Guild Wars 2

Hello my name is Kexx.

Today I decided to roll a ranger, with the most exciting part being collecting all the pets. I named my starting Bear after my boyfriend Tyler and then was determined to name all of my pets after people I actually know who fit the animal I have. So I was going along all fine until I get this juvenile pig. It asks me if I want to make it my primary companion or whatever and I say yes with the intention of naming it after my old boss, but when it switches there was already a name there: Tyler. My boyfriend was suddenly a pig. when I switched my bear back to the front it’s name was Juvenile Brown Bear again like when I first got him. I was physically upset to the point where I thought about deleting this character and never playing a ranger again.

What I’m suggesting here is that when you name a pet it sticks even when you switch it out or put it into storage. I know it’s a little frivolous and other people couldn’t care less, but I do care. I think that there are others who might care as well. I don’t know how hard it would be to do that, but I would love for you guys to at least try. I’m sure I’m the not only one who would appreciate that little bit of personalization in this awesome game you’ve got here.
Thanks,

Kexx

This has been suggested before and I don’t think anyone has ever gotten a response. As a ranger main, I would also like to see this implemented. Funny thing, when I made a male Norn, I hated its physical appearance so much I did actually delete it.

I’m guessing they would have to completely reprogram how and where the game stores your pets’ names, though I can’t imagine it being very difficult. My eternal gratitude to the devs for letting us repeatedly re-name the pets, but the way the game manages pet name data is truly bizarre. It feels like we’re not actually naming the animals themselves, but rather the two active pet slots that the animals inhabit.

Please keep the functionality to re-name pets at will, but at least let the game remember that my name for the brown bear is the name for the brown bear and not for whatever new pet fills that spot.

As far as the names resetting back to “Juvenile ______”, I haven’t figured out what causes that yet. Sometimes, the new pet takes the name of the previous one, but other times it just resets back to “Juvenile.” Maybe it’s a bug, maybe it’s just how the system works. Heck, once in a while I’ll log out and the character screen will display my character as being in a different zone, wearing old armor/colors that I’d changed over half an hour ago.

A ranger has been my main in both games. So I’d love to see this too.

But they didn’t do this with the original Guild Wars so its doubtful they will do it in Guild Wars 2.

I’m glad there really are people who feel the same way as I do. I honestly don’t think that this change would be very hard and I feel like there are plenty of us who would like it. The personalization would be awesome. Fyrebrand you are so eloquent. This is exactly what I was talking about and trying to get across. Thank you. And Terrin, This Guild Wars 2 so it should be better than Guild Wars. This little change will make it leaps and bounds better in my book. Indoles, let’s make them respond. Let’s keep this thread going until they see it!

I agree with this idea.

So annoying having to change names every time i stow a pet.

You’re not naming the slot, you’re naming the species, if you give a name to a pet on land and add the same pet to one of the water slots it will have the same name.

The only time names transfer between species is when you tame a new pet and choose to replace the active one with it, which I think is probably a coding oversight of some sort.

Question. Does ANet even look at these?

I think everyone with a ranger agrees with this, cannot see why they wouldn’t.

Have to say in GW1 it didn’t matter as you had only one pet and had re-tame it all over if you wanted to change it.

I don’t change around my pets that much, but I still like to name them, and would very much appreciate the naming stuck to them.