World of Warcraft: Shadowlands players currently have plenty of endgame content to do before the Chains of Domination update arrives in several months. But while the just-released Patch 9.0.5 added more ways to gear or upgrade their characters, there are many other launch secrets the community is continuing to find as well. One of these latest discoveries is figuring out how to acquire Courage the Larion battle pet.
Recently introduced as creatures native to Bastion, the Larion has been encountered as enemies, mounts, or even adorable battle pets during adventures in the Shadowlands. Unfortunately, players learned that two of the three battle pets are either an extremely rare reward from grinding reputation with the Ascended faction or killing a certain NPC once per day. The third pet Courage, however, went unseen for months until users Deowulf, Ariennelenna, and Sita managed to stumble upon it by following several steps.
Location in Bastion
Players will need to make their way to Nemea's Rest. This area is located right next to Forgefire Outpost near the center of Bastion. While players can get here on foot from anywhere in the zone, there is a nearby flight path at Hero's Rest. Simply fly over and take a portal down or jump off the northeast direction if the character can negate fall damage like demon hunters.
Pet Larion Cubs
The next step involves grouping up with four other players or friends. There are nine Larion Cub NPCs wandering throughout the area which can be clicked on. When at least five Larion Cubs are petted at the same time, Courage will spawn next to Nemea for 30-45 seconds before it disappears. At this point, players just have to run over and right click Courage to add the pet to their journal. Note that any critter-killing pets such as Remornia can kill the Larion Cubs so make sure to dismiss them before going near the NPCs.
Simplifying the Process
If anyone has trouble finding a Larion Cub, they can /target the World of Warcraft NPC and assign it a raid marker that will appear through any terrain. To synchronize the clicks, start a countdown with /countdown X and have everyone pet their cub once the timer reaches zero. User Aevintiri has also provided a list of waypoints for the various NPCs required to get Courage.
- /way 57.28, 39.21 Nemea
- /way 57.27, 39.79 Larion Cub
- /way 57.36, 39.04 Larion Cub
- /way 56.91, 39.05 Larion Cub
- /way 56.77, 40.49 Larion Cub
- /way 57.45, 41.24 Larion Cub
- /way 57.75, 40.94 Larion Cub
- /way 57.90, 39.01 Larion Cub
- /way 56.14, 40.13 Larion Cub
- /way 56.06, 39.24 Larion Cub
- /way 57.29, 39.28 Courage
If players are struggling to find enough participants on their server, there should be other groups in the LFG tab since Courage was recently discovered. Finally, Courage will be interactable even if it is spawned by the opposite faction so waiting around is an alternate method to acquire the pet.
World of Warcraft: Shadowlands is available on PC.
Source: Wowhead