Concerned about Elemental Immunity


Kineticist Class


Pathfinder Kineticist Playtest Pg.8 wrote:

Elemental Immunity________________________________17th

Your elemental resistance becomes full immunity. While you have an element gathered, you’re immune to effects with that trait; you can voluntarily allow them to affect you.

While effects with the Air, Water, and Earth traits are a (relatively) short list, the fire trait is attached to quite a few effects. Dual and Universal Gate Kineticists especially seem like they'd be able to attack with one type of elemental impulse and remain immune to their effect of choice without any real cost.


Nintendogeek01 wrote:
Pathfinder Kineticist Playtest Pg.8 wrote:

Elemental Immunity________________________________17th

Your elemental resistance becomes full immunity. While you have an element gathered, you’re immune to effects with that trait; you can voluntarily allow them to affect you.
While effects with the Air, Water, and Earth traits are a (relatively) short list, the fire trait is attached to quite a few effects. Dual and Universal Gate Kineticists especially seem like they'd be able to attack with one type of elemental impulse and remain immune to their effect of choice without any real cost.

Well Universal Gate can do that easily enough with the level 10 Gather Amalgamation feat which they'd probably want anyways, gives them three Impulses before they need to reload. Comes with the added benefit that when they first Gather they're immune to all four elements. Both of them can also use the level 6 Cycling Blast to hotswap as needed.


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Shinigami02 wrote:
Well Universal Gate can do that easily enough with the level 10 Gather Amalgamation feat which they'd probably want anyways, gives them three Impulses before they need to reload. Comes with the added benefit that when they first Gather they're immune to all four elements. Both of them can also use the level 6 Cycling Blast to hotswap as needed.

Precisely the problem. Such an easily accessible, and interchangeable, immunity seems an absurdly powerful tool for a PC to just get automatically.

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