Okay, let’s all create a list of the things the Elementalist community generally agrees upon about our profession. What I mean is that we need to create some cribnotes for any dev that enters this forum. By posting these generally-agree-upon opinions about the elementalist profession, you can get a good sense of where the Elementalist is as a profession and perhaps where it needs to go in the future.
From what I gather, here’s a few of them:
1. If you’re not attunement swapping, you’re doing it wrong. You should be attunement swapping during a fight so as to get the most out of your elementalist. Elementalists were balanced around attunement-swapping, so anyone who’s not doing it is hobbling themselves. This leads us to a few of the next ones, including…
2. The Arcana trait line is the best trait line, and it feels mandatory. Even after the nerf to EA, most people would call you insane to not include at least 10 points in the Arcana line in order to get the Elemental Attunement trait. That trait is so ubiquitous amongst elementalists that the devs should really consider just making it a class feature. The attunement cooldown reduction is also extremely nice. Again, some of that attunement cooldown should probably be incorporated into the base class so as to make the Arcana trait line feel less mandatory.
3. For those whose main is an Ele, we enjoy the active playstyle of the elementalist. People just starting out with the elementalist might find it off-putting because it’s not what they expected. For the people who have experienced it and chose to stick with it, we enjoy it immensely. For us, it’s what defines the elementalist profession, what sets it apart from all the other professions.It’s really fun, and we don’t understand how people can stand to play the other professions.
4. We wish we had more builds. Currently, every build circulating around this forum is a D/D Auramancer spec or some variant of it. It’s pretty clear that it’s our best build; nothing else comes close. What builds have you seen that have 30 points in either fire or air? None.