With a wolf next to a melee Ranger, now her opponent takes two AoOs if it leaves.
The companion can't take actions unless instructed to by the Ranger.
With a wolf next to a melee Ranger, now her opponent takes two AoOs if it leaves.
And is a Wizard supposed to be a frontline combatant like the companion?
Wouldn’t people who had seen them played have actual experience? At that point you have actual experience versus actual experience, which is where theorizing can be useful to see which scenario is more likely to occur, since both have been observed.
Kind of hard to find their HD if you don't know where to look, and since we are usually talking about 1 or 2 dice, it is very different from the 5 dice a player has and is expected to use.
And Flyby attack is great, as long as you don't care about damage since owls and Pteranodon's have pretty low damage. Also, until the enemy readies an attack to knock them out of the sky since they generally have poor AC and Hp too.
*Sarcasm* Another tax upon the ranger, let’s give them feats to allow them to heal their companions better too. *End Sarcasm*
And, those 1 HD animals include some of those with Flyby attack, like the flying snake, which is kind of a cool companion to have. Of course, having something for the good of the story is against the ranger’s ethos right?
It’s almost like people are arguing different points based upon which point is better for the moment of defending the status quo.
The companion can't take actions unless instructed to by the Ranger.
The point is that deciding to fix the ranger because it scored poorly is entirely arbitrary.So how is “There are classes that aren’t liked as well as the ranger is liked” a good rebuttal to the call to fix the ranger? If everyone has their favorites and least favorites and representative answers require massive amounts of polling to even get close… then why do you insist that those rankings should matter to us? If my opinion doesn’t matter unless it matches some massive, impossible to know super opinion… then your opinion doesn’t matter either. Plus, you admitted there is a mechanical fix, it isn’t even a question for you that that is possible, so this is just a smokescreen to hide behind “popularity”.
I don't know where that conception comes from. Nothing about the beastmaster's animal companion reads to me that it's "supposed to be a frontline combatant".
The companion can't take actions unless instructed to by the Ranger.
So "Fight alongside" doesn't mean "fight alongside" it means "briefly help and then run away"?
I don't know if this is true. An opportunity attack isn't an action, at least not in the game mechanic sense where Dodge or Dash are actions, so whether or not it can take that opportunity attack without being commanded isn't addressed by the rules.The companion can't take actions unless instructed to by the Ranger.
I don't know if this is true. An opportunity attack isn't an action, at least not in the game mechanic sense where Dodge or Dash are actions, so whether or not it can take that opportunity attack without being commanded isn't addressed by the rules.
" The beast never requires your command to use its reaction, such as when making an opportunity attack."
It's RIGHT THERE in the text.
When I said earlier it helps if you've played the class, I meant it. It really does help.