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In Ultimate Wilderness, Snowball was updated to be an evocation spell with the cold and water descriptors, that deals cold damage.

The Admixture Wizard School grants the following ability: When you cast an evocation spell that does acid, cold, electricity, or fire damage, you may change the damage dealt to one of the other four energy types. This changes the descriptor of the spell to match the new energy type.

Since the ability only mentions changing the selected(cold) damage and descriptor into the new(electricity) damage and descriptor, would Snowball still have the water descriptor?

My character has abilities that care if a spell has the water descriptor or not so I need to know.

In our home game we have a player that wanted a Dexterity based Cleric Monk taking advantage of Crusader's Flurry. She could either be a lawful worshiper of Sarenrae using a Scimitar and Dervish Dance to add Dexterity to damage, or a chaotic worshiper of Besmara using a Rapier and Fencing Grace to add Dexterity to damage. To fit better with the group she chose the Rapier. Several sessions in we discover that Fencing Grace specifically says that it doesn't work while using Flurry of Blows, while Dervish Dance does work with Flurry of Blows. At this point it did not make sense to radically change the character to fix the error, and since it was a home game, our GM just ruled that Fencing Grace would work with Flurry Blows.

I started to wonder though, how would you approach this in Society? Is the player allowed any free retraining since the build does not work the way they thought it did? or are you just stuck until you amass enough prestige to retrain all their class features/feats/skills.

How does the Channeler of the Unknown's Channel Entropy class feature interact with Channel Smite? It neither channels positive to harm the undead, or negative to harm the living, but instead channels the void to harm all living, nonliving, and undead. This is for PFS, just to be clear.

Channel Entropy: "A channeler of the unknown can channel entropy as a cleric channels negative or positive energy, releasing a wave of twisting void that harms creatures in the area of effect. The amount of damage dealt is equal to that an evil cleric of her level would deal by channeling negative energy, except it affects living, unliving, and undead creatures alike. This functions in all other ways as a cleric’s channel energy class feature, including benefiting from feats that affect channel energy (such as Selective Channeling). This alters channel energy."

Channel Smite: "Before you make a melee attack roll, you can choose to spend one use of your channel energy ability as a swift action. If you channel positive energy and you hit an undead creature, that creature takes an amount of additional damage equal to the damage dealt by your channel positive energy ability. If you channel negative energy and you hit a living creature, that creature takes an amount of additional damage equal to the damage dealt by your channel negative energy ability. Your target can make a Will save, as normal, to halve this additional damage. If your attack misses, the channel energy ability is still expended with no effect."

If the archetype ability says it works like the standard ability, it counts as that ability. If the archetype's ability requires you to make a specific choice for the standard ability, it counts as that ability. Otherwise, the archetype ability doesn't count as the standard ability.
Pathfinder Design Team, 07/12/13"

Both the Monk and Unchained Monk have the Flurry of Blows and Ki Pool class features, but they both work a little differently.

The Monk's Ki Pool says that as a swift action she can spend a Ki Point to gain an extra attack at her highest BAB when using Flurry of Blows.

The Unchained Monk's Ki Pool says that as a swift action she can gain an additional unarmed strike at her highest BAB when using Flurry of Blows.

So if I understand correctly, a Monk can use any flurry-able weapon for the extra attack but an Unchained Monk can only use an unarmed strike?

Or am I missing something?