Kineticist Fire Gate: Ranged Fire Blast listed as Earth and unusable, and some other Kineticist issues

[celeborne]

Hi, I saw that PF2e Expansion is listed in the mods directory of this repo, so I wanted to check in with you to note some issues I ran into.

I'm playing a single gate Kineticist (Fire) and there are a couple of bugs I've run into.

The first is that Earth is listed as the required element for the ranged blasts for Fire Gate. My kineticist has the versatile blasts feat.

Second, the Burning Jet ability doesn't seem to be usable. The screenshot shows actions available and that the kineticist currently has channel elements active. That said, the ability is greyed out and not selectable.

One last thing... Channel Elements is listed as "Until Long Rest", but automatically cancels itself out after combat culminates.

Greatly appreciate the work you've done on these mods! Having a lot of fun playing through BG3 in the PF2e Rules engine 👍🏼

[QuickDeck]

Regarding Channel Elements displaying 'until long rest', it is intentional that it termiantes at the end of combat, the message is just what BG3 says when a status has infinite duration. We can probably mark it with the IgnoreResting flag though, which I believe removes this message.

[celeborne]

Appreciate it! I may try my hand at making the adjustments and plop a PR in your lap if you're not opposed? And not to split hairs, but per the rules in the PF2e tabletop game, unless a character uses an impulse with the overflow trait, is knocked out, or dismisses it, the kinetic aura should remain active. Not sure if the overflow deactivation has been implemented (don't have an impulse that would have the overflow trait yet) but quality of life would be much higher if the aura stayed active so a player doesn't have to activate it again after every combat.

[InstantMirage]

Overflow is implemented.

I misread the rest

[ATP-Kraken]

I say go for it!
Do note that there is a difficulty option to end kinetic aura on combat start, to preserve the difference in action compression between Kineticist and Elemental Barbarian (which uses the archetype). So changing the status end should take into account the same rule that Channel Elements (passive) checks on combat start.

Regardless of what rules you take to get there, I'm in favor of not requiring the player to manually Channel Elements out of combat. Here's what the remove conditions for ChannelingStatus would look like, taking into account the difficulty settings.
data "RemoveConditions" "HasStatus('SG_Unconscious') or (IsStatusEvent(StatusEvent.OnCombatEnded) and CheckRulesetModifier('f2d9d868-1e84-4bc0-9939-95bb68fd533e', true))"

[QuickDeck]

Just to add a little clarity as to why we differ from RAW here, the thing that wpuld normally keep a kineticist from constantly channeling their aura is that it would generally be pretty rude to walk around a marketplace with a flame tornado circling you. As much as I would love to implement an attitude penalty for having your aura switched on, it is a simpler solution to just switch it off at combat start