[Suggestion] The "Companion’s Path" – Integrating Utility Pets

goal - a way to onboard new players into PoE’s notoriously complex systems while giving veterans a way to automate the "grunt work."


Acquisition: Act 1 to endgame, Gradually unlocking utility

Triggers a life/mana burst when you hit Low Life (60s cooldown).

The pet can grant one lesser utility aura.

increased scarab drop rate %

Scarab Synthesis: Allow the pet to "consume" 3 lower-tier Scarabs of the same type to spit out 1 higher-tier Scarab automatically.


Bond XP: Pets level up alongside you. Their power is gated by your progress by Completing quests and killing bosses for the first time and Completing vendor recipes

Bond Points: Spend Bond Points to Unlock the utility slots


auto crafting - Your pet doesn’t start "smart." To enable automation, you must sacrifice the completed vendor recipe to the pet to "teach" it the pattern.

New players:

Learn vendor recipes organically

Don’t need external guides

Link your loot filter; the pet follows the filter.

The companion provides no direct damage bonuses and does not grant global item quantity or rarity.

system should allow players to apply any existing pet skin to the Utility Companion

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