| 2 people marked this as a favorite. |
When you take a multiclass feat, you get exactly the abilities laid out in the feat, including access to the follow on feats that allow you to spend future Class Feat selections on things from your secondary class.
You do not take levels in a second class, and get all of the class abilities.
Basically... You get what is written on the feat. PF2 is a lot more autoexplicative and does not have weird multiclass rules like 5e/3.5/PF1 you get a class. Then you get a dedication, dedication gives you extra things. Then later you can grab more feats to help your secondary class.
|
| 2 people marked this as a favorite. |
Let me go over the steps of multiclassing:
You take the multiclass Dedication feat in place of one of your regular class feats at 2nd level or after.
You are now allowed to take further feats in that multiclass in place of your regular class feats at the given levels.
You can't take a new dedication feat until you've taken at least 2 feats in your current dedication.
Ta-da, that's multiclassing! You give up your own Class feats to take your dedication's feats.
| 5 people marked this as a favorite. |
What's been said so far is correct. I'm just going to say it a different way, in case that's useful.
In PF2, you're sort of not multiclassing.
Traditionally, multiclassing in an RPG means "I take X levels of one class and Y levels of another class and I total it all up." So you'd potentially have something like a wizard 5 / barbarian 2 for a 7th-level character, and you'd have the abilities of a 5th-level wizard plus the abilities of a 2nd-level barbarian. Basically you'd be an okay wizard and a meh barbarian. (Unless you did this very cleverly and picked things with synergy.)
PF2 doesn't do that.
Instead, when you gain "class feats", which allow you to expand your abilities specific to your class (as opposed to your ancestry), you can optionally take feats that let you "dip" into the abilities of a different class. In this case, you'd always be a "wizard 7", but you might have three feats that give you barbarian abilities instead of three feats that give you more wizard abilities. Your core wizard abilities continue to improve at the normal rate, and the handful of barbarian abilities would also be level-appropriate. Meaning you'd be sort of "wizard 7 who can't do as many wizardy things as someone else" plus "barbarian 7 who can't do NEARLY as many barbarian things as someone else". Your wizard and barbarian abilities would be at 7th... you've just ordered from a different menu.
If you're familiar with archetypes from Pathfinder 1E, you can think of it like that, except instead of being forced into taking a whole package and replacing several class abilities with those of another theme, in P2E you can pick and choose which class abilities to replace or to take.
| 1 person marked this as a favorite. |
What's been said so far is correct. I'm just going to say it a different way, in case that's useful.
In PF2, you're sort of not multiclassing.
Traditionally, multiclassing in an RPG means "I take X levels of one class and Y levels of another class and I total it all up."
Darn that non traditional AD&D multiclassing :p
If you're familiar with archetypes from Pathfinder 1E, you can think of it like that, except instead of being forced into taking a whole package and replacing several class abilities with those of another theme, in P2E you can pick and choose which class abilities to replace or to take.
This is how I've been viewing them.
In addition to this, I find it useful to consider the multiclass archetypes as offering a flavoring from the other class that helps you to create a unique variant of your base class.
| 1 person marked this as a favorite. |
It took me a little bit to warm up to 2E multiclassing, but now I've long since fallen in love with the system.
Instead of creating a Wizard 10/Rogue 10, I'm basically creating a custom arcane trickster picking Rogue and taking Wizard dedication feats.