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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AbdulAlhazred" data-source="post: 4688546" data-attributes="member: 82106">Yeah, exactly. Beasts scale like crazy. Read it carefully. At high levels they have HUGE bonuses to everything. All beast defenses scale at +level, so do attack bonuses. Damage doesn't scale, but beasts DO get the same attribute raises as a PC. So for example a 20th level Beast Companion (Cat) would have +16 total to ability scores, AC 34!!! Fort 31!!! Ref 33!!! and Will 32!!! Which is WAY higher than the PC is likely to have at those levels, even counting magic items. Its attack would be (assuming a 24 dex) +27 vs AC for 1d8 + 7 damage, and there are any number of powers that can buff that (beasts are considered party members and thus can benefit from any of the buffs any other character can too).Granted beasts probably cannot use magic weapons, but there is actually nothing in RAW which forbids beast magic item use. There are also precedents for beasts at least having a single magic item slot (mount slot items). Overall the beast is a pretty darn strong class feature. At low levels it may not be QUITE as good as a TWF build, but even that is arguable. At high levels I would argue that while it doesn't do enormous damage, the beast is very tough and can easily provide the beast master with a lot of tactical benefits. The MAIN downside is the potential for beast death, which will gimp your character for a while until you can take a day out to call a new beast or resurrect the old one. But considering their defenses and the fact that you can heal them fairly easily I wouldn't think they're going to die all that often except maybe at low heroic tier.</blockquote>

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