Why no kinetic defense?

[Verzen]

One of my favorite parts of kineticist is a passive, always active, defensive ability. I love the flavor of the class so far, but I'd just love it if there was some kinetic defense option where I cover myself in stoneskin as earth or some such.

[Xethik]

That would be interesting for an alternative to armor for an Earth kineticist. But I'm curious what Metal will offer!

[Saedar]

Earth has some feats that are specifically about shields/armor.

[QuidEst]

Water has a solid defensive reaction, although it's overflow, and there are auras that can grant things like passive damage and concealment.

[Perpdepog]

It'd still be neat to have a feat that grants you armor of an element comparable to actual armors though. Something akin to Mountain Stance's AC capping, or Scales of the Dragon. I can't speak on balance, or number of feats required to realize the concept, but an armor feat in conjunction with the weapon conjuring feat just oozes flavor.

Imagine a kineticist going from unarmed to wearing chain mail formed from ice and wielding a greatsword of flame in the space of a turn.

[Verzen]

Perpdepog wrote:

It'd still be neat to have a feat that grants you armor of an element comparable to actual armors though. Something akin to Mountain Stance's AC capping, or Scales of the Dragon. I can't speak on balance, or number of feats required to realize the concept, but an armor feat in conjunction with the weapon conjuring feat just oozes flavor.

Imagine a kineticist going from unarmed to wearing chain mail formed from ice and wielding a greatsword of flame in the space of a turn.

Agreed