Outside of an FAQ ruling, that is going to be the most definitive answer you are going to be able to get. Mark is the class creator and a Paizo developer. The grapple rules don't look at the 'components' of your attack action to see if it is a spell or SLA. It IS an attack action and attack actions do not provoke. Kinetic blade is not a free action or swift action SLA into an attack action. ![]() An AoO is based entirely on what action you do. ![]() The part of another action is actually key to why you don't get hit with any AoO. For example, a swift/immediate action spell or SLA doesn't provoke an AOO normally and there might be abilities that allow one to not provoke with a spell/SLA, but would still have to make a concentration check to use it in a grapple (like with liberating command). Protoman wrote: For the grappling, the "part of another action" never changed the fact that it's a spell-like ability, and the grappling rules specifically state "a grappled character who attempts to cast a spell or use a spell-like ability must make a concentration check (DC 10 + grappler's CMB + spell level), or lose the spell." I see that as meaning one still has to make the concentration check to use kinetic blade. My PFS pyro's searing flesh defensive talent made grappling him a big loss in HP for the grappler's turn that it balanced out and he never stayed grappled long, so I recommend any kineticist to have a melee weapon to pull out or a cestus in hand to use while grappled. I usually never bothered trying to kinetic blade since the concentration check DC usually much higher than my bonus, til I reached up to 28-32 Constituon bonus but even then the things that bothered grappling me had such high strength and CMB and size that it usually wasn't worth the wasted round's effort and should have punched with cestus or down thing. ![]() For the grappling, the "part of another action" never changed the fact that it's a spell-like ability, and the grappling rules specifically state "a grappled character who attempts to cast a spell or use a spell-like ability must make a concentration check (DC 10 + grappler's CMB + spell level), or lose the spell." I see that as meaning one still has to make the concentration check to use kinetic blade.
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