Not a single word on the lowly lil Elementalist in this Thread? Sad.
I built 2 high levels on different servers and did them completely different.
The first one (99) was mostly Ashtals in Chak and some more in the armour and so has good tanking abilities and nice HP/Mana.
The second (96) could whoop the first one no problems. All Scions in 8 slot +1 Chak along with Ice stones. Ele's have Ice damage Attack skills, but actually attack with most elemental damages, so thats the way i went with it.
New patch means that ele's can have max casting easy because of Battle Cry Buff which is now also a Party Cast time buff as well (not stated in the skill description), but you need to buff with +1 stuff. Need Lens/combi as well to get there. 121 Cast time no worries now. I don't even have cast gloves on.
Scions in gloves and 1 in boots along with good speed stone. Get bonus speed in boots as well. Here's the thing with speed - ele's have no stun resistance at all. Get your speed to the max you can. You can do amazing hit and run tactics if you can hit hard and fast enough. My latest ele can do 269 Movement speed when needed. - No BS.
2 Gaudius
Bonus speed boots with max stone
good wing
combi
Level 10 potion (30%) This one will take some time to get level 10 cooking skill admitted
CC speed pot
BG Mob Buff
Zoom in - do amazing damage real fast - bugger off real fast
Sorc Halts you - run off and leave sorc eating your dust if he is not terrifically fast one, then with him still targetted, you prop as soon as halts wears off and whack him. Works a lot.
Keep your distance from perma stunning Zerks/Knights and make them work hard to just catch you.
Use mostly Intel Uniques if you can for the extra damage as you don't need cast time plus or crits.
Consider the lowly Shocker Neck, or an intel Shocker even better. Add highest level ice/Light/Poison damage -resist Cape as well.
Remember ele's do ele damage. (just to repeat myself)
Do balance things out with Ashtals in Armour where you can. It will allow you some more tanking abilities and give you more mana which is what you really need to lay in some nice attack skill spikes.
You have no doubt read all the posts in this thread about the high HP Sorcs. Well - Get around their Halt and that HP pile can be stripped away pretty fast if you can lay in your licks nice and fast. Sorcs often depend on that skill hitting first to then pile drive you with lots of other damage. I take down high HP sorcs all the time either when Halt misses, or I run it off with a sorc eating my dust trying to get it to hit. The Macro Sorcs are harder though, but i occasionally get MY stun in on them first, then they are toast.
PETS - forget 'em at high levels. They get wasted real fast in any good fight against high level opponents. Decent critter will take a pet down in seconds.
Ele's can do Max Cast and Max Cooldown. Ohks/CD cap/stone in chest/Combi/level 10 potion/BG buff/CF food/skull of chaos. (won't need all of that) - was doing it the other day and I just held the skill button down to spam the attack of choice. Nice.
All it takes is $$$$ or some nice wheeling and dealing.
This is just one aspect of Ele's that I typed up in a hurry at work. More to come later.
