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Family Familiar

The achievement Family Familiar is the largest and toughest addition to the pet battling world in a long time. It might even beat the Celestial Tournament in required effort!
To complete it you need to earn 10 individual achievements, each asking you to defeat 12 tamers in the Broken Isles with only pets from one specific pet family.
Luckily, when one of the applicable world quests is up, you can fight the tamer repeatedly and thus finish all families in one go, if you have the pets necessary to pull that off.

Once you complete the achievement, you will get your very own tiny, corrupted, adorable Nightmare Treant :-)
Xu-Fu can scan this section for the most suitable strategies according to your preferences and show the required pets.
Pick a family below to check which pets you need.






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Borg#2521

wrote on 2023-02-07 18:40:45

Hi All! I need an advice ;) I am in desperate need to battle MT Flummox, Varenne and Sir Galvestone. I saw Galvestone once in last 3 months, Flummox and Varenne I haven't seen at all ... Do I do something wrong? any catch ;) ? I just need 3 fights to be done with Legion Pet achivments ;) (edited)

Gráinne

wrote on 2023-02-07 20:12:10

Well, you haven't done anything wrong, except maybe not checking Broken Isles often enough. I'm sure I caught Sir Galveston less than three months ago. I wouldn't have noticed the other two, since I wouldn't have been looking for them for levelling.

There are 15 tamers, and at least four up every day, so it's hard to see some missing for three months. I know there can be times when a tamer isn't up for what feels like a long time when you're waiting, but I can't imagine three months.

How do you check? Do you log in each day and check the map? Are you sure your Pet Battle quests are ticked to show?

Borg#2521

wrote on 2023-02-08 07:47:17

thanks for an anwer! Do you know if there is any dependency with reputation ? I have WQ unlocked. I do check carefully this year and I havent seen Flummox and Varenne at all. TBH I could have missed last year. Just wonder if there could be any other reason... I have addon to check for Pet Battles

Gráinne

wrote on 2023-02-08 09:55:18

I forgot all about the gate for Varenne, but I'm not sure where that gate is now.

Back in Legion, you needed to have completed the Blood and Wine chapter of Suramar quests to see Varenne's World Quest. Also Aulier, IIRC. See Varenne's page on Wowhead and this comment: https://www.wowhead.com/npc=105674/varenne#comments:id=2429124

However, I'm not sure that this restriction still exists.

Both Wowhead and Xu-Fu have sections on the front page that list current World Quests - Xu-Fu's for levelling WQ including Legion, and Wowhead as a set of maps for all WQ for each expansion and each region.

You should probably keep an eye on them every day, and if you see the quest up there, but not on your map, you know what to investigate.

Gráinne

wrote on 2023-02-11 10:42:54

Borg, I hope you're checking the site today!

It's your lucky day!!

I see both Varenne and Sir Galveston up both in US and EU.

Borg#2521

wrote on 2023-02-11 18:25:12

Thanks! I saw it in the morning and I had 3 battles with Sir Galveston. I needed only 1 more fight with Elementals with either MT Flummox or Varenne. I could swear that Verenne was not up at the time :) then in eveining i see him! So I finaly got the achi done! Thanks again :) I think I will be watching for MT Flummox as I never had a fight with him. I got prerequiste done so... let see, for fun only ;)

BeatrixKiddo#11826

wrote on 2023-03-19 17:09:33

Flummox is up today if you still need it

milo

wrote on 2023-12-01 07:14:49

for anyone hunting tamers and not afraid of yet another addon ") there is a great one called WQ acheivements.. It is excellent for the pet battles (and transmog and that saberon one I'm trying to finish). You log in, it checks the wq up and then reports in your chat what ach you can get. No running around required. This includes pet tamers/ battles you can do to complete pet achievements. A limit to be aware of - it only checks things that character can do - if an event is faction/covenant specific or gated and not unlocked (eg argus is not opened) you will not see those quests. (My version came from curseforge)

Gráinne

wrote on 2023-12-02 03:11:55

Thanks for your comment. Milo. I'm trying it!

littleboots

wrote on 2023-01-29 12:40:38

Hazel Nuttys team worked great for the Dragonkin

samhell#1656

wrote on 2023-01-19 20:31:07

Do these have to be up as world quests to count toward the achievement?

