Lore Pet Nameing thread
Holy text wall.
Well, I read about half of that, and I don't really get what you're asking for or whatever, but I might as well share my Bots naming theme because I thought it was clever. Each tier is based on a differant phrase:
"The whole Lock, Stock, and Barrel." - Battle Drones
"The whole Kit and Kaboodle." - Protector Bots
"The whole Shabang." - Assault Bot
Can you name Lore pets now? Last I saw you couldn't. Either way it throws off my naming scheme pretty badly.
The off-beat space pirate...Capt. Stormrider (50+3 Elec/Storm Science Corruptor)
The mysterious Djinn...Emerald Dervish (50+1 DB/DA Magic Stalker)
The psychotic inventor...Dollmaster (50 Bot/FF Tech Mastermind)
Virtue Forever.
Can you name Lore pets now? Last I saw you couldn't. Either way it throws off my naming scheme pretty badly.
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If I could name my pets, I dunno, I'd probably find a name that would fit the maximum number of characters available. But that's just me.
Holy text wall.
Well, I read about half of that, and I don't really get what you're asking for or whatever, but I might as well share my Bots naming theme because I thought it was clever. Each tier is based on a differant phrase: "The whole Lock, Stock, and Barrel." - Battle Drones "The whole Kit and Kaboodle." - Protector Bots "The whole Shabang." - Assault Bot Can you name Lore pets now? Last I saw you couldn't. Either way it throws off my naming scheme pretty badly. |
And I can see why, I can't think of another phrase you could use to name your lore pets. Perhaps someone else will have something for you. I actually could think of a couple things but they don't begin with "the whole" so it wouldn't exactly fit your theme there.
http://union.virtueverse.net/wiki/Elizabeth_Bathory
My vampire-witch Necro/Dark... All names are slavic. As they are from teh same region as she is.
Vladimir, the Lich
During her time imprisoned within the walls of her castle Elizabeth had heard about this dark sorcerer that was told to be even more powerful then she was said to be. The guards where eager to let her known that he too was captured in his hideout deep withing the Carpathian mountains. But as he didn't had the luxury of being protected by noble blood the sorcerer named Vladimir was killed on the spot. His throat slit and his body cast into a deep pit that was then filled with mud and filth.
Escaping her country of birth she travelled to the Carpathians to seek out this sorcerer... and indeed she found him. Her magic brought him back to life as her servant... and in some spells even her teacher. As his own dark sorcery was strong enough to keep his mind intact even after death.
Vladimir has a host of dark spells he can perform. And if ever he had any feelings towards other humans those feelings where removed upon his death. Only his loyalty to the countess remains. Do not underestimate this walking corpse... his power is terrible indeed.
Radagast & Krakaroff
These two where the guards that kept Elizabeth imprisoned in her castle tower. And the first to fall to Elizabeth her new found undead excistence. She drained both of them for their blood and then turned her sorcery upon them. Thus her enslavers became her personal guards. Her Knights of Death!
Dimitri, Sergei & Ficzko
Outside the castle she found the shallow graves of her direct servants. Including the man that taught her sorcery during the last few years. But their bodies where decomposed... Elizabeth utilized a great amound of blood to bring them back but was unable to repair much of their mind. These days they serve her still... Although not able to communicate much they never tire, never sleep... and are strong soldiers in case of a fight.
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"The whole Lock, Stock, and Barrel." - Battle Drones
"The whole Kit and Kaboodle." - Protector Bots "The whole Shabang." - Assault Bot |
My own Mastermind hasn't made it to 50 yet, so no Lore pets for her for awhile yet.
I do plan on making her an Incarnate. 'Trouble is, I'm not sure what would match her ninja-guys... None of the current choices really seem to go, theme-wise. (Names, however, wouldn't be much of a problem. Her boys are all named after the characters from a fairly obscure anime & game series... Harukanaru Toki no Naka de. So far she has Inori, Takamichi and Tomomasa, Yorihisa and Yasuaki, and Akuram. There are quite a few more cast members left to pick from, no matter what her pets end up being... The thing has a cast of dozens. XD)
@Brightfires - @Talisander
That chick what plays the bird-things...
Yes you can name Lore Pets, always have been able to as far as I know. They use all the same commands as MM pets even if you're not a MM it'll even give you a temporary pet UI while the Lore pets are active.
And I can see why, I can't think of another phrase you could use to name your lore pets. Perhaps someone else will have something for you. I actually could think of a couple things but they don't begin with "the whole" so it wouldn't exactly fit your theme there. |
NO I hate to bust your bubble but the only AT that can rename their Lore pets, and probably the reason you think otherwise since you have 7 MMS, are Masterminds. Any other AT doesn't get that option. And before the rant starts I too have MMS that now have Lore pets and I was able to rename them but when I tried to do the same with my Crab Spider, my Controllers, my Tanker.. I wasn't allowed to do so.
Its because MMs are coded to be able to rename their minions while other AT, like controllers, can't rename or control their's. Personally I think the whole things a little silly... Okay I can buy the MM can control where their pets go and what they do while my controller can't but what does that have to do with giving my Phantom Army or Singularity a name.
