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This is a list of skills used by the ranger's pets. Skills are listed by environment, with amphibious pets included with both terrestrial and aquatic pets.
Terrestrial[edit]
Aether Hunter[edit]
# | Skill | Pet | Description | ||
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Bite | Aether Hunter | ½ | Bite at your foe and inflict bleeding. | ||
Lunge | Aether Hunter | 8 | Lunge forward, crippling opponents in the path. | ||
Ley-Line Vortex | Aether Hunter | 20 | Spin around, creating a vortex of ley-line energy around you that strikes and inflicts conditions on enemies. | ||
Dimension Breach | Juvenile Aether Hunter | 1 | 20 | Dive between dimensions, resurfacing at your foe's location and knocking them into the air. |
Bear[edit]
# | Skill | Pet | Description | ||
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Slash | Bear | ½ | Slash your foe with your claws. | ||
Bite | Bear | ½ | 10 | Bite your foe to recover health. | |
Defy Pain | Bear | 30 | You take no damage for the next few seconds. | ||
F2 | Rending Maul | Arctodus | 1 | ¾15 | Beast. Make your foe bleed with a fierce mauling. |
F2 | Enfeebling Roar | Black Bear | 1 | ¼25 | Beast. Roar fiercely, weakening nearby foes. |
F2 | Shake It Off | Brown Bear | ½ | 25 | Beast. Cure a condition on yourself and all nearby allies. |
F2 | Poison Cloud | Murellow | 1 | ¼25 | Beast. Emit a noxious cloud that poisons and damages foes. |
F2 | Icy Roar | Polar Bear | 1 | ¼30 | Beast. Roar fiercely, chilling nearby foes. |
Bird[edit]
# | Skill | Pet | Description | ||
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Slash | Bird | ½ | Slash your foe. | ||
Swoop | Bird | ¾ | 8 | Swoop at your foe, making them vulnerable. | |
Quickening Screech | Bird | ¾ | 20 | Grant swiftness to nearby allies and remove movement-impairing conditions from them. | |
F2 | Lacerating Slash | Hawk | ½ | 20 | Beast. Slash your foes and cause them to bleed. |
F2 | Chilling Slash | Owl | ½ | 20 | Beast. Slash your foes and chill them. |
F2 | Blinding Slash | Raven, White Raven | ½ | 18 | Beast. Blind your foes with a slash. |
Bristleback[edit]
# | Skill | Pet | Description | ||
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Spike Shoot | Bristleback | ¾ | Shoot a spike at your target. | ||
Sharpen Spines | Bristleback | 20 | The next several hits apply extra bleeding stacks. | ||
Rain of Spikes | Bristleback | 1 | ¾18 | Launch spikes at all nearby foes. | |
F2 | Spike Barrage | Bristleback | 2 | 20 | Beast. Fire a barrage of spikes at your target. |
Canine[edit]
# | Skill | Pet | Description | ||
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Bite | Canine | ¼ | Bite your foe. | ||
Crippling Leap | Canine | ¼ | 10 | Leap at your foe and cripple them. | |
Brutal Charge | Canine | 1 | 18 | Leap at your foe and knock them down. | |
F2 | Chilling Howl | Alpine Wolf | 1 | ½20 | Beast. Howl at foes to chill them. |
F2 | Regenerate | Fern Hound | 1 | ½20 | Beast. Howl to heal and grant regeneration to nearby allies. |
F2 | Howl of the Pack | Hyena | 1 | ½30 | Beast. Howl to summon hyena allies to fight with you. |
F2 | Intimidating Howl | Krytan Drakehound | 1 | ½20 | Beast. Howl at foes to immobilize them. |
F2 | Terrifying Howl | Wolf | 1 | ½30 | Beast. Howl at foes to send them running in fear. |
Chak[edit]
# | Skill | Pet | Description | ||
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Unleash Energy | Sky-Chak Striker | 1 | ½Unleash a beam of ley energy, damaging your target. | ||
Electrocute | Sky-Chak Striker | ¾ | 12 | Zap enemies near your target with electric beams. | |
Spit Goop | Sky-Chak Striker | 1 | 20 | Spit goop toward your target, leaving behind damaging areas that cripple enemies. | |