Borg#2521

wrote on 2023-01-21 22:21:37

I don't think so... :)

Yermano#1135

wrote on 2023-01-24 00:51:59

it doesnt, but in order to the trainers to be there, you need WQ, once the WQ is up, you can fight the trainer as many times as you want
(edited)

Borg#2521

wrote on 2023-01-25 11:28:30

I noticed that some tamers can only be battled once :( that is bummer for me because it would require 10 wq to be avavilalbe for same tamer - i'm waiting for few months now. Do I do something wrong ?

Yermano#1135

wrote on 2023-01-25 23:49:51

If am not wrong, for the achievement there is only one tamer of family familiar that cant be battled more than once, but in that case, you can go we with your alts, so you need 10 toons, one for each family, if you dont have that much toons, people in other comments say that you can go with class trials.

Borg#2521

wrote on 2023-01-27 16:30:21

thanks! I never thought about class trials

Mynx#2313

wrote on 2022-08-28 18:53:27

No matter what I do, I can't defeat Bredda with all critters, I've tried Frostfur Rat, Fire Beetle and Shimmershell and I'm around one round short :( I've even tried swapping a cockroach in for Apocalypse but no luck :'( (edited)

Mynx#2313

wrote on 2022-08-28 19:12:27

Ok so: HS Arctic Hare 2-2-1, HP Fire Beetle 1-2-1 and HP Shimmershell Snail 1-2-1
Hare: Dodge, flurry, flurry, burrow, flurry and flurry
Beetle: Scotched Earth, burn, burn
Snail: Shell, Ooze touch, ooze touch.

While the Frostfur Rat is the suggested, I found the Hare could survive until the first enemy pet was defeating giving me the extra round I needed at the end!

Tripz wrote on 2020-10-13 21:02:06

Seems as of the Prepatch of SL you cannot rebattle Pet Trainers to do this achie quick.. fun times

Strike#2545

wrote on 2020-10-14 16:02:07

some work as often as you want for sure, Robert Craig can for sure be battled multiple times in a row

Tripz wrote on 2020-10-14 21:24:30

Seems the fight night ones you can as well (doing as we speak 10/15/20)

Demoniak#1153

wrote on 2020-10-15 00:56:55

Robert Craig // Fight Nights // Grixis Tiny Pop // Aurlier all seem good..
(edited)

theevanshow#1957

wrote on 2020-10-16 16:27:04

Durian was available to me again today, but still only allowed one battle. I did not have trouble with any other trainers.

Lucetia

wrote on 2020-10-24 21:25:41

I am able to battle Xorvasc (Val'sharah) again as well

Luxaetern

wrote on 2021-02-09 03:16:30

I've been working on this achievement, and thus far have been able to fight Bodhi, Tiffany, Grixis, Odrogg, Robert, Jarrun, Flummox, and Xorvasc over and over in a single sitting, when they were available. The first time I've come across this problem was today, also with Durian. I'm starting to think he's the...root of the problem.

Jane

wrote on 2021-03-24 14:20:18

I came across Durian and was unable to do multiple battles so I created class trial characters until I completed it! On the last one I noticed that I can now battle Durian repeatedly

Nyari

wrote on 2021-03-24 19:20:08

I have no idea why this works, but it works! :D
Thanks for the information!
Durian has now also been included in the powerlevel guide. (edited)

Sylgem

wrote on 2021-05-01 13:58:46

Durian is not repeatable for me - just cycled through my alts to get it done, but still pretty annoying. Has anyone determined if there is a reason he stands out? Wish I'd had a great pun like Luxaetern, but alas... no.

Nyari

wrote on 2021-05-02 03:05:13

Have you tried a class trial character?

Jedi256#1209

wrote on 2021-07-28 20:19:04

I ran into the Durian problem myself today and ran it with 9 alts to get it done..I really hope he's the only one with this (presumable) bug. Sylgem wanted some more puns so let's try it. It wood really make me mad if this problem persists on other pet masters. I can't be-leaf how annoying this achievement became. At least it gave me a chance to spruce up the inventory on my alts. At this rate I won't be done with the achievement until sep-timber! I was really getting into the root-ine of knocking these battles out all on my main. Thanks for sitting through acorn-y monologue, I hope it wasn't too sappy for you.

