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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.

But how hard can it be? Well, you're in for quite a ride. Every day there is only three active pet quests out of a total of 37 different ones.
So first off, one of the tamers in question has to be active.
Then you need to beat him or her with a certain pet family only, but you cannot repeat the fight with the same character!.
This means you will have to wait for every tamer to be up 10 times! And on top of it all, some of the tamers are extremely hard - if not impossible - to beat with certain families. Looking at you there, Flummox!

Unless you go at it with multiple characters, it will most likely take several months before you can finish this particular achievement.
But once you do, you will get your very own tiny, corrupted, adorable Nightmare Treant :-)

As usual, below table will list all pets required to use the main strategies listed here. Due to the nature of the achievement, the list is quite long this time.
Best sort by family to get a better overview over each families difficulty level.

Name

Families

Occurrences

Required Level

#

1.

Magic

3

25

2.

Beast

1

25

3.

Flying

1

25

4.

Humanoid

12

25

5.

Aquatic

4

25

6.

Beast

3

25

7.

Critter

1

15

8.

Critter

3

25

9.

Dragonkin

10

1

10.

Dragonkin

1

1

11.

Elemental

2

25

12.

Elemental

2

20

13.

Flying

2

25

14.

Flying

1

20

15.

Humanoid

3

25

16.

Humanoid

7

1

17.

Magic

4

25

18.

Mechanical

3

20

19.

Mechanical

4

1

20.

Mechanical

3

25

21.

Undead

4

25

22.

Undead

4

1

23.

Undead

1

25

24.

Beast

1

25

25.

Undead

3

25

26.

Mechanical

1

25

27.

Undead

2

25

28.

Flying

1

25

29.

Dragonkin

11

25

30.

Beast

3

25

31.

Mechanical

1

25

32.

Mechanical

1

25

33.

Magic

2

25

34.

Elemental

1

25

35.

Elemental

2

25

36.

Flying

1

25

37.

Elemental

1

25

38.

Mechanical

5

25

39.

Mechanical

2

25

40.

Mechanical

1

25

41.

Elemental

9

25

42.

Elemental

2

25

43.

Critter

2

25

44.

Dragonkin

7

25

45.

Dragonkin

1

25

46.

Aquatic

8

25

47.

Magic

9

25

48.

Magic

2

25

49.

Critter

1

25

50.

Elemental

5

25

51.

Beast

6

25

52.

Beast

9

25

53.

Magic

3

25

54.

Elemental

1

25

55.

Humanoid

3

25

56.

Beast

1

25

57.

Undead

5

25

58.

Aquatic

1

25

59.

Critter

1

25

60.

Aquatic

1

25

61.

Aquatic

1

25

62.

Undead

3

25

63.

Undead

3

25

64.

Aquatic

3

25

65.

Flying

2

25

66.

Aquatic

1

25

67.

Humanoid

3

25

68.

Humanoid

1

25

69.

Aquatic

27

25

70.

Flying

2

25

71.

Critter

1

25

72.

Undead

1

25

73.

Mechanical

7

25

74.

Magic

5

25

75.

Humanoid

10

25

76.

Magic

3

25

77.

Mechanical

3

25

78.

Beast

2

25

79.

Magic

3

25

80.

Mechanical

10

25

81.

Magic

1

25

82.

Magic

3

25

83.

Aquatic

2

25

84.

Aquatic

1

25

85.

Aquatic

3

25

86.

Dragonkin

7

25

87.

Magic

3

25

88.

Dragonkin

8

25

89.

Magic

1

25

90.

Elemental

1

25

91.

Elemental

8

25

92.

Mechanical

1

25

93.

Aquatic

1

25

94.

Critter

4

25

95.

Critter

2

25

96.

Critter

1

25

97.

Critter

3

25

98.

Humanoid

1

25

99.

Undead

5

25

100.

Elemental

1

25

101.

Critter

4

25

102.

Critter

7

25

103.

Elemental

1

25

104.

Humanoid

2

25

105.

Aquatic

9

25

106.

Critter

1

25

107.

Critter

1

25

108.

Aquatic

1

25

109.

Beast

7

25

110.

Humanoid

2

25

111.

Flying

5

25

112.

Elemental

1

25

113.

Elemental

5

25

114.

Elemental

1

25

115.

Critter

8

25

116.

Mechanical

2

25

117.

Magic

1

25

118.

Undead

4

25

119.

Undead

1

25

120.

Beast

6

25

121.

Beast

2

25
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Toenail

wrote on 07/15/2019

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 ;)
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stonetroll1987

wrote on 10/01/2018

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.
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NIteowl1970

wrote on 10/08/2018

I noticed this also, must have been changed.
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Noxical

wrote on 10/21/2018

It seems that Durian Strongfruit is not repeatable however.
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NIteowl1970

wrote on 10/21/2018

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.
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Gorgemon

wrote on 12/08/2018

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!
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gingerbeardman

wrote on 09/28/2018

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
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Aranesh

wrote on 09/28/2018

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!
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gingerbeardman

wrote on 09/28/2018

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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Nickolina#2534

wrote on 02/01/2018

Just discovered the legion class hall pets for certain classes! Wow, had no idea there was so many up for grabs, and I'm gutted I dont have a death knight :(
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Doubleminy wrote on 10/04/2017

Thank you so much for having this website. I finished the achievement today and it wouldn't have been possible without this! Now my treant and I are off to Argus~
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Deltethnia wrote on 09/22/2017

Having alts who also have world quests open can make these achievements go much faster. Especially if there's more than one trainer up that week. While the achievements and such are account wide, the world quests are not.
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Tranmere Fan wrote on 09/13/2017

Want to add my thanks to that of others, since returning to the game a few months ago, this has been a very valuable resource. Completed the acheivement today,
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Darri - Lothar wrote on 08/18/2017

Thank you so much for this guide. It has saved my life multiple times going against these dratted family familiar fights. Good Luck
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Lordy wrote on 07/04/2017

Thanks ever so much Aranesh your awesome guide just snagged me the Nightmare Treant for my collection and I am very happy =)
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Aranesh

wrote on 07/06/2017

Gratulations! Happy to hear that! :D
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Squeeze wrote on 06/16/2017

Finally got my very own adorable Treant :-).
Thankyou to your Website and the effort you guy have put into it.
Thankyou, Thankyou.
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Mistredo wrote on 05/21/2017

Would be possible to have a pet-ready checker for this as there is for Legion?
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Aranesh

wrote on 05/22/2017

Yes :D I'm working on it, but it's a huge undertaking and will take more time before I can release it.
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Aerna-Eonar wrote on 05/09/2017

Can you please update this guide to NOT use Minfernal? It is simply unreasonable to expect someone to have this pet, unless you have been extremely lucky. I have spent months at the location, logging in from time to time, and all I see are other players mindlessly flying around. And I have a LOW population server group, so I can't imagine the high population servers.
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Aerna-Eonar wrote on 05/09/2017

By the way - great site! :)
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Aranesh

wrote on 05/09/2017

Thanks! :) Minfernal is only used against Flummox. You can easily do this achievement without that particular fight.
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aelfraed wrote on 06/01/2017

I camped that for weeks a few of years back. Recently started playing wow again, still had an alt logged there. Logged in and bam, several mins waiting to be caught. No other players there at all.