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The planes of wood and metal have only recently been discovered, so even if Kineticist isn't a rare class, there won't be many with access to those elements. Efficient production also requires a specific feat, since otherwise Basic Kinesis' bulk limits really get in the way.
I would love to see the Lumber Consortium scrambling to cling to its power, and forced to pivot to its more exotic types of wood.
As for stone, Wall of Stone was already available. Kineticist definitely has an advantage in being able to produce more than one-inch thick stone, but quarrying for granite might just not be as big of an industry.
Wood kineticist are not new, nor are metal blasts (which used to belong to earth kineticists).
Kineticist is also not a specifically rare class. What they do have is a lack of mentors because more often than not a Kineticist comes about from very violent very traumatizing experiences.
A reminder that Kineticists is a mind over matter class and that Con came from their body getting physically eaten away from using too much of their ability (burn).
Yes that was 1e. Now it's an elemental bending class tapped into the planes
I heard that there’s a new elemental-based archetype that requires access to either primal or arcane spellcasting.
Is this true?
If so- this kinda disappoints me as one of the things I enjoyed about “Planes of Power” is the fact that it offered more options for divine followers of the Elemental Lords as well.
An elementalist paladin or cleric would be a cool concept in my opinion, and I’ve daydreamed of a campaign where the protagonists aid the goodly Elemental Lords against the evil ones.
On the other hand perhaps they’ll expand upon the elemental planes in a future Lost Omens book?
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It's not new, it's a reprint of the Elementalist from Secrets of Magic, updated to allow you to pick up the new elements (by sacrificing air).
And yeah, it's a big missed opportunity to not open up the archetype to all spellcasters.
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Kineticist is also not a specifically rare class. What they do have is a lack of mentors because more often than not a Kineticist comes about from very violent very traumatizing experiences.
A reminder that Kineticists is a mind over matter class and that Con came from their body getting physically eaten away from using too much of their ability (burn).
Temperans, PF2 Kineticist doesn't have burn. And has none of the "body getting eaten away" stuff, for that matter. I once again beg you to read the stuff you're commenting on, else you're just way too low hanging fruit.
It's not new, it's a reprint of the Elementalist from Secrets of Magic, updated to allow you to pick up the new elements (by sacrificing air).
And yeah, it's a big missed opportunity to not open up the archetype to all spellcasters.
By sacrificing air? Could you please elaborate for those of us not in the know?
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By sacrificing air? Could you please elaborate for those of us not in the know?It's not new, it's a reprint of the Elementalist from Secrets of Magic, updated to allow you to pick up the new elements (by sacrificing air).
And yeah, it's a big missed opportunity to not open up the archetype to all spellcasters.
"All six elements" isn't one of the options. You can stick with the old four, or go with the elemental cycle, which adds wood and metal in place of air in order to form a five-element cycle (the order of which is used for a few things like a special elemental counterspell option).
Thanks, QuidEst.
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These aditional damages to attacks are from some specific Impulses:
Potentially with the exception of Ghosts in the Storm that got this PFS note, you these impulses together to buff the damage of your allies to 3d6 extra damage.