Soulbeast

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"Two hearts fighting as one."

Soulbeasts gain the ability to merge with their pet, channeling their power and the ability to use their beast skills. One with your pet, you are fierce in melee-focused combat.

— In-game description

Soulbeast is an elite specialization for the ranger unlocked with the Path of Fire expansion. Soulbeasts share a bond so strong with their pets that they can become one in body and spirit by entering Beastmode. In this state, their pets do not have a physical form, and instead aid the soulbeast by improving their attributes and giving them access to three new skills similar to their own pet skills.

Soulbeasts have learned to adopt animal stances to gain positive effects for their duration. They can wield daggers in their main hand, light, agile weapons to bite and tear at their foes. Soulbeasts focus on damage dealing but can opt to provide some support by sharing their stances with their allies.

List of soulbeast skills

See also: List of ranger skills

Profession mechanic

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Grant me your strength, my friend.

— Soulbeast

The soulbeast's profession mechanic is Beastmode, which replaces their pet control skills with new ones based on the pet they merge with. While in Beastmode the F1 and F2 skills are determined by the pet family and the F3 skill is determined by the pet's Archetype.

#	Skill			Description
F5	Beastmode		10	Meld with your pet.
F5	Leave Beastmode			Separate from your pet.

#	Skill	Pet			Description
F1	Lunge	Aether Hunter	0.75¾	8	Lunge forward, crippling opponents in the path.
F2	Ley-Line Vortex	Aether Hunter	30.5½	20	Spin around, creating a vortex of ley-line energy around you that strikes and inflicts conditions on enemies.
F1	Protection	Armored Fish		30	Apply protection to yourself.
F2	Chomp	Armored Fish	0.5½	12	Chomp your foe to deal damage and heal yourself.
F1	Bite	Bear	0.5½	10	Bite your foe to recover health.
F2	Defy Pain	Bear	0.25¼	40	You receive no damage from incoming attacks. You remain susceptible to conditions and controlling effects.
F1	Swoop	Bird	0.5½	10	Swoop at your foe, making them vulnerable.
F2	Quickening Screech	Bird		15	Grant swiftness to nearby allies and remove movement-impairing conditions from them.
F1	Rain of Spikes	Bristleback	0.75¾	18	Launch spikes at all nearby foes.
F2	Sharpen Spines	Bristleback		30	The next several hits apply extra bleeding stacks.
F1	Crippling Leap	Canine	0.75¾	10	Leap at your foe and cripple them.
F2	Brutal Charge	Canine	0.75¾	20	Leap at your foe and knock them down.
F1	Electrocute	Sky-Chak Striker	0.5½	10	Zap enemies in the target area with electric beams.
F2	Spit Goop	Sky-Chak Striker	0.75¾	15	Spit goop toward your target, crippling enemies.
F1	Tail Lash	Devourer	0.5½	20	Push back a foe with your tail.
F2	Devourer Retreat	Devourer	0.75¾	15	Retreat by tunneling through the ground.
F1	Chomp	Drake	0.5½	10	Bite a foe and gain health.
F2	Tail Swipe	Drake	0.5½	15	Attack all surrounding foes with a tail swipe.
F1	Crippling Anguish	Fanged Iboga	0.5½	10	Launch a projectile that inflicts conditions.
F2	Narcotic Spores	Fanged Iboga	0.75¾	15	Spit a glob of confusing spores at a foe, inflicting confusion for a while at that location.
F1	Bite	Feline	0.5½	8	Bite your foe for severe damage.
F2	Maul	Feline		16	Slash a foe multiple times and make them bleed.
F2	Phase Pounce	White Tiger	0.75¾	15	Leap through a rift in the Mists, shadowstepping briefly to the target's location and inflicting damage and conditions.
F1	Call Lightning	Jacaranda	0.75¾	15	Calls lightning to a small area.
F2	Photosynthesize	Jacaranda	1	20	Restore health, gain regeneration, and remove conditions.
F1	Healing Cloud	Jellyfish	0.25¼	25	Release a cloud of mist to regenerate you and your allies.
F2	Dark Water	Jellyfish	1	40	Blind foes near your target with a dark cloud.
F1	Harmonic Cry	Moa	0.5½	25	Heal yourself and nearby allies.
F2	Frenzied Attack	Moa	1	20	Attack with a pecking frenzy and make your foe vulnerable.
F1	Dash	Juvenile Phoenix	0.5½	15	Charge forward, leaving behind a trail of wind energy that detonates shortly afterward.
F2	Wing Buffet	Phoenix	0.5½	25	Launch your foe backward with mighty wing beats.
F1	Maul	Porcine, Wallow	0.5½	12	Maul your foes and make them bleed.
F2	Brutal Charge	Porcine	0.75¾	30	Charge your foes and knock them down.
F1	Kick	Rock Gazelle	0.5½	8	Kick your enemy.
F2	Charge	Rock Gazelle	1	12	Charge at your target.
F1	Charging Bite	Shark	10.75¾	20	Charge your foe, striking multiple times and inflicting bleeding.
F2	Fear	Shark	0.5½	40	Make your foe flee in fear.
F1	Takedown	Smokescale	0.75¾	10	Cripple your target with a powerful strike.
F2	Smoke Assault	Smokescale		20	Conceal yourself and lash out at nearby foes. Gain might each time you damage a foe.
F1	Staring Void	Spinegazer	0.75¾	12	Blast demonic energy in front of you, inflicting conditions on enemies it hits.
F2	Tormenting Visions	Spinegazer	20.25¼	15	Send distressing thoughts to your enemy to torment them.
F1	Entangling Web	Spider	0.5½	20	Shoot a web, immobilizing your foe.
F2	Poison Gas	Spider	0.5½	15	Spit a ball of venom that covers an area with a poisonous cloud.
F1	Slam	Turtle	0.75¾	25	Leap and knock nearby foes back.
F2	Heavy Shot	Turtle	1	20	Shoot a jade missile at your target that dazes nearby enemies on impact.
F1	Vampiric Bite	Wallow	0.5½	5	Bite your foe, siphoning health.
F2	Undead Plague	Wallow	1	20	Covers the area around you in noxious fumes that poisons foes. Poison duration is increased on disabled foes.
F1	Battle Maul	Warclaw	1	10	Pounce on foes.
F2	Bop	Warclaw	0.5½	14	Smack your foes to knock them down.
F1	Tail Lash	Wyvern	0.5½	12	Sweep your foes along the ground, crippling them.
F2	Wing Buffet	Phoenix	0.5½	25	Launch your foe backward with mighty wing beats.

