Companion Mythic Powers - How does Impossible Domain: Animal Companion work?

[Body of Eggs]

It says that the animal's overall level will scale to -3 of the Druid level that acquired this feat. My animal companion for Sosiel is stuck at level 2 on a test-run. I'm confused here - I tested with Artificer Domain and Aura of Efficiency gave me exactly 17 rounds, which is equal to my overall cleric caster level. Tested with several other domains and they scale with CL as well, so what gives?

What factors into Animal Domain's scaling? Are there any other domains that aren't properly scaling with CL?

Apologies if this was answered before. Thanks in advance.

[kodama]

I think it's currently bugged: if you take Animal Domain immediately after Sosiel joins, his animal companion will indeed get stuck at level 2, but first time when Sosiel will level up, his animal companion will catch up to level 7 too even if you don't pick Boon Companion feat (which normally you would have to do to cover that -3 levels penalty)

[Body of Eggs]

Originally posted by kodama:

I think it's currently bugged: if you take Animal Domain immediately after Sosiel joins, his animal companion will indeed get stuck at level 2, but first time when Sosiel will level up, his animal companion will catch up to level 7 too even if you don't pick Boon Companion feat (which normally you would have to do to cover that -3 levels penalty)

That's unfortunate. I'm doing this at level 17 just to test if it works and it's stuck at lvl 2. Kind of wish I picked it immediately if I knew ahead of time this bug, as I wanted an extra body against bosses.

[kodama]

Oh, and to answer your question about pet scaling:

Some classes/archetypes get pets at lvl 1 (some Druid archetypes if you pick Bond instead of domain, some Hunter archetypes, Inquisitor Sacred Huntsmaster, Barbarian Mad Dog, Magus Arcane Rider, Wildland Shaman, Sylvan Sorc etc.).

Nature Oracle has to pick Mystery and then will get a pet on his own level, Shamans with Nature Spirit will get companion late in game but on their level too.

Rangers and Classes that get pets via domain OTOH will get lvl 1 pet when they hit lvl 4 (this is that "-3 of the Druid level penalty") and need to take Boon Companion to cover level gap (it covers up to 4 levels difference and can be also used to cover gaps created by multiclassing into class without a pet).

[kodama]

Originally posted by Mass:

Originally posted by kodama:

I think it's currently bugged: if you take Animal Domain immediately after Sosiel joins, his animal companion will indeed get stuck at level 2, but first time when Sosiel will level up, his animal companion will catch up to level 7 too even if you don't pick Boon Companion feat (which normally you would have to do to cover that -3 levels penalty)

That's unfortunate. I'm doing this at level 17 just to test if it works and it's stuck at lvl 2. Kind of wish I picked it immediately if I knew ahead of time this bug, as I wanted an extra body against bosses.

Yeah, that sux - his pet won't level up before lvl 18 with how it "works" right now.

[Choco]

Originally posted by Mass:

Originally posted by kodama:

I think it's currently bugged: if you take Animal Domain immediately after Sosiel joins, his animal companion will indeed get stuck at level 2, but first time when Sosiel will level up, his animal companion will catch up to level 7 too even if you don't pick Boon Companion feat (which normally you would have to do to cover that -3 levels penalty)

That's unfortunate. I'm doing this at level 17 just to test if it works and it's stuck at lvl 2. Kind of wish I picked it immediately if I knew ahead of time this bug, as I wanted an extra body against bosses.

Don't worry, if you're level 17 you should be in act 4 or 5 right now and xp is plenty there so you should level up in no time.

[kodama]

Or you could respec him if changing difficulty is an option (ie you don't go for any related achievements this time)?

[Body of Eggs]

Originally posted by Shuranosuke:

Originally posted by Mass:

That's unfortunate. I'm doing this at level 17 just to test if it works and it's stuck at lvl 2. Kind of wish I picked it immediately if I knew ahead of time this bug, as I wanted an extra body against bosses.

Don't worry, if you're level 17 you should be in act 4 or 5 right now and xp is plenty there so you should level up in no time.

Yeah, I'm just playing around with domains. Not entirely sure if a few of them are working properly like Animal through Impossible Domain Mythic Power. Or Strength Surge either. Sort of just bug testing what's the most optimal domain for a support Sosiel, as I already have Community Domain for Guarded Hearth.

[Body of Eggs]

Originally posted by kodama:

Or you could respec him if changing difficulty is an option (ie you don't go for any related achievements this time)?

Playing for achievement which was why I'm being so pedantic about getting good mythic power / feats.

On that note, if I am Cleric level 20, would my effective CL strengthen my 9th level spells that specifically scale with "caster level"? Stupid question, but I'm weighing whether or not to dip slightly.