Welcome back , you judicial queen , you ! <| sep |> Was just a suggestion . Kineticists are a bit cut and dry , and it depends entirely on your element . Fire tends to be the Damage element , so grab a vanilla No archtype Kineticist , and consider the bonus damage from nonhuman FCB . From there , its just getting Burning infusion so you can take Searing later , then burning away enemies fire resistance . I ' d avoid whip , or at least delay , as a proper combat patrol AoO build is going to take quite a while to get online , and unless your GM is happy with the retraining rules , he ' s not going to provide much but 1 blast every roundother round while you wait for his feats to amass . That being said , if you still want Whip or just don ' t care about the combat patrol due to the low stat requirements of a Kineticist Dex and Con are literally all you need it won ' t be hard getting the Int or whatever other stat you ' d like to throw at him .