This is ridiculous. I’ve tried numerous benign names for a bear. Ben, Benny are profanity somehow. Somehow “e” is an invalid character now. You could pretty much name your pet pretty much whatever you wanted, now nothing takes in Shadowlands.
Update : So this has to be a bug. This was on a new dwarf hunter I rolled and it wouldn’t accept anything. I don’t understand the logic here, but the second I picked a specialization I could rename my pet. They need to let you rename your pet no matter what or create an error message tell the player they have to select a specialization first.
It wasn’t always the case. You used to be able to rename it after you tamed it. The change that caused it to require a scroll showed up after pre-patch. I’m still not sure if it’s a bug or an intended change.
that was during a time when named pets renamed themselves once you’d trained them.
they’d just be “bear” or “cat” or “spirit beast” …and you could choose a name.
I tamed Toxx in silithis before pre-patch he kept his name but I was allowed to change it no problem. When I went back after the patch to tame him again for a matched set I could not change the name.
Nah, the thing Yinde’s referring to is that fact that taming a mob that retains its name (ie, Lamepaw the Whimperer) will count as already being named, possibly because it technically already is. You used to be able to rename them immediately after taming regardless of their name, now you must pop a scroll to rename a unique pet.
I tamed “True Silver Crab” and apparently it was considered a special / rare pet (the one off the coast of Grom’gol in Stranglethorn). I submitted a ticket about not being able to rename it and was told I needed a rename contract. Ugh. Its name is True Silver Crab, not even something cool.
No, it doesn’t make any sense at all. It doesn’t have a name given to it by that player, so that player shouldn’t have to use a re-name scroll when they haven’t named it in the first place.
By your logic, all pets have a name when you obtain them. So why have this one special case?
Because they have special names that distinguish them from just any other pet. Often they’re something the player can’t actually name a pet (because they contain spaces or an apostrophe.)
I prefer it that way. You can always rename them still if it really matters to you, but they keep their name otherwise.
