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All of the pet classes, except the beastlord, get a named pet. The beastlord's pet is named after its owner: Soandso's warder. I was wondering if one of the "old-timers" could explain why this is.
At one point I believe SOE had intended of having the warder actually travel with you from zone to zone, in doing that the only way to pretent pets with potentially the same name they had it called "soandso's warder". However, this is obviously not the case.
If you look at the Prima's Guide to SoL you can see they discuss this in the book.
If you look at the Prima's Guide to SoL you can see they discuss this in the book.
Because originally beastlord pets stayed with them even through zoning. You'd summon your pet via an ability, buff it up with the spells that now summon the pets and go to town. If they gave warders the same name as other pets, eventually two beastlords with pets named "Jobaner" would be in zone at the same time and I don't think two pets with the same name can exist at once within a zone. Using "Beastlord's Warder" solved this because since character names are unique per server, warder names would be as well.
Eventually they decided that "static" warders just weren't working out. They removed the Summon Warder ability and made each of the "pet buff" spells now actually summon a pre-buffed warder.
Eventually they decided that "static" warders just weren't working out. They removed the Summon Warder ability and made each of the "pet buff" spells now actually summon a pre-buffed warder.
Belkira wrote:
Wow. Regular ol' Joph fan club in here.
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If they gave warders the same name as other pets, eventually two beastlords with pets named "Jobaner" would be in zone at the same time and I don't think two pets with the same name can exist at once within a zone
Hmmm, precognition of this thread?
Color me wrong then 
Perhaps then the issue was that a persistant pet would try to rename itself from Jobaner to Lobantik (or whatever) upon zoning? Regardless, I'm pretty sure the whole persistant zoning pet thing was the basis of the X's Warder naming convention.
Perhaps then the issue was that a persistant pet would try to rename itself from Jobaner to Lobantik (or whatever) upon zoning? Regardless, I'm pretty sure the whole persistant zoning pet thing was the basis of the X's Warder naming convention.
Belkira wrote:
Wow. Regular ol' Joph fan club in here.
Could be. Honestly, I never gave it a thought. All the pet names are a bit doofy anyway, so there's nothing to envy. 
Wizard's familiars don't have names either, right?
Wizard's familiars don't have names either, right?
I always thought it had to do with the roleplay aspect of beastlords. Their warders are supposed to be an animal that they have bonded with as opposed to a necro who animates a random skeleton or a mage who would summon the random elemental from another plane. /shrug
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