Thinking about building a gnome sorcerer with the Elemental (fire) bloodline. According to the bloodline arcana, I can give him things like Ray of Fire instead of Ray of Frost.
Bloodline Arcana: Whenever you cast a spell that deals energy damage, you can change the type of damage to match the type of your bloodline. This also changes the spell's type to match the type of your bloodline.
Looking at the alternate racial traits the character seems a logical fit for Pyromaniac.
Pyromaniac Gnomes with this racial trait are treated as one level higher when casting spells with the fire descriptor, using granted powers of the Fire domain, using the bloodline powers of the fire elemental bloodline or the revelations of the oracle's flame mystery, and determining the damage of alchemist bombs that deal fire damage (this ability does not give gnomes early access to level-based powers; it only affects the powers they could use without this ability). Gnomes with Charisma scores of 11 or higher also gain the following spell-like abilities: 1/day—dancing lights, flare, prestidigitation, produce flame. The caster level for these effects is equal to the gnome's level; the DCs are Charisma-based. This racial trait replaces gnome magic and illusion resistance.
So here's the question: if I use the arcana power to cast Burning Grasp instead of Shocking Grasp, is that change of the 'type' qualify as a change of 'descriptor' so the spell get the 1 level trait bonus? Seems like it SHOULD but since they are called separate things I wasn't 100% sure......
Yes. Changing a electrical spell to a fire spell makes that spell ...unsurprisingly... a fire spell.
Deylinaar, looks like you have an interesting and legal build.
thanks. it seemed pretty straightforward to me as well but then I started over-thinking it.......
But lots of cool possibilities!