PvPBanger Pets Forever

PvPBanger Banger Pets Forever is Hunter pet guidance: which beast family to tame for a given activity, which ability to learn and where, what your current pets can already do, and how to get to a trainer or a beast. Every recommendation names the utility it is recommending, so you can disagree with it on the evidence.

This download does not bundle its own copy of the core. In the Forever pack the ten folders ship side by side and this folder declares ## Dependencies: PvPBanger, so PvPBanger (Forever Core) must be installed and enabled alongside it or the client will not load this module.

What it does

• Four tabs - Recommended, Skills to Learn, Beasts and My Pets, with a search field and paging over the bestiary.
• Four activities - PvP, Leveling, Dungeons and Farming, each with its own ordered list. In PvP the order is Crocolisk Dismember for healing reduction, Spider Web for root control, Bat Sonic Blast for caster disruption, Boar Charge for engage control, Crab Pinch for a movement slow, Wind Serpent Lightning Breath for ranged pressure, Wolf Furious Howl for group damage and Fox Trickster's Dance for evasion and speed - each row stating why.
• Explicit provenance - the recommendation table says in the source that these are PvPBanger's own recommendations and not imported rankings.
• Skills to Learn - ability families, ranks and the trainers that teach them, from shipped data files, with the source credited in a bundled licence file.
• My Pets - a per-character snapshot of the pets you actually have, stored under the character key, so the guidance can compare what you own against the recommendation.
• Getting there - a destination lookup for a beast or trainer that uses the Service Finder arrow when that module is loaded, and otherwise falls back to a client map pin and super-tracked waypoint, refusing cleanly when the client will not set a pin.
• Hunter-only and honest - the UI checks your class and stays out of the way for every other class rather than pretending to be a general pet addon.

Forever client target

- Interface 16001 in a _Camelot.toc manifest, so the Retail client cannot load it and this pack cannot load Retail settings. - Mainline 12.x UI API surface per the repo's own compatibility note: Interface 16001 with GetBuildInfo reporting 1.60.x, project id WOW_PROJECT_MAINLINE (1). - Optional APIs are probed, not assumed; anything the client lacks is reported instead of guessed at.

Installation

1. Exit the game completely. AddOn folders are read at launch. 2. Open your Forever client's Interface/AddOns folder. The Forever reference notes record the product as wow_classic_beta, so the directory is usually _classic_beta_; use whatever folder your launcher actually updates. This is not the Retail _retail_ folder. 3. Extract the archive and copy PvPBanger and PvPBanger_Pets into Interface/AddOns, so each folder sits directly inside AddOns with no extra outer folder. 4. Do not copy the ZIP itself into AddOns - the game does not read archives. 5. Start the game and enable the folders in the character-select AddOns list. 6. Type /pvpbforever and copy the report. It prints the client build, the Interface number, the saved-variable names, every optional API that is present or missing, and any event registration the client refused.

Slash commands

Grepped from the shipped Lua in the 0.18.3 archive, not from the manifest:

Dependency plan

This project sets one Required Dependency: PvPBanger Forever Core, matching the ## Dependencies: PvPBanger line in its own _Camelot.toc. Without the core folder present and enabled, the client will not load this module at all - the .toc dependency is hard, not a suggestion. No other addon is required; optional dependencies are listed in the module's .toc and are used only when they exist.

Support

Issues, feedback and release notes: pvpbanger.com