Does Blade spirit count as a pet?

[Sarru]

Does blade spirit count as a pet.?

[SchnitzelTruck]

No, it scales with player bonuses. Just like the description says.

[toast]

If you mean for the achievement that yes as do the runes

[Sarru]

whta do u mean for the acheivements

[MedeaFleecestealer]

There's a Steam achievement to have 18 pets out all at once. Blade Spirits would be included in that count if you're using them.

[Carl!!!!]

It's one type of pet. There's two types: Player scaled, and pet scaled.

Pet/summoner builds will focus on pet scaled pets (gear/devotions that has "Bonus to all pets" on it).

Player scaled pets gain bonuses from everything else. For example, blade spirit. If you boost your cold, piercing or bleeding damage, its damage will go up.

Pet scaled pets can be built around, player scaled pets are more utility than anything else (great for devotion procs, especially blade spirit, and guardian of empyrion (since you can summon 2 with only 2 skill point)).

[PrinceXavieR™]

Clearly its a pet


https://www.grimtools.com/petdb/skill/3619

[RodHull]

Originally posted by PrinceXavieR:

Clearly its a pet


https://www.grimtools.com/petdb/skill/3619

Player scaling pet, ergo not a true pet. It wont benefit from pet bonuses and wont do stuff like draw agro that pets with finite health do

[PrinceXavieR™]

Originally posted by RodHull:

Originally posted by PrinceXavieR:

Clearly its a pet


https://www.grimtools.com/petdb/skill/3619

Player scaling pet, ergo not a true pet. It wont benefit from pet bonuses and wont do stuff like draw agro that pets with finite health do

well by definition and gd mechanics its one of the two types of pets as posted also above

[RodHull]

Originally posted by PrinceXavieR:

Originally posted by RodHull:

Player scaling pet, ergo not a true pet. It wont benefit from pet bonuses and wont do stuff like draw agro that pets with finite health do

well by definition and gd mechanics its one of the two types of pets as posted also above

I think the op was asking for the purposes of a build, i mean clearly its called a pet anyone who can read can see that. But for the purposes of a build its a player scaling pet and operates totally differently to a traditional pet