Warlock is traditionally the male equivalent of a Witch, which is probably reason enough to believe the class is never coming. It’s just… here already. This is their vision for it. A few more focus spells, and a couple new archetypes is probably the best we can hope for.
The 5e-style class fantasy is probably always going to be in Psychic+Witch.
The problem is that, as mentioned, the witch is just a really, really bad class to use for the warlock fantasy. Aside from the fuzzy claim that warlocks are just male witches, and the fact that the witch has a thing it calls a “patron”, there’s basically no upside to using the witch class to play out the warlock fantasy.
And if I’m being honest, I don’t really see how the psychic helps with the warlock fantasy at all.
The psychic provides the different casting mechanics. If you run Psychic + Witch Archetype, you kind of mash together the mechanics and the theme.
The 5e Warlock is just much, much too 5e at this point. Paizo can’t out 5e the Warlock, and as played most Warlock builds will not work in PF2. Introducing an equivalent class at this point probably only invites negative comparisons.
Warlock is traditionally the male equivalent of a Witch, which is probably reason enough to believe the class is never coming. It’s just… here already. This is their vision for it. A few more focus spells, and a couple new archetypes is probably the best we can hope for.
The 5e-style class fantasy is probably always going to be in Psychic+Witch.
The problem is that, as mentioned, the witch is just a really, really bad class to use for the warlock fantasy. Aside from the fuzzy claim that warlocks are just male witches, and the fact that the witch has a thing it calls a “patron”, there’s basically no upside to using the witch class to play out the warlock fantasy.
And if I’m being honest, I don’t really see how the psychic helps with the warlock fantasy at all.
The psychic provides the different casting mechanics. If you run Psychic + Witch Archetype, you kind of mash together the mechanics and the theme.
The 5e Warlock is just much, much too 5e at this point. Paizo can’t out 5e the Warlock, and as played most Warlock builds will not work in PF2. Introducing an equivalent class at this point probably only invites negative comparisons.