#	Skill	Archetype			Description
F3	Unflinching Fortitude	Stout	0.25¼	35	Beast. Shrug off all movement-impairing conditions and become unflinching in the face of normal attacks.
F3	Primal Cry	Deadly	10.25¼	20	Beast. Tap into your primal essence and unleash a debilitating roar.
F3	Prelude Lash	Versatile	0.25¼	25	Beast. Pull foes toward you and bind them briefly.
F3	Worldly Impact	Ferocious	0.75¾	25	Beast. Jump up and slam the ground beneath you, severely damaging nearby foes.
F3	Spiritual Reprieve	Supportive	1	35	Beast. Restore health to your allies and grant them a reprieve from conditions.

Weapon skills

#	Skill			Description
Dagger
1	Groundwork Gouge	0.25¼		Swipe past your foe's defenses, exposing their vulnerability.
1	Leading Swipe	0.25¼		Rake your dagger across your foe, leaving them bleeding.
1	Serpent Stab	0.25¼		Slash across your foe, poisoning them.
1	Deadly Delivery	0.25¼		Strike deeply into your foe, inflicting multiple conditions.
2	Double Arc	0.75¾	7	Rip your blade through your foe twice, inflicting heavy bleeding. Your pet's next two strikes inflict poison.
3	Instinctive Engage	0.75¾	12	Leap forward and slash at your foe. Gain quickness if you successfully strike.

