Most of the 40 classes of 1E will show up at some point, one way or another. Some may not be actual full classes, some are likely to be fused, but we'll get them.
Shifter is not one of the four for next year.
But I'd expect it'll appear down the line. Probably not in the second or even third batch though.
I would bet money that a martial focused shifter class is going to come along eventually.
I would love it if they took another swing at the Shifter from 1e.
You can already do some of this with druids wild morph, animal barbarians rage, and sorcerer.
There is the Magic Warrior multiclass archetype, available to all classes, which allows shape shifting after taking 2 feats in it.
Most of the 40 classes of 1E will show up at some point, one way or another. Some may not be actual full classes, some are likely to be fused, but we'll get them.
Shifter is not one of the four for next year.
But I'd expect it'll appear down the line. Probably not in the second or even third batch though.
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Most of the 40 classes of 1E will show up at some point, one way or another. Some may not be actual full classes, some are likely to be fused, but we'll get them.
Shifter is not one of the four for next year.
But I'd expect it'll appear down the line. Probably not in the second or even third batch though.
Witch, Swashbuckler, Oracle, Investigator iirc
The animal instinct barbarin is already most of the way there, relying solely on shape shifted unarmed attacks and natural armor, plus eventually turning into animals full stop. If you multiclass to pick up focus spells you can probably spend every class feat on something shape shifting related.
That's a good point I should have emphasized more : Animal Barbarian is very much the best approximation we have so far.
I do hope we get a more flexible, versatile shifting martial at some point, but I quite enjoy the barbarian for now.
The animal instinct barbarin is already most of the way there, relying solely on shape shifted unarmed attacks and natural armor, plus eventually turning into animals full stop. If you multiclass to pick up focus spells you can probably spend every class feat on something shape shifting related.
So basically just need an archtype to replace spell casting with a bit more combat effectiveness and we are their. However if it was it's own class it would be easier to make the niche shape shifters.
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For what it is worth, for me PF1 struggled to provide this even given ten years.
Synthesist was possibly the best in terms of catering to options from level one, even though it had spell casting. Some of the archetypes were ok, but most were very disappointing, and none were amazing/exactly what I was looking for - even if given a lot of rope.
Edit: Actually Oozemancer was hilarious and as a result qualified as amazing in my book.
I loved the concept for it but it was borderline unplayable at low level.