. The World of Warcraft dragon whelps cross over into both methods of collecting.

World of Warcraft offers the chance to obtain several dragon whelps with more on the way. There are players who spend countless hours hunting down the elusive World of Warcraft dragon whelps with varying degrees of success.

The easiest World of Warcraft dragon whelps to obtain are probably those crafted with the engineering profession. At a fairly low level, player characters can learn the schematic for a mechanical dragon that will help in battle for a few minutes or until destroyed. The dragon can be upgraded with schematics found at later levels of World of Warcraft.

Depending on your idea of what easy means, the next easily obtainable dragon whelps come with the purchase of the World of Warcraft collector's editions of the expansions. A translucent nether dragon whelp can be obtained from the Burning Crusade expansion pack and a baby frost dragon can be obtained from the Wrath of the Lich King expansion. Again, these two World of Warcraft dragon whelps can only be found with the purchase of the collector's editions of the expansions.

Fortunately, there are four dragon whelps in World of Warcraft that can be obtained simply by killing the same kind of whelps you are looking for. These whelps can be very frustrating World of Warcraft. Each kill gives a very rare chance at a pet drop, some players are lucky enough to spend very little time on the hunt, while others spend hour upon hour, and sometimes months, trying to get the pets to drop. There is nothing more frustrating in the World of Warcraft to spend a long afternoon of slaying baby dragons then see a newcomer start killing them near you then minutes later exclaim that they got one.

A crimson dragon whelp can be found in the Wetlands, a dark dragon whelp is in the Badlands, an emerald dragon whelp is in the Swamp of Sorrows, and an azure dragon whelp is in Azshara.

There is also a proto-drake whelp that has been spotted in the World of Warcraft Wrath of the Lich King beta expansion. Current details are scarce, but can be found at Warcraftpets.com . Good luck in your World of Warcraft dragon hunting!