Does anyone else get embarassed by their pet names?
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Does anyone else get embarassed by their pet names?
So I currently reside on a realm of hardcore raiders, I used to be on quite a quiet realm and gave my pets cool names (like Nox, Zera etc, etc) but now everytime I'm out and about and I see other hunters with pets without names or just called "pet" or "tank" I feel like an idiot? For being creative?
Idk... I know I should probably think "who cares" but I'm an extremely self-conscious player. It's got to a point where I've stabled all my favourite pets and have purposely tamed nameless dull pets to keep up appearances and it's making me feel like a right lemon.
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Games are meant to be fun and not everyone plays the same way...if they did, it would be pretty darn boring.
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Re: Does anyone else get embarassed by their pet names?
I don't raid.
I don't PvP.
I'm basically playing WoW to do quests and have some fun with a few friends.
And I AGONIZE over every pet I tame to find a name that means something to me.
If someone has a cat pet named cat, well, I don't care. That's their business.
I name my pets because it brings me pleasure.
You should just enjoy the game and ignore whatever anyone else might say or think.
All that matters is the pleasure that the game, and your pets, bring to you.
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Re: Does anyone else get embarassed by their pet names?
Honestly, I don't think people even notice. If they do, I don't think they care in the slightest. I always pick names with sentimental value, or with a meaning behind it. For example, I picked an African name that meant spirit for my Loque'nahak. It's way more fun, and helps me build more of a bond with my virtual pets. Where's the fun in naming it pet or leaving it as "wolf" or 'cat"?
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It's better to name your pets something creative, and /snub to anyone that says different!
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Sometimes I give them their original names, because I like them (Like Amaukwa.)
Heck, I've named pets things like Butter and Avocado 'cause I thought it was cute and fitting..
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Thank you for all your replies, they actually made me feel a bit more confident.
Now off I go. Azeroth is not prepared for these new names I'm cooking up.
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Re: Does anyone else get embarassed by their pet names?
Giving your pets names like Nox or Zera is excellent and makes your pet a little more personal and interesting.
If no one has complained that your pets have non-boring names, then you're just being overly self-conscious. Enjoy being creative and having fun with your pets!
If any of those "hardcore raiders" do complain about your pets' names, you can tell them off for their own lack of originality and where, exactly, they can stick it.
When I still did pugs regularly, I would sigh a little every time I saw "Wolf" or "Cat" or "Spirit Beast".
I just thought, "Really? Having a pet isn't even optimal for raiding right now... so you're dedicated enough to keep your companion, but not enough to give it a friggin name?!"
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LOL, niceTårnfalk wrote:Shamefully i must admit that when i played I cringed at pets without names..I used to pm the owner and say that named pet would do 5 % mora damage...and often they named it after that
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And I get so wound up when I take Sophialetta past a Jadefang, afraid that I'm gonna get made fun of for not keeping the original name =\
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I have a running list of cool names saved on a notepad on my desktop.
Anyway I have booth serious names and silly names. For example my Worgen named Brophy has a cat named Kahlan (Sword of Truth/Legend of the Seeker ref lol) and then I have a alt with the spirit bear named "BearWithMe" which is a pun on ppl hating on hunters and their uncontroled pets and that I have a bear with me lol. Yes my humor is lame. Do I give a flying crap about boring ppl hating on my pet names? Nope, not really.
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he's a Pandaren, and I thought a ghostly spirit bear would be a cute pet to have as his companion (along with a white baby Blizzard bear combat pet to follow us around).
well, I was trying to name my bear some variant of Snowball, or anything related to that (I forget all the names I tried). Every single name I tried got me the dreaded "that name is reserved" message. Over and over and over.
I ended up getting so angry about it that I named my bear a naughty word in Quebecois slang
It's sort of the equivalent of the English f-bomb.
Funny, THAT name wasn't reserved or forbidden!
So I sort of walk around with my spirit bear and half-worry that someone's going to report his name.
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But I think my all time favorite name for any pet I have named is my King Krush, which is "Squash"! After the vegetable and it sounded so fitting. I'm sure some people think my names are silly, but I adore them. And thats what matters!
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