BeastScout

BeastScout shows hunters what a wild beast would make as a pet, right in its tooltip, and helps you find the best beasts and upgrades near you.

Beast tooltips

Hover any tameable beast to see:

• Attack speed your pet will have. In Forever it comes from the Faster/Slower Attack passive the beast carries (Faster Attack V = 1.3, no passive = 2.0), and the tooltip names it.
• Skills it teaches, with ranks.
• Family abilities and the pet level for each, plus diet.
• Pet food on item tooltips: whether your summoned pet will eat it.
• Upgrades for your current pet, e.g. Upgrade for Shalma: Claw 2 (new), or Claw 3 (at pet level 16) when your pet is too young.

Every value says where it came from: (you, tamed), (players, tamed x3) or (Handbook).

Your pet

Hover your own pet for its loyalty (with its level), happiness and whether loyalty is rising, and training points, including what the next loyalty step is worth.

The BeastScout window

Type /beastscout or click the minimap button:

• Upgrades for my pet: grouped by skill, the closest beasts that teach something your pet can use, with training point costs. Skills you've already learned say to train them at Beast Training instead.
• Fastest: the fastest beasts you can tame, any family (or fast cat, fast wolf…).
• Tank: tank families ranked by health and armor, with the closest one you can tame.
• Search a skill (bite 2), a family (cat), a beast's name (mystmane, or just shal), and more.
• Go puts a waypoint on your map. Beasts above your level are hidden.

Rare beast alert

When a rare tameable beast's nameplate shows up near you, BeastScout plays a sound and puts up an on-screen warning, so you don't walk past it. Rares that may not be tameable (not in the Hunter's Handbook) only get a quiet chat line. Needs enemy nameplates on (V). /beastscout find rares lists the rares you've seen, /beastscout alert turns the alert off, and /beastscout alert test tries it on your target.

Data that gets better as you play

BeastScout records what it sees: your tames (the pet's real abilities), Beast Lore, and your Beast Training list with real costs. Your own observations override the bundled data. Share them with /beastscout export and they're merged into everyone's next update. BeastScout players online also share with each other in game automatically, guild or not (/beastscout sharing turns it off). Sharing through export is private: your name isn't stored with your data, and your submission is deleted once it's merged.

Built-in data: beast data from Hunter's Handbook by Wood (GPLv3), family abilities from Seemeta, Classic family bonuses from Highground Gaming. Thanks to all of them.

Commands

/beastscout (window) · /beastscout find <skill, family, name, fast, tank, upgrades, rares> · /beastscout alert · /beastscout way <number> · /beastscout export · /beastscout sharing · /beastscout stats · /beastscout minimap · /beastscout help

Short form: /bs works for every command (/bs find tank).

Source, issues and sharing observations: github.com/trevercomb/BeastScout