NOW LIVE! Today's the day you meet your new best friend. You don’t have to leave Wolfy behind... In 'Pets & Sidekicks' your companions level up with you!

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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mistwell" data-source="post: 7486909" data-attributes="member: 2525">There is no way I can reply to that mess you posted. Seriously, you quoted 6-7 people in one post, quoted me many times, but there are many replies to other posters in the same post as your replies to me, with many in between replies to me, and with a mention in reply to someone else? How am I, or anyone else, supposed to parse all that out to reply?Here are a few replies as I saw them:"Until level 7 the beast cannot take any action other than attacking without it costing the ranger his entire turn." Which is just plain false. "You can use your action to verbally command it to take the Attack, Dash, Disengage, Dodge, or Help action. " So you can't command it to attack without costing all your actions any more than you can command it to do anything else without it costing all your actions."And, how do you think companions knock down foes, poison foes, and ect? Do they not need to make an attack action to do this? Are they not on the frontlines when they do so, since almost no beasts have a ranged attack?" I already responded to that point. There are companions with reach, and with flyby attack, if direct attacking is what you want them to do.  Try the Giant Poisonous Snake or Flying Snake for instance."How do you plan on allowing a ranger who focuses on archery to protect a beast like a wolf which is best in melee range?" I don't. I absolutely completely do not expect a beastmaster ranger who wants their pet to focus on melee to themselves focus on archery. Take another sub-class if that's what you want to focus on. Because if you want your pet to focus on melee, then in the very least you need to focus on melee as well to fight beside your companion. This just seems to be one of those "I want it all" type perspectives. You're not going to get it all - with any class. A melee companion expects a melee ranger to be paired with it, or else don't choose a melee companion strategy. You can instead choose a run and gun beast like those mentioned above.</blockquote>

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