I have a problem where it tries flying around and doesnt really do much... then in the log it has this error:
may as well fix this up into a general guide. there may be redundancy, i haven't slept much yet.
testing GB2 works okay, before using BPS/PetArea.
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1. untick petarea.
2. open up pokehbuddy, change the "levels lower than my current pet" dropdown to 10 levels. change rare to "higher than what i have", close it.
3. check your in-game team is set okay for the current area, add in a few pets just above the current level of the area.
untick Battle Pet Swapper, we'll turn it back on after we check GB2 and pokeh are working okay.
4. in HB, change the bot to Gatherbuddy 2, choose one of the profiles in the pet area/profiles folders, ideally where you are right now.
Petarea will take over Gb2 and change those zones around if needed when it's enabled, for now, we'll test the zone works without PetArea.
5. start HB. watch to see if GB loads the zone and if it can navigate around the zone to start battle pet 'combat', HB sometimes has navigation issues with GB2, no idea why.
see if GB2 can navigate from 1 battle pet, to another without nav errors. if it's slow, that most likely GB2 trying to unstuck itself. it happens.
if this works, we'll switch BPS swapper on after the 2nd fight, after the 3rd, stop HB, turn on PetArea, and start HB again. it should work properly and switch zones once those 3 pets are above the level for that area. it will take about 2-3 hrs to level this way via grinding, perhaps more. it is also arduous.
Using PB, BPS and Petarea/BPC to grind.
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depending on your pets, you will need to build a team of healers, to use as ringers. it will save you hours on levelling new pets if you use ringerx2 in pandaria, but first, you need a good team of healers to use.
don't use BPS, get a solid core of a few healing pets to level ~15 first, using PetArea and Pokeh. if it can heal, add it to favourites (aquatics/dragonkin usually can).
once your first 3 favourite pets have reached 15, swap to outlands, hellfire/zangarmarsh.at 19, swap to northrend, get to 21-22, at 22, level in hyjal.
once you have 5 or more pets that can heal, and added them to favourites, you can now use BPS to develop your ringer team, by setting "only blue pets" "only favourites" and "use wild pets"
now you can really start using BPS. get all your ringers to at least level 10, you can be selective by using "only blue pets" and untick "use wild pets" to reduce the work required.
Alt Levelling Via battle Pets.
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you can use lvl 25 ringers when you get into northrend/cata/pandaria zones, making the levelling process from 70-90 easier, and you can also grind those low level battle pets you find along the way.
the one caveat is, your highest level pet has to be within 5 levels of the area's pets to get player XP. so it's a good idea to start getting most pets to level 10, slowly.
or using Ringer x2 as soon as possible, it's quicker and easier.
So,
if you're farming for boosted pet/player XP, e.g. outland/northrend/cataclysm/pandaria, levels 17-20 / 20-23 / 22-24 / 23-25, you will need a team that can fight at lvl 18 or lvl 20, Capture settings are high enough that you can use random pets to win, but not always, it helps to have a high level healer in the group too..
if you're farming for general XP in EK/kalimdor, from lvl 1 to lvl 70, just set the pet type from "ringer" to capture, so you can actually kill those mobs in the area.
and if using BPS, change the max/ min level to 15 and 10, with the maximum level set to the max level of the area you're in, plus 3. so for a lvl 67 alt, set it from lvl 10 to lvl 20 battle pets to swap between.
ringer, works if you're within the lvl 20 to 24 areas, ringer x2 if you're in pandaria. once BPS is set up, Ringer x2 will push most pets from lvl 1 to lvl 10 very quickly, remember to set the "lowest pet" to 20 levels in Pokeh.
Grinding very low level Battle Pets in Pandaria
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it can be done with Ringer x2, but it's tricky.
the way that PB works, you can't put the lvl 1 into the 2nd place. it may never get called up. it has to go first, take a good hit, and then it can be swapped out.
most lvl 1 mobs will die, 5/10 times. you can use Ringer x2 in Outland mobs , it should integrate better, but, it will take longer too. Ringer x2 is a risky XP gain for level 1 pets, but for level 10-25, it's easier, a pet can usually take a critical hit and survive to be swapped out.
with the default ranking values (bottom half of that window), it has to take some damage for the ranking value to lower the value for that low level pet, so when you ask to swap it out, pokeh won't swap it right back in due to the ranking values making it more appealing to put that pet right back in as it has more health *as a percentage* than your other level 25 pets at the time.
