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Please be great, please be great, please be great!
I hope there's something that inflicts spooked, and I really want a chance at getting some of the more exciting corruptions, particularly Hive.

Kobold Cleaver wrote:

Yeah, but you get big options when you shapeshift, don't you? Getting any movement speed you want is a pretty big benefit.

Well, you can only get land speed or swim speed. No burrowers, fliers or climbers in the mooncursed barbarian's list. In the end you get a Str bonus smaller than a barbarian of equal level, no con bonus, small natural armour bonus, natural attacks, size penalties, reach, maybe trip or a swim speed,

The duration is also most unrighteous, since you have to use rage rounds. The big natural attacks are cool, especially because you're almost certainly going for beat totem with this one, but you give up so much of your raw power that I'm not sure it's worth it. Compare something like a Supernaturalist or Nature Fang druid, who give up wild shape, but keep the casting necessary to make themselves into huge beasts of ANY kind way before the Mooncursed can, and have more radical and easilly availible damage steroids without giving up viable alternatives?

Dammit, I accidentally refreshed the page on mobile after posting and it copied the post. Anyway, a few other archetypes seem strangely underpowered as well. The Mooncursed Barbarian, which seemed completely radical at first, replaces your rage bonuses with beast shape, and they only get beast shape 3 at level 20! I guess my big issues is the tiny bonuses they get, and they fact that the first few levels are rough, since you don't have arms and legs.

Wow, that sounds like Paizo read my mind! Can they still cast spells?

They absolutely can. They even cast some psychic spells while raging. Speaking of, their rage mechanic is is absolutely hilarious in comparison to practically every rager thus far introduced in pathfinder. They have to use extra rounds of rage to get access to the emotional focus abilities, but their rage can give bonuses to strength, dex, con and cha, all at the same time.

I'm really excited about the Exciter, especially in its Gestalt applications, but it seems kinda odd. Am I reading it right that it can only ever gain two things from their emotional focus: an aura and one of the level abilities? I get that the class wants less of a dependence on emotional focus, especially after the mess that was the id rager, but surely this is too much.