One of the newest additions to The War Within Beta is an interesting new pet — It cannot battle, but it serves as a vendor that can repair your gear! Learn how to obtain Coppers the Kobold in this post.
To obtain Coppers the Kobold, you must act like a Kobold and be obsessed with Wax! Once you reach Renown 2 with the The Assembly of the Deeps to earn the Every Day I'm Snuffling I trait, which allows you to interact with Disturbed Earth, piles of earth treasures located all around Khaz Algar. Interacting with a pile of Disturbed Earth will start a quick event — Could be hordes of mobs spawning, a rare, or even just a mound of wax for you to loot, which will grant some treasure loot, but the important thing you want from these is Odd Glob of Wax.
A pile of Disturbed Earth in the Ringing Deeps.
Odd Glob of Wax can be turned in to Middles in Gundargaz, in the Ringing Deeps.
You can contribute 5 Odd Globs of Wax at a time. There are 2 bars when turning in wax to Middles, one that shows contributions from your server as a whole, and one that shows your personal contribution.
Contribute Wax to Middles! He needs it!
Once you've done 10 contributions, or contributed a total of 50 Odd Glob of Wax, the NPC next to Middles, Gnawbles, will offer the quest Thanks for the Wax, which will give you 1 Firelight Ruby, This is the currency we're looking for!
Firelight Rubies are accepted by Scritchscratch, a vendor NPC next to Middles and Gnawbles. Scritchscratch sells several goodies that cost 1 Firelight Ruby, from bundles that grant Gold, profession materials and The War Within currency, but the one thing we're looking for is the pet Coppers the Kobold.
Coppers seems like a pretty meh pet at first — It can't even battle (hence why we call him a Companion Pet rather than a Battle Pet), but you'll see his significance once you summon him! Coppers is a vendor NPC, including the ability to repair your gear! With Coppers on your side, you will never run into situations where