Slot skills

Healing

Skill				Description
Bear Stance		0.75¾	25	Stance. Heal yourself and your pet. Lose conditions while in this stance, healing for each condition lost.

Utility

Skill				Description
Dolyak Stance			25	Stance. Enter a defensive stance and remove conditions that impede movement. Prevent application of such conditions while in this stance.
Griffon Stance		1	25	Stance. Evade and gain endurance. Your endurance recovery is greatly improved. You gain might and superspeed when you evade attacks.
Moa Stance			25	Stance. Gain boons. Increase the duration of boons you grant while in this stance.
Vulture Stance			30	Stance. While in this stance, striking a foe inflicts poison and grants you might. This effect can occur once per interval.

Elite

Skill				Description
One Wolf Pack		0.25¼	60	Stance. Your successful attacks will trigger a second strike while in this stance. This effect can occur once per interval.

List of soulbeast traits

See also: List of ranger traits

Tier	Trait		Description
Minor Proficiency	Dagger Proficiency		You can wield a dagger in your main hand.
Minor Adept	Elevated Bond		Gain access to Stances. Survival in the desert has enhanced your connection to your pet, granting you the ability to meld with them by entering beastmode. Traits that affect your pet may affect you differently while in beastmode.
Major Adept	Fresh Reinforcement		Entering beastmode grants you the boons affecting your pet.
Major Adept	Live Fast		Using a Beast ability grants you offensive boons.
Major Adept	Unstoppable Union		Entering beastmode grants boons and removes movement-impairing conditions.
Minor Master	Furious Strength		You deal increased strike damage while you have fury.
Major Master	Second Skin		Conditions inflict less damage to you while you have protection.
Major Master	Essence of Speed	5	Gaining quickness increases the duration of other boons affecting you.
Major Master	Predator's Cunning		When you apply poison to a foe, steal some health from them.
Minor Grandmaster	Twice as Vicious		Disabling a foe increases your damage and condition damage for a short duration.
Major Grandmaster	Eternal Bond		Heal when you use a merged skill. You can swap pets while merged.
Major Grandmaster	Leader of the Pack		Stance skills gain increased duration on you and grant their effects to nearby allies for a reduced duration.
Major Grandmaster	Oppressive Superiority		Deal increased damage to foes at a lower health percentage than you. Conditions you apply to foes at a lower health percentage than you last longer.

Pet Family

Each pet is categorized by family, defining the F1 and F2 Skills while in Beastmode.

Family	F1 Skill	F2 Skill	Environment
Aether Hunter	Lunge	Ley-Line Vortex	Terrestrial
Armor Fish	Protection	Chomp	Aquatic
Bear	Bite	Defy Pain	Amphibious
Bird	Swoop	Quickening Screech	Terrestrial
Bristleback	Rain of Spikes	Sharpen Spines	Terrestrial
Canine	Crippling Leap	Brutal Charge	Terrestrial
Chak	Electrocute	Spit Goop	Terrestrial
Devourer	Tail Lash	Devourer Retreat	Amphibious
Drake	Chomp	Tail Swipe	Amphibious
Fanged Iboga	Crippling Anguish	Narcotic Spores	Terrestrial
Feline	Bite	Maul •   Phase Pounce (White Tiger)	Amphibious
Jacaranda	Call Lightning	Photosynthesize	Terrestrial
Jellyfish	Healing Cloud	Dark Water	Aquatic
Moa	Harmonic Cry	Frenzied Attack	Terrestrial
Phoenix	Dash	Wing Buffet	Terrestrial
Porcine	Maul	Brutal Charge	Terrestrial
Rock Gazelle	Kick	Charge	Terrestrial
Shark	Charging Bite	Fear	Aquatic
Smokescale	Takedown	Smoke Assault	Terrestrial
Demon	Staring Void	Tormenting Visions	Terrestrial
Spider	Entangling Web	Poison Gas	Terrestrial
Turtle	Slam	Heavy Shot	Terrestrial
Wallow	Vampiric Bite	Undead Plague	Terrestrial
Warclaw	Battle Maul	Bop	Terrestrial
Wyvern	Tail Lash	Wing Buffet	Terrestrial

Pet Archetypes

Soulbeasts categorize pets by archetypes. The pet archetype defines the bonuses a Soulbeast will get when using Beast Mode, as well as the Soulbeast Beast skill, which defaults to F3.

