Who ya gonna call?

[cartomancer]

In the thread What makes Pathfinder Online Different, it is mentioned that there will be a need for specialized PC types, focused on vampire hunting or dragon slaying.

I would like to know who is planning on having a character that does that sort of thing, because it's always better to have that information BEFORE the dragon is destroying your Settlement.

[Imbicatus]

Really too early to tell. There are so many cool things to do, and I'm not sure how they will work together with PVP flags and whatnot. I will be making a Monk, and I'll probably be spending a good amount of time fighting monsters in escalations. Depending on the types of monsters, and what kind of skills interact with Monk abilities, I may end up specializing as a good monster hunter. If I end up spending more time PvPing, then I may end up as an LN Enforcer or LE Assassin taking out undesirable elements of the player base.

[Vereor Nox]

Not going to lie, LE Monk Assassin sounds pretty Bad-ass.
Quite possibly very effective too, as you would not be as heavily reliant on gear, allowing you to be very potent even in disguise gear, I would imagine anyways.

[Dario]

Monks will be just as reliant on gear as everyone else.

Stephen Cheney wrote:

For balance and economic purposes, it's unlikely that we would make any roles that don't need a major piece of gear that all other roles do need. What that piece of gear looks like for non-weapon Monk attacks is still under discussion, and your opinions are appreciated.

[DeciusBrutus]

I will probably make a character that specializes or generalizes in PvE, most likely a hybrid caster.

I suspect that you might have a problem with an over abundance of groups, all of which want to kill the dragon and take its stuff.

[Hobs the Short]

Could be an interesting twist on PvP...a player or group that RPs working for the dragon by picking off prospective dragon hunters for his/their boss.

[Nightdrifter]

Given how annoying it can be to fight incorporeal in the PF (tabletop, not PFO), I can see actual 'ghostbuster' type CCs crop up to deal with spectral escalations events.

[AvenaOats]

cartomancer wrote:

In the thread What makes Pathfinder Online Different, it is mentioned that there will be a need for specialized PC types, focused on vampire hunting or dragon slaying.

I would like to know who is planning on having a character that does that sort of thing, because it's always better to have that information BEFORE the dragon is destroying your Settlement.

I don't know what the ecological or otherwise role of Dragons is in pathfinder, but I'd really like to see Dragons at least wreak economic devastation on the scale of say a hurricane/volcanoe/earthquake, even if destroying is a little too severe. Possibly a skill "talk with dragons" could persuade/bribe said Dragons to fly some place else?

Possibly PvE monsters might be a suitable side-employment for a bandit inbetween hideout stakeouts if there is work in the wilds. Also a good way to infiltrate trade networks...

[Kobold Catgirl]

When there are no weddings to defend, the half-orc barbarian I'm currently planning may specialize in hunting aberrations or undead.

[DeciusBrutus]

It would be interesting if there are enough ways to specialize that different companies have radically different effectiveness in different situations.