Metal Kineticists and Special Materials

[sherlock1701]

I had kind of an interesting thought on Earth Kineticists. Once you get composite blast (metal), you can (obviously) use it to attack an enemy with metal (presumably from the environment or carried on your person).

If I carried around a few lumps of various special metals (silver, cold iron, etc), couldn't I use them with the composite blast to bypass DR without needing rare-metal infusion?

There's no indication on how much material you need to perform an elemental blast, so a tiny BB would be as effective as anything else. For maybe a thousand gp, you could get a few dozen 0.20g bits of metal of each material. Since you can easily pick up your projectiles after each fight, you'd never run out.

Also, there's no special action required to pick up matter from your element, so you wouldn't run into a situation where action economy would be an issue. At most, it would be a free action as you're essentially grabbing 'ammo'. You could keep each 'ammo' type in a separate pouch if you were concerned about sorting.

The only reason I can see that this wouldn't work is if the elemental material is somehow conjured into being rather than picked up from the environment.

Any thoughts?

[QuidEst]

The material is being conjured. This has been confirmed. There's a talent for bypassing special material DR, I believe.

[John Woodford]

Telekineticists can do that trick if the special metal is in the form of a throwable weapon, AIUI. That's why my telekineticist carries around a couple of cold iron darts with silver weapon blanch. (I was originally thinking to go with shuriken, but he doesn't have proficiency.)

[sherlock1701]

QuidEst, can you provide a link? I only found this one from the playtest, which says that either conjured or ambient material is usable:

http://paizo.com/threads/rzs2rp1x?Does-a-Kineticist-Conjure-Their-Element

[Hubbaman]

How much metal would need for a blast? (If this was allowed)

From Kineticist blast: "Even the weakest kinetic blast involves a sizable mass of elemental matter or energy, so kinetic blasts always deal full damage to swarms of any size (though only area blasts deal extra damage to swarms)."

A few pounds a blast? 10 pounds?

Will be a lot of metal to carry :)