Best Path of Exile 2 Companions Guide: How to Tame Beasts

By Karl Reyes | April 7th, 2025 | Categories: Path of Exile

Path of Exile 2 introduced a new skill called Tame Beast that allows you to capture certain enemies and use them as summons. This ability is part of the new Dawn of the Hunt league with the new Huntress class. The skill has great potential to be one of the best utility summoning abilities in the game if built right. Here’s an in-depth guide on Path of Exile 2’s companion system and how to use it well.

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Skill Gem: Tame Beast

Available for the Spear, this Tier 9 skill gem requires the player to be at level 31 and have 72 Dexterity to engrave. Its skill description states that:

Conjure Azmerian Wisps to inflict Hinder on a Rare Beast for a duration. If you kill the affected Beast while it’s engulfed with wisps, it will be captured and go to your skill gem. After being captured, you can now summon the beast as a companion.

Captured beasts can retain up to four modifiers.

Every rare modifier that previously buffs nearby enemies or applies debuffs will now benefit you, so it’s important to consider your target’s modifiers first before attempting a capture. Beasts you capture can be augmented with Minion support gems for more utility or survivability.

This skill only works on Beast-type enemies, so Constructs, Demons, Eldritch, Humanoid, and Undead enemies will not be affected.

Note: Once the Tame Beast skill gem has a captured monster, it will be account-bound and will no longer be tradeable.

Best Path of Exile 2 Beast Modifiers

There may be certain enemy auras that were previously annoying for you to deal with, but with the companion system, these auras will now buff you and debuff every enemy around you instead. When capturing a beast, look out for any of the following:

Haste Aura: Nearby allies gain 25% increased Attack Speed, Cast Speed, and Movement Speed.

Heals Allies and Suppresses Foe Recovery: Periodically casts a Healing Nova that causes nearby allies to regenerate 10% of life over 2 seconds.

Temporal Bubble: Damage sources originating from outside the bubble are negated. Enemies within the bubble have 25% reduced Action Speed 60% reduced Cooldown Recovery Rate, and Debuffs on them expire 40% slower.