You can talk about rules elements, but shouldn't paste text, answer in summary form. Probably also shouldn't do too much.
What are the benefits for single element? (E.g. like the air for movement and fire die boost we already know about.)
Is the elementalist archetype updated?
Are Impulses Concentrate?
Does the Elemental Instinct Barbarian have a built-in elemental ranged attack?
I've heard on the discord that yes the elementalist archetype is updated (other than the kineticist MC it's the only archetype), and there are elemental eidolons.
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It's shocking how Paizo consistently ignored all the questions about whether elemental eidolons were in this. It made me sure they weren't and they were embarassed to address it.
What are the aura junctions for each element? Can you stack them?
Is there any way to increase the area of your elemental aura?
Is there any way to have more than one aura stance at a time?
What levels do the Kineticist's proficiencies for their Class DC go up?
Is it standard caster progression (1/7/15/19), or a martial variant (1/5/13/19), or something else entirely?
Very nice. Plus it gets item bonuses to hit.
Two more pertinent questions, then I need sleep.
1. When do those item bonuses come online?
2. And, in your opinion, what is the most interesting dual-element impulse feat?
Resistance junctions (lifted from Discord):
Air - Air, Electric
Earth - Earth, Poison
Fire - Cold, Fire
Metal - Electric, metal
Water - Fire, Water
Wood - Wood, Poison
Very nice. Plus it gets item bonuses to hit
I thought I saw that the Kineticist accuracy item was just +2, does it come in +1, +2, and +3 varieties?
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Versatile blasts, level 1 feat:
Air -Cold
Earth - Poison
Fire - Cold
Metal - Electricity
Water - Acid
Wood - Poison
Can you stack auras, or are they like stances?
Very nice. Plus it gets item bonuses to hitI thought I saw that the Kineticist accuracy item was just +2, does it come in +1, +2, and +3 varieties?
Pretty sure it doesn't come in +3. That would be stepping on the fighter's toes a little too hard. Even so, "legendary with up to +2 from items" is pretty darned snazzy.
Versatile blasts, level 1 feat:
Air -Cold
Earth - Poison
Fire - Cold
Metal - Electricity
Water - Acid
Wood - Poison
Does that just affect your blasts or does it apply to other impulses as well?
Does Fire have any early workhorse damage impulses that deal non-fire damage? "I can do cold damage with my blast" is already a decent answer for "I'm a pure fire kineticist who is fighting something fire immune" but I'm wondering if it goes further than that.
Do elemental barbarians get to apply their extra barbarian rage damage to appropriate impulses?
Do they get medium armor and/or are there any earth/wood/metal impulses that let you pretend you're wearing medium (or heavy) armor?
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There's an Elemental Overlap feat that allows a single gate kineticist to pick any composite impulse that shares their elemental trait. So a pure water kineticst can get any of the five composite impulses that share water. You can take it more than once.
Does the metal resistance junction mean, for instance, you'd resist all damage dealt with metal weapons?Resistance junctions (lifted from Discord):
Air - Air, Electric
Earth - Earth, Poison
Fire - Cold, Fire
Metal - Electric, metal
Water - Fire, Water
Wood - Wood, Poison
No, things like creatures or spells with the metal trait.
Basically only half of this is good for everyone except fire. They get fire/cold traits and fire/cold damage. Everything is one trait and one damage type, it just so happens that fire/cold are both traits and damage types.
Thinking about it.. I'm going to ask the question that I meant to ask.
Let's say that someone decides they want to build a dedicated elemental blaster - that their ability to apply damage to enemies at range with elemental power is the thing that they really care about, and they don't want to have to worry about running out. Are there reasons why this person might want to build an elemental barbarian, or are they better off just going with kineticist?
Good Q. I'm not sure. It doesn't explicitly say it but it gives all impulses the rage trait.
Well, by default the damage boost only applies to melee strikes, so if the instinct doesn't change that, and there are no feats that change that....
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Anything resembling the old Kinetic Knight in there where you could conjure a sword or something made of your element of choice instead of just shooting projectiles?
There's an elemental weapon feat (not the name I think) that lets you give one weapon trait to your blast (e.g. reach, agile, thrown, ranged 100 w/30 volley, ranged 50 with propulsive) and on choice of B/P/S as your damage type. It still uses Con to attack because it's still a blast for all other purposes, including the two action version to add Con to damage.
Do they get medium armor and/or are there any earth/wood/metal impulses that let you pretend you're wearing medium (or heavy) armor?Earth gives 4 Ac 1 dex.
Metal and wood each give 3 AC and 2 dex but metal gives a steel shield and wood gives a wood shield with block reaction.
At the end of the day they still tax your stats huh? Guess it's sentinel as usual then.
In what ways does the kineticist archetype weaken impulses?
Is there any way to use an elemental blast in something like Opportunity Attack?
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Do all of the Blasts scale better than Electric Arc, or nah?
Not really comparable. They're a single action attack that scales from d6/d8 up to eight dice, with the option to add strength damage and with an extra action (but still one target) add con damage.
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Do all of the Blasts scale better than Electric Arc, or nah?
We actually know the blasts.
1d6 range 60 (fire, air) or 1d8 range 30 (everything else), +str when in melee, attack, single action. You can crank it up to 2 actions to give it +con damage as an early-game patch to last you until you get a real two-action damaging impulse, and everything other than Fire is versatile. They gain dice once every 4 levels or so. It also looks like you can buff them up a bit with feats, which is nice.
So... they're really much more of a competitor for martial attacks than they are for Earc. The things that compare to Earc are going to be your level 1 damaging impulses. There it gets a bit messy... but I think that Tide Hands (the one we've seen thus far) manages to handle itself pretty well. Going from "up to two targets within 30" to "every target inside of either two fifteen-foot cones or one thirty-foot cone" is a nice step up for clearing the chaff, and 1d8 per 2 levels scales a lot better than statmod plus 1d4 per 2 levels, even before you start counting in the extra pushiness. Overflow means that you have to channel again, but channeling comes with a free blast, so that's really not so bad.