Earth Kineticist, VMC Inquisitor, and alignment DR.

[Particle_Man]

I have an idea about how to beat alignment DR with an earth kineticist - I think it could be done with the variant multi-class rules and taking the Inquisitor as my other class. At 9th level I would be able to put a judgment on my weapons that allow me to beat DR/evil, say. Earth kineticists already have ways to beat most of the non-alignment DRs (except for DR/- or /mythic, I suppose)

Now while "kinetic blast" counts as a weapon for the purpose of getting weapon focus, I am not sure if it does for the purpose of Inquisitors infusing their weapons with holy power, so I might go "kinetic fist" to make it doable.

So would either or both of these ideas (judgment on blasts, or judgment on fist) work to beat dr/evil?

[Saethori]

Special Attack FAQ wrote:

However, there is a category of abilities that deserve a special note: Abilities like Arcane Strike that specifically enhance a character’s weapon or weapons themselves never apply to special abilities (with the exception of special abilities like the warlock’s mystic bolts that specifically call out that Arcane Strike applies).

In the same vein as abilities like Arcane Strike that affect a character’s weapons, abilities that say “with a weapon,” “with a melee weapon,” and “with a ranged weapon” almost never work with special abilities because such wording is almost always used as shorthand for “manufactured weapon,” “manufactured melee weapon,” and “manufactured ranged weapon.” The exception is abilities that deal damage when a creature touches or hits you in melee (for instance, the occultis’s energy ward focus power), which should also deal damage when a creature makes a melee touch attack against you but rarely call them out directly.

Certain special abilities (for instance rays, kinetic blasts, and mystic bolts) can specifically be selected with feats like Weapon Focus and Improved Critical. They still aren’t considered a type of weapon for other rules; they are not part of any weapon group and don’t qualify for the effects of fighter weapon training, warpriest sacred weapon, magus arcane pool, paladin divine bond, or any other such ability.

Your kinetic blasts do NOT count as aligned in this combination.

However, in addition to Kinetic Fist, Kinetic Blade would work to allow you to pierce DR, as it is very specifically forming a weapon and uses a lot of rules typically reserved for weapons.