Beast Master Animal Companion?

[Tophesaurus]

So I am not sure if this is a user error or if the AI and pathing is just super terrible,

So I have been in about 6ish battles since lvl 3 when I got my wolf. The wolf has been in 2 as its either gotten stuck on stairs (that it has to jump over) yet it can climb a ladder? OR it can't walk through a door the rest of the party goes through, the door is big enough for it to fit through, it's gone through smaller. OR it gets dismissed somehow when entering a new area and I didn't notice because I didn't realize it happened...that one is my bad but yeah...
Any advice would be helpful. I picked this because I love pet classes and very few games have them anymore, but right now, it feels like I don't even have one.

[ARFett]

Also started a Ranger.

Animal companions are totally bad.

Getting stuck on the other end of the map.

NO kind of advancement of level up.

So they just stay one hit idiotic clumps on the battlefield.

I bloody hate 5th edition.

It is so dumbed down it hurts.

And the animal comps are worth nothing.

Getting stuck on the other half of the world map, no level increase in power of the animal comps.

Just a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ waste.

That makes beastmaster just a bad class.

Ignore Rangers and just go for fighter.

Ranger are my worst experience here in the game.

And 5th edition seems to have ripped out the animal comps power.

Or better said:

Larian - give me animal comps that GROW and not this one-shot dead mess of animal comps!

[ArcaediusX]

Beast Companion directly ties to Ranger levels. Of their summons, the Bear and the Raven are the most useful.

While yes, summons in general were nerfed into the ground in 5e because WOTC got tired of summoners creating armies and disrupting balance, Larian did a decent job homebrewing the Beastmaster.

At 5th level your companions will gain more HP but more importantly they will add your Proficiency bonus to their Ac and their attack rolls making them more effective in combat. They also get new abilities in combat.

At 8th, they get more HP.

At 11th they get more HP once more, and new forms again. The Bear and Wolf also gain extra attack.

The problem most people have, like the person before me, is this makes Beastmaster really bad for multiclassing, which almost everyone wants to do with everything. You sacrifice your companions progression to do so, so they automatically deem that "it is absolutely terrible and the worst".

As for AI pathing - it's janky with non-animals sometimes, not just the companions.

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