The greatest tragedy about the mounted combat is that giant centipedes cannot be ridden anymore. It was in the beta. And this should be amended sooner rather than later, given that RAW let's small characters indeed mount them.

Everyone's a badass until they see a velociraptor cast fireball before sprinting 80 feet towards them.

Nice as always, but I would like to add some considerations here: 1) bully is not wasted on an animal with trip attack, you get a +2 bonus on trip attemps and opens up for feats that increase those bonuses even further. 2) when mounting, you van do a full attack even if you moved with your mount! 3) gnomes are also small size and can ride medium mounts. Also, using reduce person can make you mount when you are reduced. 4) using armor on your animals will have a maximum dex applied to AC, so usually bracers of protection (or mage armor) is the way to go, since your animals usually have a sky high dex. So bulwark is really very situational.

Its honestly the best time to start making guides for WoTR again now that the console port is coming out soon, im sure there will be quite a few new and returning players who will be somewhat lost on what to do or are confused.

An important note: you must manually select the mounted animal companion to make it stealth. If you have the party selected using group hotkeys and such. Activating stealth only applies to the rider and not the mount. I have foiled my attempts at positioning myself for a good and clear charge. By moving without the mount being stealthed on multiple occasions.

The Sacred Huntmaster Inquisitor is a fun choice for getting an animal companion. At 3rd level they share all teamwork feats with their companion without the companion needing the requirements for it so no need to wait to get 3 intelligence on your companion.

Halflings make for my favorite mounted combatant just cause they get a bit more options when it comes to mounts. You can either mount Medium creatures early or get to ride things like raptors and lizards that start small and grow to medium when they grow up. May not be the most optimal, but it's loads of fun!

As of the latest patch all animal companions with only 1 base attack will earn additional attacks via BAB scaling as they level. Not just the raptor.

Your videos on Wrath actually just saved me so much time of helplessly studying the game cause of poor in-game explanations into making the game right off the bat really enjoyable. Thank you so much. You can also tell you've been playing the game yourself so much cause you're explaining to us the things that the players rly do wonder about and don't know how the actual game mechanics work. IF by any chance you could do a video on which exotic weapons are worth it and explain how some weapons do 1d8+1d4 or whatever like gnome hooked...cause I still don't get it lmao, that'd be great :D! Much Love

Some things I’ve noticed that might be useful information for viewers: My Seelah with her horse while riding and attacking with a glaive usually gets in horse range when moving and attacking. That is to say the game ignores the glaives reach in order for the horse to attack. This is pretty consistent and only bugs when another character is in the way (the MC for example). Riders take AoO damage if you move from a threatened square even while riding. Seelah has died from this. Sometimes when moving and attacking, the mount makes a normal attack and Seelah gets to make a full attack. This is probably a bug but happens consistently. The trip feat from Bully gives the animal a bonus to trip CM and is useful even if the animal gets a free trip

I'd also recommend the Ranger for mounted combat, since their companions also get their favored enemy and terrain bonus and they can buff them with spells.

animal companions can still cast via scrolls via Use Magic Device and I would say it is actually rather useful. Especially if you already have a character in your party covering the other skills. Offensive casting is not gonna be great but it quite useful for getting personal buffs onto your animal companions, such as shield or longstrider etc.

The triceratops statue is awesome for casters especially healers. Giving great mobility and you can use full actions and still move.

Not sure about other animals but Triceratops actually have reach on their attack once they hit lvl 7 and become large. Or at least they attack from reach distance, even if it's not technically reach. So if you want to use a reach weapon like a glaive while mounted, this is an option.

I really like the Leopard as it gets both trip and pounce and its really high dex gives it great ac. Also, while I only do this in TotMI dlc, trickery also works on pets. Edit: forgot to mention that to get the pet to disarm/pick locks you have to select it manually

Perception is always nice to have extra rolls on, but unless you're on lower difficulties or take perception feats, the animal companion probably won't have a high enough to notice anything

Its a great feature of the game, even though i sometimes felt like I had a Zoo party going through the game. My first playthrough was Legend path, dual classing cavalier and two hand fighter and took animal companion Smilodon, basically a Sabertooth tiger that I was able to put armor on and ride into battle. I played on turn based gameplay in my 1st playthrough and mounted combat is one of things you can do to make the game much easier. Once im done with Kingmaker i will play through Wotr once again as an evil Judge, and use triceritops as mount. The game itself is unreal all because of these great features and options in them .

I used to make a leopard my primary lockpicker/trap disabler by putting points into trickery and skill focus. You have to select the pet directly when lockpicking or trap disabling. That way I didn't need a dex based rogue type in my group and could focus my companions in different directions.