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NO I hate to bust your bubble but the only AT that can rename their Lore pets, and probably the reason you think otherwise since you have 7 MMS, are Masterminds. Any other AT doesn't get that option. And before the rant starts I too have MMS that now have Lore pets and I was able to rename them but when I tried to do the same with my Crab Spider, my Controllers, my Tanker.. I wasn't allowed to do so.
Its because MMs are coded to be able to rename their minions while other AT, like controllers, can rename or control their's. Personally I think the whole things a little silly... Okay I can buy the MM can control where their pets go and what they do while my controller can't but what does that have to do with giving my Phantom Army or Singularity a name. |
I want to be able to name my Patron pets and my non-MM's Lore pets, too. Seems silly that we can't.
@Brightfires - @Talisander
That chick what plays the bird-things...
NO I hate to bust your bubble but the only AT that can rename their Lore pets, and probably the reason you think otherwise since you have 7 MMS, are Masterminds. Any other AT doesn't get that option. And before the rant starts I too have MMS that now have Lore pets and I was able to rename them but when I tried to do the same with my Crab Spider, my Controllers, my Tanker.. I wasn't allowed to do so.
Its because MMs are coded to be able to rename their minions while other AT, like controllers, can rename or control their's. Personally I think the whole things a little silly... Okay I can buy the MM can control where their pets go and what they do while my controller can't but what does that have to do with giving my Phantom Army or Singularity a name. |
The coding is on the pet itself not the Archetype. This is why MMs can't name their Dark Servants, Force Field Generators, or Seeker Drones. No one else can name them either so MMs don't even get to do it. The only pets MMs can name are the ones specific to them not pets other Archetypes have access to. Pets like the Dark Servant don't even obey the same commands as a normal MM pet. My MM Dark Servant still works in exactly the same way as the one on my Defender.
That being said Lore Pets work exactly the same way for every Archetype. The UI window that pops up when you summon them is exactly the same UI that Masterminds have been using for 6 years. It even has the Mastermind pet commands on the UI window like a normal Mastermind has. If you right click on a lore pet just like you can do with a Mastermind pet you get all the same command functions. Attack, follow, stay, ect. it's all there as well as the rename option.
I've even tested the MM commands on my Defender and they all work. When I first got my IDF I left Pocket D to sell Enhancements and went to the Magic store in Talos to do this. Before logging off because someone told me that day that Lore pets work the same way as MM pets so I stood outside the magic store, found a target, and hit the attack command to which he responded and ran off without me to attack some freaks across the street. When he came back, that's when I looked to see if I could rename him and stared at the rename window for a couple minutes trying to think of something to call him. I eventually hit the cancel button on the rename window and logged off.
Now if only Masterminds can do this, how did I do all that with a Defender? Maybe it was changed at some point I don't know I just thought it had always been that way because that was my first experience with having a lore pet.
Word.
I want to be able to name my Patron pets and my non-MM's Lore pets, too. Seems silly that we can't. |
I'll post some screen shots of the Lore Pet on my Arachnos Soldier on Friday just to prove a point. :P
Just thought I should note, the only thing I can't get the Lore pets to do is use Emotes but even my Masterminds can't get them to emote so it's nothing to do with the Archetype. I've actually got a few MM pets emotes on key binds for some character but the Lore pets won't respond to them.
Patron pets don't use the same interface as MM pets so you won't be able to name them. Non-MM Lore Pets do use the same interface though so you can name them.
I'll post some screen shots of the Lore Pet on my Arachnos Soldier on Friday just to prove a point. :P |
Please don't assume I'm ignorant of the way the game currently works simply because I mentioned wishing it was otherwise. That's annoying. <_<
@Brightfires - @Talisander
That chick what plays the bird-things...
Little warning and clarification now, I'm going to mention Masterminds allot in here because I have 7 of them but this is mainly about the Lore Pets which everyone has access to which is why I'm not posting this in the Mastermind section.
I'm bringing up Masterminds because I'd like some help keeping my Lore Pets to my existing themes but everyone can use this topic for pet name suggestions of their Lore Pets, not just Masterminds.
Now with that out of the way I'm going to go into my characters starting with a Defender. (I'll save the MMs for later, trying really hard not to get replies going OMG this should be in the Mastermind section.)
I got IDF for my Defender of course, his name is Lord Imperial (Imperial Defense Force) and no I didn't name him after the group if anything the group was named after me. Lord Imperial is 7 years old and ironically he hit level 50 after defeating Tyrant in November 2004. (I remember this because it's such an epic way to hit 50 and he's my first.) Anyway... No idea what to name the pets.
Lord Vestereo who is basically an evil version of Lord Imperial is a zombie MM and he's had this theme of naming all his pets after Magicians (Not all of which are actually dead but they're from an alternate universe where Magic is real so they don't have to be dead. Lord Vestereo murdered them all.) I already got suggestions in game for David Blaine and Christ Angel but given the relationship with Lord Imperial should I keep the theme going with the IDF names? (Lord Vestereo has Phantoms BTW, obviously, they blend nicely with the zombies.)
