Editing Warpriest (section)

====Why they suck in Second Edition====
Unfortunately, the Warpriest in Pathfinder 2e is kind of shit. For instance: A Warpriest only gets Expert proficiency in their weapons. They will never be able to upgrade to Master proficiency, thus they will always lag behind all other martial classes and they get Expert proficiency 2 levels after martial classes.  Secondly, while they do get armor proficiencies, like their weapons they only go up to Expert. Which means that while you have slightly higher AC than a normal cleric, you still have worse defenses than a proper frontline class. Thirdly, they lose out on Legendary proficiency with spellcasting. They can only get up to Master proficiency at level '19', the level where most other spellcasters get Legendary proficiency and well after most campaigns end. 

So you have a subclass that is worse at hitting enemies with weapons than martials and at tanking damage than a frontliner. And worse at spellcasting than a cloistered cleric. So what good is a Warpriest? Not very much in it's current form. Like the many attempts of making [[gish|hybrid classes of martial classes and spellcasters]], its hard to make a class that is strong at both without making it overpowered, so instead they nerfed it to the point that it's underpowered. Not to mention that Warpriest lacks proper feat support to help them keep up.

Given better feats and stronger proficiencies, either in armor or weaponry (but not both), the warpriest could be worth it. If you're really desperate to play a frontline cleric right now though, it's better to just play cloistered cleric and multiclass in [[Fighter]] or [[paladin|Champion]].

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