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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Joseph Lieberman" data-source="post: 6803828" data-attributes="member: 6810503">[MENTION=6801209]mellored[/MENTION] It certainly will hurt the pet HP, though the goal here is to do this without houserules.The math on it is pretty simple though. Lets take a realistic level: 12.If you go 7 Paladin / 5 Ranger your pet has 20 HP. If you go 12 Ranger your pet has 48.If your pet gets hit with a fireball level damage (8d6) you're looking at the avg 28:Pal/Ranger: 14 dmg / 7 dmg (Save)Pure Ranger: 28 dmg / 14 dmg (Save)Which means your pet is worse off if it fails, but is less likely to do so due to the paladin.Though being hit by a 5th level caster isn't quite so dangerous at level 12. It's mostly a wash really.IF you can protect your companion from melee damage the paladin mix may come out on top at later levels. Assuming the source of AoE damage is a spell anyway. If its a non-spell like a dragon you can kiss your friend goodbye.So yeah, my point is despite giving 3 options none of them are good <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f641.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":(" title="Frown    :("  data-smilie="3"data-shortname=":(" /> I agree sacrificing 7 levels of HP (28 HP) is a huge burden to overcome. [MENTION=6804206]Coyote81[/MENTION] - Now you're talking! That's the kind of outside the box thinking I like!So the end result is you're now a medium creature mounted on a large creature by putting your companion on D&D Steroids all the time. Sadly you'd probably want to ditch Healer at level 1 and replace it with Mounted Combat, which would let your combo come online 1 level earlier (since you'd have to be Ranger 4 to get Mounted otherwise) and pick up Healer or something at level 6.Also there's not much value in those two cantrips since they take your action (which means until Ranger 7 your pet isn't doing anything when you use them). That said, having access to cantrips and level 1 spells has a lot of great uses, including just tossing up Shield or mage armor for your friend (not that leather barding is so expensive).In the end though we're still stuck with mounted combat as the solution to protecting your pet from AoE so far - but that was a solution I hadn't considered since I haven't run into anyone allowing UA.</blockquote>

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