Beastlord
Beastlord contributes a Warder, melee pressure, slows and support spells, and access to both martial stances and Wisdom-oriented invocations. The class package is valuable even when another active class supplies the primary tank or caster role.
Overview
Primary Role
Pet-centered hybrid melee, support, and Wisdom casting
Resource Profile
Mana and Endurance interact through spells, stances, and invocations.
Damage Profile
See Melee, Spells, and the class details below for the delivery families this class supplies.
Multiclass Function
The class contributes its skills, spells, passives, stance access, and invocation access to the active loadout; overlapping mechanics use their own cap and stacking rules.
Primary Attributes
- STR, DEX, and attack statistics affect personal meleeT2
- WIS and Mana support spell use
- STA and defensive statistics affect survival. Pet level, equipment, buffs, and the summon spell rank must be evaluated separately from owner attributes
For component definitions, see Stats & Attributes and Attack Resolution.
Class Details
Warder
The summoned Warder is a classed pet with equipment, skills, Mana, and spells. Developers demonstrated a Warrior-class Warder using Cleave. T1
Upgraded pet scaling
Each summon-spell rank adds pet level up to player level minus one, with official HP, damage, and skill increases per added level. T1
Pet spellcasting
July 7 granted Warders Mana and increased their melee capability; July 14 made upgraded pets cast at their upgraded level. T1
Persistent pet damage and off-tanking
A distinct class contribution that combines with other active-class mechanics according to the applicable stacking and cap rules.
Slow, buffs, healing, and hybrid spell utility
A distinct class contribution that combines with other active-class mechanics according to the applicable stacking and cap rules.
Divine and Spellblade invocation access
A distinct class contribution that combines with other active-class mechanics according to the applicable stacking and cap rules.
Broader pet equipment eligibility through the active loadout
A distinct class contribution that combines with other active-class mechanics according to the applicable stacking and cap rules.
Strengths by Level Range
These breakpoints identify spells, abilities, or skills that materially change the class’s damage, control, recovery, or group value. They are highlights rather than a complete spell list.T2
Levels 1–19
- The warder and early burst package provide damage from two actors (1: Wild Spirit, 12: Blast of Frost, 18: Spirit of the Blizzard).
- The early warder proc buff (18: Spirit of the Blizzard) is especially valuable when the pet maintains uninterrupted melee contact.
Levels 20–34
- Defensive skills and hybrid healing improve front-line uptime (20: Block, 30: Riposte, 34: Greater Healing).
- This range turns Beastlord from a pet-supported attacker into a more self-contained bruiser.
Levels 35–50
- Late pet procs, poison damage, healing, warder upgrades, and slowing create a complete sustained-DPS package (38: Spirit of the Scorpion, 40: Malaria, 41: Spiritual Light, 46: Spirit of Kashek, 50: Sha’s Lethargy).
- Upgraded warder spells also scale the summoned pet’s level and combat statistics under the current spell-upgrade rules.
Multiclass Synergy Boundaries
- What stacks
- Distinct skills, spells, passives, pets, utility, and stance/invocation access can combine when their own stacking rules permit.
- What does not automatically stack
- Duplicate crowd control, avoidance skills, buffs, and cap-based mechanics do not become additive merely because two classes grant them.
- Evaluation method
- Identify the mechanic supplied by Beastlord, link to its canonical rule, then compare marginal value against the other two active classes.
Developer Commentary
Official patch notes and developer demonstrations identify the following implemented changes or design boundaries. Statements about planned work remain provisional until shipped.
- July 7: Warders gained Mana and substantially stronger melee capability.T1
- July 14: upgraded pets persist across zoning and cast at their upgraded level.T1
Open Verification Questions
- Complete Warder class/race assignment rules
- Pet spell lists by summon rank and upgraded level
- Owner-versus-pet threat transfer and taunt behavior
Balance-sensitive: exact spell, discipline, AA, stance, and invocation values may change. This page centralizes stable class boundaries and sends numerical effects to their canonical reference pages.
