No clue. I did bring it up immediately in TDS beta that the contravention broke tradition and didn't use the same name as the intervention - but the interventions have never matched the "light" spell either; it's always been different.
That's a great observation. The spell dev could have made things easier on himself and us if he had matched the names of our heals and just used a different adjective instead of trying to match the naming pattern he used when he first created the spell. Then he'd only need to come up with new adjectives every expansion instead of increasingly obscure synonyms for "recovery": Current: Spiritual Remedy Word of Convalescence Ardent Light Ardent Elixir Mystical Intervention Promised Rehabilitation Syllable of Convalescence Ardent Acquittal Convalescent Splash Fervid Renewal Ardent Contravention Word of Greater Reformation (he finally ran out of "recovery" synonyms and just added "greater" to the synonym used in the previous expansion) Revised: Ardent Remedy Ardent Surge of Health (or some other new word besides "Surge" to describe our non-curing group heal) Ardent Light Ardent Elixir Ardent Intervention Ardent Promise Ardent Syllable of Health Ardent Acquittal Ardent Splash Ardent Renewal Ardent Contravention Ardent Word of Health It might seem more boring, but since clerics usually use a combination of old and current expansion heals, it'd make it a lot easier to tell them apart (my "Ardent" set of heals for this expansion, my "Reverent" set from last expansion, instead of a bunch of random names no one remembers). And he could have used "Mystical" for a whole set of spells next expansion instead of just 1!
I don't know how long it takes the devs to come up with names for spells, but taken across all classes it has to be a non-trivial amount of time that a more simplified process like above would help alleviate. Even if it only saved them a very small amount of time, I'm sure there is something else that that freed up time could go towards, easily.
I guess you didn't see Aristo's progress on naming spells during the TDS beta? That took over a week, afair. A spell that's just another 10% upgrade isn't special, it doesn't need yet another synonym or alliterative name that's going to mentally be replaced by me thinking "105 quick heal". I'd rather seen numbers or the EQ aza, beza style rank sequence used with the best name of the spell series.
Ditto. Yaulp XIII works for everyone, Healing Light XIII can too. If they were feeling super wild they could break out their voting apparatus and let the classes pick their own favorite of each line's historical name
