I am just coming back, have not played since everything changed, but I want to do a medic/Bioengineer, my question is wil my pet not have any specials if I do not get the train extra skill nodes in the expertise tree?

Also this is the build I am looking at using what do you think?

http://www.oekevo.org/expertisecalculator/index.html?e=0-cb5d266c0b46ad-ab906f86a1270-8

Thanks in advance!