Living Sandling

Hits like a truck, high health, and slows the enemy pets to make up for its own slow speed. Definitely a solid pet for PvP. I think its main weakness will be hard-hitting pets that didn't rely on speed in the first place, because its only real source of utility is the speed debuff. Also if it gets stunned/blinded before it can slow a faster pet, it'll be dead in the water.

After the buffing of Sandstorm damage, this pet is amazing in PVP. H/P breed is best.

Living Sandling wreaks utter havoc on mechanical pets. The H/S breed of this pet is particularly good against Lil' Bling which is a very fast mechanical pet. The combination of Sand Bolt and Quicksand is devastating versus any kind of team that relies on speed, so it's actually proven itself useful against the dreaded S/S Fiendish Imps that don't open with Nether Gate.

Great looking pet and very strong in battle too. A very underated elemental that has some versatility to it. Considering my sandling is a H/S breed I tend to stick with a tanking style. I start with stone skin, then use quick sand and spam sand bolt until I have to reapply stone skin and quick sand which usually never gets to that point since he hits hard. With moves that take away the other pets speed, and gives the sandling more time to hit and defend he is a great choice with an anubisath idol.

I think the battle rating for this is low, I think people underestimate this little guy. Definitely not real useful in the pvp area (at least in my experience), but I definitely love to use mine when doing my dailies and when looking for rares I don't have yet. Trying to work him into my celestial tourny line-up because I love him so much :D

Agree about taking down the tonk and monkey!  I start with Nexus Whelp, time the arcane storm right and monkey can't stun you either.  Quicksand and goodbye tonk and monkey.  This is a great pet for mechanicals!  Some elementals just don't have his clout

Look so cool.

I'm a pretty big fan of this little dude's ability to not only wreck the Darkmoon Trainer's Tonk, but also get some damage in on the Monkey too. Just time your quicksand for maximum effect.

To the person who asked if it can be caged, yes. My guildie just traded me his for my Netherspace Abyssal, since I didn't want it and he couldn't get it to drop, even though I told him his was rarer, haha. You can see them on the AH pretty frequently.

can this pet be caged?

I wonder if H/S is the best breed? It seems to me with he Sandling abilities you could pick the slowest one since in most cases the opposition will be at 50% speed anyway with Quicksand or at best 75% speed if you have Sand Bolt up? Seems to me H/P might be better or even P/B if you sacrifice some health?

wowhead is saying 4% (off the trash) in throne of thunder, so odds seem pretty good, expect a rapid price drop in the weeks to come. Also means you could just farm runs till it dropped since it not off an exclusive once a week loot table.

Recieved this pet along with two items on council of elders in LFR.

just got my little guy off the last boss in lfr off the council of elders.

Just got this from trash in our 10m raid group, have only seen one in the past two clears. Not sure if it can drop from the new LFR mode of ToT.