Naming Multiple Pets

[Spontz]

How does one do this?  My conjuror just received an ability that summons a temporary pet, and it has the same name as the primary pet.  Also, how do I set different names for the different pet types once they're acquired?

[Mr. Dawki]

<p>make a macro</p><p>line 1) /petname mypetname</p><p>line 2) /useability whateverthespellnameis</p>

[Quda]

<p>forgive the exact wording, but you will get the idea.</p><p>/dismiss pet /petname name /usea petspell</p><p>Make one for each of your pets, so you can have a different name for each pet.</p>

[Jal]

You dont need to dismiss the pet.  As soon as another pet spell is called it will remove the current primary pet for conjy's/necros.

[ZUES]

Ya but you can no longer name swarm pets. We use to be able to before LU13 I think it was.

[mellowknees72]

<cite>ZUES wrote:</cite><blockquote>Ya but you can no longer name swarm pets. We use to be able to before LU13 I think it was.</blockquote><p> However, conjurers can name their other temporary pets - such as your temp fire pet, and temp pets that are granted through AA choices (like the animated dagger).</p><p>One thing to note - if you want to make a macro for your temporary pet, do NOT start it with the command /dismiss pet.  This will kill your primary pet.  You can just make a macro with /petname Pokey, /useability Animated Dagger (for example).</p><p>On my conjurer, I have 4 pet hotkeys so that I can quickly dismiss and then call various pets during a fight if needed.  I don't have the /dismiss pet command on the first line of any of them...I just click them two times.  The first time will kill whatever primary pet you currently have up, and the second time starts the summoning process for the next pet.  </p>

[Tallika_Runwithbears]

as a necro i have 4 main pet macros for summoning each of them.   and i've made macros for all my fluff pets and diety pets.  Each summoned with a different name.

[Spontz]

Thank you!  I'm not in the habit of thinking in macros, so that never occurred to me. <img src="/smilies/2786c5c8e1a8be796fb2f726cca5a0fe.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />

[ChildofHate]

<p>it's simple to do... no need for fancy macros, somantics or gesticulations needed.  (otherwise you will have at least 3 different macros... simply to name pets?  umm ya...)</p><p>for each new pet you want, just type in /petname "whatever you want it to be".  then cast the pet.   Rinse and repeat.  i do it all the time.  no big deal and gets many laughs.</p><p>As an assassin, when i have my pets up, they are called Useless (my rat), Worthless (gorg? pet), and Senseless (hooluk hat pet).  There's also Tearis, my mummy pet from Inny.  Named him Tearis after Tearis Thex.  Seemed appropriate since it was a Teir`Dal Assassin that killed the Koada`Dal King. *grin*  His soul may be with Tunare but that doesn't mean i can't have fun with corrupting his corpse and upsetting the entire Koada`Dal populace and his vampire's [Removed for Content] daughter. </p><p>and yes, it is possible for me to have Three up at once.  My deity pet always overrides one of them, but i never pay attention to which.  I want to say its the "gorg? pet" since both it and my deity spell are considered "casted spells", whereas my rat is an ability and the hooluk is from an item.</p>

[mellowknees72]

<cite>ChildofHate wrote:</cite><blockquote><p>it's simple to do... no need for fancy macros, somantics or gesticulations needed.  (otherwise you will have at least 3 different macros... simply to name pets?  umm ya...)</p></blockquote><p>For conjurers, it can be helpful to have macros to name your various pets.  Why?</p><p>1) Parses - if you have 3 pets up at once (1 primary and 2 temp), and they all have the same name, it's hard to tell which one of them actually did the damage.  It takes too much time mid-battle to physically type /petname Thisorthat, cast that temp spell, then type /petname Thisotherthing, and then cast that temporary pet spell.</p><p>2) I have a different name that I use for each of my 4 main pets.  My earth pet/tank has one name, air pet/scout has another, my AA Healer/water pet has another, etc.  The reason I do this is to help ME pay attention to which pet I have up.  I know my tank is named Squishy, and I know I should never see HIS name in a parse when I'm in a group (unless he's the MT for some bizarre reason).  I know it seems like I should just pay attention to which pet I have up when, but sometimes going from soloing to playing with my friends in a group, I'll forget to change pets.  Darn halflings and their short term memory problems...but that's another thread altogether.</p><p>I can totally understand why a macro to name pets would seem like a pointless effort to someone whose damage doesn't depend upon pets...but for Conjurers and Necros, it can be important.</p><p>(That and I don't want all my pets to be named Kobober, Jobober, and all those lovely randomly generated pet names). </p>