The Beastmaster is a leather-armored melee brawler with a bonded animal companion. You tame a beast, raise it, feed it and fight beside it — hitting hard with a two-handed weapon or a pair of claws while your wolf, bear, spider or crocodile tears into the same target. The rework left the Shaman-hybrid spellbook behind: mana now represents your bond with your beast, and pets take DPS, Tank or Balanced roles with unique family abilities.
Updated for Early Access · September 2026
- A persistent pet that levels with you and can tank or deal damage
- Comfortable soloing from level 1
- Predatory and Prowler’s Instinct auras for the group, including sneak and speed indoors
- Beast crowd control, pet heals, a pet resurrection and a self-heal
- Hard-hitting melee attacks and plenty of weapon choices
- Your pet must be fed, healed and revived
- No spells or magical utility for the group
- Mana is only for pet-bond abilities
- Crowd control only works on beasts
- Two-handed and claw builds need different gear
Beastmaster gameplay is about fighting as a pair. Pick a pet role to suit the moment — a Tank pet to hold mobs while you solo, a DPS pet for groups — and hit the same target with Enraging Strike, Savage Strike, Maul and Mangle. Use Kinship calls and heal-over-time pet heals to keep your beast alive, and keep it fed. In a group, watch that a DPS pet doesn’t steal aggro from your tank.
Each companion type a Beastmaster can tame brings its own toolkit of innate abilities, from raw melee power to utility effects that shape how the partnership fights in combat. The chart below breaks down every tamable pet type and the abilities it offers.
| Pet | Archetype | Ability | Effect |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jackal | DPS | Canine Charge | Charges your target, 5s movement speed burst, 60s CD |
| Snake | DPS | Envenomed Bite | Injects soporific venom, Shackle, 60s CD |
| Wasp | DPS | Lethargic Sting | Close-range, Attack Speed Slow, 5s CD; effect stacks up to 3 times |
| Wolf | DPS | Pack Frenzy | Charges your target, 5s Crit burst, 60s CD |
| Bear | Tank | Mighty Roar | +10% Max Health buff, 90s CD |
| Beetle | Tank | Shield Wing | Hardened wing defense buff, 60s CD |
| Crocodile | Tank | Pin | Close-range CC, Root, 10s CD |
| Bat | Balanced | Sonic Pulse | 30m Radar sweep, Reveals invisible, 15s CD |
| Rat | Balanced | Stealth | Charge your target, greatly increasing your movement speed for 5s |
| Spider | Balanced | Anchoring Web | 30m Ranged web, 10s Root, Damage has a moderate chance to break this effect, 30s CD |
For players who want a companion and a strong melee identity. If you like raising a pet, soloing comfortably and hitting things with big weapons, the Beastmaster is one of the friendlier classes to learn on. It asks you to manage two characters, but the pet absorbs a lot of mistakes.
Deep Gnome, Goblin, Halfling, Human, Ogre, Wood Elf
Races playable at Early Access. See the class guide for starting stats and our picks.
