elementalist

[jonnymon69]

is this a viable build

http://www.titancalc.com/TitanCalc.a...-0-0-12-0-12-0

full set of archmage gear, chromatic staff, aphrodities favour, archmidies cogwheal, star of elysium and a ikon of zues

[Shalie]

• Don't max Heart of Frost if you are not using Ice Shards, just one point is fine.
• Max Volcanic Orb and it's top synergy, Fragmentation. It has good stun, decent damage and a low cooldown. I'd say it's your 2nd best skill (Squall is the best).
• Brimstone and Stone Skin are not worth maxing in this build, put one point in them if you have gear with +skills.
• Only one point in Heat Shield, you only get that for the 15% damage resistance.
• Energy Shield and Reflection are bad skills.
• One point in Storm Surge: gives you occasionally stun against all surrounding melee attackers.
• One point in Summon Wisp and max Eye of the Storm. The Will never dies with it's 99% dodge and Eye increases fire, cold and lighting damage.
• Storm Nimbus only adds damage to your staff attacks, you want to focus on casting spells. You still want the synergy to increase lightning or cold damage maxed.

So something like this, focused on fire and lightning damage.

[jonnymon69]

thanks 4 the info, this is a class i have always had trouble with, have started 5 or 6 sence i started playing

sorry about late reply aswell i have been chilling on a beach in the cook islands

[jonnymon69]

another question.

do earth enchantment tree, and storm nibus tree have any effect on spell damage? if not is there any point using them if my main focus is spell spaming 2 kill enemys?

[Medea Fleecestealer]

Wow, lucky you. (Sighs with envy).

[Shalie]

The +% fire, lightning and cold bonuses will increase your spell damage.
The flat +fire, lightning,cold,burn bonuses do not get added to your spell damage, only to weapon attacks.

I would say that those trees are definitely worth it if you have spells that do the right damage type.

[jonnymon69]

thanks

[KargaN]

The build, proposed by Shalie is good although you`ll have a very hard time in Legendary act 3 & 4 without the Core Dweller. You`ll need a tanking pet to take the enemies` attention - i`m telling you from my own experience. This is my elementalist build (finished at 68 lvl) and focused on fire damage, using Storm Mastery skills for debuff.

[kalimon]

ohhhhh the nostalgia... brings me back to my very first toon i made when i was a kid. looking at elementalist now, id do a build along the lines of this: ELEMENTALIST.

You need a pet as a caster. Something to draw the aggro off, and a maxed Core Dweller does nothing better. I saw that it is similar to KargaN's build, but I noticed that he was very Earth-Heavy and a bit of maxed lightning bolt is fun with +100% lightning damage of static charge