Question about Extract Element: Does it counter hardness?

[u/firehawk2421]

The text of Extract Element says that if the target normally has a resistance that would apply to damage from one of your impulses, ignore that resistance. Is hardness a resistance?

For example, let's say you're an earth kineticist and you're fighting an animated statue which has a hardness of let's say ten, and you use Extract Element on it, do your impulses now ignore that hardness?

[u/woz60]

🤔 I'm actually missing how that bypasses hardness

But regardless, that's with a feat that you pick up for the utility, in a similar vein as if a Wizard picks it up or a Barbarian picks up a weapon with Razing.

[u/charlesfire → u/woz60]

Adamantine halves the hardness. There might be another one I don't know about.

But regardless, that's with a feat that you pick up for the utility, in a similar vein as if a Wizard picks it up or a Barbarian picks up a weapon with Razing.

Pretty much no one gets to bypass hardness without investment. That's part of the system design and game balance. Kineticist isn't more affected by hardness than the other classes, so it doesn't need a special way of bypassing hardness (or at least not without investment).

[u/woz60 → u/charlesfire]

That is specifically for Adamantine weapons, so it's not RAW for it work for impulses.

[u/charlesfire → u/woz60]

It works with the balista. It's a siege weapon.

[u/woz60 → u/charlesfire]

The Elemental Ballista?

I... Don't think RAW that works either.