Earth Spiker

Id stick with Stone Daggers, Obsidian Flame would just cause exhaustion Exhaustion shouldn't be avoided like the plauge. Obsidian Flame has huge spike damage (edit: the name of this thread is "earth spiker", is it not?), which is a value in itself. Also, chances are you're not always at full energy, so some exhaustion won't make all that much of a difference. If there's a break in the fighting, you're exhaustion will probably, for the most part, recover. It's all a matter of using the skill when it's appropriate to finish off an enemy, or to add to massive pressure on an enemy.

Stone dagger's damage is crap and rather easy to heal, though being spammable is nice, it's not worth the 4 energy per cast (assuming you have normal attunment)

ye I was thinking Ether Renewal, Ether Prodigy is just plain crap.

Ether Prodigy
Elite Enchantment Spell. Lose all enchantments. For 5...17 seconds, you gain energy regeneration of 6. When Ether Prodigy ends, you take 2 damage for each point of energy you have. This Spell causes Exhaustion. Just plain crap he says....

I am sorry, i think i may have just wandered into the troll zone. Basically Armageddon it seems that you have disagreed with lightning hell just for the sake of disagreeing (he is right on all points there, altho Whirlind can be useful, tho i wouldnt use it as a basis for aftershock)

Quite simply ether prodigy is great. Never heard of a Emo? i suppose not...
As for obsidian flame, to get close to getting near the dmg caused by obsidian you will need to cast daggers 3-4 times, thats 15-20nrg (tho it would be 9-12 nrg with ele attunment-it rounds up). obsidian is basicaly is 100+ dmg for a final kill. Dont worry about exhaustion, as long as you use it wisely you cant go too wrong.

I think for an Earth ele you need to have at least 2 wards (melee and foes) armour buff is helpful and kd spells if possible. If you are going to go split Earth/Air then i suggest ether prodigy, enevenerating charge and stoning for kd, as well as aftershock for enourmous dmg should they get close.

Iron mist, if used correctly is awesome, its underused atm, but i see it becoming more useful. You can shut down a warrior for 14-21 seconds every 30 seconds, which is brilliant. Mop up the rest while he is pinned, and then finish him off later.

I think for an Earth ele you need to have at least 2 wards (melee and foes) armour buff is helpful and kd spells if possible. If you are going to go split Earth/Air then i suggest ether prodigy, enevenerating charge and stoning for kd, as well as aftershock for enourmous dmg should they get close. Exactly! Enervating charge and stoning - archane echo will practically shut down anyone...get to a monk and he's not healing while sitting on his butt being hit for 96 dmg at a time...throw in aftershock if your close and it's lights out =). Whenever I PvP i switch to a /me secondary for the archane echo.

fristly this is not what i would call a "spike" Build there are no real killer blow, just lots of litle ones. also i am not a big fan of having 3 atrributes for an elementalist if you can help it.
obisdon flame is a powerful spell and just because it has a Relatively quick recharge compered to other elementalist spells doesn't mean it is the only spell you caste. people fear exhustion to much, with the ten energy that exhustion takes from casting one exhustion spell doesn't really mater because of the elementlists large nrg stockpile.
Flame can only really be caste quickly if you have gyplh of energy to back it up with, otherwise u are on the quick road to exhustion city. without gyplh of nrg you really can't do a spike because you need to be frugal with the amount of times you can do flame a min, and this really contradicts the whole point os a spike.
therefore this build can't really be called a spike build because there is no real "massive attack", without rearngeing the build exstensively.
regarding stone daggers
this is a good spell, with certain things like kinetic armour and ether renewal.
in most builds it is a nercessaity to do a bit of cheap dmg.

my advice for a earth spike build is this one
1: earthquake
2: aftershock
3:gyplh of nrg
4:ward against foes
5: obsidian flame
6: stone daggers
7: earth attunement
8: res

16 in earth
13 in nrg storage

this is the one i use most I was thinking of using the same build, i have a E/Me that im gonna make into both a Hydromancer, Air spiker, and Earth Ele, the only diff i was thinking of is crystal wave instead of earthquake

Just plain crap he says....

I am sorry, i think i may have just wandered into the troll zone. Basically Armageddon it seems that you have disagreed with lightning hell just for the sake of disagreeing (he is right on all points there, altho Whirlind can be useful, tho i wouldnt use it as a basis for aftershock) no I wasnt, but apparantly he was talking about PvP where I was talking about PvE

my advice for a earth spike build is this one
1: earthquake
2: aftershock
3:gyplh of nrg
4:ward against foes
5: obsidian flame
6: stone daggers
7: earth attunement
8: res

16 in earth
13 in nrg storage

this is the one i use most Is this thread meant for a PvE or PvP ele? I thought it was for PvE and if I was right, this build sux for PvE its just an PvP build. You dont need wards and aftershock in PvE. Its totally useless!