When taught to the pet, Animal Handling makes its minions stronger, but doesn’t affect the stats of your minions (or the pet itself). The only really worthwhile use of spell slots are the tomes a.k.a passives.Īnimal Handling makes your pet and minions stronger, but doesn’t affect the pet’s summoned minions. The damaging spells are laughably weak, while the summoned minions draw virtually no attention from enemies, making them useless as meatshields. The bonuses from buffs are just not that great and often only last for 20 seconds or less. I’m going to be blunt here: nearly all active spells are worthless.