Archetype	Stout	Deadly	Versatile	Ferocious	Supportive
Attribute Bonus	+200  Toughness +100  Vitality	+150  Condition Damage +100  Precision	+200  Vitality +225  Concentration	+150  Power +100  Ferocity	+100  Vitality +25% Outgoing Healing
Soulbeast Beast skill	Unflinching Fortitude	Primal Cry	Prelude Lash	Worldly Impact	Spiritual Reprieve
Bear	Black Bear	Murellow	Polar Bear	Arctodus	Brown Bear
Bird		Hawk	Raven White Raven	Eagle	Owl
Canine	Alpine Wolf	Wolf	Krytan Drakehound	Hyena	Fern Hound
Devourer		Carrion Devourer	Whiptail Devourer	Lashtail Devourer
Drake	Ice Drake	Salamander Drake	Reef Drake	River Drake	Marsh Drake
Feline	Snow Leopard White Tiger	Lynx	Jaguar Cheetah	Tiger Sand Lion	Jungle Stalker
Jellyfish		Blue Jellyfish Rainbow Jellyfish	Red Jellyfish
Moa	Blue Moa		Pink Moa Black Moa	Red Moa	White Moa
Porcine	Siamoth	Warthog	Boar	Pig
Spider		Forest Spider	Jungle Spider Black Widow Spider	Cave Spider
Wyvern		Fire Wyvern	Electric Wyvern
Unique	Armor Fish	Fanged Iboga Bristleback Shark Spinegazer	Aether Hunter	Phoenix Smokescale Rock Gazelle Sky-Chak Striker Warclaw	Jacaranda Siege Turtle Wallow

Lore

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The bond between a soulbeast and their pet is so strong that they can become one in spirit. By channeling their pet, they become a single entity, attacking with fanglike dagger strikes and using the abilities of their companion and its archetype.

— Official site

Associated items

• Superior Rune of the Soulbeast
• Soulbeast Pads
• Soulbeast's Dagger
• Fang of Mokèlé
• Mini Soulbeast Ebeleke Eze

Related achievements

• Specializations: Adept Soulbeast — Begin training the ranger's soulbeast elite specialization. (5)
• Specializations: Master Soulbeast — Completely train the ranger's soulbeast elite specialization. (10)
• Specialization Collections: Fang of Mokèlé — Collect these 14 items and skins to receive the soulbeast's dagger, Fang of Mokèlé. (3)

Gallery

Promotional material

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  Wallpaper

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  Concept art

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  Still frame from the reveal video

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  Promotional official icon

Icons

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  Official icon

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  Wiki icon

Notes

• Soulbeast's Dagger auto-chain is the only auto-chain in the game currently with more than three skills.
• Using pet abilities while in Beastmode will not affect the pet's own ability cool-downs.
• The Soulbeast NPC Ebelek Eze can be found near the Lair of the Forgotten Waypoint in The Desolation.
• Skills that affect your pet will instead be applied to you if merged.

Trivia

• The Soulbeast required substantial new technical development, which made it difficult to implement. Specific challenges included the visuals of the pet disappearing and flowing into the Soulbeast, and the translation of pet skills onto the player character's animations and scaling.
• The Soulbeast's utility skills are stances based on animals, much like some real life martial arts stances and forms.
• The double striking mechanic of One Wolf Pack was originally designed for the Spellbreaker. The developers instead gave it to the Soulbeast as it seemed conceptually appropriate to strike twice while merged with a pet.

External links

• Guild Wars 2: Path of Fire Elite Specializations—Soulbeast (Ranger)

References

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