The Bear goes on a spiritual journey and asks you to Name That Pet!
Posted by bigbearbutt in Hunter, Recap, Special EventsI have been doing a teeny little bit of looking for a certain something-something, and I just happened to get lucky tonight.
Say hello to my leetle frien’.
Wait, what did you think I was talking about?
Never mind, I don’t think I want to know.
That’s right, I now have a wonderfully pretty purple ghost tiger Spirit Beast, and he’s very pretty. I don’t know why, but he is a he. Roll with it.
All I did was visit that marvelous website Petopia, hit her recently added pets page, move on down to that gorgeous image of Gondria the Spirit Beast that was added in the latest patch, and checked out the particulars.
Petopia told me that I could find these beauties in Zul’drak, that they were tameable, and that my normal kitty chow would do just fine.
Moving on to Wowhead’s entry on Gondria, I learned that there were 5 spawn locations Gondria was known to frequent, I found a nice /target macro Nuker had created to help search for Gondria, and Cassie (God bless her) read further and told me that Gondria is a Neutral Beast. That last bit turned out to be important.
First thing I did was add waypoints in my Cartographer map for the five points (63.4, 42.5) (69.4, 48.7) (62, 62) (66.4, 78.4) (77, 70).
I then added the macro that Nuker wrote, which he displayed as follows;
/tar Gondria
/stopmacro [noexists]
/w [Your Name Here] You’ve FOUND >%t<
I of course modified it so it said;
/tar Gondria
/stopmacro [noexists]
/w Windstar You’ve FOUND >%t<
Now, I spent a bit of time cruising around those points looking for him, spamming the macro. No luck.
Then, after a little Obsidian Sanctum run, Cassie came downstairs for a neck rub, and told me about the Spirit Beast being Neutral instead of Hostile.
The importance of this turns out to be that all of the other beasts in the area ARE Hostile… and Hostile beasts are Red dots on your minimap when you have Track Beasts on. Neutral ones are Yellow/Gold.
So, if I turn my Track Beasts on as I cruise my route of 5 marks, Gondria should stand out as a nice pretty gold amidst the red. Neat, huh?
I said that sounded like a great idea… I logged in, put it on, and was chatting to Cassie when she said “What’s that there?”
“What’s what where who huh?”
I looked at the screen. That there was a gold dot amidst the red, sure enough. I hovered my mouse over the dot on the minimap, and the name Gondria stood out bold as brass.
I had logged out over one of the spawn points, 66.4, 78.4 to be exact, because it seemed one of the two with the most critters, and to my mind meant one of the two most likely to see a kitty spawn. Lo and behold the beastie was right there under my flying feet. If it wasn’t for Cassie, I never would have logged in, in the first place, let alone noticed the little gold dot.
A few hand shaking moments later, a dismissed gorilla (bah bye, sucka!) and I had myself a beautiful purple glowy kitty.
With the joy this brings, as you can see from the picture, I’ve still got a problem.
A kitty that pretty needs a damn fine name.
That’s where I hope you can help me out, because I used up the last of my imagination when I came up with Moonclaw for my Ghost Saber when he was only level 20.
This kitty deserves a powerful name, resonating with majesty and soul.
I sure hope you’ve got a few suggestions for me!
let’s see..
CHEVEYO: Hopi name meaning “spirit warrior.”
NAPAYSHNI: Sioux name meaning “strong, courageous.”
Agostino is Italian for Majestic
Oh and grats!! (I knew when you said you had a blog post I’d see this…lol
I rather like the name Riagan, which I’m told is Celtic (or something like that) for “impulsive.”
Whisper
Smokey or Smoke
Phantom or Fantom
Orion – the hunter’s star.
And he is spectacular.
omg GZ on your spirit beast. As for a name, why not look at the comments when we were naming the other kitty :-)
Grats Wind – hope that this doesn’t mean that I won’t see you still popping up in the morning before work? Anyway, hope you do well finding a suitable name for her.
Had the same experience, just cruising around when i see the little gold dot of tremblinghandsandheart. For mine, and given this is the pet I want to take into Ulduar and Icecrown with me (for my BM spec), I went with DawnsLight.
whats wrong with “Bob”
Name it AirmanHowell, a tribute to one of the greatest hunter ever.
A borrowing of the name of the plant artemisia. The name is derived from Artemis, the name of the mythological goddess of the moon and hunting.
Your pets name should be…. Artemesia! <3 But good luck if you don’t love the name as much as I do. :)
how do you feel about this one? means tiger, arperilsilmar
(i am new here, but i like it)
AKEMI 明美 (f) Japanese
From Japanese 明 (ake) “bright” and 美 (mi) “beautiful”.
Anyway, grats. She’s a real beauty. Unlike Loque’nahak who seems to be throwing up blue goo.
But that may just be me :p
Hey BBB, congratulations! That would have been a tough slog. I’m not too sure if it will fit the name length, but how about Synesthesia? It’s a genetic quirk which some people have that allows them to see/hear things in response to non visual/audible stimuli (ie seeing sounds as colours, hearing sounds in response to visual flicker). I thought it would be appropriate given the dual nature of the Spirit Beast which I’ve always seen as a sort of whirlwind combination of light, sound and pointy bits.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synesthesia
http://web.mit.edu/synesthesia/www/
Well, let’s see. I named my Spirit Beast (Loque) Sidhe, how about Oberon? The Shakespearean King of the Elves?
