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Mechanical Pandaren Dragonling


Cageable:

Yes

Limit:

3

You can own up to three copies of this pet.

Default Rarity:

Unknown

The default rarity is the minimum when a pet is learned. For wild pets this is usually "poor". Pets from other sources can be common, uncommon or rare by default.

Source:

Profession

Expansion:

Mists of Pandaria


Owned by:

92.7%

Based on this many collections: 33876

Players who own this pet have it:

Once: 71.28%
Twice: 19.09%
Thrice: 9.63%

Strategies:

443

Popularity:

Very high

Pageviews:

19669


Breeds:

SS

Mechanical
Comes back to life once per battle, returning to 20% health.
50% vs. 33% vs.
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Constructed from a seemingly impossible mass of gears, springs, wires, and a little something special, this dragonling embodies the spirit of Pandaria as seen through an engineer's goggles.
Source
This pet is made by Engineers from a Mists of Pandaria recipe. If you don't have your own Engineer, you will be heading to the Auction House to buy it for a few thousand gold.
2021-06-27 20:32:49
Last Update: 2021-06-27 20:32:49 (Patch 9.0.5)
PvE
The MPD has only one breed, S/S.

The MPD is notable for its Decoy, which with its 309 Speed and Mechanical racial, can save it from otherwise deadly mechanics. It has a very useful split damage in Thunderbolt, and a decent basic attack in Breath.

Use Decoy either specifically to prevent taking a big hit, or on cooldown. Use Thunderbolt on cooldown, and Breath otherwise.

Bombing Run can be used in tamer strategies occasionally to set up delayed damage under a debuff.

Discussion: The MPD is a very useful addition to your toolbox, with Decoy for avoidance, and a side specialisation in being a double counter to Magic pets, since Mechanicals take less damage from Magic attacks, and Breath is strong against Magic.

Its gameplay is simple: decide when to use Decoy – at the start, unless you know when a big hit is coming – and then use Thunderbolt on CD and Breath otherwise.

Speed + Mechanical racial + Decoy often keeps the MPD alive to do a couple of extra rounds of damage.

Bombing Run can be used in combination with a swap to a pet that will apply a damage buff before it hits, or against Beasts, but it’s not common.

Explode may be used to die deliberately in a Tamer strat, to let a Carry Pet finish with XP.

Last Update: 2021-11-27 05:09:03 (Patch 9.1.5)
PvP
In PvP, its speed, and the avoidance of Decoy, together with the AoE from Thunderbolt, used to make it well worth running, though Bone Barrage is a common incidental counter to its Decoy.

As of now the speed creep makes it fall near an awkward halfway through.
Last Update: 2021-11-27 05:11:09 (Patch 9.1.5)
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