Is the Spirit Walker sill worth getting? How does it work?

[Eruend]

Title pretty much says it all. I'm leaning towards getting that other skill to help tame things instead, but I just want to know if I'd be missing out.

[Psyringe]

Both skills are helpful, but neither is crucial.

Making taming easier can save some frustration, but I was always able to tame any spirit I wanted without that skill. You just need enough taming plants. In winter you can get a plant with +100 taming, which you can raise to +150 with fertilizer. That makes taming pretty easy regardless of whether or not you have the skill. Without the skill, you just need more attempts and thus more plants - but you can try as often as you want in the same fight, until it eventually works.

Having spirits gain XP just for walking around with you can also be quite helpful, I noticed my spirits leveling up considerably faster. But you can also just plant XP plants and feed those to your spirits.

Personally, I picked Spirit Walker and didn't regret it. I also think that the taming trait becomes less useful over time because once you've collected every spirit, there's not much reason to do a lot of taming unless you're finding tons of shinies (which seems unlikely). The Spirit Walker trait remains useful for as long as I'm playing.

But regardless which skill you pick: It will be useful, and you will probably farm some plants to make up for the lack of the other skill.