Guild Wars 2

I notice this issues too and the one about naming is very annoing.

Anet has said they aren’t and won’t be saving pet names. That’s a lot of pointless data to save.

Anet said it? Officially?

I don’t think it’s pointless at all.

In GW1 they have a template folder for saving ‘builds’ , a simple text doc with a line of aparent jibberish that translate to equip order quote. I would dearly like to see something similar where loading a pet name is simple as selecting from a list in my GW2 folder. But Anet has other priorities so I won’t impose.

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Anet said it? Officially?

I don’t think it’s pointless at all.

I remember reading it somewhere. I’ll try to find it again.

Regardless, if you really care that much about your pet name(s), just rename your pets whenever you swap to whatever it is you want. If it matters that much to you, I’m sure you won’t mind taking the 5 seconds to change the name each time.

Edit: In any case, I’m sure that they’ll add this in time. They’ve got more pressing issues to resolve at the moment.

Yeah, this is one of those chronic minor annoyances that I was pretty sure was a bug at first.

The circumstances under which the name reverts don’t seem terribly consistent.

I do hope they fix it eventually. It seems like an inconsequential amount of data compared to all the OTHER stuff they track about a user.

I hope they (eventually) change this as well. My pet has a name, he is not just some random juvenile carrion devourer, he is Scorpy.

Agree also how much this sucks. My memory sucks so I have to think of a new name if I want to switch to a new pet, and I hate thinking of a name!!! :P

Well, it’s still listed on the Ranger Bug list at the very bottom…

I find it annoying too that every time I change over pets I have to rename them.
I would like what I name them to stay and not reset.

But what I do is have a word pad doc with my list of pet names. That way I don’t have to spend time trying to think what did I name my wolf? And can just quickly look at my list and reenter the name when I swap pets.