Quick Scoop: In Spirit Walker, Wild Protector is the Bear companion skill, and its Bear version is meant to be the main-hand-scaling companion option for the ascendancy. The guides I found describe Wild Protector as summoning a Bear that fights beside you, can apply Fear, and becomes stronger when you invest in the Bear-focused Wisp path.

How the 2 gems usually work

  • If you have 2 Wild Protector gems , it’s typically because you’re trying to keep one setup in reserve, level a spare, or compare rolls/links.
  • In most games like this, only the active copy matters for summoning; the second copy does not usually give you two Bears at once unless a special mechanic explicitly allows it.
  • The Spirit Walker material I found says the Bear version does not count toward the normal companion limit, but it does not say that two copies of the gem stack into two separate Bears.

What Spirit Walker is doing here

  • Spirit Walker’s Bear path is tied to Wild Protector , which summons the Bear companion and boosts it through the Bear Wisp line.
  • The key scaling note is that the Bear’s damage is linked to your main hand weapon , so build quality matters more than duplicating the gem.
  • That means the practical answer is usually: use one Wild Protector as your real summon, and the other is redundant unless you’re swapping, leveling, or testing.

Likely confusion

  • If you are seeing two bears, that is more likely from a separate companion source or another special item/passive interaction, not from slotting two Wild Protector gems alone.
  • One forum report specifically points to extra companion sources and notes that the purple Spirit Walker Bear does not count toward the usual companion limit.

Bottom line

Spirit Walker does not appear to “use 2 Wild Protector gems” to make 2 Bears. The Bear comes from one Wild Protector setup, and the second gem is usually just extra unless another mechanic is involved.

TL;DR: one gem for the Bear, one extra gem usually does nothing special by itself.