Animal companion

Having an animal companion, or pet, is a Ranger skill:

Getting a Pet
Pets are character-specific. To obtain a pet you must use Charm animal on an animal.

Whenever a ranger has Charm Animal equipped, his pet will tag along when he is outside of cities and outposts.

Getting rid of your pet
It is not possible to charm a new animal while one already has a pet. The only way to get rid of a pet is to speak with Jarrel the Tamer (he can be found just outside post searing Ascalon City, or next to ranger Nente in Regent Valley (Pre-Searing)). The tamer may give a small amount of gold in exchange for an experienced pet (100 gold pieces for a level 20 pet). Giving up a pet at a tamer is final; there is no way to get it back.

Pet Rules

 * Pets are affected by skills that affect the whole party (for example, they are affected by Aegis).
 * Pets are a type of creature according to Edge of Extinction and other skills that target creatures.
 * A pet will always attack the same foe as its owner (sometimes with a delay).
 * Pets can get Death Penalty and Morale Boost. (?)
 * Pets can not be ressurected with Monk Skills, only with Comfort Animal or Revive Animal.
 * When a pet dies, all of its owners' skills are disabled for 8 seconds.
 * When a pet dies, its location does not show as a grey dot on the compass.
 * If a pet isn't renamed (see below), its name may change as it levels up (i.e. a Melandru's Stalker will become a Playful Stalker).
 * Pets gain Experience and level up (with the max level being 20), just like its owner. A pet gains experience at the same rate as its master.

Pet Skills
It's also a good idea to bring along some other pet-related skills: Disrupting Lunge, Tiger's Fury, Call of Haste, Otyugh's Cry, Ferocious Strike, Symbiotic Bond, Bestial Pounce, Brutal Strike, Melandru's Assault, Predator's Pounce, Scavenger Strike, Maiming Strike, Comfort Animal, Feral Lunge, Revive Animal, Call of Protection, Symbiosis

Pet attacks
A pet's damage is relative to the amount of attribute points invested in his owner's Beast Mastery attribute (the graph is slightly sigmoidal, with its highest ascension around 13 Beast Mastery).

Different types of pets do different types of physical damage. Slashing damage is dealt by Piercing damage is dealt by Blunt damage is dealt by
 * Black Bears
 * Lynxes
 * Moa birds
 * Melandru's Stalkers
 * Wolves
 * Spiders
 * Lizards
 * Striders
 * Warthogs

Commands
A pet can be given an individual name with the commands "/namepet " or "/petname ". A pet's name can be up to 12 characters long. Note that an individual name will also carry over to a new pet.