Guild Wars 2

I wish the devs would fix the Ranger’s pet names so that it retains the name of the pet per species. It’s annoying to keep fixing the names when you set preferred pets or charm a new one.

Actually it’s not a bug, so it can’t be “fixed.” The game redesigned to give us this feature, yes. But there’s no bug to fix as it is not a designed feature that later broke.

I agree that it seems to be by design. However, I too would prefer that they retain the names you give them. The current implementation means that any pet outside the current set of two has no name and when you recall that pet you must give them the name you have already given them. In practice this means I am constantly naming pets that I have already named. Rather than a bug, I would call this a bad design decision. And, I would also urge the devs to revisit and change it.

Yes bad design and there have been many complaints in the past about this. It
has been this way since launch. So don’t hold your breath waiting for Anet to change it

Raine.1394:

I agree that it seems to be by design. However, I too would prefer that they retain the names you give them. The current implementation means that any pet outside the current set of two has no name and when you recall that pet you must give them the name you have already given them. In practice this means I am constantly naming pets that I have already named. Rather than a bug, I would call this a bad design decision. And, I would also urge the devs to revisit and change it.

It used to be that you could keep 4. If you went into the PvP lobby when they still had underwater arena you could go into the water in the lobby and pick 2 pets that were both land and underwater as well as 2 land pets. When you left the PvP lobby the game remembered those 4 names whenever you switched to them. Unfortunately that was lost when PvP was changed to remove that arena and the pond was walled off.