charm animal with beast mastery...

how does my points distributed to beasted mastery affect the linked skill charm animal?

would i be able to use it affectively even if im only interested in that particular skill in beast mastery and didnt distribute any points to that attribute?

im asking this because i dont see any modifiers in the skill's description...

i dont think it increase your skill of charming the animal or not, its jsut a base skill of you need to have it or else your pet cant travel with you, the beast mastery skill is tied to all the skill's for your pet, IE the more you have the higher damage your beast's skill will be, and also your rez's for the beast, at 6-7 i can rez my pet for like 250+ i think, but having it at zero would greatly reduce that same goes for all his attack skills.

Your level of Beast Mastery has no effect on charm animal. If the only beast mastery skill you intend to bring along is charm animal, and possibly a skill to rez them if they die, I wouldn't bother investing any points in Beast Mastery. It's one of those linked skills with no variables, like Balthazar's Spirit for a Monk.

the beast mastery attribute may or may not influence the amount of damage your pet can do, much like your weapons attribute influences the amount of damage you can do with that weapon..
it is implied in the description for beast mastery, but has not been thoroughly tested.