Elemental Blasts and Power Attack


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I'm wondering whether a Kineticist's Elemental Blasts (the melee version anyway) would benefit from the Power Attack feat (i.e. gain an extra damage die). By RAW wording it seems like it should as the Elemental Blasts have the Attack trait and the Power Attack feat specifies that it applies to "melee Strikes." Would melee Elemental Blasts not qualify as "melee Strikes," or are not all actions with the Attack trait Strikes?


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Strike is a specific action, namely the one that you use to attack with weapons or unarmed strikes. Elemental blasts use the elemental blast action so you can't use it in place of a strike.

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