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Far Cry Primal eGuide Appendices Skills

Beast Master Skills

UNLOCKED: Find Tensay and complete Beast Master mission

Tame Canines

Unlocked for Purchase: Find Tensay and complete Beast Master mission

Skill Requirement: Owl Companion

Cost: -

Now tamable: Dholes, Rare Dholes, Wolves, White Wolves, and Rare Stripe Wolves. Use bait to tame them.

Tame Wildcats

Unlocked for Purchase: Build Tensay’s Hut

Skill Requirement: Tame Canines

Cost: 1 Skill Point

Now tamable: Leopards, Jaguars, Rare Black Jaguars, Cave Lions, and Rare Black Lions. Use bait to tame them. Wildcats are great for stealth missions, especially Jaguars who attack unsuspecting targets without alerting nearby enemies.

Tame Cunning Beasts

Unlocked for Purchase: Tame eight beasts

Skill Requirement: Tame Apex Predators

Cost: 3 Skill Points

Now tamable: Cave Bears and Badgers. Use bait to tame them. Use a Cave Bear to keep enemies focused on it. A Badger revives itself once and terrifies all wildlife in Oros, keeping unwanted animals away.

Owl Companion

Unlocked for Purchase: Bring Tensay to your village

Skill Requirement: -

Cost: -

Press Up on the D-Pad to summon your Owl. Scout ahead to tag enemies.

Tame Apex Predators

Unlocked for Purchase: Tame five beasts

Skill Requirement: Tame Wildcats

Cost: 2 Skill Points

Now tamable: Sabretooth Tigers and Brown Bears. Use bait to tame them. These are two great additions to your beast roster; Brown Bears collect nearby resources when idle and Sabretooth Tigers skin carcasses and gather the resources after making a kill.

Owl: Hunter Vision

Unlocked for Purchase: Bring Tensay to your village

Skill Requirement: -

Cost: -

Hold the Takedown button to use Hunter Vision with your Owl. Other Hunter Vision skills extend to your Owl. Helps spot enemies much easier when scouting an area.

Owl: Weapon Drop

Unlocked for Purchase: Build Tensay’s Hut

Skill Requirement: Owl: Hunter Vision

Cost: 3 Skill Points

The Owl can drop your sting bombs, berserk bombs, and fire bombs. This is great for causing chaos from above. Concentrate your fire on tougher enemies such as Chieftains.

Owl: Attack I

Unlocked for Purchase: Build Tensay’s Hut

Skill Requirement: Owl Companion

Cost: 1 Skill Point

Your Owl can perform a dive attack with the Quick Attack button. This kills most regular enemies and can free caged animals. It has a 80 second cooldown time and is useful for taking out those pesky Slingers or Archers who stand guard. Finish off your recon by getting rid of an enemy.

Owl: Cooldown I

Unlocked for Purchase: Build Tensay’s Hut

Skill Requirement: Owl: Attack I

Cost: 2 Skill Points

The Owl attack cooldown is reduced from 80s to 65s.

Owl: Tagging Range

Unlocked for Purchase: Build Tensay’s Hut

Skill Requirement: Owl: Weapon Drop

Cost: 3 Skill Points

The Owl’s tagging range for enemies is greatly increased. If the Tag Animals skill is learned, the tagging range for animals is also increased. Quicker recon of an area means you are quicker to the fight.

Owl: Attack II

Unlocked for Purchase: Build Tensay’s Hut

Skill Requirement: Owl: Cooldown I

Cost: 3 Skill Points

The dive attack can now kill the large and powerful Elite enemies.

Owl: Cooldown II

Unlocked for Purchase: Build Tensay’s Hut

Skill Requirement: Owl: Attack II

Cost: 3 Skill Points

The Owl attack cooldown is reduced from 65s to 40s.