Two things could be important, too. First the size increase for the animal companions doesn't stack with animal growth. So the only creature that really gets larger is the horse (the other will still get the stat bonus) so if you want to ride while under "Frightfull aspect" or 2enlarge person" you need to pick a horse. Second, this seems obvious but is worth mentioning, too. Additional bites are considered as a primary weapon if you have only natural attacks. So you can use your demondancer skald to give every animal companion two extra primary attacks. But be aware that unlike other companions Ivu has an alignment, so he will take up to 24d6 damage every turn (or every second outside combat)

Leopard is a great mount for Regill as a Cavalier. It uses dex for damage bonus down the road, and gets free trip. Also, Daeran can get an Animal Companion by adding the Nature mystery and taking the Animal Companion revelation. A great way to speed him up in combat and give him good armor without slowing him down.

Great video, I finally undersrtand why I was not able to mount my Mastodon while playing druid until level 7 :) Thank you :)

One bonus for Velociraptor, is it's Charisma bonus (i know, sounds dumb but wait for the explanation...). For the Hunter Archetype Divine Hunter, they can be Celestial, and get smite evil, and they add their charisma bonus to attack rolls and their HD to damage. (Velociraptor was one of my favorite animal companions)

A crpg dlc ranking would be an awesome video, if there is not one already, great work as usual.

One key feature of the mounts that I always found useful is after moving my melee guys can use their full round action attack which is pretty huge. For that reason it is very rare for me to use melee without mount. In turn based it is pretty nice at least.

Cool. the getting up close with the reach weapon during mounted combat was the most helpful.

Thanks for this! For the life of me I could not figure out how to mount my animal companion!

Thanks Just want to make a spear build character because I love polearms

For theme reasons i actually like to respec Wenduag as Wandering marksman hunter and give her centipede as a pet. It isnt optimal but thematically it fits and wandering marksman actually benefit from being some distance from their pet

I will absolutely say that I find the extra movement worth having a companion alone. And the other thing you mentioned is mounts having higher AC helping out a lot with survivability for low AC character builds. I gravitate a lot towards low maintenance builds so you won't find me stacking a million buffs, if any at all. -One of my favorite strategies is opening combat with a ranged build and then moving all of my mounted allies either on top of the enemies or at least in between the enemy and the ranged attacker. And then watch all the attacks of opportunity in the next round as the enemies race towards the ranged attacker. -I also find the mobility extremely helpful when they rush ranged attackers to get attacks of opportunity when they try to cast or use a bow. This works really well on melee attackers who self buff before they attack. I really should try it with a longer melee reach weapon. Am I missing the ranges of the reach weapons? I recall seeing it in Kingmaker but not Wrath...

I just made a dual wielding halfling who rides a velociraptor and its probably not the most effective character but everyime i look at him chasing demons down it makes me smile

i think you've left the most important part out: can we name our beloved animal companions? what about customization? can we pick or change portraits? custom portraits? can we change the colour of their fur? or eyes? TOE BEANS???

Kitsune cavaliers on smilodons are the best. Gotta love the casual double pounce at once one with extra damage from charging on a mount with a spear ( shortspear best because it can be used with dex with feats) that just deletes the targeted unit and can sometimes kill several units with the rest of your full attack and if it doesn’t kill multiple settling for killing one and tripping another is fine.

This was incredibly useful, thanks

After an update, your trip attack is working as intended. Combined with Tendon Rip Feat it can give attack of opportunities, add with feat with add extra attack opportunities your pet is OP. Add more outflank with another pets l, your pet will be the kain DPS or tank, I have tried that and my sorcerer almost do nothing except buffing.

You passed over trickery in the skills part, high dex animals make for great rogues that can open locks for you and free up a skill point. Kitty burglars!

In my latest playthrough I decided to try a 'majority mounted' party, by giving all my melee combatants an animal companion they can mount, usually by giving them a level of cavalier (Or adding a domain to Sosiel through mythic). It works incredibly well early and mid game, at least up to Core, but falters late game, as the survivability of them is a detriment. Still, they have their use as a quick deployment/delivery system for those characters that are multi attack monsters, like Regill, Woljiff, Camellia or melee Wenduag, (especially the slow moving Regill), by letting them get into combat very quickly, and even bypassing the enemy frontline to take out the enemy support/spellcasters, as well as making their full set of attacks after moving. Just need to remember to use a move action to get them *off* the mount before it dies and leaves them prone.

I’ve been loving playing a glaive flurying, triceratops mounted sohehi with a level in hunter to get the pet of choice. The large reach of the glaive paired with the size of the triceratops means my guy can attack so many enemies especially when flurying with a pole arm.

Nature mystery as an Oracle, my wolf is a Bulwark with 50+ ac at level 12 with my Oracle/Angels 24 hour buffs. It’s a great way to make a melee Oracle a blast.

