Build:E/any MoI Elementalist

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An elementalist using Water Magic for defense and spiking ability.

[edit] Attributes and Skills

Elementalist / No profession 12 + 1 + 1 Water Magic 12 + 1 Energy Storage Shard Storm Prophecies Elementalist. Water Magic 14 Shard Storm Hex Spell Send out an ice shard that strikes target foe for 80 cold damage if it hits and causing target foe to move 66% slower for 6 seconds. 10 1 10 Freezing Gust Nightfall Elementalist. Water Magic 14 Freezing Gust Hex Spell If target foe is under the effect of a Water Magic Hex, that foe is struck for 76 cold damage. Otherwise, that foe moves 66% slower for 6 seconds. 5 1 10 Winter's Embrace EotN Elementalist. Water Magic 14 Winter's Embrace Hex Spell For 6 seconds, you and target touched foe move 90% slower. 12 ¾ 5 Blurred Vision Core Elementalist. Water Magic 14 Blurred Vision Hex Spell For 10 seconds, target foe and adjacent foes are Hexed with Blurred Vision. While Hexed, those foes have a 50% chance to miss with attacks. 12 1 10 Glowing Ice EotN Elementalist. Water Magic 14 Glowing Ice Spell Deals 47 cold damage. You gain 5 Energy plus 1 Energy for every 2 ranks of Energy Storage if target foe is hexed with Water Magic. 8 1 5 Mirror of Ice Factions Elementalist. Water Magic 14 Mirror of Ice Elite Enchantment Spell For 5 seconds, plus 3 additional seconds for every rank of Energy Storage, you deal an additional 33 cold damage whenever you cast a Water Magic hex. 30 1 5 Water Attunement Core Elementalist. Water Magic 14 Water Attunement Enchantment Spell For 58 seconds, you are attuned to Water. You gain 1 Energy plus 30% of the base Energy cost of the Skill each time you use Water Magic. 45 2 10 Resurrection Signet Core No Profession. Unlinked Resurrection Signet Signet Resurrect target party member. That party member is returned to life with 100% Health and 25% Energy. This Signet only recharges when you gain a morale boost. 3 Template code

• See the Variants section.

[edit] Equipment

• Survivor's, Rune of Sup Vigor
• 40/20/20 Enchanting Set
• 40/40 Water Set
• Defensive Sets

[edit] Usage

• Cover Water Attunement and Mirror of Ice
• Shard Storm -> Freezing Gust for spiking.
• Shard Storm, Freezing Gust and Winter's Embrace to snare targets.
• Glowing Ice for Energy Management.
• Blurred Vision for anti-melee.

[edit] Counters

• General Anti-Caster.

[edit] Variants

• Rust instead of Winter's Embrace
• GoLE over Glowing Ice.
• A Hard Res.