Pyrokinesis Damage Type

I think Arcanist's Pyrokinesis should be dealt as spell damage. Arcanist is ostensibly meant to be sacrificing the utility of mage's heal spell for burst damage, focusing heavily on spells. Even if the incessant spellcasting for which the archetype is built were inadequate to incentivize building the spell damage identification, the Wisdom and Seance abilities make it pretty explicit. So, seeing as the rest of Arcanist incentivizes building around spells and spell damage, having Pyrokinesis (which triggers on main attacks which Arcanist does less of already) deal main attack damage seems needlessly dissonant. Furthermore, it's visually and thematically incoherent: Pyrokinesis looks, sounds, and feels like a fireball - a fireball cast by an extra spell-focused mage archetype. To have it not do spell damage just feels dissatisfying. I suppose its current damage type could have been designed to balance out the lack of mana cost and the synergy that it still has with Arcanist's other abilities through Arcane Restoration, but I would question if the damage on it really needs to be held back given the entire idea of the archetype. Even if so, I still think it would be more intuitive and thematically coherent to make it do spell damage even if that change goes alongside a nerf to its damage% so that the damage output doesn't change much.

It's a fairly simple change, but I think it fits.

 

if you melee as an arcanist you are doing something wrong.

 

lunar spine/heavy spell?

 

have you heard of mana steal

 

i have, and quite frankly i dont even build mana on arcanist so i dont quite see how its necessary, like it gives you more than enough mana from just hittin stuff.

 

Sometimes enemies move so not all of your thunderstorms hit