| Tarluk |
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The talk surrounding the Exemplar dedication being very frontloaded and Paizo's design philosophy on multiclass dedications to maintain niche protection ending up with many varying power levels has made me wonder which multiclass archetypes could use a bit of adjustment, and which are in just the right place.
Summoner and Magus leave a lot to be desired, to the point where I struggle to see how Summoner's dedication could be useful at all. And Magus' spellcasting feats being bounded seems like overkill when you only get a single use of Spellstrike anyway.
Investigator seems quite powerful, being able to take both of the class's main features at level 4 with little restriction; the only one being that you can't use Intelligence instead of Strength or Dexterity, which seems rather trivial for Fighters or Champions.
Fighter seems rather odd, it's a feat tax for most classes which already has martial weapon training, and the martial profiency doesn't scale even though many other weapon training dedications already have a simple solution for this, so it's still a feat tax for everyone else too. At least it's a fairly simple homebrew fix.
And I'm not sure if I'm missing something with Barbarian, but I don't really see how just the base Rage with nothing else is all that useful; +2 damage that doesn't scale at the cost of having -1 AC *and* having to spend an action to get it? And only being able to get the Instinct ability with nothing else alongside it at level 6? I don't really see how this is worth it for anyone outside of a Fighter with free archetype. (And the suggestion of spellcasters being able to use rage as a last resort, while cool as hell in concept, is just absurd with the current implementation.)
Would be curious to hear y'all's thoughts on the multiclass dedications and archetypes. :)