With Howl of the Wild released, the wider community seems to be turning its attentions to Player Core 2 now. The new hotness is “what do you expect from {class} in PC2?”
So, what does the Threadiverse expect from the classes in PC2? We know Alchemist, Champion, Oracle, and Sorcerer are all in line to get some kind of meaningful touch-up.
- One of Oracle’s class features just got generalized to the whole game
- Champion needs adjustments to account for the removal of alignment. And with the Guardian seemingly stepping into the non-religious defender role, the Champion could see its theming further narrowed.
- Sorcerer needs some of its bloodlines to be reflavoured to disentangle it from the OGL
- They said they wanted to make Alchemist not suck-out-loud for players who don’t have the most mastered of system mastry.
But what does this mean exactly, in your estimation?
Personally, I’m seeing people starting to get hyped, and I think they’re all going to be sorely disappointed by the scope of any updates in this release. I’m expecting modest changes to the chases of Oracle and Champion, some tweaks to TEML progression for Alchemist, and no chassis tweaks at all for Sorcerer, with Oracle and Champion getting additional feat support in War of the Immortals.
I’m very interested to see how the champion is handled, especially having seen the guardian which seems to be trampling all over it. I wonder if they will make the champion a bit more offense oriented and into more like the 5e Paladin as a resolution for the alignment stuff. I always hated how tangled alignment and the Golarion setting are in pf2e and I hope they can make that a bit better.