I like Hori. Pick that.
Unless you want something spirity…
like… Phata… or Spectrin… or Whispen…. Etherean… or Skeletor…. or He-Man…. or oops, not that… err
You could have something ‘nice’… like Flurry… or Starlight… or Moonlight…
or something scary… like GENOCIDE… Anthrax… or Reaper… or Nightbane… or Death Knig… oh wait…
Perhaps you should name him after a famous troll considering you nabbed him from Zul’Drak…. how aboooooout…. Sen’Jin or… hmm… that’s me done, I’m about as lore-cannon as the Blizzcon Bear.
Good luck, though!
Larry?
/got nuthin’
//used up my mojo on Cassie’s kitty
///slashies
Argh…
I’m still debating between Loque and Gondria on my baby hunter… (When he grows up of course)
Yay!!!
I spent 2 days, on and off, searching for Gondria. I was told to look in the areas where the Iceclaw Bears would be. Close to the Grizzly Hills side, at 77,22 Gondria spawned! I named the beast Smoke. I had already chosen the name before hand.
I offered up this suggestion for cassie’s.
Molarri – name of one of the ambassadors on babylon 5, who wears a lot of royal purple.
Bruce.
Kattrinsaa, as much as I liked Mollari and G’kar in Babylon 5, if I were to name a kitty after a character from that show, it would be MarcusCole.
Which I’m thinking about, now that you’ve got me thinking about Babylon 5 again.
Thank you all for your suggestions so far, I love ‘em!
Call him ‘Friday’.
HE should be named Princess.
Just because.
or Floyd, wtb more pink (purple) pets named Floyd.
Big Purple People Eater?
Buddha’s Claws?
Death Cat?
Purrmeister?
Have fun with Fuzzy….
Gratz he’s a beauty. I’d call him Hymalaya. Actually if and when I get him I probably will.
How about Zephyr?
Sekhmet, google it.
Jim.
You should name it Jim.
Or Phil.
Something simple. No one will see it coming.
Violetnova? Or Nebulos! I dunno, he’s pretty but looks celestial like a nova or galaxy or something. Plus something like that’d go with your name ^_^ Anywho, grats on the catch and hope you find that perfect name.
Aha… or you could express your inner druid and call him moonfire xD
Congrats, and I’m trying hard to contain my envy. ;)
BTW, he’s most definitely a he, since he’s the mate of a certain spectral feline in Zul’Drak. :)
Oops…never mind second sentence in previous comment. Next time, I’ll try reading for comprehension. ;) Congrats again! :D
May I suggest “Kosh” as another good Babylon 5 name.
I also like “Chomolungma,” one of the local names for Mount Everest. But then, I’m weird like that.
Call it Rumor.
I like Asara’s suggestion, Oberon- or Auberon, even, for the sound of it.
I tried to find a suitable synonym for purple, but no dice.
Other thoughts:
Sovereign
Thane
What about…
Gondorrhea?
Call it Ninja. Seriously idk. How about BRK.
Kaidan (怪談) (sometimes transliterated kwaidan) is a Japanese word consisting of two kanji: 怪 (kai) meaning “strange, mysterious, rare or bewitching apparition” and 談 (dan) meaning “talk” or “recited narrative.” In its broadest sense, kaidan refers to any ghost or horror story, but it has an old-fashioned ring to it that carries the connotation of Edo period Japanese folktales.
Maybe just Kai…..
Ghost in Italian is roughly Fantasma…maybe Fantasmacat!
Kemuri is ‘smoke’ in Japanese.
Maneki Neko is that little waving cat figure. Neko is ‘cat’.
Purple, majestic, pretty, aned soulful? Gotta be “Prince” (“Tafcap” would be too obscure)
Okay folks, great suggestions… in the end, I went with Jez’s suggestion of Moonlight, at least for right now. It’s really a nice name, and I thought it jelled.
The longer I think about it, the more Mollari grows on me too. Kemuri also kicks butt.
Grrr, too many good suggestions. Good thing it’s possible to rename your pet! We’ll see how Moonlight goes for now.
Thank you!
Yay!
What’d'I win?!
If my hunter ever nabs the great purple one.. he will be known as Mollari maybe even EmperorMollari.. lol
Wow all the love for Bab5…cool
Gots to say I like Kosh too.
I would have gone with Green.
For the ultraobscure B5 reference, of course.
green for a purple beast??
Name him Ash’alah. That is the name of Tyrande Whisperwind’s tiger mount.
I’ve had one of the Ghost Sabers for a long time because I dig the transparent nature of the cat. http://petopia.brashendeavors.net/html/mobs/mob_ghostsaber.html
Took me a while to find a name I liked for it, but I finally settled on Lucent, short for translucent since, well, he is. Seems to work pretty well.
I shall be looking for this spirit beast now to replace my loyal buddy, both in pet slot and name.
@Tagrath – Very nice. :)
Along the B5 lines there is always “Morden”, or my favorite bumbling fool: “Zathras”.
Maybe better suited to your Ghost Saber ; “Apparitiones”