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Originally Posted by Davion
Aura of restoration
I'm not a big fan of self-healing as I don't usually plan for the Arena. It's very true that you're better off being much more self-reliant there because you just never know what group you're going to be in (Well, most Arenas. That suposed Meet-Up Arena where you can group should be a blast) and, at the same time, you're in a much smaller group so every character needs to stretch a little further to plug the gaps. Still, you're not running an Air Ele for survivability, you're running it to zap people until they're dead. If I was interested in the Arena, I'd be doing an Earth build with Armor of Earth and the Wards for defense, or an Air/Earth hybrid.
That said, Aura of Restoration is, well, awful. It works alright as it gives you health for casting spells: what you'd be doing anyway as an ele. However, it doesn't give you a lot of health at once. Like Troll Unguent it's something that works over time and you can't rely on to deliver a lot of healing at once when you really need it. If I had to pick a self-heal here, I'd go with Ether Feast over Aura of Restoration.
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Originally Posted by Davion
Frozen burst
Frozen Burst is linked to Water. I'm already stretched very thin with my attributes, I could only get up to Water 3 or, in other words, have a Frozen Burst that's useless for doing damage. It could be used as a snare but then, I have Lightning Surge to deal damage and knock someone down as well which works well enough as a snare. And I could always pick up Gale for the same purpose, too.
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Originally Posted by Davion
Inspired enchantment
Now that has possibilities. The reason I wanted Mantra of Recall was, of course, for the energy. Can't use it because it's elite (thank you so very much for pointing out the actual rules mostro...) but the need for energy is still there. Inspired Hex or Inspired Enchantments might work well to net me some energy with each cast. Enchantments won't, though as it's 3~13 linked to Inspiration. I have Inspiration 9 which means I'd get 3+((10/12)x9) energy when cast or about 11 energy (10.5 but there's rounding). Since Inspired Enchantment costs 10 energy to cast, that's only 1 energy I'm gaining. Hex cost only 5 energy with the same scaling so it would be a plus of 6 energy every 20 seconds. Not great, that's less than a pip, but considering it provides a bit of defense to the team as well, not too shabby.
The problem, though, is that it needs a hex to work. Which is relying on my enemy and the battlefield conditions to unfold how I like. I'm not sold on being so reliant on everyone else, which is why I like Mantra of Recall in the first place, it's a good way to get up to 15 energy every 20 seconds (More if you can get enchantment removal to target you during the 15~20 second interval where Mantra of Recall's recharged but hasn't ended) or to increase your regeneration by .75 energy a second without any external sources or conditions like Energy Drain or Power Drain have.
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Originally Posted by Excalibur
Backfire Hex
Power Spike
Those are nice spells - well, Backfire is, anyway, I'd take Leak over Spike any day - but they require some points in Domination to be worthwhile. As with Frozen Burst, I just don't have the points to spare to make them useful. I need energy and I can't use the energy management elites from the Elementalist so I'm pretty wedded to Inspiration, I'm just not sure which skill from there is best.
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Originally Posted by Nash
Mine's looking like this right now
Windborne Speed?
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Originally Posted by HotSnack
I'm a bit iffy on Glyph of Ele Power. Assuming that spells are linear, you're making your spells take 1-2 more secs longer to cast for about 13 extra damage in most of your cases.
Not all my spells. Chain Lightning. Which strikes three targets and is likely the spell to lead off in any flurry of attacks (Swiftly followed by Surge+Orb). There, the increased casting time (It's 1.75 seconds, as with every glyph) doesn't matter because it's at the beginning of a combination. It happens before the enemy is encountered, even, as glyphs last for 15 seconds so I can buff with it as the gates are opening, if not before. And the +2 to attributes is not a slight jump to damage but a jump to damage on each of those 3 lightning strikes. It depends on the armor of a target and just how much you're whittling away with penetration but it's a base addition not of 12 damage on a 106 damage nuke (Chain Lightning's easy, it's 6 damage a rank currently) but of 36 on a 318 AoE damage nuke. And, of course, it gets better as you add in AP. It's worth it from where I'm sitting.
I like Gale too but, yeah, exhaustion. Of course, for an ele the first five or so exhaustions don't really matter. And that knockdown is pretty tempting... | |
