Kineticist Burn doing WAY more than 1 non lethal dmg??

[LevelSix_SYSTEM]

Went Kineticist and have like 20 CON at lv 7 with items but every time I use '1 burn' skills it reduces my life by the number of hit die I have instead of just doing 1 non lethal??? This bugged/WAI ??? Also after hitting 3 burn I dont see an increase in my physical ability scores...?

[Near Gravity]

Shocking, but only if you're a Air Kineticist.

I never found this honestly. If I got any burn at all, it didn't appear to do anything. How are you achieving this?

[LevelSix_SYSTEM]

When I use the Elemental Defense thing it even says it costs ZERO burn now that I have the Class Ability that lowers burn costs but it still hacks my HP away *the green HP bar dont go down but it shows weird numbers for total HP like at lv 2 it would show "25-2/23" ???

[Near Gravity]

Yeah. -2 is an effect on your HP. If you use False Life or Aid, you get the same thing only a plus. That's how they represent it. the number on the right is current.

25-2 just means healing can't bring you up to more than 23 until the effect goes away. While 25+12 for example, will just become 25+9 when you take a bit of dmg, and when it's gone, it's gone, because you can't heal hit points granted by a spell that are lost unless it's from a Constitution bonus iirc.

I never pay much attention to it. I just use False Life on characters that need a hit point buff before a battle, and consider Aid to be a worthless spell in this game, like many others.

Meaning it actually was a useful spell back in AD&D 2e, but rule changes to 3e and subsequent games have rendered it so very nearly useless it isn't worth having on the spell list. The +/- thing. It provides such a small benefit that it gets completely overshadowed by all the +/- ability buffs and DCs and all the rest. Much like a cantrip which gives 1 HP.

[LevelSix_SYSTEM]

Right but why is ONE burn slapping on a -2 and now at lv 7 its doing -7 ??

[Nismu]

"For each point of burn she accepts, a kineticist takes 1 point of nonlethal damage per character level."

[TaKo]

Originally posted by Ankhseram:

Right but why is ONE burn slapping on a -2 and now at lv 7 its doing -7 ??

so that burn's downside scales isntead of becoming negligible

Originally posted by Nismu:

"For each point of burn she accepts, a kineticist takes 1 point of nonlethal damage per character level."

[Near Gravity]

Originally posted by Nismu:

"For each point of burn she accepts, a kineticist takes 1 point of nonlethal damage per character level."

Probably why I never noticed it; I only leveled Kineticist to 3.

[LevelSix_SYSTEM]

Originally posted by Nismu:

"For each point of burn she accepts, a kineticist takes 1 point of nonlethal damage per character level."

Man are my eyes that bad that I missed "per character level" LOL... Ill have to look at the description better i guess but if it is WAI guess Ill just reroll Psychokineticist so i dont die in one hit... Thanks for the help!