Soldier

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You're a stalwart shield who never stops blasting while protecting your allies from danger, including from your own terrifying destruction.

Multiclass Soldier Characters

The soldier archetype is ideal for characters who want to specialize in area attacks.

Envoy soldiers are natural tacticians who use directives to position enemies and allies to optimize their area attacks.
Mystic soldiers with the elemental connection can make different area weapons on the fly that deal different types of damage.
Operative soldiers become versatile damage dealers that can use their area weapons in situations where Aim isn't as useful.
Solarian soldiers can make use of Whirling Swipe to damage multiple enemies at once with their solar weapon.
Witchwarper soldiers want to further hamper their enemy's movements and are excellent at using grenades.

Soldier Dedication Feat 2

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Archetypes Soldier

Prerequisites Constitution +2

You become trained in Intimidation. If you were already trained in Intimidation, you instead become trained in a skill of your choice. Increase your maximum and encumbered Bulk limits by 2. You become trained in soldier class DC.

You become trained in light armor and medium armor. If you already were trained in light armor and medium armor, you gain training in heavy armor as well. Whenever you gain a class feature that grants you expert or greater proficiency in any type of armor (but not unarmored defense), you also gain that proficiency in the armor types granted to you by this feat. If you have a class feature that grants you expert proficiency in unarmored defense and you're 13th level or higher, you also become an expert in the armor types granted to you by this feat.

Basic Soldier Training Feat 4

Archetype

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Archetypes Soldier

Prerequisites Soldier Dedication

You gain a 1st- or 2nd-level soldier feat.

Soldier's Resiliency Feat 4

Archetype

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Archetypes Soldier

Prerequisites Soldier Dedication; class granting no more Hit Points per level than 8 + your Constitution modifier

You gain 3 additional Hit Points for each soldier archetype class feat you have. As you continue selecting soldier archetype class feats, you continue to gain additional Hit Points in this way.