Has anyone tried this archetype? The Entropist
At first the archetype seemed to make the Kineticist overpowered, but as I chose wild talents I realized the changing elements every day really hamper making any kind of build, because your infusions only apply to certain simple blasts and your simple blasts are changing every day. Also, several "always on" powers are dependant on having a certain elemental defence and that is also changing. So while you might have access to more powers, you really have to have multiple builds prepared for the different elements you shuffle into.
The upside of the archetype is having access to way more utility talents. The spontaneous talent feat seems like a must-have, I'll just leave a slot open on most of my levels for the more niche utility talents or infusions.
I will be playing a character coming into the campaign at 7th or 8th level and I went with the Esoteric Array and chose to have Aether as my favoured element at 7th. I know it will be lower damage than some other elements but the utility is so good. There is just so much battlefield control between all the telekinesis powers, along with some of the buffs and debuffs from time.
I also figure at 11th level I can take Composite blast technique. A problem with taking Aether is there are no composite blasts that work well with it, at least none of them seem to give you the full composite blast damage. With composite blast technique, whatever element I roll into that day I can treat it as if I had chosen it as my secondary element as well.
Other than that I would go for precise shot, stealth gathering, and burn resistance.
Has anyone else played this class and can offer some advice to how the actual gameplay goes?
