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How to find Haniko and complete The Terrible Three quest in WoW Dragonflight

It's Pet Battle time!

Pets and Pet Battles have always been a niche in World of Warcraft with a small, yet loyal audience. To add a bit more flavor to world quests and give this small community challenging content, Dragonflight launched with Pet Battles world quests.

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One of those is The Terrible Three Pet Battle world quest that has you dueling with Haniko in the Waking Shores. Similar to other Pet Battle quests, this NPC has three unique pets that will stop at nothing to exhaust your pet supplies and annihilate you in a duel.

If you’re struggling to find Haniko in the Waking Shores or to defeat this NPC in a duel to get that sweet experience and reputation with Valdrakken Accord, here’s a quick guide on where you can find Haniko and how to complete The Terrible Three quest in Dragonflight.

How to find Haniko in WoW Dragonflight?

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Haniko is an NPC offering you the Pet Battle world quest called The Terrible Three in the Waking Shores. Haniko is a small Vulpera NPC that belongs to Dragonscale Expedition and is located south of the Waking Shores at the coordinates 38.8 83.2. 

How to complete The Terrible Three quest in WoW Dragonflight?

Hanikol has three unique pets you need to defeat to complete The Terrible Three quest. Here’s a list of all Haniko’s pets and their abilities

PetAbilities
BloodbiterFade, Bite, and Proto-Strike
FaceripperBite, Feign Death, and Proto-Strike
TinaEmerald Bite, Death Grip, and Starfall

There are tons of strategies on how to approach this fight, and the easiest one is to have any three pets at level one with a humanoid ability as their only damaging ability, like Alliance Enthusiast. You can also use Scourged Whelping to defeat all three pets with Shadowflame, Call Darkness, and Dreadful Breath. 

If you want a proper Pet Battle, you can use Blightbreath, any level 25 pet, and Anubisath Idol and complete the battle in this order:

  • Acid Rain (Blightbreath)
  • Dreadful Breath 
  • Replace Blightbreath with a pet
  • Use any ability until that pet dies
  • Swap in Anubisath Idol
  • Crush (Anubisath Idol)

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Izabela Tomakic
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Staff Writer & World of Warcraft lead. Izabela has a long history with writing and games like World of Warcraft, League of Legends, Fortnite, and The Sims. Before finding her home at Dot Esports in 2021, Izabela was an English teacher and a freelancer at Hotspawn, GGRecon, and Gameranx. In her free time, you’ll find her writing novels, wandering Azeroth, or inting on Summoner’s Rift.