Quote Originally Posted by Castilonium View Post
They're for players who want to play a non-caster shapeshifter. They're absolutely terrible, but that's the niche they fill. You know how some players swear up and down by playing a rogue, and absolutely refuse to play a refluffed alchemist, investigator, slayer, bard, or ranger, because they stubbornly want to write "rogue" on their character sheet? It's kind of like that. Like you and several other people have mathematically proven, there is mechanically nothing they do that other classes like druid and feral hunter don't do better.
I'd rather play an unchained rogue than a slayer, TBH. Unless there's been some recent development that makes slayer better than vanilla ice-cream?