Beastmaster pets are super fragile?

[Fluffykeith]

Something is wrong with their numbers.
If you spec direct into Beastmaster, you get the pet summon at lvl 3, and with the exception of the bear, they all have roughly 10 or so hp.
By that point your party members have three times that much, each. Meaning your spider or whatever can be one shotted by a middling damage roll from an archer, and you can’t get them back until you Short Rest.

And looking at how they scale, they seem doomed to be tissue paper in comparison, and other than basic buff spells requiring Concentration there doesn’t seem much you can do about that

It’s just bizarre.

[butbka]

Nothing bizzare here. That's just one of the reasons why Beastmaster is junk.

[BigJ]

Beastmaster in BG3 is meh
Which is leagues ahead of current 5e, but you can't really make something that is among the worst archeotypes (as fun as it is) and make it good without breaking many eggs.

[Moonbane]

Play a moon druid instead if you want to play with animals.

[id795078477]

It's a classic "noob trap". Some stuff is only worth doing if you want to artificially create challenge for yourself or you have that fantasy itch for that particular play-style so much that you're willing to endure.

It should probably be expected that with multi-classing and quite a few base classes that the game has some options will be bad. Though that highlights the issue - nothing is perfect and so isn't this game.

If I recall there was a mod that improves beasts so you might try looking for that on nexus.

[Pan Darius Cassandra]

Aid.

[Fluffykeith]

Originally posted by Pan Darius Loveless:

Aid.

The problem with Aid is that Rangers don't get it. So I'd need to spec into another class, to get it, and that impacts how far I can spec into Beastmaster...which NEEDS a lot of focus because of the way pets scale. Otherwise I'd be expecting one of my other characters to use Aid to buff the pet.
None of which really solves the problem that the pets start with terribly low HP