Patch Notes – 2.1.0.32

This update marks the most extensive balance pass and overhaul to pet gameplay we’ve ever made.

Currently, there are 36 tameable pets with Beast Mastery abilities, each featuring 4 abilities. In total, there are 144 Beast Mastery abilities, each with its own set of stats for damage, focus costs, and applied buffs.

Nearly all Beast Mastery abilities have been updated, resulting in over 500 value changes. Every creature has received individual attention, with each one being adjusted to better fit specific combat or utility roles.

• You can no longer set your pet to attacking or use beast mastery skills if you do not have enough pet points to control it.
• Removed the “Focus Required” mechanic from Beast Mastery abilities (which was set to 500 Focus for every ability). All abilities now only have a Focus Cost.
• Pets now gain XP when close (within 30m) to their owner who gains Glory from combat.
• All pets now have different amounts of experience required to level up. Weaker and more easily obtained pets require less experience per level than stronger and harder to obtain pets.
• Pet experience gained per passive tick is now always the same, loyalty or if it’s in combat does not affect this. Animal care still increases the frequency of this passive tick.
• (non-ritual) Pet attacks which don’t require focus now deal 25% damage (previously 50%), up to 50% damage (previously 100%) based on Beast Mastery skill level.
• Pets now always gain focus if below their focus threshold.
• How much Focus your pet has no longer affects damage dealt by passive pet attacks.
• When using a Beast Mastery ability which requires a target, you no longer have to tell your pet to attack the target first before triggering the ability. Instead your pet will update its attack target to whatever you told it to use the ability on.
• When using a Beast Mastery ability which buffs your pet, it no longer needs to be in combat to activate the ability.
• You no longer have to aim at your pet when it is attacking for it to gain maximum focus per tick.
• Pets now always gain focus above their focus threshold if they are either in combat or being ridden.
• Beast Mastery skill now adds +45 focus per tick at level 100, added to the base amount of +5 focus per tick. This means Focus will tick up at a rate of 50 at 100 Beast Mastery skill.
• Focus gain is now no longer doubled when targeting your pet or your pet’s target during combat.
• Fixed issue where Pet Leveling did not update your available pet points.
• Pets that get told to use a pet skill that targets the pet itself like a buff will no longer start attacking the target the player has.
• Celaeno Echolocation now correctly adds a skill to its owner when used. Previously this only worked on Alvarin players.
• Decreased amount of hunger gained by reptiles with the ability “Active Regeneration” from 200 to 100
• Increased Rabies stamina regeneration reduction from 40% to 50%
• Poison damage now ticks damage every 3 seconds instead of 5
• Fixed bug where queued AI attacks would only reset upon dealing damage to their target.