Companion's Bond

Companion's Bond is a Beast Master Ranger passive feature that enhances your companion.

Description

Your  Ranger's Companions receive a bonus to  Armour Class and damage equal to its  Proficiency Bonus.

Upgraded hit points and abilities for your companion and a new visual look.

How to learn

Classes:

• Class level 5: Beast Master

Used by creatures:

• Aranea Aculeata, Aranea Major, Corvus Celer, Corvus Major, Funglesby, Lupus Major, Lupus Optumus, Sharran Spider, Sharran Wolf, Sharran Wolf (Viconia), Ursa Ingens, Ursa Major, Verres Calamitosus, Verres Major

Notes

• If a companion is already active when the Ranger levels up to level 5, it receives this feature's upgrades and appearance change immediately. The Ranger does not need to re-summon it.

Bugs

• The in-game description says that the bonus scales with "your" (i.e. the Beast Master's) proficiency bonus, but in fact it uses the companion's proficiency bonus. This means the bonus will not increase to +4 until the final level 11 upgrade to your animal companion rather than at character level 9.
• Prior to the level 5 upgrade, animal companions will incorrectly have a proficiency bonus of 0 instead of +2. After the level 5 upgrade, the proficiency bonus will correctly increase to +3. Effectively, this means that at level 5, your animal companions will also receive an increase to their attack rolls equal to their proficiency bonus, but this is not actually part of this feature, merely a consequence of bugged proficiency bonus progression.