Kineticist build

[kage1822]

hey guys, found this build on the gog.com forums by @InEffect, and was wondering if any of you might be able to edit it some to fit my needs? Changing the race to Tiefling, making it pure 20 level Kineticist (Overwhelming Soul), I want to change Earth to Air... in the level 3 slot, where originally the build put a level of Thug, as going pure Kin, I put the Weapon Focus: Kinetic Blast there, so from 4-7 everything before an element change I mixed it up as 4) Fan of Flames, 5) Fire - Dreadful Carnage, 6) Burning Infusion, 7) Skill Focus: Persuasion & Fire's Fury
oh, can't put the notepad in, I'll have to link the build
https://www.gog.com/forum/pathfinder_kingmaker/ineffects_guide_v2/page12

[Azure]

So you have a guide you following and want to change stuff? Just do the changes as you level up that character.

[kage1822]

the thing is I never heard of Kineticist before now, Kingmaker is the first time I ever played anything 'Pathfinder', so I don't know what's good and what's not when it comes to kineticists

[Aria Athena]

InEffect posts here, so you will probably get an answer from them.

[kage1822]

InEffect already told me that they don't do mod builds or edited builds

[Azure]

I don't know what the Overwhemling soul changes but if you have a "guide" then take it with a grain of salt as most are written by minmaxers who only care about squeezing the cheese to the limit.

If your new to a game/setting i'd suggest being less concerned about what is "good" and more what you like the look of. Save, make some choices, test those choices and find out what works for you.

My first playthru with one from Start to finish was of a solid Healer and Single Target damage dealer using the Steam Composite blast mainly, started with Water and eventually went into Fire, picked up the basic archery feats (Point Blank Shot and Precise shot) and weapon focus in blasts and maxed out Use Magic Device for wand utility

[kage1822]

overwhelming soul among other things lets you use your CHA instead of CON for your blasts

[[-TWR-]tajl]

Overwhelming Soul is weak compared to basic kineticist. Can't accept burn is just terrible and well only good thing is that they would use charisma instead of con, but even that is not really good because it is easier to buff con than cha.

Overwhelming Soul could be useful if you would have some reason to use charisma like if you would use paladin or monk dip to get charisma to ac and saves or something, but for kineticist20 it is just bad idea and no matter how you would build it you would be lot weaker than basic kineticist20.

If you choose air instead of earth you cant take Deadly Earth as soon as possible (if at all) which is bad as it is the most powerful Kineticist ability in game. If you cant take it you should at least make sure you get Cloud and composite blast that works with it.

While it would be possible to make ok build for overhelming soul with monk and/or paladin dips for Kineticist20 it is just weak. Even perfect and most optimized build possible would still be practically useless compared to that InEffects build.

So if you like to optimize first thing is to change sub class. If you like to play Overwhelming Soul20 for some RP reason or something. Forget about optimization. It is not going to work anyway.