This addon's purpose is to make it easier to see at a glance which pet family has not been used for each tamer for the Family Familiar and Family Fighter battle pet achievements.
Both the Family Familiar and Family Fighter achievements ask you to beat many opponents with the same pet types. For instance the older Family Familiar achievement asks that you complete the following:
- Aquatic Acquiescence: Defeat 12 Master Tamers in Broken Isles with all Aquatic pets.
- Best of the Beasts: Defeat 12 Master Tamers in Broken Isles with all Beast pets.
- Mousing Around: Defeat 12 Master Tamers in Broken Isles with all Critter pets.
- Dragons!: Defeat 12 Master Tamers in Broken Isles with all Dragonkin pets.
- Ragnaros, Watch and Learn: Defeat 12 Master Tamers in Broken Isles with all Elemental pets.
- Flock Together: Defeat 12 Master Tamers in Broken Isles with all Flying pets.
- Murlocs, Harpies, and Wolvar, Oh My!: Defeat 12 Master Tamers in Broken Isles with all Humanoid pets.
- Master of Magic: Defeat 12 Master Tamers in Broken Isles with all Magic pets.
- Roboteer: Defeat 12 Master Tamers in Broken Isles with all Mechanical pets.
- The Lil' Necromancer: Defeat 12 Master Tamers in Broken Isles with all Undead pets.
The Family Fighter achievement is similar except you need to defeat 18 opponents with each pet type.
If you're keeping score, that means a minimum of 120 battles for Family Familiar and 180 battles for Family Fighter! Ouch!
How To Use
The default behavior of this addon is to summon its window when you target one of the candidates that qualify for either achievement. The tamers for Family Familiar are all part of world quests. The opponents for Family Fighter are up all the time.
If you'd prefer to summon the window manually, you can turn off the automatic summoning through checkboxes at the bottomleft of the window. Mouseover each one to see what they do.
You can also summon the window with the /ffh macro command or by setting up a key binding in the key binding interface.
Once on screen, the window is a grid with tamers down the left in rows and pet families as columns on the right.
Along the bottom are the total tamers defeated with each pet family. The goal is to get at least 12 total for each pet family for Family Familiar and 18 for Famility Fighter. You can mouseover these totals to get a more familiar view of the achievement's progress.
Special thanks to Flohsakk from warcraftpets.com for this addon's idea. If you have any questions, feedback or bugs to report, please post a comment here. Thanks!
Just an idea which I not even know if is possible or hard to implement. Since we can now fight all the trainers regardless if their WQ is up or not a cool feature will be when we select a trainer to have a button to show that particular trainer in Map.
In reply to Galthariel44075:
In reply to Gello:
Thanks Gello for taking the time to reply. I just installed Battle Pet Daily Tamer and that solved my problem. Had to disabled World Map Tracking Enhanced for Daily Tamer to work however I think the problem is on their side and not yours since yours it's updated and World Map Tracking Enhanced it's not.
One last question please. Do you know any addon that can show in the map the BfA Pet Vendors? The ones that we can buy pets using the Polished Pet Charm? There is a lot in BfA and what I did was to create notes (Handy Notes) when I find one but I'm probably missing a few here and there.
Again, thank you so much and Merry Christmas :-)
In reply to Galthariel44075:
Hello,
Should I expect a new addon for the new Family Battler achieve that was introduced in BfA 8.1? Love this addon :-)
In reply to Galthariel44075:
In reply to Gello:
In reply to Gello:
Seeing the following error with only this add-on and SpartanUI enabled:
Message: Interface\SharedXML\Util.lua:189: bad argument #1 to 'pairs' (table expected, got nil)
Time: 06/21/18 13:36:01
Count: 1
Stack: Interface\SharedXML\Util.lua:189: bad argument #1 to 'pairs' (table expected, got nil)
[C]: ?
[C]: in function `pairs'
Interface\SharedXML\Util.lua:189: in function `CopyTable'
...AddOns\FamilyFamiliarHelper\FamilyFamiliarHelper.lua:358: in function `?'
...AddOns\FamilyFamiliarHelper\FamilyFamiliarHelper.lua:346: in function <...AddOns\FamilyFamiliarHelper\FamilyFamiliarHelper.lua:345>
Locals:
In reply to Caerdon:
In reply to Caerdon:
Howdy, Gello. Gotta say I love the add-on. I did Family Familiar without it, but now wish I'd seen this when I did. I've been using it for the new Family Fighter achievement. Works great!
By the way, would that picture you linked in your response below be a Gello shot?
Are you going to do the "Family Fighter" achievement for Argus? I hope so because your addon is awesome!!!
It's already done. :D
If you've updated the addon recently (though another minor update may occur on patch day), when you log in after the patch, there will be two tabs across the bottom to switch between Family Familiar and Family Fighter:
Wow thank you!!!!!
Awesome job! May I suggest making Family Fighter the primary/default tab?
The tabs remember which you last used, but I can switch their position.
I saw that this had been updated and, having commented on it elsewhere, wanted to also do so here.
If you're going for the Family Familiar achievement, this is a big help.
Wowhead will tell you if any npcs are available that might help you along.
This addon will then keep track of which you have encountered and so which you ought to look for next.
If you have an excellent memory, you may not need this.
If you do not and / or you like reminders and being sure, then this is definitely an addon for you.
Nice work. It does something simple, but helpful, well.
Reading about the upcoming Family Fighter achievement, I'll be sure to keep this addon.
;)
How about also highlighting the tamer's names of those currently up and active as WQ?
Awesome addon! Just finished the achievement and this was invaluable in planning which fights to do with who to doing so :)