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Some substance infusion wild talents that have a combat maneuver check, such as Push/Pull, state that you can increase the maximum range of the bullrush/drag distance by accepting more burn. If I have Infusion Specialization, can I apply its discount towards the increased costs of those infusions?
Say I have Infusion Specialization 4, for example, and I blast someone with the Pushing Infusion substance wild talent (normally 1 burn). It will cost me 0 burn due to Infusion Specialization, but can I act as though I spent 3 additional burn for the purposes of throwing my victim 20 feet?
Also, if I continue to specialize in my primary element at 15th-level, can I apply Expanded Element's +1 attack roll bonus to my combat maneuver checks with those and other infusions? After all, combat maneuvers have always been considered attack rolls in their own right.
Both yes.
An answer in the very first response? Sweet! Thanks Mark!
You're easily the best designer around! Much love!
This should be added to the unofficial Kineticist FAQ
OOooo that suddenly makes pushing infusion a bit more appealing for later levels. Great, more hard choices to look forward to.
OOooo that suddenly makes pushing infusion a bit more appealing for later levels. Great, more hard choices to look forward to.
And there's no reason to believe the same answer wouldn't apply to other infusions that have similar "apply additional burn for additional effects" verbiage.
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Yup! Those extra spends are there precisely to work with infusion specialization and/or gather power. If they're meant to be more limited, which few do, they'll have language like disintegrating infusion does on destroying force effects and other matter.
Yup! Those extra spends are there precisely to work with infusion specialization and/or gather power. If they're meant to be more limited, which few do, they'll have language like disintegrating infusion does on destroying force effects and other matter.About that. Is there a reason that I can use Disintegrating Infusion to rip a guy apart without taking burn, but if I want to do the same to the clothes he was wearing I must take a point of burn? I understand putting the burn cost on the 10-foot cube part, but why can't you use it to simply attack an object for double damage?
Nothing stops you from using it on a chair as your target for the same effect as any other force blast of that damage. The infusion specifically costs burn for negating force effects and destroying the cube only.
Would the movement from pushing/pulling infusion provoke attacks of opportunity if the creature passes allies? Or ymeould you have to burn feats and such to get the greater versions of bull rush/drag to do that?
As far as I know, the general rule has always been that forced movement does not provoke.