Condi Ele
Condi ele isn’t really a thing, as you only have access to 2 damage conditions: fire and bleeds (poison is available through a sigil, but that won’t have high up-time). These do a very good job of complementing power-damage in balanced builds, but are way too easy to cleanse to be the main act.
The classes the do successful condi builds – engi and necro mostly – have access to tons of control and almost every damaging condition in the game (no confusion for necro, no torment/fear on engie). We just can’t keep up with the rate they can spam them out, and even then condis only come out in 2 attunements. To be effective, ele needs to use all 4 attunements, meaning a complete loss of condi damage 1/2 the time.
I don’t think ele is supposed to have a pure-condi build. The best you can do is have a 35% power dmg-65% cond build. This is what I would call the build that Kodiak runs that features some suprisingly powerful burns and bleeds.
I’ve never come across one either. The Ele can stack bleeds well and has access to some easy permanent burns, as well as some AoE burns. But Eles lack the true safety that stacking multiple conditions at once offers. Because of this, they succumb to cleanses. Also, elementalists have issues with staying alive for long enough for the conditions to truly take effect. The last problem is that, by being offensive mainly in conditions, an ele either has to sacrifice utility by being limited in attunement swaps, or sacrifice damage to swapping to attunements that don’t deal conditions.
That said, there is strong potential to hybrid. I haven’t looked up this “Kodiak” fellow, but just looking at how the class plays I can see seamless switching between direct damage and condition damage, with one augmenting the other. Because seriously: Permanent burning in a signet that is really easy to trait for.
I don’t have opinions. I only have facts I can’t adequately prove.