This is great, and I'm glad I watched the updated video. Any chance at a updated crusade guide?

I've been having a lot of fun with my halfling barbarian, her mastodon and greataxe. Charging around like crazy "one-shotting" enemies left and right.

Im on my first playthrough (playing in core), and it is crazy how much pets change the game. My rogue strolls up on a freaking tricertops, touches 1-2 enemies who explode into red mist instantly, and laughs as ppl poke his dino untill the next round when he touches them 😂

Thank you for this gread summary. Never thought about using animal companions or mounts, might try it some time. One thing I would like to see in your videos though is less Aasimar. 😅

10:30 I pretty sure wolfs and dogs also get more attacks with BAB

I played a Cavalier on my first and only playthrough, and it was epic, when the charge actually worked.

Excellent info, danke! Great point about the reach weapon - pretty sure I've been mucking that up. The lost movement to terrain is really, really frustrating. Hopefully it's better in later Acts, but early on, that happened to me a *lot* :(

9:09 The scrolls thing could make for a hilariously contemptuous way to kill boss enemies. "I'm not going to fight you. I'm going to have my menagerie of horses, bears, and dogs read low level scrolls at you while you beg for a clean ending." :D

might try out an inquisitor in my next playthrough. They get a lot of teamwork feats so a animal companion would work well with them.

I loved "Kingmaker" but always asked myself while traveling why there where no mounts in this game :D

Wish you make a video explaining different feats, what they do and when they are good

Need to make a challenge build called The Pursuasion Centipede

I wish I knew that with the centipede before. Well I hope i can change my animal companion later or I need to start a new run. Very informative video! Thanks for the quality content.

Not sure what your plans are before enhanced edition comes out but maybe you can run down one class and it’s archetype. Maybe even add what’s your favorite archetype with it and how you would build it and it’s companions/mercenaries (to go more in depth about it). Just a suggestion if you’re looking for something to do. Thanks again for your videos!

My favorite animal companion is the Boar. It's always been and always will be.

Well done as always

I found my giant centipede soo helpful on hard. Its my Lanns companion and when it did proc its skill, reducing enemies dex by 3 was soo helpful

This game is so confusing to me. I wish I knew wtf I was doing. Your guides are definitely helping. Thanks for the great content

This is a nice topic!

i started a halfling cavalier after watching this :D thanks lol

Just the guide I was looking for! Thanks for all the great content.

i searched for this video a month ago. :D My biggest question was how many companions can you have. But found the answer with your horses in the azlanti challange. :D Fore sure mounts are a lifesaver in terms of weight limit.

Forgot to mention cavaliers got pretty OP bonuses with Azata path.

Man I had avoided mounts/animal companions because I thought they took up one of the companion slots, I didn't know they give you an extra for them!

I don't know if anyone will even see this since it's an old video, but I have a question. I keep seeing how powerful animal companions are. Some even say animal companion classes are the most powerful. But when I look up 'most powerful classes' or 'classes ranked', animal companion classes are rarely at the top of the list. Are some classes more powerful than animal companion classes? Or are the people making these lists just separating the two?

Hey kinda off topic question but on harder difficulties do enemies start using bs like phantasmal killer and weird. I've been hit with phantasmal web but none of the instant death ones. If it did that sounds turbo aids to play against cause they could oneshot your mc and game over.

Thanks for the guide. Im playing a mounted combat paladin on my first playthrough. Kinda wish azata worked with pally though, always wanted a pally with a dragon mount

This game has been sitting in my Steam library for a while, so these guides have been nice to give me a little head start in what I'm getting into. Several things mentioned here remind me of an old halfling cavalier build I'd wanted to play in a real Pathfinder game. So in addition to what's here, is the Ride-By Attack a feat or ability you can get in the game? I'm curious to know if my halfling lancer idea actually does translate into this game that they can potentially charge every turn without having to actually stop next to the target.

And here I am, a neutral evil Dhampir Druid with a giant centipede pet ready to become the swarm that walks...or...trying to because I don't like being mean to characters I like 😢

I always taught my animal companions kung fu, aka the crane style feat series.

There is one positive to the gaint centpid it can't be mindcontroled just wanted to point that out.

What really sucks is that the Giant Centapede is literally the only animal companion I'm interested in. Finding out it's damage sucks because of poison AND I can't ride it means I'll never play a class that uses them.

Spirited Charge doesn't work for me, I see in my log that I got +2 to hit from charge, but no extra damage from Spirited Charge, do you (or anyone else) know if this is a common problem, and how you can fix it ?

I don't know if this is a bug or what. I created a beastrider dhamp and a triceratops pet. I can't mount it yet and there's no archetypes to choose for the pet and her hp is only 1. What's wrong with this?

