Charm Animal

This article is about Charm Animal. For other uses, see Charm Animal (disambiguation).

Skill. Charm target animal. Once charmed, your animal companion will travel with you whenever you have Charm Animal equipped. You cannot charm an animal that is more than 4 levels above you.

Charm Animal

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Profession

Ranger

Attribute

Beast Mastery

Type

Skill

Campaign

Core

Skill. Charm target animal. Once charmed, your animal companion will travel with you whenever you have Charm Animal equipped. You cannot charm an animal that is more than 4 levels above you.

Concise description

Skill. Charm target animal. Once charmed, your animal companion will travel with you whenever you have Charm Animal equipped. You cannot charm an animal that is more than 4 levels above you.

Acquisition

Skill quests

• Prophecies
  • The Ranger's Companion (Regent Valley - pre-Searing)
  • Endangered Species (Old Ascalon)
• Factions
  • Locate Sujun (Shing Jea Monastery)
• Nightfall
  • Primary Training (Churrhir Fields)
  • Choose Your Secondary Profession (Churrhir Fields)

Skill trainers

• Prophecies
  • Halbrik (Ascalon City - pre-Searing)
  • Sir Bertran (Ascalon City)
  • Dakk (Ember Light Camp)
• Factions
  • Michiko (Kaineng Center)
• Nightfall
  • Tohn (Kamadan, Jewel of Istan)

Profession changers

• Core
  • Profession Changer (Great Temple of Balthazar)
• Prophecies
  • Telius (Seeker's Passage)
• Factions
  • Senji (Senji's Corner)
• Nightfall
  • Zuwarah (Command Post)

Related skills

• File:Comfort Animal.jpg Comfort Animal
• File:Heal as One.jpg Heal as One (elite)

Notes

• This skill will activate only if you do not have an animal companion and the target is a charmable animal.
  • It can target friendly and hostile creatures, but not allies nor animals already charmed to be pets.
  • If you try to use it on an invalid target, it will fail to activate (and you will see the relevant error message in red text).
• Once an animal is charmed, there is no special value to bringing this skill over Comfort Animal or Heal as One in PvE.
• Although this skill is unaffected by your rank in Beast Mastery, your pet's attacks benefit from a higher rank and you recover more quickly if your pet dies.
• Even if you replace this skill with another (e.g. a mission-specific skill such as Disarm Trap), your pet will remain with you. If you rezone and retain the replacement skill, the pet will not zone with you.
• PvE characters and heroes have to charm their own pets; PvP players start off with an Elder Wolf.
• Be careful when charming a pet with nearby heroes or henchmen: the target will become hostile and could be killed. To prevent this, flag your allies farther away and/or set heroes to avoid combat.
• There are six special versions of this skill, notably the one used in the Codex Arena.

Anomaly.Although technically considered a pet, occasionally a charmed animal will retain the red wording associated with a hostile enemy just after completing the charm animal skill.

See also

• Animal companion
• Beast Mastery

Trivia

• This has the longest activation out of all the skills usable by players.
• Before the Fourth Anniversary Update, you could charm animals of any level.
• This was originally the only skill you could equip to bring a pet. Comfort Animal became the second such skill in the August 6, 2009 game update and Heal as One was added on February 25, 2010.
• This skill has changed since its introduction; see its skill revision history for details.
• During early alpha testing, this skill was called "Charm Lynx", as mentioned by an alpha tester in the Photics e-zine issue #3 of March 2004. Issue #4 of the e-zine implies that the Lynx was the only charmable pet at this point in alpha testing, hence the skill name. This also explains the skill icon depicting a Lynx.