| FailedLilCatGod |
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Hello everyone!
First, some context. A few weeks ago I began building an Oracle with the Ancestors mystery and was looking for ways to efficiently make use of all my actions regardless of what ancestor was aiding me that turn. At some point I ended up looking into the beastmaster and that sent me down this rabbit hole!
On an initial read of the companions I was simply looking at their stats and what not, when it suddenly dawned on me! Some of the support benefits suffer from some ambiguous wording while some others specifically require strikes to trigger. This didnt seem right, I thought, so I took it to Discord to ask for some extra opinions from some lovely people and that prompted a small debate.
The summary was a sort of consensus on the fact that the ambiguous wording on the support benefits intend to make use of strikes to trigger, but with very broad interpretations one could make the case that they work on spells as well. With an errata soon in the horizon this pushed me to make this post.
My intent with this post is to make the case in favor of rewording some of the support benefits to work with spells without any ambiguity. Bar one interpretation (The horse in particular could be very broken if it was allowed to work with spells as is written) I think it would be an overall benefit to the game and promote even more build diversity given the fact that the beastmaster dedication gives easy access to an animal companion for any class, martial and spellcaster alike!
Tl;Dr: Making a post to argue in favor of support benefits triggering off of spells.