F2 | Ley Energy Pulse | Sky-Chak Striker | ¾ | 20 | Beast. Create a pulse of ley energy around your target, dazing nearby enemies. |
Devourer[edit]
# | Skill | Pet | Description | ||
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Twin Darts | Devourer | 1 | Fire two shots from your tail that bleed your enemy. | ||
Tail Lash | Devourer | 1 | ¼20 | Push back a foe with your tail. | |
Devourer Retreat | Devourer | 2 | 15 | Retreat by tunneling through the ground. | |
F2 | Poisonous Cloud | Carrion Devourer | 1 | 30 | Beast. Spit a ball of venom that covers an area with a poisonous cloud. |
F2 | Rending Barbs | Lashtail Devourer | 4 | 20 | Beast. Rapidly launch projectiles that bleed your target. |
F2 | Poison Barbs | Whiptail Devourer | 2 | ½20 | Beast. Spray poisonous barbs in an arc in front of you, damaging and poisoning foes. |
Drake[edit]
# | Skill | Pet | Description | ||
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Bite | Drake | ¼ | Bite a foe with your jaws. | ||
Chomp | Drake | ½ | 10 | Bite a foe and gain health. | |
Tail Swipe | Drake | ¾ | 16 | Attack all surrounding foes with a tail swipe. | |
F2 | Frost Breath | Ice Drake | 1 | ½20 | Beast. Breathe a cone of frost, damaging and chilling foes. |
F2 | Insect Swarm | Marsh Drake | 1 | ½20 | Beast. Exhale a swarm of insects that hits multiple foes. |
F2 | Sonic Shriek | Reef Drake | 1 | ½20 | Beast. Emit a cone of discordant sonic energy to confuse foes. |
F2 | Lightning Breath | River Drake | 1 | ½20 | Beast. Breathe bolts of lightning that bounce to nearby foes. |
F2 | Fire Breath | Salamander Drake | 1 | ½20 | Beast. Breathe a cone of fire that burns foes. |
Fanged Iboga[edit]
# | Skill | Pet | Description | ||
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Consuming Bite | Fanged Iboga | ½ | Bite foes, dealing additional damage for each condition afflicting anyone struck. | ||
Crippling Anguish | Fanged Iboga | ½ | 10 | Launch a projectile that inflicts conditions. | |
Narcotic Spores | Fanged Iboga | ½ | 15 | Spit a glob of confusing spores at a foe, inflicting confusion for a while at that location. | |
F2 | Fang Grapple | Fanged Iboga | 1 | 20 | Beast. Spits a fanged projectile to pull in its prey. |
Feline[edit]
# | Skill | Pet | Description | ||
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Slash | Feline | ½ | Slash at your foe. | ||
Bite | Feline | ½ | 8 | Bite your foe for severe damage. | |
Maul | Feline | ½ | 16 | Slash a foe multiple times and make them bleed. | |
Phase Pounce | White Tiger | 1 | ¾16 | Leap through a rift in the Mists, shadowstepping briefly to the target's location and inflicting damage and conditions. | |
F2 | Savannah Strike | Cheetah | ¾ | 20 | Beast. Shadowstep to your target and strike them. Grant nearby allies swiftness. |
F2 | Stalk | Jaguar | 20 | Beast. Gain stealth and increased critical-strike chance and ferocity for a short duration. Grant your ranger stealth. This skill will not grant your ranger stealth if they are downed. | |
F2 | Mighty Roar | Jungle Stalker | ½ | 20 | Beast. Give extreme might to nearby allies. |
F2 | Rending Pounce | Lynx | 1 | ½20 | Beast. Leap at a foe and make them bleed. |
F2 | Blinding Roar | Sand Lion | 1 | ½20 | Beast. Release a powerful roar that blinds nearby foes. |
F2 | Icy Pounce | Snow Leopard | 1 | ½20 | Beast. Leap at your foe, chilling them. |
F2 | Furious Pounce | Tiger | 1 | ½20 | Beast. Pounce on your target and grant fury to nearby allies. |
F2 | Guardian's Roar | White Tiger | ½ | 25 | Beast. Roar and grant aegis to nearby allies. |
Jacaranda[edit]
# | Skill | Pet | Description | ||
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Root Slap | Jacaranda | 1 | Strike your target with roots. | ||
