Hi folks. I'm having some confusion on kineticists elemental familiar and what exactly it does.
A small creature made of elemental matter springs forth from your kinetic gate. This elemental familiar appears to be made of one of your kinetic elements, though it might have unusual or distinguishing aspects. Like other familiars, your elemental familiar can assist you in various tasks and on adventures. You gain an elemental familiar with the trait of one of your kinetic elements. If you have more than one kinetic element, you can change the element you've selected for your familiar to a different one of your kinetic elements each time you make your daily preparations. The familiar uses your Constitution modifier to determine its Perception, Acrobatics, and Stealth modifiers.
On both my pdf copy of RoE and on aonprd, it refers to specific familiars, of which none of the Elemental ones would be valid because of the number of abilities required.
However after digging around the book, I found the Elemental ability, which notes it requires resistance unless its a specific familiar.
Elemental (Rage of Elements pg. 42): Your familiar has the elemental trait instead of the animal trait. Choose air, earth, fire, metal, water, or wood. Your familiar gains that trait. The familiar is immune to bleed, paralyzed, poison, sleep, and the element matching its trait. Your familiar must have the resistance familiar ability to select this, unless it's a specific familiar. You can't select this ability if your familiar has a trait other than animal (such as a leshy familiar or an undead familiar).
Does this mean that what the kineticist Elemental familiar feat does is it gives you a familiar but the familiar abilities are locked into Resistance and Elemental? So you can't give them anything else outside of picking up familiar master archetype?
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I don't think this feat was stated very clearly. Especially since the Elementalist Archetype: Elemental Familiar feat has the same name, but very different mechanics.
What the Kineticist: Elemental Familiar feat appears to be trying to do is give a normal familiar with the Elemental trait instead of the Animal trait. And that is it. Similar to the Druid feat Leshy Familiar.