Pack Alpha

Your pet's attributes are improved and pet skills gain recharge reduction. Improved attributes are power, condition damage, precision, toughness, and vitality. — In-game description

Pack Alpha

Specialization

Beastmastery (trait list)

Tier

Adept

Type

Minor

Training cost

2 Hero points

Game link

API

API

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Pack Alpha

Your pet's attributes are improved and pet skills gain recharge reduction.
Improved attributes are power, condition damage, precision, toughness, and vitality.

 Attribute Increase: 300

 Attribute Increase: 150

 Pet Skill Recharge: 20%

— In-game description

Notes

• While in Beastmode, the player gains an attribute bonus of 150 in PvE (75 in PvP and WvW) instead of 300.
• This trait does not affect the recharge of merged Beastmode skills or Unleash Pet skills, which default to F1, F2, and F3.
• The increase in power does not increase the pet's healing power gained from Wellspring.

Version history

For a detailed trait history, see here.

Patch	Changes
January 13, 2026	Increased the attribute increase from 150 to 300 in PvE only. This increase does not apply to merged soulbeasts.
June 28, 2022	Fixed an issue with certain ranger pet skills not having their skill recharges reduced, or reduced incorrectly, by this trait.
March 17, 2020	Reduced stats granted to merged soulbeasts from 150 to 75 in PvP and WvW.
April 23, 2019	This trait now grants its attribute bonus to condition damage in addition to the attributes it previously affected.
July 10, 2018	This trait now grants the full 150 attribute increase to each primary attribute, up from 80, to a merged soulbeast at level 80.
December 12, 2017	Fixed a bug that prevented this trait from affecting new Path of Fire pet family skills.
November 07, 2017	Fixed a bug that prevented this trait from affecting the F2 skills of pets from the Path of Fire region.
October 27, 2015	Fixed a bug in which this trait was not applying its recharge reduction to some of the new pet skills on the Bristleback, Smokescale, Fire Wyvern, and Electric Wyvern.
June 23, 2015	Specialization update: Pack Alpha has been added to the game.