That's so cute!

Yeah, being CON based is a bit odd when it comes to skills an exploration.

The Air Kineticist in my group probably does about as much damage as my Silent Whisper Psychic, although that might change when I get Shatter Mind at level 6 (we're at level 3 right now, almost at level 4). I'm the best in the party at dealing killing blows though, thanks to Forbidden Thought (works very well on minions who don't do much other than move and attack and have low will saves) and Daze. Daze being non-lethal damage with a 120ft range has come in very handy, as our party loves to question enemies after defeating them in combat. My main attack cantrip is actually Slashing Gust, which I got from my Witch Free Archetype. Having all the knowledge skills has come in very handy in our campaign, so I definitely feel useful out of combat. It helps a lot in combat, too, since our party uses Recall Knowledge pretty effectively. One of the main differences between the Psychic and the Kineticist is that our spell slots are few, but can give some very powerful battle changing options. I haven't used Fear yet because I usually stay more than 30ft away from the most dangerous enemies, and I just use Forbidden Thought when minions get within 30ft of me. But I'm sure it'll come in handy sometime. Although it's competing with the Stupefy spell option as well now. If I can luck into an enemy caster failing its will save against Stupefy, that makes the fight so much easier. I have used Soothe to bring up a downed ally in combat, and I used Blood Vendetta recently to deal a big chunk of bleed damage and give a nice debuff that increased damage for both the Kineticist and me (for our slashing damage). Being able to further customize my Psychic by choosing a thematic occult spell at each level is fun. I think for that reason, I prefer Psychic to Kineticist. Choosing any thematic spell from the Occult spell list (and getting 1 automatically at every odd level, including some really awesome ones like Stupefy, Heroism, and Synaptic Pulse) I think is more fun than customizing my Kineticist just through my feat choices.

I think The Distant Grasp is my favorite psychic subclass. Glad to hear you're enjoying it!

You're on fire! (Wait I don't see fire on here)

@@superboyok_ Unearthed puns taken for granite.

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Same!

This sounds like my dream. I think Jagged Berms is my favorite thing in the entire Kineticist class and I really love protection style gameplay. Well done!

Which one are you? My understanding is Fire and Metal are the best at damage early on. Water is the best damage later.

@@toodleselnoodos6738 water/metal but full tank and cc build

I do like that support is so good with this class. Sure, you can do damage if you want, but you can also lean way into support.

@@toodleselnoodos6738 playing water/metal. Started Ocean's Balm, Shard Strike, Metal Carapace, then I get difficult terrain options, the nice level 6 wall, more healing etc. AoE defenses at 12 with options to reflow those for CC with Glacial Prison and such. Meanwhile picking up junctions for attack debuffs, resistances etc

The Air Kineticist in my group does a pretty good amount of damage just between his Aerial Boomerang and his Elemental Blast. He's been able to hit multiple enemies with the boomerang quite reliably. Our DM hasn't done a good job of making sure that the enemies scatter to avoid being damaged by the recalled boomerang on the following turn, but his rationale is that most of the enemies that we fight aren't smart enough or familiar enough with the Kineticist's boomerang to know about his 1 action recall boomerang ability.

in pf1 aether was an element for the kineticist which made them a Telekineticist. Doesn't work as well in pf2 though. I have a Kineticist with the psychic dedication, and it's more of a footnote, than the "I can lift tons of stuff with my mind!" that the 1e telekineticist was.

@@LontEnCaras yes that make sense. They get their power outside of home plane. That is still cool.