Auto-Localization Question

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My rotation addon is progressing nicely and I’ve found ways to auto-localize it with regards to Items and Spells and Auras.

I’ve run into something with Shaman that I can’t quite wrap my head around.

This assumes Primal Elementalist talent selected.

Fire Elemental, for example, summons a proper “pet” (there’s a pet control bar) that lasts for a little while.

Earth Elemental does the same thing.

With the English client, I can check UnitName(‘pet’) to match the pet’s name with the Primal Fire Elemental or Primal Earth Elemental easily enough.

But I can’t figure out any way to identify those pets that isn’t by name.

I know, for example, that a Primal Fire Elemental is npc ID 61029, but I don’t know how to use that npc ID to get the localized name of it.

Does anyone have any clue how I might do that?

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it might change over time (ie, logouts/dismiss/summon) but try /dump UnitGUID('pet') and see if it always generates the same guid. if it does use that instead.

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UnitGUID(‘pet’) for the two elemental pets (assumes you have the Primal Elemental talent) returned the following strings for me:

Creature-0-3882-2374-7021-61029-<some random looking hex string>
and
Creature-0-3883-2374-7021-61056-<different random-looking hex string>

The creature ID values for Primal Fire Elemental and Primal Earth Elemental are 61029 and 61056. @Arkayenro was correct in that the pet IDs can be determined from the GUIDs and from that I can auto-localize the code I’m looking at.

There doesn’t seem to be any relationship between the player GUID and the pet GUID (no overlap between the GUID strings that I could discern).