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Re: Proposal: Better Background Names
NessOnett wrote:If you're gonna standardize the naming scheme for those 4, why are the zealots not also similarly standardized? Why do they actually get life in their name. Without a description, "Death Knight" could apply to like 5 different Gods. Or doesn't even need to be God related, there's plenty of games where a 'Death Knight' prays to no God, and without seeing it in the zealot subcategory you'd have no idea. But it still gets to be a Death Knight, because Death Knight sounds right and makes sense with what it does, but the name alone doesn't tell you what it does. That's why there's a description of the backgrounds when you highlight them, because the name isn't supposed to be a perfect representation of the class.
I'd rename Yred to Death before I'd rename Death Knight Yred Zealot. Nobody knows what Yred means without playing or reading a while. Death Zealot is pretty good, though.
That's actually a pretty good idea worthy of another thread, renaming each god to a central virtue or theme. We'd be hard pressed to keep the distinguishing starting letters, and it's nice that a deity can exist as it is without a theme. And I've enjoyed the names, but clarity is better than flavor.