Kineticist Confusion: Channel Elements

[Kylian Winters]

As part of channel elements, you can use 1-action Elemental Blast or a 1-action stance impulse. Can you pay an extra action to get the 2-action Elemental blast + Con Damage bonus, or is that just a straight limitation of Channel Elements where you are probably better off doing the stance THEN spending other 2 actions doing the Elemental Blast that gets +Con Dmg?

[PossibleCabbage]

It specifically says "1 action elemental blast" not "one action to use for an elemental blast." So the version you get with channeling your elements isn't the stronger one.

The stance might be the better option, but you might not have a stance that is particularly useful in the current context (e.g. you're mono-earth and tremorsense doesn't seem useful in this fight) in which case your best option is to use a 1-action blast and then a 2 action impulse (like Tremor, for the aforementioned geokineticist) since your impulses do not suffer MAP.