Beastmastery

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"We strike as one."

Specializing in beast mastery enhances your overall synergy with your pet by strengthening their beast skill, improving on their abilities and granting various boons after successfully striking a foe.

— In-game description

Beastmastery is a core specialization for the ranger that focuses on improving your pet's abilities.

Tier	Trait		Description
Minor Adept	Pack Alpha		Your pet's attributes are improved and pet skills gain recharge reduction. Improved attributes are power, condition damage, precision, toughness, and vitality.
Major Adept	Go for the Eyes	12	Nearby foes are blinded by Beast abilities.
Major Adept	Potent Ally	1	You and your pet each grant might to the other when critically striking a foe.
Major Adept	Resounding Timbre		Commands apply additional boons around you.
Minor Master	Loud Whistle		While your health is above the threshold, your pet deals increased strike damage. Your pet swap gains recharge reduction.
Major Master	Wilting Strike		Beast abilities inflict weakness on those struck. This effect will only occur once on each target struck by an ability.
Major Master	Two-Handed Training		Greatsword and spear skills deal more damage and recharge faster. Gain fury when you disable a foe.
Major Master	Natural Healing		Your pet recovers health each interval.
Minor Grandmaster	Pet's Prowess		Your pet moves faster and deals more damage on critical hits.
Major Grandmaster	Beastly Warden	20	Beast abilities taunt nearby foes.
Major Grandmaster	Zephyr's Speed	15	Cast Lesser Quickening Zephyr when you swap pets.
Major Grandmaster	Honed Axes		You and your pet gain ferocity. Axe skills gain reduced recharge, and you gain additional ferocity while wielding an axe.

See also: List of ranger traits

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