"Friend to Animals"-buff. Where does it come from?

[Baldie]

I've noticed that sometimes my animal companions has a MASSIVE bonus to their saving throws called "Friend to Animals". Right now, at lvl 17, it's a whooping +9 sacred bonus, but I'm fairly sure that earlier it was 8. Maybe it's ½ my lvl rounded up? I don't know.

Anyways, what I want to know is where does it come from??? 'cause it seems like it kinda comes and goes at random. My best theory so far is that it's active when I haven't lost a companion for X ammount of time (I mean, it's pretty friendly of me not to have them killed ;), but that is nothing but a very vague theory atm. Anyone actually knows where the buff comes from?

[GunStarX]

If you have an oracle with nature mystery it's the revelation for all the animal summoning spells, it gives you the bonus from cha to all animals within 30 feet. It says it on the last sentence of the revelation, which is a lot more valuable than the summoning spells imo.

[Balekai]

Originally posted by GunStarX:

If you have an oracle with nature mystery it's the revelation for all the animal summoning spells, it gives you the bonus from cha to all animals within 30 feet. It says it on the last sentence of the revelation, which is a lot more valuable than the summoning spells imo.

It is. Although it does buff and synergize with said spells, its more useful for buffing front line pets. Especially their low will saves.

I was hoping that I could buff the Oracle with the same buff by turning their race type into Animal with the final nature revelation. It didn't work. :/

[Baldie]

Originally posted by GunStarX:

If you have an oracle with nature mystery it's the revelation for all the animal summoning spells, it gives you the bonus from cha to all animals within 30 feet. It says it on the last sentence of the revelation, which is a lot more valuable than the summoning spells imo.

Ah, that explains why it seems to "turn on and off at random". It's simply just my animal companions walking in and out of range. Thanks! It's been bugging me for ages that I couldn't understand where the heck that buff came from :)

[john_boy]

Also slightly bugged too. If your nature oracle has an adjustment to charisma applied (so going from 18 to 20 via a headband), the bonus doesn't show up until you area transition or save/reload.

For a paladin the bonus is instantly applied

[mudakonn]

Originally posted by john_boy:

Also slightly bugged too. If your nature oracle has an adjustment to charisma applied (so going from 18 to 20 via a headband), the bonus doesn't show up until you area transition or save/reload.

For a paladin the bonus is instantly applied

This bug is so annoying - after last patch by the way this ability is visualized as any other aura and yes sometimes you only hear a proc noise and see no aura - broken.

I remember just quitting the game when it came out because nothing seemed to work under Nature Mystery back then. Year later and one of the mysteries is still bugged