Call Lightning | Jacaranda | ¾ | 10 | Calls lightning to a small area. | |
Photosynthesize | Jacaranda | ¾ | 20 | Restore health, gain regeneration, and remove conditions. | |
F2 | Jacaranda's Embrace | Jacaranda | 1 | 20 | Beast. Fire a missile that roots foes for a period of time. |
Moa[edit]
# | Skill | Pet | Description | ||
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Peck | Moa | ¼ | Peck at your foe. | ||
Harmonic Cry | Moa | ½ | 25 | Heal yourself and nearby allies. | |
Frenzied Attack | Moa | ½ | 20 | Attack with a pecking frenzy and make your foe vulnerable. | |
F2 | Dazing Screech | Black Moa | ½ | 25 | Beast. Create a cone of sound, dazing foes. |
F2 | Protecting Screech | Blue Moa | 1 | 20 | Beast. Screech to grant protection to nearby allies. |
F2 | Dazing Screech | Pink Moa | ½ | 25 | Beast. Create a high-pitched screech, dazing nearby foes. |
F2 | Furious Screech | Red Moa | 1 | 20 | Beast. Screech angrily to grant fury to nearby allies. |
F2 | Icy Screech | White Moa | ½ | 20 | Beast. Screech to grant nearby allies frost aura. |
Phoenix[edit]
# | Skill | Pet | Description | ||
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Wicked Bite | Phoenix | ¾ | Bite your foe, leaving them vulnerable. | ||
Dash | Phoenix | 1 | ¼20 | Charge forward, leaving behind a trail of wind energy that detonates shortly afterward. | |
Wing Buffet | Phoenix | 2 | ¼20 | Launch your foe backward with mighty wing beats. | |
F2 | Gale Breath | Phoenix | 1 | 20 | Beast. Fires a sweeping breath attack, damaging foes. |
Porcine[edit]
# | Skill | Pet | Description | ||
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Jab | Porcine | ¼ | Jab your foe with your tusks. | ||
Maul | Porcine | ½ | 10 | Maul your foes and make them bleed. | |
Brutal Charge | Porcine | 1 | 24 | Charge your foes and knock them down. | |
F2 | Forage Rock | Boar | 1 | 25 | Beast. Search the area for an improvised weapon. |
F2 | Forage Sword | Pig | 1 | 25 | Beast. Search the area for an improvised weapon. |
F2 | Forage Feathers | Siamoth | 1 | 25 | Beast. Search the area for an improvised weapon. |
F2 | Forage Scale | Warthog | 1 | 25 | Beast. Search the area for an improvised weapon. |
Rock Gazelle[edit]
# | Skill | Pet | Description | ||
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Headbutt | Rock Gazelle | ¼ | Bash your target. | ||
Kick | Rock Gazelle | 1 | 8 | Kick your enemy. | |
Charge | Rock Gazelle | 2 | 15 | Charge at your target. | |
F2 | Head Toss | Rock Gazelle | ¾ | 20 | Beast. Toss your foe into the air. |
Smokescale[edit]
# | Skill | Pet | Description | ||
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Bite | Smokescale | ¼ | Bite your target. | ||
Takedown | Smokescale | ¾ | 10 | Cripple your target with a powerful strike. | |
Smoke Assault | Smokescale | 20 | Conceal yourself and lash out at nearby foes. Gain might each time you damage a foe. | ||
F2 | Smoke Cloud | Smokescale | ¾ | 20 | Beast. Create a cloud of smoke for the smokescale to hide in. |
Spider[edit]
# | Skill | Pet | Description | ||
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Spit | Spider | 1 | ¼Spit at your foe. | ||
Entangling Web | Spider | 1 | ¼20 | Shoot a web, immobilizing your foe. | |
Poison Gas | Spider | 1 | ½15 | Spit a ball of venom that covers an area with a poisonous cloud. | |
F2 | Paralyzing Venom | Black Widow Spider, Jungle Spider | 25 | Beast. Your next attack immoblizes your foe. | |
F2 | Weakening Venom | Cave Spider | 20 | Beast. Your next two attacks weaken your foes and make them vulnerable. | |
F2 | Deadly Venom | Forest Spider | 20 | Beast. Your next three attacks poison your foe. |
Spinegazer[edit]
