Devotions Bound to Pets

[DaShiv]

Since we are on the topic of what does and doesn’t affect pets, I also would like to finally see a list of buffs that works on them…
I mean, I always assumed that any buff whose icon appears under the pet’s icon would affect all the pets - even the skills of other pets, such as the Briarthorn’s Emboldening Roar or the Raven’s Storm Spirit. On the other hand, we have buffs like Bindings of Bysmiel and Primal Bond which buff pets, but do not appear as icons under them.
And then we have skills like Iskandra’s Elemental Exchange which needs a Transmuter to affect pets…
Would be nice if someone put together a list of buffs that affect pets.

You’re making it a lot more complicated than it needs to be – it’s actually much more straightforward than that. As I described in Understanding Pet Damage:

[1.0.0.9] Dracarris Incarnate - Pet/Fire Hybrid Pyromancer, 6s Mad Queen, Solo Gladiator Extra Spawn

Likewise, much of the base damage for pets doesn’t come from the pet itself, but instead from added flat damage. This can be either auras (group buffs with radius of effect, such as Flame Touched) or flat pet damage modifiers (direct pet damage bonus without radius restrictions, such as Burning Weapons).

So the two types are:

AURAS: These affect the whole group within an area, including yourself, other players, and anyone’s pets. You can tell what auras are by the word “allies” in the skill descriptions and a radius in the skills effect list. Emboldening Presence, Storm Spirit, and IEE all fall into this category (IEE does not require the transmuter to affect your pets - the transmuter is an additional effect that only effects pets). All affected allies within the radius (both players and pets) will show a buff icon.

PET MODIFIERS: These are a bonus to you, specifically your pet modifiers that are listed on page 2 of your character sheet, and will display as “Bonus to All Pets”. This is exactly the same as equipping an item or taking a devotion with pet bonuses on it, although many pet modifiers aren’t actually displayed on your pet character sheet (such as flat damage and +% to individual damage types). These work regardless of where your pets are. Primal Bond and Manipulation both fall into this category. There are no icons on pets because the buff is to the player’s pet modifiers (character page).

Both of these types can be found on mastery abilities, items, devotions, etc. Therefore, an exhaustive list is impractical - simply learn the rules above.