User:Mercurius Ter Maxim/balance

Professions and their built-in weaknesses

 * Elementalist
 * Energy Management.
 * The Elite status of many elementalist energy skills in combination with their attribution to Energy storage greatly limits pure elementalist builds. In order to use certain builds the elementalist needs to lower it's energy pool if it wants to use energy management skills from another profession, and those options are limited. Auspicious incantation is a decent secondary profession energy management skill that when combined with Glyph of Lesser Energy and high-energy low-recharge spells however, the downside is this requires the use of 3 skills, one of which is disabled for an extended period of time as a result of the combo.


 * Slow Casting.
 * This may seem a bit odd but the power of elementalist spells is offset by high cost AND really bad casting times. The methods of speeding up the cast times has improved with glyph of swiftness, but the fact remains, the majority of choices for the elementalist are just begging to be interrupted.


 * In summery, elementalist: lots of energy and power weak e/management and the choice between damage and energy when selecting elites, slow casting times.