We will not include 3rd-party content, including content from DMs Guild, in handbooks for official content because we can’t assume that your game will allow 3rd-party content or homebrew. RPGBOT uses the color coding scheme which has become common among Pathfinder build handbooks, which is simple to understand and easy to read at a glance. With these changes, it’s a very satisfying way to live out the trope and still feel like you’re meaningfully contributing to combat in an optimized way. The Primal Companion “optional” feature is essentially a complete replacement of the mechanics of the subclass that fixes the entire problem. Requiring your action every turn to perform the basic function of your identity is a crippling design decision, and it took WotC a long time to do something about that.

This subclass has a troubled past as, on release, it was practically unusable. We see this archetype everywhere: in stories, in movies, in video games, and in DnD 5e as the Beast Master Ranger. A character and their animal companion acting in almost supernatural unison as a fighting style.