Using poke buddy with downloaded Xmls do they just go with the other xmls and work automaticaly?
Also using pet area with gatherbuddy but my toon seems to be staying in the same area and not switching profiles could it be levelling all pets before it moves to the next area?
I'm also using pet swapper with default values. I've just came back to wow and want to collect and level pets. Only option I have changed is to catch uncommon which will catch everything I haven't got right?
unpack the .xml files into the PetSettings Folder in the plugin folder.
they should load up fine.
some files will overwrite the SVN files, so you should have some overlap. this means you've put them in the right place.
some profiles don't have the stuns/survival health swapout pre-inserted, so you may have some issues AFKing those pets to level them.
there's not many that need editing, but if you have any trouble with the pet not using abilities, check them out. make changes. save changes.
use "higher than the pet i have" in the settings in pokehbuddy.
as for Battle Pet Swapper...
this isn't the right place, but since most people use it with pokeh ...
TLDR, set BPS for 1-25 pets, use rare pets, use favourites as ringers, set for Ringer x2.
Then, filter most of the aquatic pets you have, set the healers as favourites.
if you're starting out pre-10 pets find a solid tanking team, level the same pets until they can take on the trainers.
there's lists on wowhead on what pets to choose to battle the trainers, they do give a bit of pet XP, but they hit like trucks if you're not spec'd for each fight.
i.e. grab a fluxfire feline from the ironforge starter area and level that, a dragonkin, and an undead, and if you're lazy, buy some of the OP pets from the AH, a crab/frog from the level 20 areas, and that should get you going as a tamer/safari/battler/pokemon master/whatever.
1. in BPS choose ringer x2 mode, it saves time for farming areas for XP. in combination with Cattle Bet Pollector, er, BPC
2. Battle Pet Collector, works well. it replaces PetArea, and will migrate areas if needed.
to use BPC, it's usually a good idea to start GB2 with the profile of the area you're currently in, to do that, load one of the profiles from the plugin's Profiles/ folder and start GatherBuddy bot, the plugin will find the continent you're on, reload the zones and arrange transport to the new area, with varying levels of success. it's more useful to have a level 80+ farming pets and while BPC is not perfect, it's okay for clearing a zone or continent for the safari achievement. plus, once you know where the profiles are, you can always go back with BPC's zones and BPC disabled if you're hunting an elusive rare, and should, as BPC can't check weather or times, and will grind areas where pets will not be spawning.
there are 2 important settings in BPC, and 6/6 settings that will ruin your day.
2 (a). set the timer for 15-20 minutes, it will loop around an area and kill pets until it captures one. or it will GRIND for hours or days if it finds a hotspot, i.e. zul'drak, stonetalon, deepholm, etc. which are mob-heavy and critter-heavy. PB and BPC can't really disengage if you hit a hotspot,
(having to "kill critters to leave" an area works as a strategy i suppose)
2 (b). you can have BPC cancel/forfeit fights if no pets/rares (doesn't work well, quite often cancels battles with rare pets in #2 or #3 position),
forfeit/ignore/blacklist collected pets (don't do this in high level areas, it will not fight any pets at all)
and the other options are sort of problematic, stop when collected (doesn't hearth, it just stops the bot. which may be okay if GB2 is set to hearth/mail.)
only consider rares as collected works well for grinding an area, the timer works too. these are the only 2 options to use IMO.
you should let PB handle the forfeits, watching BPC forfeit a fight with a rare fel flame in position #2 was brutal to watch.
3. preferably, use BPS to level your existing rare pets first, so you have a strong team of high level pets.
4. if not particular about making gold selling "caged" level 25 pets, select the wild pets.
YMMV. people will pay extra for an upgraded rare pet, due to the difficulty of getting stones. you do need a lvl 25 already to use a caged lvl 25 pet, or it won't import into the collection.
5. Ringer mode requires a "good" healing pet as your ringer. or a tank. usually dragonkin / aquatic have a good 25 or 30% heal ability, find one pet that can take on like 8 pets of higher level before dying, make that a favourite. spiders/snakes don't make great tanks, turtles, make good tank pets and favourites. there are some mechanical/beast pets that can tank, but they often get nuked during captures.
Relative/capture is good for 1-10 zones,
Ringer x2 is better for levelling pre-10 pets. as you can skip/forfeit the fight if they get killed, saving time.
Ringer is better for 10-20 levelling in pandaria/cata/northrend zones,
pets above 10 survive longer, and can be swapped after they have made a hit attempt for XP, roughly 2x level 10 pets against a level 23, will get ~340xp each if they survive.
6. if you're into finding those last 20 pets in a zone, the terrible turnip + healer is still your preferential choice for capturing those rares like the scourged whelping, minfernal and arctic fox kit, etc that only spawn at the daily reset time of 3 am or 4 am or during weather events, sic.
i'd zip up the 300-400 i have at the moment, but they're keyed for my petID's, so it would take an inordinate amount of time to put names on each one.
and i'm lazy.
The bot starts the pet battle but it actually doesn't fight the pet 
