'Vukah Culture' and 'Beastmaster' skills - couple of questions

[Mrs Ormolu]

Hi there - really really loving the game so far, but have a couple of questions regarding the above skills and their progressions.

How do these work when you are with other players? Do the beasts/vukah still attack your friends if they don't have these skills?

Also, I can't seem to get the Vukah guarding to work. I select a Vukah to guard me, but they don't engage in combat with me. Are there caveats to when they will assist, am I doing it wrong or is it just a bit buggy at the moment?

Many thanks

[Mrs Ormolu]

Ok so if I pull a mob past them, non-guarding vukah do eventually attack but blimey they are so slow it's sort of pointless. Any chance of speeding them up?

[Minotorious]

From what I have seen in game if one player has the beastmaster trait the hostile animals don't attack any player when the beastmaster is nearby.

[Mrs Ormolu]

Originally posted by Minotorious:

From what I have seen in game if one player has the beastmaster trait the hostile animals don't attack any player when the beastmaster is nearby.

Thanks so much. Really appreciate your taking the time to reply.

[Sindarial]

I can confirm that when my husband and I play together, since I have the Beastmaster skill, nothing attacks him either as long as we're within proximity to each other.

[Mr. Fibble]

I've had wolves guarding me but so far they've not attacked anything that I start a fight with, either because they're so far away and walking very slowly in my direction or because the trigger to get helped is taking a hit.

[Leaper]

The skill is a little meh, I've only ever really found the beastmaster part to be somewhat helpful. A few times a dragon would come flying over from the desert and murder a boss enemy on my behalf and I just had to dodge and block while it was happening.

It would be way better if the skill magically summoned 1 random ally from the area for each skill you have learned when you start a fight or something like that.

[Mrs Ormolu]

Thanks so much all for taking the time to reply to me. Very much appreciated.

With a little experimentation I've managed to get both Vukah and beasts to help me but as you say @Leaper - it's not *that* great at the moment.

However, both Vukah and a tiger did assist with my Fell Monstrosity fight - both with killing the wasps and then directly attacking the boss - I basically pulled the boss out of the shroud and ran about drawing the Vukah and the tiger into the fight.

I don't mind the temp nature of the guarding feature, but your guarding creature needs to follow more closely and their reaction time needs to be better. The reaction time of the non-guarding Vukah/beasts needs to be a little quicker too, I think?