My robot MM is easy to figure out they're just numbers so moving on I have Admiral Shark. A soldier MM with two themes in place here. Well first off I've decided on the Polar Lights for his Lore Pets. Nothing else fits and he's got a few ice powers so I figured why not. Anyway all his other pets are Navy Rank followed by name of a Shark Species that sounds like an entirely different animal. It's kind of a trick to see if anyone would actually notice they were all sharks. Captain Whale, Commander Tiger, Lt. Bat, Ensign Dog, Cadet Bull, and Dr. Leopard. I actually spent an entire day researching Shark Species on the internet to find these names. Whale Shark, Tiger Shark, Bat Ray Shark, Dog Shark, Bull Shark, and Leopard Shark. (Yes they're all real names for different species of sharks.) So what names could I use for the Polar Lights that would be in keeping to the same theme?
I'll skip my Ninja MM, I started to type something out and thought of name while I was typing so I deleted the whole thing. So next up is Cameron the Lovely with her Thugs and Carnival. The Thugs as well as her own name were the first name of an actor or character from the movie "The Mask" Though Cameron the Lovely is a red head and not a blond like Cameron Diaz. I wasn't trying to copy the people or characters, it was just a good source to get names from. Cameron's personality is more of "Catwoman" type character, you know a bad girl who has a huge crush on the hero who's constantly putting her behind bars. In this case that hero is Lord Imperial. Though I'd say their relationship is more along the lines of Beast Wars Silverbolt and Blackarachnia if you get that reference. Anyway the first name is always followed by "The" and a one word description of the character. I kinda took this idea from all the Brokers names, in fact I think I had it in Cameron's description that she's dated all her Brokers at some point in time. Anyway her pets are Dorian the Strong (Bruiser) Peter the Dumb and Johnny the Wise (Enforcers named after the actors who played the cops in "The Mask" but I wrote these guys as being brothers.) Charlie the Cool, Ben the Bad, and Jim the Heat. (Jim obviously being my Arsonist named after Jim Carrey which has nothing to do with the actor or his character in the movie other than his first name which is also my middle name in real life BTW.) So what could I name the Carnie Lore Pets? Maybe Peggy the Clown and ??? I haven't looked do I get a Strongman with Carnies or just the female characters who dominate the group? Not sure what do in either case, I can't think of another lead female character to use for a name and can't think of a new describing word for a Strongman sense I already used Strong for my Bruiser.
Next up is Tsul and I'm sure someone else needs suggestions for this one besides be because I named her Tsul after I realized someone took Lust already. Of course this is my Demon MM so Pride, Greed, Gluttony, Wrath, Sloth, and Envy are my pets. All spelled backwards and even took it a step further sense I had to go with Tsul instead of Lust so all my pet binds have them speaking out the command I'm giving them but they say it backwards. I think the little Rularuu minions look more like demons than Aliens and nothing else fit so I'm getting that for her Lore pets. Now with the 7 deadly sins for her theme what am I going to do for 2 more names? Suddenly there needs to be 9 deadly sins just so I have something else to name them. I should note that I'm not a religious person and actually took the names from Full Metal Alchemist. Because they're the 7 deadly sins non of it is trade marked but on the original series a woman named Dante created them and in the Brotherhood series it was Father who created them. If you're not a fan of the series you'll have no idea what I'm talking about but unfortunately their names are trade marked, or at least Dante's is. Father's name is just "Father" but sense I'm spelling them backwards anyway I don't see any harm in naming one of my pets Etnad. Unless anyone has any better ideas.
So now we move onto my Dual Blade and Dual Pistols characters.
Brute and Blaster will be using Longbow
Tanker and Mastermind will be using Seers
Stalker and Defender will be using Vanguard
Scrapper and Corrupter will be using Cimerorans
I'm not really going to go into why I choose these 4 for them because it's all really complicated, (even more so than the previously mentioned characters) and it'll just save time if I don't go into details as I'll have to individually explain each of the 8 characters. I'm lumping them all together for the similar naming theme. As it is my Mastermind in this group of 8 has all his pets with a variation of the same name. Roberto, Robbert, Robbie, Rob, Bobby, and Bob. I especially wanted to have him with Seers just to name one of them Kate. (Blackadder reference if you get it.) But what do I do with the rest of the Lore Pet names for all the other characters keeping into this same theme? I don't think there's that many variations of the name Bob but let me know if you come up with anything I haven't thought of.
I have two other characters with Lore pets as well but they're Arachnos and they got Patron pets as well that can't be named so why bother with it? And I mean the character itself is a Soldier of Arachnos with Arachnos Patron pets and Arachnos Lore pets so the theme would seem to be not to name them. But if you want to suggest names anyway one's a time traveler and the other is a experiment with DNA manipulation to create a super soldier. Go nuts.
Anyway... if you post your own character themes in here I'll try to come up with names for you that fit your theme.