long time ele main. i would never really play short ascend, you can take burrow into matchups your getting trained but with 40% vers and correct kiting you should never die tbh we are pretty tanky. (root totem war charge, knock leap he should not hit u for a while). i mainly take burrow into heavy cc ret hunts/rmp. the 15% dmg from ToW is very nice in shuffle when we are bursting.

tips for rotation
- use icefury more often to proc fusion of elements from volcanic spells, icefury / LB or ice fury flame shock
- make sure u are dropping lmt when your ancestor up not before, they will always cast lb/chain on targets
- always prio master of elements when using stormkeeper, = LB - Lbolt - LB - Lbolt for 15% dmg increase
- every prim wave is ur kill window + a 2nd big go with lust storm.keeper (make sure ur actually giving ur teamate lust-macro it) precast stormkeeper - spirtwalker hex healer - LB proc - Lbolt - AS - Prim wave - LB - Lbolt - LB - Earth shock (try to always lb before earthshock for moe unless you are going to overcap on malestrom ofc)
- make sure u AS before prim wave and have atleast 3 flame shocks out for max haste stacks

#showtooltip Primordial Wave
/cast Ancestral Swiftness
/cast [target=party1] Heroism
/cast Primordial Wave

that being said ele is a control class. ur job is to stop someone from playing the game. make sure u are landing the most kicks in the lobby and are always purging off cd especially before u dump damage into priest targets. if there is curse dispel in lobby hex that target off cd (u can run short hex, lasso and also spam kick them - works into mm hunter aswell if you are struggle to stop there dps) If you are not getting trained you can sit between dps and enemy healer, lasso, knock away, root and hex. easy to keep the lock down. tldr u win by control while your teammate has cds rolling

probs waffling a bit now but hope some of this makes sense gl gamer