# | Skill | Pet | Description | ||
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Evil Eye | Demon | 1 | ¼Send distressing thoughts to your enemy to torment them. | ||
Staring Void | Spinegazer | 1 | 15 | Blast demonic energy in front of you, inflicting conditions on enemies it hits. | |
Tormenting Visions | Spinegazer | 3 | ½20 | Send distressing thoughts to your enemy to torment them. | |
Panopticon | Spinegazer | 1 | 20 | Beast. Fire malignant magic at nearby enemies, corrupting boons on enemies it hits. |
Turtle[edit]
# | Skill | Pet | Description | ||
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Jade Cannon | Turtle | 1 | Fire a long-range, slow-moving jade missile that explodes on impact, damaging nearby foes. | ||
Slam | Turtle | 1 | 25 | Leap and knock nearby foes back. | |
Snap | Turtle | 15 | Bite your foe and inflict bleeding. | ||
F2 | Hunker Down | Siege Turtle | 30 | Beast. Deploy a barrier that shields allies from incoming projectiles and grants protection. |
Wallow[edit]
# | Skill | Pet | Description | ||
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Vampiric Bite | Wallow | ¼ | Bite your foe, siphoning health. | ||
Maul | Wallow | 1 | 12 | Maul your foes and make them bleed. | |
Undead Plague | Wallow | 1 | 20 | Covers the area around you in noxious fumes that poisons foes. Poison duration is increased on disabled foes. | |
F2 | Bloodthirsty Charge | Wallow | 1 | ¾25 | Beast. Charge into a foe, pushing them back and causing them to bleed. |
Warclaw[edit]
# | Skill | Pet | Description | ||
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Slash | Warclaw | ½ | Slash at your foe. | ||
Battle Maul | Warclaw | 1 | ¾15 | Pounce on foes. | |
Bop | Warclaw | 1 | 18 | Ready a powerful thwack to knock down your enemy. | |
Rallying Roar | Warclaw | ½ | 20 | Beast. Let out a noble roar, granting superspeed to nearby allies. |
Wyvern[edit]
# | Skill | Pet | Description | ||
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Wing Swipe | Wyvern | 1 | Swipe at your foes. | ||
Tail Lash | Wyvern | ½ | 12 | Sweep your foes along the ground, crippling them. | |
Wing Buffet | Wyvern | 3 | ¼25 | Launch your foe backward with mighty wing beats. | |
F2 | Lightning Assault | Electric Wyvern | 30 | Beast. Charge forward, headbutting foes and electrifying its destination. | |
F2 | Consuming Flame | Fire Wyvern | 2 | ½25 | Beast. Channel an expanding stream of flame from above. When the engulfed region reaches its full size, it becomes a fire field. |
Aquatic[edit]
Armored Fish[edit]
# | Skill | Pet | Description | ||
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Bite | Armor Fish | ¼ | Bite your foe. | ||
Protection | Armor Fish | 30 | Apply protection to yourself. | ||
Chomp | Armor Fish | ½ | 12 | Chomp your foe to deal damage and heal yourself. | |
F2 | Stunning Rush | Armor Fish | 2 | ¾40 | Beast. Rush at a foe and stun them. |
Bear[edit]
# | Skill | Pet | Description | ||
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Slash | Bear | ½ | Slash your foe with your claws. | ||
Bite | Bear | ½ | 10 | Bite your foe to recover health. | |
Defy Pain | Bear | 30 | You take no damage for the next few seconds. | ||
F2 | Rending Maul | Arctodus | 1 | ¾15 | Beast. Make your foe bleed with a fierce mauling. |
F2 | Enfeebling Maul | Black Bear | 1 | ½20 | Beast. Maul your foe, weakening them. |
F2 | Purge Conditions | Brown Bear | 30 | Beast. Purge all conditions from yourself. | |
F2 | Poisonous Maul | Murellow | 1 | ½20 | Beast. Maul your foe fiercely and poison them. |
F2 | Icy Maul | Polar Bear | 1 | ½30 | Beast. Maul your foe fiercely and chill them. |
Devourer[edit]
# | Skill | Pet | Description | ||
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Twin Darts | Devourer | 1 | Fire two shots from your tail that bleed your enemy. | ||
