The Continuum 101 by Mac

Animal Empathy allows the unit to equip Pets into their item slot. Pets can do a wide variety of things from dealing DAM to enemy squads to giving stat bonuses and squad buffs. You can tell what a pet is by looking at the item, and well, seeing it labeled Pets 1, Pets 2, etc. Before deciding on spending AP on the ability, test out to see if pets are a good fit for your strategy. You can do this without spending AP on the Ursa Cub. If you don't have one, find me in the lobby. I'll give you one free. They get Animal Empathy 1 already speced standard much like the Ravager gets Claws.

Once maxed out, the description states that any nearby animals get a +20 DAM bonus to their basic attacks. This is also considered Beastmastery. After searching very old posts in the forum, it seems this is pretty misleading and confusing. The question has been raised numerous times in the forums and the general conclusion is that the +20 DAM only applies to the SINGLE unit that has Animal Empathy 5 speced. No one else is affected by it. Keep this is mind when choosing rather or not to buy it with your AP. Also keep in mind, as of now, there are no legendary (level 5) pets in the game.

Animal Empathy 1	Ancient Bonded - Lvl 8
(equip Level 1 pets)	Kherr Alpha - Lvl 5
	Kherr Warrior - Lvl 10
	Ursa Cub - Lvl 1
	Ursa Major - Lvl 2

Animal Empathy 2	Ancient Bonded - Lvl 10
(equip Level 2 pets)	Kherr Alpha - Lvl 7
	Kherr Warrior - Lvl 12
	Ursa Cub - Lvl 4
	Ursa Major - Lvl 4

Animal Empathy 3	Ancient Bonded - Lvl 12
(equip Level 3 pets)	Kherr Alpha - Lvl 9
	Kherr Warrior - Lvl 14
	Ursa Cub - Lvl 7
	Ursa Major - Lvl 6

Animal Empathy 4	Ancient Bonded - Lvl 14
(equip Level 4 pets)	Kherr Alpha - Lvl 11
	Kherr Warrior - Lvl 16
	Ursa Cub - Lvl 10
	Ursa Major - Lvl 8

Beastmaster	Kherr Alpha - Lvl 13
(equip Level 5 pets, +20 DAM to basic attack)	Ursa Cub - Lvl 13
	Ursa Major - Lvl 10