It seems unlikely to me. A new element requires a lot of ongoing upkeep. If Earth also counts as Metal, they've also covered the elements by all the systems Pathfinder uses. On the other hand, Psychic Anthology will flesh out Void and Wood, which I would see as a prerequisite to making new elements, so that'll be one less barrier.
I would love to see new kineticist elements but I doubt we will see any anytime soon.
If/when they do a new element, I hope it will be based on the positive energy plane. With that you could get positive energy based abilities(healing, curing, reviving, harming undead), light based powers(maybe even solid light constructs), abilities dealing animals(animal forms, wild empathy, controlling animals, animal companion, etc.), powers of reincarnation and evolution, etc.
There is a good third party source with additional elements made by N Jolly.
Kineticists of Poryphra.
Has Time, Mind, Bone as well as many new blast types. He even mentioned it in his guide.
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There is a report that Psychic Anthology will introduce new language for organizing wild talents (something like "This functions as [spellname] except it costs n burn") which will allow them to introduce new wild talents much more efficiently in terms of column inches.
So it will be easier to include Kineticist stuff in books, or if you get, say, one page for Kineticist stuff you can put more on it. So that will make it easier to support new elements if they decide to add them, but fleshing out the existing ones is more of a priority.
Honestly, the original elements could use a wider variety of powers so there aren't as many "always take this one" non-choices (Every aerokineticist takes Wings of Air, every Telekineticist takes TK finesse, haul, and invisibility, etc.)
While new elements would be cool, they would need to do a whole kineticist book to do it well and correctly. Unless they do this I'd rather them just keep putting out supplemental stuff like feats, utility talents, infusions, and items that provide more options. My lvl 11 kineticist is about to go on an solo quest so that she can retrain two of her feats into Extra Wild Talent so she can get an Aether Wysp Sage Familiar.
I am sure psychic anthology will give a lot of options for every current element. If they do add a new element, I wonder what kind of product they would but it in.
I wonder why they never put wood/void options in a hardcover book.
I wonder why they never put wood/void options in a hardcover book.
I can field this one. Hardcover books never reference the softcover lines, since they aren't on the PRD. The only way this would happen is if they reprinted the content from Occult Origins in a hardcover, thus allowing it to serve as the foundation for other content. (And no plans to do so have been publicly announced at this time.)
I would love alternate element defense options without needing an archetype or feat. This would also be useful to take the expanded defense wild talent for characters who actually stuck with their element.
I agree, void's defense is lacking and also hurts if you are playing a race that is healed by negative energy.
Well I hope if they add a new element then it ends up in a hardcover.