Feat says:
Elemental Channel
Choose one elemental subtype, such as air, earth, fire, or water. You can channel your divine energy to harm or heal outsiders that possess your chosen elemental subtype.
Prerequisites: Channel energy class feature.
Benefit: Instead of its normal effect, you can choose to have your ability to channel energy heal or harm outsiders of your chosen elemental subtype. You must make this choice each time you channel energy. If you choose to heal or harm creatures of your elemental subtype, your channel energy has no affect on other creatures. The amount of damage healed or dealt and the DC to halve the damage is otherwise unchanged.
Special: You can gain this feat multiple times. Its effects do not stack. Each time you take this feat, it applies to a new elemental subtype.
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So, how does this feat actually work, are positive energy channeling clerics able to both damage or heal outsiders of certain elemental subtype or can they only heal them while negative energy channelers can only damage them?
Also since Channel Energy already affects living creatures why would a channeler need this feat?
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Feat says:
Elemental ChannelChoose one elemental subtype, such as air, earth, fire, or water. You can channel your divine energy to harm or heal outsiders that possess your chosen elemental subtype.
Prerequisites: Channel energy class feature.
Benefit: Instead of its normal effect, you can choose to have your ability to channel energy heal or harm outsiders of your chosen elemental subtype. You must make this choice each time you channel energy. If you choose to heal or harm creatures of your elemental subtype, your channel energy has no affect on other creatures. The amount of damage healed or dealt and the DC to halve the damage is otherwise unchanged.
Special: You can gain this feat multiple times. Its effects do not stack. Each time you take this feat, it applies to a new elemental subtype.
---------------------------------------------------------So, how does this feat actually work, are positive energy channeling clerics able to both damage or heal outsiders of certain elemental subtype or can they only heal them while negative energy channelers can only damage them?
Also since Channel Energy already affects living creatures why would a channeler need this feat?
It allows both heal and harm to the same element. As for why you'd need both, it isn't necessary but it's easier to say than "if you're a positive energy channeller, you may now harm creatures of the selected element. If you are a negative energy channeller you may now heal creatures of the selected element".
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On a guess they are not considering outsiders or elementals as living creatures and they definitely don't count as undead. Also, it is not tied to your previous positive/negative choice. I believe when you chose, say, Elemental Channel( Fire ) you can either heal or harm fire elementals and can choose which one on a case by case basis. It is kind of odd. Maybe they figure outsiders react differently to positive/negative energy than creatures native to the prime material plane. Also, I always viewed Elementals as outsiders, but they have Alignment Channel that specifically deals with outsiders. Again, I assume that you would have to get the appropriate channel feat to deal with creatures of that subtype( outsider/elemental ). Most of the channel feats bother me a little bit as they don't seem terribly fleshed out.
EDIT: It does limit who is effected by your channel ability. If you use your channel to harm fire elementals your group won't get blasted by negative energy.
So basically this is a way for good cleric to damage outsiders and evil clerics to heal them :D
Also lets the party cleric damage outsiders in combat without damaging his party.