Beastmode

Meld with your pet. — In-game description

Beastmode

Profession

Ranger (skill list)

Specialization

Soulbeast

Slot

Profession mechanic

Sequence

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Game link

API

42944

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Beastmode

Meld with your pet.

— In-game description

Beastmode is the soulbeast's profession mechanic. The F1-F2 skills are determined by the pet's family, and the F3 skill is determined by the pet's archetype. Additionally, the pet's archetype provides attribute bonuses and some pet traits and effects apply to the player instead.

Related skills

See also: Soulbeast#List of soulbeast skills

The following skills improve the player instead of the pet while in beastmode.

Weapon skills

Skill	Beastmode effect	Environment
Crippling Shot	The player's next few attacks apply bleeding.	Terrestrial
Surging Maw	Grants swiftness to the player.	Aquatic
Double Arc	The player's next attacks apply poison.	Terrestrial
Feeding Frenzy	Grants fury to the player.	Aquatic
Hunter's Shot	Grants swiftness to the player.	Terrestrial
Maul	Grants Attack of Opportunity at the end of the cast to the player.	Terrestrial
Precision Swipe	Grants might to the player for each foe hit.	Terrestrial
Winter's Bite	The player's next attack applies weakness.	Terrestrial

Healing, utility and elite skills

Skill	Beastmode effect
"Guard!"	Take 33% of damage directed at allies. Gain might when you receive damage.
"Sic 'Em!"	Applies Sic 'Em! effect to the player. (Damage is increased by 25% instead of 40%)
"Search and Rescue!"	Pull a downed ally to you and begin reviving them.
"Strength of the Pack!"	Applies might to the player for every hit.
"We Heal As One!"	Applies boons to the player.

Related traits

The following traits improve the player instead of the pet while in beastmode.

 Beastmastery

•  Pack Alpha — Beastmode Primary Attribute Increase: 150 (applies attribute bonuses to the player while in beastmode)
•  Potent Ally — You gain might when critically striking a foe.
•  Loud Whistle — Outgoing damage increased by 10%.
•  Pet's Prowess — Soulbeast Ferocity Increase: 300 (applies attribute bonus to the player while in beastmode)
  Soulbeast Move Speed Increase: 30% (applies movement speed bonus to the player while in beastmode)
•  Natural Healing — You recover health each interval.
•  Zephyr's Speed — Cast Lesser Quickening Zephyr when you swap pets.

 Wilderness Survival

•  Refined Toxins — While you are above the health threshold, your strikes inflict poison. While your pet's health is above the health threshold, its strikes inflict poison. (Apply both stacks while in beastmode)
•  Shared Anguish — Incoming disables are cancelled.

 Nature Magic

•  Spirited Arrival — Grant boons to nearby allies when swapping pets.

 Marksmanship

•  Clarion Bond — Cast Lesser Call of the Wild when you swap pets.

 Soulbeast

•  Elevated Bond — Gain access to Stances. Survival in the desert has enhanced your connection to your pet, granting you the ability to meld with them by entering beastmode. Traits that affect your pet may affect you differently while in beastmode.
•  Fresh Reinforcement — Entering beastmode grants you the boons affecting your pet.
•  Unstoppable Union — Entering beastmode grants boons and removes movement-impairing conditions.
•  Eternal Bond — Heal when you use a merged skill. You can swap pets while merged.

Notes

• Your character may occasionally shout one of the following lines while merging with their pet:
  • We become one!
  • Two as one.
  • Grant me your strength, my friend.
• Soulbeasts were previously unable to swap pets while in combat; entering and leaving Beastmode instead counted as a pet swap for the purposes of traits.

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
October 04, 2022	Elevated Bond: This trait no longer prevents pet swapping while in combat. Traits that trigger when swapping pets no longer trigger when entering Beastmode.
August 17, 2021	On entering or exiting water, if players were previously merged with their pet, they will now automatically remerge after transitioning to water or land.
November 17, 2020	(Undocumented) Fixed a bug that could cause ranger pets to stow when mounting and unmounting too quickly while in Beastmode.
February 25, 2020	Competitive content update: Entering and leaving beastmode with your pet now counts as a pet swap for the purposes of the Clarion Bond and Zephyr's Speed traits.
August 13, 2019	Fixed a bug that prevented merged soulbeasts from re-merging automatically when dismounting.
November 07, 2017	Mounting while merged will now preserve your state as having been merged so that when you dismount you will instantly reenter Beastmode. Fixed a bug that would temporarily stow a ranger's pet if downed when in the middle of merging.
September 27, 2017	Fixed a bug that caused a ranger using the Beastmode skill to leave that mode when upleveling or downleveling due to zoning.
September 22, 2017	Path of Fire release: Beastmode has been added to the game.

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