Hello everybody, I have two question to which I hope I can find an answer on this forum. Here they are:
1)The Elysiokineticist archetype published in People of the Wastes has an ability called Elysium's Soul. Elysium's Soul description says that an Elysiokinetcist replaces the standard class skill gained through his or her specializiation in the Wood Element with Knowledge(Religion) and Heal. With Knowledge(Religion) there is nothing to say, the problem is with Heal. In fact a Kinetocist already has Heal as a class skill, so I don't understand why the ability replaces one of the additional class skill with one that a Kinetcist already has because the Elysiokineticist archetype doesn't replace the standard class' skills. In my home game I will replace Heal with Knowledge(Planes) because of the flavor behind the archetype but I'd like to know if an official clarification was given to solve this problem because I found nothing searching through the forum. Although I don't play PFS games, I think that shis could be especially relevant for Pathfinder Society's players because I searched also through Campaign Clarification and I found nothing about this topic and the archetype is legal for PFS.
2)About Versatile Performance, but the question can be equally applied to the Scrivener's Versatility ability of the chronicler of worlds archetype, I'd like to know if the bonus gained through Skill Focus applies when we replace the skill bonus in a given skill with that in the associated Perform Skill, or in Linguistics in case of a Chronicler of Worlds. Long story short, if I have Skill Focus in Perform, or in Linguistics for a Chronicler of Worlds, does the bonus gained through Skill Focus apply to count the total replaced bonus? I ask because Skill Focus says that we apply its bonus only on checks made with the skill with which the feat is associated, but theoretically using Versatile Performance we still made the base skill check, only replacing the standard skill bonus for the check with that in the associated skill. However, things are made muddier by the rules text of the Argent Voice's Dedicated Performance ability that says "the argent voice gains a bonus
on Perform (sing) checks made as part of a versatile performance equal to the number of additional Perform skills in which he has the maximum number of ranks possible at his level" implying that we not only replace the total skill bonus of the check with that in the Perform skill, but the entire skill check with a check with the Peform skill
Sorry for my bad English... It isn't my native language, so I find difficult to express clear concepts using it