Gráinne

wrote on 2021-07-28 20:27:17

Jedi, Durian is indeed the only Legion tamer who is not repeatable.

Smashs#1238

wrote on 2020-09-23 17:54:08

Any way to import all teams for one trainer? For example, I did the mass export, copied just the Aurlier section, but it only imports Aquatic.

Smashs#1238

wrote on 2020-09-23 18:15:38

Well it's not elegant, but editing the first part of the team worked enough to get this over with - Aulier1:xxx:1228BV:1004NA:111C1D1:

Aranesh

wrote on 2020-09-24 03:21:26

There's no way to split it by tamer, sorry. Only by family - or you can just grab all of them together :)

Smashs#1238

wrote on 2020-09-24 13:22:17

I don't think I was clear. When I import the full family list of teams, all I get is one team for each trainer. I'm pretty sure it's the first team in each trainers section.

So I thought maybe it was too much for the mod to handle or something, and I pulled out just one trainer from the export, Aurlier in this case, and imported that. It resulted in only one team for Aurlier.

So after fiddling with the import test a bit, I came up with what I posted before. I changed this(just one of Aurlier's teams):

Aulier:36P2:1228BV:1004NA:111C1D1:N:Xu-Fu's Pet Guides =^_^=nhttps://wow-petguide.com/?Strategy=810nnTurn 1: PumpnTurn 2: Cleansing RainnTurn 3: Pump until Beauty is deadnConviction comes innTurns 1+: Water Jet until Eternal Strider diesnBring in your Emperor CrabnTurns 1+: Snap until Emperor Crab diesnBring in your Mud JumpernTurns 1+: Water Jet until Conviction is deadnDignity comes innTurn 1: MudslidenTurn 2: BubblenTurn 3: Water Jet and Mudslide on cooldown until Dignity is deadn

to this:

Aulier:x:1228BV:1004NA:111C1D1:N:Xu-Fu's Pet Guides =^_^=nhttps://wow-petguide.com/?Strategy=810nnTurn 1: PumpnTurn 2: Cleansing RainnTurn 3: Pump until Beauty is deadnConviction comes innTurns 1+: Water Jet until Eternal Strider diesnBring in your Emperor CrabnTurns 1+: Snap until Emperor Crab diesnBring in your Mud JumpernTurns 1+: Water Jet until Conviction is deadnDignity comes innTurn 1: MudslidenTurn 2: BubblenTurn 3: Water Jet and Mudslide on cooldown until Dignity is deadn

Replacing the "36P2" bit with just an "x" results in all 10 of Aulier's teams being imported, just with the names "New Team (1-10)", without a target.

Smashs#1238

wrote on 2020-09-24 14:34:36

Heh, actually just figured it out. It has to be imported twice, because rematch doesn't prompt to create copies unless there is already an entry. So full export from here, import, import again - make copies.

Aranesh

wrote on 2020-09-25 05:18:01

Very interesting!! I did not come across this before.
Do you think it would be better for the family imports here to remove the Tamer ID (the 36P2 in this case) so no one will run into this situation? Downside might be that people who want to overwrite previous entries, can't.

Smashs#1238

wrote on 2020-09-25 23:32:39

It alleviates the issue of having to import twice, but then you're left with teams just called "New Team", and duplicates are named similar to Windows naming - New Team(2), New Team(3), and so on.

I think it's just a limitation of Rematch.

Aranesh

wrote on 2020-09-26 05:13:09

Eh, okay. Then I'll leave it as it is, although suboptimal. Thanks for the info though!

