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I plan on upgrading all my new pyro abilities to be a proper level 7 kineticist. Elemental Overflow (size bonus to stats are awesome btw) and Fire's Fury brought a significant increase to my fire blast damage. Settling on Expanded Element (Air) because PFS throws too many random devils (which Mark has confirmed are things that will perma-screw over a pyro who doesn't branch out because they're fire-immune and not having a fire subtype) and magic immune creatures like golems at players. Air can get at least get me at-will haste and a really nice extreme range almost-dimension door ability via at-will ride the blast. I hope to play through the seeker arc and train up a new kineticist apprentice. Maybe a telekinenticist with kinetic healer.
Where does water get energy attacks? All the basic blasts I looked at appeared to be physical. Even some of the later stuff that added energy damage, still required an attack roll as opposed to a touch attack roll. I based my statement off the playtest document, but isn't cold blast part of water element in the final version?
There is one thing I am very curious about: what kind of improvements the Kineticist has gotten? Especially the Pyrokineticist. Please tell me that the Pyrokineticist can use AOEs before level 15 now ;)How bout level 1? That sounds good to me, at least ;) Captain WANG FIRE!!! lives to serve! And burn!
When I questioned this before, Mark stated that it didn't have the restrictions of the Fly spell, so yes you can fly encumbered etc. Excellent. All aboard the Wang Fire Express!
Yea I've encountered some fire resistant/immune stuff in the 1-2 subtier of PFS scenarios too: Spoiler:
Rise of the Goblin Guild (flame resistant slime mold) Trial by Machines (robot hardness, burning/plasma skeletons) But those were only a couple encounters out of several. That's what crossbows are for in those situations. Even mages sometimes have to whip out a weapon at low levels to contribute if don't got the right spell. And what is Wang Fire if not only just a much cooler, more badass mage? Though I think I'll be hesitant about joining scenarios with robots on the cover til at least level 5. Very little I can probably contribute against those unless I can do quite a bit of damage to begin with. EVERTHING else though I feel that I've contributed decently. Definitely in combat, and occasionally in social encounters simply due to spending points in diplomacy despite the lack of skill points. Searing flesh was pretty awesome when I get stuck in a grapple. Concentration checks DC to blast or use kinetic blade suck way too much in those situations. |