Tail Lash | Devourer | 1 | ¼20 | Push back a foe with your tail. | |
Retreat | Devourer | 1 | ½20 | Retreat from your foe. | |
F2 | Regenerate | Carrion Devourer | 30 | Beast. Gain regeneration. | |
F2 | Lashtail Venom | Lashtail Devourer | 60 | Beast. Your next two attacks stun your victims. | |
F2 | Poison Cloud | Whiptail Devourer | 25 | Beast. Shoot a noxious cloud at your foe, damaging and poisoning them. |
Drake[edit]
# | Skill | Pet | Description | ||
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Bite | Drake | ¼ | Bite a foe with your jaws. | ||
Chomp | Drake | ½ | 10 | Bite a foe and gain health. | |
Tail Swipe | Drake | ¾ | 16 | Attack all surrounding foes with a tail swipe. | |
F2 | Frost Nova | Ice Drake | 25 | Beast. Freeze the water around your foe. | |
F2 | Poison Cloud | Marsh Drake | 25 | Beast. Create poisonous bubbles. | |
F2 | Sonic Barrier | Reef Drake | 45 | Beast. Create a sonic barrier that reflects projectiles. | |
F2 | Electrocute | River Drake | 30 | Beast. Charge the water around your foe with electricity. | |
F2 | Boil | Salamander Drake | 30 | Beast. Boil the water around your foe. |
Feline[edit]
# | Skill | Pet | Description | ||
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Slash | Feline | ½ | Slash at your foe. | ||
Bite | Feline | ½ | 8 | Bite your foe for severe damage. | |
Maul | Feline | ½ | 16 | Slash a foe multiple times and make them bleed. | |
F2 | Stalk | Jaguar | 20 | Beast. Gain stealth and increased critical-strike chance and ferocity for a short duration. Grant your ranger stealth. This skill will not grant your ranger stealth if they are downed. | |
F2 | Mighty Roar | Jungle Stalker | ½ | 20 | Beast. Give extreme might to nearby allies. |
F2 | Icy Bite | Snow Leopard | ¼ | 25 | Beast. Bite your foe, chilling them. |
F2 | Furious Pounce | Tiger | 1 | ½20 | Beast. Pounce on your target and grant fury to nearby allies. |
Jellyfish[edit]
# | Skill | Pet | Description | ||
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Tentacle Slash | Jellyfish | 1 | ½Slash your foe. | ||
Healing Cloud | Jellyfish | 30 | Release a cloud of mist that grants regeneration to you and your allies. | ||
Dark Water | Jellyfish | 40 | Blind foes near your target with a dark cloud. | ||
F2 | Chilling Whirl | Rainbow Jellyfish, Blue Jellyfish | 2 | ¾30 | Beast. Whirl your tentacles, chilling the foes you strike. |
F2 | Immobilizing Whirl | Red Jellyfish | 2 | ¾30 | Beast. Whirl your tentacles, immobilizing the foes you strike. |
Shark[edit]
# | Skill | Pet | Description | ||
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Bite | Shark | ¼ | Bleed your foe with a bite. | ||
Charging Bite | Shark | 20 | Charge your foe, striking multiple times and inflicting bleeding. | ||
Fear | Shark | 40 | Make your foe flee in fear. | ||
F2 | Feeding Frenzy | Shark | 45 | Beast. Enter a frenzy. Attack faster and bleed on each hit. |
Related traits[edit]
Traits only affect the pet's Beast ability, which defaults to F2.
Wilderness Survival
- Carnivore — Steal health from enemies when you or your pet disable them. Disables include stun, daze, knockback, pull, knockdown, sink, float, launch, taunt, and fear.
- Poison Master — Upon using a Beast ability, your pet's next attack will inflict poison; your poison damage is increased.
Nature Magic
- Rejuvenation — Beast skills now grant regeneration around the ranger.
- Invigorating Bond — Beast skills heal allies around the ranger.
Beastmastery
- Go for the Eyes — Nearby foes are blinded by Beast abilities.
- Wilting Strike — Beast abilities inflict weakness on those struck. This effect will only occur once on each target struck by an ability.
- Beastly Warden — Beast abilities taunt nearby foes.
Soulbeast