Tested a couple animal companions, and unfortunately the free trip attack on gore introduced a few patches ago doesn't seem to be working for most animals, and the game still doesn't reflect the fact that they should. Boar and Mastadon seem to be the only ones that actually work according to reddit, but my Elk certainly didn't make any trip attempts, which is sad because it's my favourite

Time to start a new campaign as a halfling wizard on a triceratops

So i dont need boon companion when i start with a pet?

Guys, in my last playthrough (back when this game was released), I remember getting my hands on an item that, when equipped on any character, and used by him/her, this character would summon a dinosaur kind of thing and could use it as a mount, even if the charater's class didn't have access to pet/mount originally. So, my question is, are there other items like that in the game? Can someone list them to me?

If I go Azata Druid, do I get to have two animal companions? (+Bismuth)

If the animal companion is of the same level of the character, is it a waste to get the animal companion mythic boon thing?

Three Pathfinder WOTR questions: You said the latest DLC included monsters returning from the Kingmaker game Are the Wild Hunt part of those returning monsters? Is this new DLC "dungeon" just as uninspired as the Tenebrous Depths? The Tenebrous Depths were honestly the most boring dungeon I've ever crawled through, just an incoherent bunch of random monsters, not even much variation in them, with some elemental effects sprinkled on top, and even the effects got repeated several times. Compare that to Durlag's Tower or Watcher's keep which were interesting, made sense, had beautifully crafted maps and were a joy to explore. Watcher's Keep even had great and interesting unique loot, whereas the Tenebrous Depths had just a pile of worthless garbage. is there anything known about any future DLC for WOTR or is this the final one? And what's this "season 2" I heard about? I ask because I don't like playing "unfinished" games so I'm waiting until all the DLC and stuff is in place

Oh i am absolutely using my pet for scrolls XD

When is a horse not a horse? when it's a dragon. I gave Seela's horse the belt that turns your character into a black dragon III, not sure if it's a bug, but it works. Just imagine the group of demons youre fighting thinking the horse will make a nice appetizer when suddenly BOOM, its suddenly a dragon making an appetizer out of the demons.

Please help: Does the damage bonus from Spirited Charge stack with the damage bonus from using a Spear/Greatspear on horseback?

Is the arcane rider's arcane weapon ability supposed apply damage/effects to the mount's attack?

I wonder how racer interacts with trickster mobility.

I know it sounds silly but i would have loved mounted combat IF you could send the mount away for indoor/dungeon parts of the game. It is just killing immersion for me. Maybe give a little bonus if the mount is not used.

So.... I just started playing this game, and wanted to play a regular ass character and now im stuck with an animal companion I can not get rid of and it's the most annoying god damn thing ever. It moves slow as hell, makes combat extremely annoying, and I can not find any way to dismiss it, or just leave it behind.

I'm curious, how do you have acces to a black horse, black smilodon and blue triceratops?

Everyone who has the skillpoints should have perception

Wait how did you open their inventory and named them?!

You missed power attack which on animal comp is Awesome!

Great.... a second game where Smilodon is the one everyone is choosing. All my evil characters want to do is have a goddamn giant centipede. And now they're even more useless. Great... LOL Love when these games come to console. The one thing I do miss from PC, though.... custom portraits. Because these games have an abysmal selection when it comes to portraits.

Soo "dog" shares its top spot with the smilodon now. And the smilodon does get trip too, now? I'm asking because it just states "Bite & Claw Attacks". Nothing about "gore" or "trip" under "attack". In terms of archetypes many of them seem to loose their "multiattack" at level 9 that the base class and the "aggressor" sub class uses. Without much knowledge that seems to be a major drawback - atleast for pets that are meant to do as much damage as possible? I'd say either use the basic "non subclass" archetype if you want a good damage pet with some additional defensive (reflex) passives or the "aggressor" archetype for the most damage possible. Or am i missing something here?

Full party giant centipede challenge run.

kida dislike the fact that animal companions are this good. at coe and above you kinda need at least 1. this can be seelah's horse or daeran's wolf or ofc your own pet. their base AC is way higher then any human can get or you need to dip 8x in different classes for 1-2 levels and i like to go 1-2 classes max. i like the roleplaying aspect of it more then anything but you do you

What about mounting aivu?

"Almost everything in this game is immune to poison." People who rolled Assassin: (ノಠ益ಠ)ノ彡┻━┻

mounted companions can perform multi attack? It didn't let me when I played, was that a bug that was fixed?

I really liked letting my mount be it's own character in combat, instead of mounted. I found having yet another ally to flank, tank, pummel the enemy, made a LOT of fights that much easier to manage.

How are you able to access your companions info screen and inventory? I have been looking into this and I simply cannot in my game.

Will you cover Spellforce: Reforged?