beast master? taming?

[Purromi]

There's Taming in this game? or the beast master class is mostly useless with no animals around? can we have animal campanion?

[Teirdalin]

From what I understand, yeah there's no animal taming. Beastmaster class is just to taunt the player with the idea of it.

[Yogogo]

yep its useless

[Stump]

It seems like its more fluid than having *a* pet. With both of the beast nodes learned, you gain the ability to interact with wild animals and have them "Start Guarding" which seems to loosely tether them to you, They will follow you around, albeit slightly delayed. and then, per the skill, if something attacks you, they will attack it back.

The way it works too is half decent for group play, as rather than making animals friendly to you, the skill is worded in a way that makes it universally useful. When you are around, all animals near you are pacified/helpful, depending on the points invested.

[Tenoshii]

Originally posted by Stump:

It seems like its more fluid than having *a* pet. With both of the beast nodes learned, you gain the ability to interact with wild animals and have them "Start Guarding" which seems to loosely tether them to you, They will follow you around, albeit slightly delayed. and then, per the skill, if something attacks you, they will attack it back.

The way it works too is half decent for group play, as rather than making animals friendly to you, the skill is worded in a way that makes it universally useful. When you are around, all animals near you are pacified/helpful, depending on the points invested.

Very interesting. When they kill enemies do you still get full experience as if you killed them?

[Stump]

Originally posted by Tenoshii:

Originally posted by Stump:

It seems like its more fluid than having *a* pet. With both of the beast nodes learned, you gain the ability to interact with wild animals and have them "Start Guarding" which seems to loosely tether them to you, They will follow you around, albeit slightly delayed. and then, per the skill, if something attacks you, they will attack it back.

The way it works too is half decent for group play, as rather than making animals friendly to you, the skill is worded in a way that makes it universally useful. When you are around, all animals near you are pacified/helpful, depending on the points invested.

Very interesting. When they kill enemies do you still get full experience as if you killed them?

Not sure, they pretty much never kill anything on their own lol. But I find the general crowd control to be relatively useful, having less things to hit you, and having more things for the enemies to hit.

Not to mention not having to worry about being jumped at night by black wolves is also nice lol

[Tenoshii]

Originally posted by Stump:

Originally posted by Tenoshii:

Very interesting. When they kill enemies do you still get full experience as if you killed them?

Not sure, they pretty much never kill anything on their own lol. But I find the general crowd control to be relatively useful, having less things to hit you, and having more things for the enemies to hit.

Not to mention not having to worry about being jumped at night by black wolves is also nice lol

Gotcha. Definitely something I want to try out later on then, just for kicks.

[Stump]

Originally posted by Tenoshii:

Originally posted by Stump:

Not sure, they pretty much never kill anything on their own lol. But I find the general crowd control to be relatively useful, having less things to hit you, and having more things for the enemies to hit.

Not to mention not having to worry about being jumped at night by black wolves is also nice lol

Gotcha. Definitely something I want to try out later on then, just for kicks.

Figured id chime in after confirming. Yes, if animals affected by your passive kill something, you get XP as if you did.

[Tenoshii]

Originally posted by Stump:

Originally posted by Tenoshii:

Gotcha. Definitely something I want to try out later on then, just for kicks.

Figured id chime in after confirming. Yes, if animals affected by your passive kill something, you get XP as if you did.

Excellent! Thanks for the confirmation

[Purromi]

Originally posted by Stump:

Originally posted by Tenoshii:

Gotcha. Definitely something I want to try out later on then, just for kicks.

Figured id chime in after confirming. Yes, if animals affected by your passive kill something, you get XP as if you did.

Thank you for that precious informations. I just guess it's any way to lure animals to boss fights? to make this tree more usable.

Im a big lover of a archetype of wild animal berserker. I wish they add some "ultimate" skill at the end of the trees and for beast master it will be a pernament campanion.

[PTLANS]

I'd rather the beast master tree allow the player to whistle for a summonable animal with a cooldown after it dies. The whole passive effect is interesting but compared to the other skill trees it's extremely underwhelming.

[Stump]

Originally posted by PTLANS:

I'd rather the beast master tree allow the player to whistle for a summonable animal with a cooldown after it dies. The whole passive effect is interesting but compared to the other skill trees it's extremely underwhelming.

I definitely feel similarly, though I feel their current system could potentially be expanded upon.

They already have the ability to "recruit" an animal (Or Vukah) and they VERY loosely follow you and help out. However they can be very easily outrun or lost due to the mobility players become capable of (double jump, grapple, glide, etc. I feel like if they could just tighten that up, make them much more responsive and attached to you, that would help out a lot in making the tree feel better.

While I definitely understand the desire for a more traditional "hunter pet" style, I personally don't mind the idea of recruiting a random wild animal to help, making them more "pet-like" but not really your actual pet. Follow closer, more actively (maybe teleport to you when you glide/get too far?), attack more aggressively, attack your targets, or aggressors. But when it dies, it dies, you go get another one.

[Purromi]

Originally posted by Stump:

Originally posted by PTLANS:

I'd rather the beast master tree allow the player to whistle for a summonable animal with a cooldown after it dies. The whole passive effect is interesting but compared to the other skill trees it's extremely underwhelming.

I definitely feel similarly, though I feel their current system could potentially be expanded upon.

They already have the ability to "recruit" an animal (Or Vukah) and they VERY loosely follow you and help out. However they can be very easily outrun or lost due to the mobility players become capable of (double jump, grapple, glide, etc. I feel like if they could just tighten that up, make them much more responsive and attached to you, that would help out a lot in making the tree feel better.

While I definitely understand the desire for a more traditional "hunter pet" style, I personally don't mind the idea of recruiting a random wild animal to help, making them more "pet-like" but not really your actual pet. Follow closer, more actively (maybe teleport to you when you glide/get too far?), attack more aggressively, attack your targets, or aggressors. But when it dies, it dies, you go get another one.

just a simple thing to resolve that.. summon/unsummon

[Loral Niran]

Are there no Summons outside of this 'BeastMaster' talent?

[Lightning]

The animal perk where they don't attack seems quite good when your trying to do stuff without having to worry about them if other things are after you

[Misho]

The beast pacifying also works for the desert "Wookie" type enemies, they simply ignore you while you pillage their camps.