Enemy naming

[Karah]

Ok this has been getting on my nerves for literally years. Never bothered posting on here cause it just turns into nonsense incredibly fast, but here goes anyway.

So very very tired of not being able to tell which pet belongs to which mobs.

Major case in point is when 2 Summoner classes are next to each other, this happens QUITE often in dynamis zones.

So scenario, 2 summoners with the same avatars aggro you.

Case 1 > you kill an avatar and proceed to kill its master, but the master astral flows and kills you because the avatar behind him which you thought was his, is the other ones.

Case 2 > you kill both avatars and begin killing the masters, but the second resummons the avatar while you're killing the first and instantly astral flows.

Now I realize you can sleep pets, you can stun pets and all that. This isn't a case of you need to 2box to win, or stop soloing whine fest.

It's a simple request of being able to tell which pet belongs to which freakin master. If there's ever a group of summoners you have -no !@#$%^&*( clue which mob is which-

Can we -please- get some method of distinguishing enemies apart for monster generating enemies such as DRG/SMN/BST/PUP?

(minor edit with an actual proposal for the fix!)

The way to fix this that actually makes sense, just occurred to me after I finished typing... one of the other FF titles I forget which (please forgive me) showed lines (from you to what you were attacking) 12 I believe.

But the design seems like it would work nicely, like "leashes" or "tethers" a master's pet would have a small line connected to them so they can be distinguished. Anyone else think it would be nice to be able to tell them apart?

Kindness for the time spent reading. Thank you.

[Asymptotic]

Pet Tethers was a visual option thrown out, but another possible (and potentially less intensive) solution would be a /targetleader (name pending) command. You can /assist an enemy to find out who it's targetting if it's otherwise not apparent (this does have strategic implications, Proto-Ultima says hi), so the framework potentially already exists to implement a command which will change your target to your slept avatar's auto-assist. I suppose it depends on whether or not a specific pet's "master" is easily accessible to the targetting system.

I don't know if it's worth their time, but it does have current applications, has the potential for future strategic applications (content dependent).