New Elementalist Questions

Well I beat prof last night while you were all glued to the election.

All I would say is bring along "ward against elements" and "malestrom" skills if you are an ele. Cast ward often and your group will love you and cast malestrom when those little imp things come along.
 
Congratulations! I've made it with my Warrior and my Monk - working on my Elementalist now.

Thanks for the Ele advice.
 
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As an update - I have the skills and enjoying playing the fire elementalist.

Those of you who play with fire - do you have any hero recommendations that are particularly suited to a fire elementalist? I've collected a nice batch of heros. I especailly like going out with Vekk set up as a fire elementalist, too - the double whammy is most effective.

I am also looking for a good weapon set - would you recommend a perfect staff or a wand and item combo?

Any insight is appreciated.
 
I use a wand/offhand combo, but that's because of the awesomeness that is the Bison Cup (thanks again whoever gave me that thing!) and I use the Wayward Wand. I am personally a fan of a massive amount of Energy (unbuffed I have 111 energy when I run fire), but others like the 20/20 sets.

As for heroes it depends what I'm doing at the time. When vanquishing I use Sabway, when just playing around or doing stuff in normal mode, I generally bring along a healer, a tank, and a support (the support varying on my mood, and where I'm going). The only heroes I don't tend to use fairly regularly or at all would be the Assassins. I just can't find a good build for them.
 
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Thanks - that is really helpful.

I'm like you - although I sometimes covet the 20/20 nature of the staff - I'm using the wand/item combo because I hate running out of energy. I have two gold items I've picked up. Unfortunately, my Fire Wand of Quickening with +14 energy also has a -1 energy regeneration. My Fire Prism of Fortitude is nice - +12 energy and +28 health with +5 armor while health is >50%. I'm running at 92 energy now.

What did you do to get up to 111?

I have been going out with Olias - to put up a meat shield; Dunkuro for healing (unless I use a henchie - then I bring Hayda); and Vekk. I'm finding that double fire elementalists is an instant killer in most places. That Sabway looks interesting. After three years I still feel like a newbie - I had never heard of that until you mentioned it. Thanks for the link.
 
For my energy I have full radiant, attunement, and a rune of Sup. Energy Storage, and fill up Energy Storage points. Wayward Wand gives me +5 energy > 50% health, and the Bison Cup gives me another 12. It makes me rather squishy, but I very very rarely have energy problems running my usual Arcane Echo SH build.
 
WOW!! I don't have enough necros nor enough elite skills to put together the Sabway builds recommended by Elader Arkon, so I teamed up with Karma Kaybee. Between the two of us we had the three non-elite skilled Sabway necro builds. WOW!!

The only times I had ever gone hard mode I got clobbered by all the aggressive 24 and 28 beings. Last night we vanquished two areas outside of Lions Arch. What a fantastic group of necros. Between us we had five necros and an elementalist - and we did just fine. Neither of us have completed Nightfall, Factions or EotN so we have to work on Prophesies - but it was great.

This is one reason I joined a guild - to get info that would raise the level of play and be a ton of fun. Thanks to all of you who posted on this thread.
 
It is fairly cheap to unlock all skills for Sabway for your heros. This is what I did and then just ran EOtN and NF untill I had enough Necros. It actually is not hard to get the needed necros. Olias comes from the mission that links NF and Prof. Master of Wispers is fairly early on in NF and Livia is almost at the beginning of the Asura campaign in EOtN.

I ran this build with vanquishing last night and apart from Olias thinking he was a tank and my minion master frequently having to be flagged into the area of attack it worked beautifully. So yer it does require a little micro management but it is great.

BTW I ran your dual searing flames Nuke last night and it was great. I am planning to try a three way nuke tonight to see how it goes. If it works well I will let you know the build. I have found also that the monk smiting skill b(something) spirit to be an extremely useful Ele support skill. Cast it once and for the rest of your time you get +1 energy whenever you are attacked. Oh and you don't need to invest any point into smiting prayers to use this skill. It really is very good.

Finally, does anyone know a good Ele/Monk build with the ele side used for energy management and the monk side used for beefy party wide heals. I found a goodin but it revolved largely around EOtN title skills which I dont have yet.
 
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Yeah - I still like the double fire elem. I will be curious to see the builds you end up with. I'd also like to see elem Ele/monk build you end up with for party healing.

My problem with the three necros is that my monk and warrior both picked up the Master of Whispers going through NF - so I had my elementalist pick up the ranger. THEN I found out about Sabway. So now I have to get through NF so I can go back and pick up the third necro.
 
Got ya. I remember reading that now srry forgot. I tried a three-way ele fire build last night and it was rubbish. I will need to do a heap more work on it to get it working the way I want. Will let you know when I get something worthwhile.

I have some ideas for the ele/monk build, which I need to beat down the destroyers as fire does not work. Will post it here when I have tried it and know that it works.
 
As promised the ele/prot build I triled from PvX OgNDgDz/OS/aRARgoFrHzk4B
It works alright just dont use the instructions from PvX. Instead cast life bond on tanks and then swiftness followed by ether renewal and then spam reversal of fortune on everybody and other skills as you see fit. A energy staff is a useful weapon of choice as well.
 
Yeah - I discovered that fire-doesn't-do-it-with-destroyers thing.

I was doing some running around in Vabbi and had to take Zhed. I set him up as a mirror of my fire elementalist and it wored pretty well.

My elementalist is about to go into Joko's Domain - so I am getting closer to finishing and going after that third necro.
 
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Yeah - I discovered that fire-doesn't-do-it-with-destroyers thing.

I was doing some running around in Vabbi and had to take Zhed. I set him up as a mirror of my fire elementalist and it wored pretty well.

My elementalist is about to go into Joko's Domain - so I am getting closer to finishing and going after that third necro.
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You are up to where I am in NF. Shame about the time differences or we could finnish NF together.
 
Last night I discovered another benefit of the pseudo-Sabway team I have. While riding the worms in the sulfurous wastes I came to -60dp. I thought I would be worthless on land. I was able to stay alive and active even with the lower health and energy. I am still short the SS Necro - but the bomber and ritualist necros get the job done.

I was quite surprised.
 
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Where are you? What times are you on?
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I should be on tonight (Char name Ka Ali) at around 8:00pm GMT+10 time. I think that works out to around 3 or 4 in the morning there. I am sometimes on on the weekends during the day which would put me in around your time. Feel free to try me on a Firday night or Saturday night your time.
 
Actually - most Saturday mornings I am out at a street ministry from 1:30 to 3:30am PST - and get home about 4:00am. I usually check email or do a little GW to unwind. That would be right in your time slot. Although - this Friday (NOv. 21) is my birthday and I hope to be in a beach B&B with my wife - not on the street or in GW. Maybe in a couple of weeks we can hook up and do a little damage to some race of beasts.
 
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