Smashs#1238

wrote on 2020-09-26 17:48:17

You bet! And ty for all your work! :)

edit: So uh, I just did the mass export and import for the Argus list...and it worked on the first import. With a different weirdness, but still, single import. *shrugs* (edited)

Strike#2545

wrote on 2020-09-25 13:00:00

(edited)

JarofFlies

wrote on 2019-09-02 04:52:02

Do you have to wait for the WQ to come before you can fight them? It's been like 3 days now with no trainers from family familiar

Shenk

wrote on 2019-09-02 05:21:28

unfortunately yes, you need the WQ to be up in order to fight them for the achievement

Anolaszun#1423

wrote on 2020-08-15 00:30:50

Some of them can be done without the WQ up.

stonetroll1987

wrote on 2018-10-01 14:06:29

Something I didn't see in the notes or comments. If the world quest is up you can actually battle them as many times as you want. Meaning you could knock out all of the family's in one shot for that quest.

NIteowl1970

wrote on 2018-10-08 03:40:44

I noticed this also, must have been changed.

Noxical

wrote on 2018-10-20 20:29:04

It seems that Durian Strongfruit is not repeatable however.

NIteowl1970

wrote on 2018-10-21 11:52:01

Durian is repeatable by different characters though, each time that Durian is up I ran any character that I had above 110 out there and battled him, so I could get all of the families done.

Gorgemon

wrote on 2018-12-08 08:33:29

Really useful information for those of us who don't log in every day and don't have an army of alts. I may actually get this achievement finished now!

silverdreams

wrote on 2020-08-13 00:52:45

You can save time by just making one level 110 class trial character and using it to battle Durian repeatedly!

When you log in on the trial character, just use the Hearthstone immediately to skip the tutorial scenario and go to Stormwind/Orgrimmar. Then, go to the portal room and use the Azsuna portal. From there, go over to Illidari Stand and use the flight point to fly to Lorlathil, Val'sharah (trial characters come with that flight point). Finally, just mount up and ride over to Durian.

Credit to Venara on Wowhead and GamesDean here for this great trick!

ETA: Alternatively, just skip this jerk, because you only need to defeat 12 master tamers for the individual achievements, not all 15 listed. (edited)

Toenail

wrote on 2019-08-05 00:17:19

I was able to do Durian by creating, then deleting 7 trial characters. travel was a bit tedious, but i got 140 bandages and about 100g selling all the gear from each trial before deleting. ;)

I had thought there was some sort of CD or delay making new ones but it worked fine.

silverdreams

wrote on 2020-08-13 00:49:40

You can save time by just making one level 110 class trial character and using it to battle him repeatedly!

When you log in on the trial character, just use the Hearthstone immediately to skip the tutorial scenario and go to Stormwind/Orgrimmar. Then, go to the portal room and use the Azsuna portal. From there, go over to Illidari Stand and use the flight point to fly to Lorlathil, Val'sharah (trial characters come with that flight point). Finally, just mount up and ride over to Durian.

Credit to Venara on Wowhead and GamesDean here for this great trick!

ETA: Alternatively, just skip this jerk, because you only need to defeat 12 master tamers for the individual achievements, not all 15 listed. (edited)

Jaydruid

wrote on 2020-07-09 05:47:14

The RNG on the Quests up to actually do any part of this is crazy.... :(

Toenail

wrote on 2019-08-14 23:44:44

finished this a few days ago. thanks to everyone who contributed to this!

Toenail

wrote on 2019-08-02 15:07:18

ugh not happy about Durian Strongfruit not being repeatable. Have done 8 so far and all are repeatable. only have 3 alts to do this. Been waiting days for a trainer to pop. :(

Toenail

wrote on 2019-07-15 13:55:34

so far Flummox was far easier than Bredda, for me. The only Flummox first strat that didn't work was for mech. 6 down, 6 to go ;)

gingerbeardman

wrote on 2018-09-28 06:04:16

I read in another comment section that Family Familiar should have an export all option if you click the "red skull". I'm probably being ridiculously dense but for the life of me, I can't find the red skull lol

Aranesh

wrote on 2018-09-28 11:25:48

Hey! That's my bad. I upgraded the rematch strings to be better (including steps now!) and the export-all button broke due to that. So I had to remove it.... it'll come back though, eventually. No idea when though, sorry!

gingerbeardman

wrote on 2018-09-28 14:02:15

Not a problem, I was just being lazy! I appreciate the effort that goes into the site. The strategies are fantastic.

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