pets or companions?

spiorad

Seen different references to companions as "pets"? even in game, the buff description of a companion describes buff as "depends on quality of your summoned pet"
so do they mean pet or companion?
do pets have any purpose?

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tribbulater

Some loose terminology in NW, you'll see a lot of things that were implemented one way by one team and a different way 2 years later by another.

In most fantasy games a combat companion is called a 'pet' because they were generally creatures. Having humanoids/sapients be your combat companion is a more recent addition.

Depending what team was adding which companions, some of them are clearly 'pets' (dogs cats pigs etc) and some are companions (wizards tanks warriors). So it does actually make some sense to use both words, and in most cases they are synonyms.

spiorad

tribbulater said:

Some loose terminology in NW, you'll see a lot of things that were implemented one way by one team and a different way 2 years later by another.

In most fantasy games a combat companion is called a 'pet' because they were generally creatures. Having humanoids/sapients be your combat companion is a more recent addition.

Depending what team was adding which companions, some of them are clearly 'pets' (dogs cats pigs etc) and some are companions (wizards tanks warriors). So it does actually make some sense to use both words, and in most cases they are synonyms.

thanks, makes sense, so i assume from answers that vanity pets have no actual function

tribbulater

Yep. In pretty much all MMOs, a 'vanity pet' (or any vanity item) is just a cosmetic/amusement effect with no actual game function. They follow you around, hop up and down whatever but don't actually do anything or attract aggro.

bpstuart

for Neverwinter online "Companion" refers to anything that will heal you or engage in combat on your behalf, even if it is a monster or beast. Both the Apprentice healer, and the Dog you can get from Knox's quest are Companions.

a "Pet" does not do those things even if they are objects, Like the little red D20 you can win from "Day of the dungeon master" that gives you nothing but a silly dice that follows you.

jantogsf

spiorad#4889 said:

Seen different references to companions as "pets"? even in game, the buff description of a companion describes buff as "depends on quality of your summoned pet"
so do they mean pet or companion?
do pets have any purpose?

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acrylia66

I have a question, can you only have 1 pet/companion out or can you have more than 1?

jimmypdt

Only 1 pet/companion summoned at a time. @acrylia66

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