Beast Mastery

The Beast Mastery attribute reflects a Ranger's skill when using a pet. This is not a primary attribute and may be used by secondary rangers.

Guild Wars Description
Beast Mastery increases the damage dealt by your animal companion and its chance to inflict a critical hit. Many Ranger skills, especially those related to making your animal companion stronger, become more effective with higher Beast Mastery.

General Description
The Beast Mastery attribute increases the damage by a pet, disrupting enemy actions, providing your pet with defense and healing, symbiotically linking and the ability to extend the duration of a variety of conditions on a enemy through beast mastery skills.

Beast Mastery will decrease the cooldown time of the skill bar lock down time which happens as a pet dies and ressurected. See animal companion for more information.

Aswell as increasing the pets critical rate, the beast mastery attribute will add hidden damage by changing the Effective Damage Level (EffDL) if certain conditions are meet. For further information about this, see Damage Level.

Beast Mastery also consists of some nature rituals that provide a global effect to all non-spirit creatures.

Associated skills
Beast Mastery will enhance these listed beast mastery skills.