Calculating Animal Instinct Damage

[Filthy Lucre]

The specialization ability for Animal Instinct states that it increases the die size of the unarmed attacks that are granted from raging. But, it appears to always be 'on, and from 1st level. So why not just reflect that in the chart on the same page that lists the damage die for these unarmed attacks? Because in practice an animal instinct barbarian will ***always*** use a die one step larger when they're using the unarmed attack granted by their animal instinct. It just seems like an unnecesarry paragraph. Am I missing something?

[U'shaka]

You don't gain the die size increase until level 7.

[Taja the Barbarian]

As U'shaka said, you don't get this until level 7

Weapon Specialization (Level 7) wrote:

Your rage helps you hit harder. You deal an additional 2 damage with weapons and unarmed attacks in which you have expert proficiency. This damage increases to 3 if you’re a master, and 4 if you’re legendary. You gain your instinct’s specialization ability.

See specific instincts for more information.

[Filthy Lucre]

Taja the Barbarian wrote:

As U'shaka said, you don't get this until level 7

Weapon Specialization (Level 7) wrote:

Your rage helps you hit harder. You deal an additional 2 damage with weapons and unarmed attacks in which you have expert proficiency. This damage increases to 3 if you’re a master, and 4 if you’re legendary. You gain your instinct’s specialization ability.

See specific instincts for more information.

Found it - super weird spot for that to be IMO. I love PF2e but I think the editing/layout is pretty... meh.

[U'shaka]

It's the first Edition designed with Ctrl+F and a functional SRD in mind.