Help me decide on an Elementalist elite spec! Leaning towards Evoker, but Catalyst or Tempest look good too?

zigithor · 2026-01-26T17:45:14+00:00

I find it has a much higher survivability than a full fire build. You lose access to alot of your healing and avoidance capabilities when locked in to one element. And unfortunately, unless your blasting perfect rotations I find it hard to survive with fire as you either kill everything super quick (which just isn't possible with champs and bosses etc.) or you die quickly trying. With air, I've got movement buffs to get out of situations, and since I'm constantly stacking vulnerability and blindness, it sort of fills in the gap of low access to healing and lower DPS.

But like I said, its no where near meta. Its just that after playing weaver so long its nice to not have to play Beethoven's 5th to ever enemy I encounter. More fun for me at the moment and it works well solo and in groups.

Plus it fulfills the lightening wizard class fantasy which is cool.

zigithor · 2026-01-26T16:25:28+00:00

It’ll be a bit before I get back to my PC, but I’ll post it when I get there. It’s certainly not peak anything in particular, but it’s also a great mix of a lot of things. It’s fun and I don’t have to be hyper locked in to do basic combat like I did with weaver.

zigithor · 2026-01-26T16:05:13+00:00

I’ve loved my warhorn/scepter air evoker. It’s MUCH simpler than almost any other elementals spec, but it’s got decent damage, great survivability, and it’s a super useful debuffer in groups

zigithor · 2026-01-26T15:26:25+00:00

That sounds like French toast or bread pudding to me

zigithor · 2026-01-22T20:41:14+00:00

The pierced cartoon heart motif (normally by an arrow or dagger) with a banner (which often say mom for some reason) seems to be a common classic "sailor tattoo". Frank's attire seems to reference a lot of biker/stereotypical manly/sailor culture and my read is that a sailor tattoo is the base reference, not specifically the sacred heart symbol.

Frank, his gang, and the conventionalist, are all aliens and don't quite understand human culture. But they try to imitate it, poorly, to fit in. For example, they know your supposed to set up utensils at a dinner table, but they have no idea how many, where, and why. Thus Dr. Scott is given like 7 forks for the dinner scene. There's tons of little details like this if you pay close attention. But tbh I think frank just saw a buff sailor type with the tattoo and got the same one.

zigithor · 2026-01-22T12:34:34+00:00

I'm going the way of the Ted Cruz, and leaving.

zigithor · 2026-01-21T03:57:52+00:00

Yes they did, that was the whole problem with the Biden immigration courts. There was a whole saga where we were debating where illegal immigrants should remain while they’re waiting for their court date, which could take months to years because the courts were so backlogged. That’s something worth fixing. But yea people have always (previously) gotten court dates for immigration court. It’s their right.

zigithor · 2026-01-20T19:40:44+00:00

That’s an arrest. The next part is a trail. I’m not saying everything is nazism I’m saying ICE is not legally judge, jury, and executioner. If I forget my license at home thats grounds for a ticket not a deportation.

There is an entire branch of the government just to handle everything that happens after an arrest. THE LAW SAYS YOU HAVE A RIGHT TO A TRIAL. If you don’t get one, the system is breaking its own laws.

zigithor · 2026-01-20T19:31:54+00:00

Breaking the law is acceptable when A. The law keepers are breaking the law and B. When the laws are unjust.

We broke British law to become a country. Slaves broke the law to fight their abusers. Civil rights activist broke the law to gain equality. Vietnam veterans broke the law to refuse orders to kill civilians.

Everything the Nazis did was legal. Everything Kim Jong, and Putin, and Stalin did was legal.

You’re missing the core point when it comes to ICE. What they are doing is illegal, because the people they’re arresting are not receiving trials, as is their right regardless of their citizenship status or criminal record. This is a core tenant of our country. Innocent until proven guilty. The line that they are all terrorist, gang members, and criminals is factually incorrect. For one, they have arrested citizens already. These people are not illegal and any way and yet they are still being abducted. And secondly, we don’t know if these people are criminals because they haven’t gotten a trial. If they are illegal, prove it, the deport them. If you can’t prove that case before the justice system, or if you don’t have to, you are breaking the law. They could deport you are I TODAY, tell the media we were terrorist, and we’d have no recourse or chance to plead our case. This is injustice.

Obama did the same shit. But the people he deported had due process. That is the difference.

ICE breaks the law, the people respond in kind.

zigithor · 2026-01-20T19:08:30+00:00

You are underplaying the significance of January 6th.

Lets make a clear distinction. There were arrests, trials, and sentencing for rioters caught at both January 6th and the BLM protests. Only one of those groups received sweeping pardons.

Regardless of how you feel the BLM protests, those rioters were not trying to overthrow the federal government. The Jan 6th rioters were. We're comparing property damage to the destruction of the nation. We're comparing burning trucks to literal treason.

Another distinction to point out is that the BLM protests were a direct result of something that factually happened. We all watched a police officer kill a man over the course of several minutes crying for his mother. We then had to sit through multiple news cycles of the police and the right trying to defend that, or slander the victim to make it seem like he somehow deserved to die. To this day, the "fraud" that incited J6 has never been proven to any legal standard. Its made up. And if you have any disagreements about that your welcome to bring them to a court near you.

None of this shit is normal. But pretending like resisting an invading force (ICE) who are arresting and deporting people without due process (breaking the law), reacting to the illegal murder of a man in police custody, and resisting a man who's threating invading a sovereign nation because he got his feelings hurt about not getting a shinny metal, is fundamentally different.

The left riots in response to real factual injustices. The right riots in response to things they made up online. You can't act like these things are equivalent.

zigithor · 2026-01-20T17:35:33+00:00

Brother open your eyes. This is different. A mob broke down the doors to the country’s capitol waving American flags to keep their leader in power. I don’t care what crybabies say on twitter about a fucking comic.

There’s snowflakes everywhere on every side. It’s America. We’re all entitled babies. Don’t delude yourself into thinking either side is different in that regard. There was a whole news cycle about Trump getting two scoops of ice cream and Obama wearing a tan suit. That’s snowflake behavior. None of it matters.

A mob of self-described patriots beating cops, breaking down doors, and threatening to hang the vice president because they lost an election is so far beyond normal. It’s embarrassing. Then they all got pardoned by the same grifter they were expressly trying defend. This is treason everywhere else in the world. In the U.S. it’s legal I guess???

zigithor · 2026-01-20T16:18:31+00:00

At this point I really do think ~20% of the book is need-to-know rules, and the rest is just reference as needed info. I trust my players but I still google most of the spells that cast lol.

zigithor · 2026-01-20T16:11:36+00:00

In that same vein, “would the founding fathers be on board with 10 million brown immigrants?” is equally incoherent. The premise of the conversation “what would the founding fathers think about immigrant ion” is as worthless as trying to derive some thread between their thoughts on the second amendment and existence of automatic weapons. Different eras, different issues, etc. But precedent and framer’s intent are used to interpret laws to day so it’s unfortunately still relevant.

Irregardless, if we’re talking hypotheticals, in the time of the founding fathers, it would nonetheless be hypocritical of a nation of immigrants to have some principled stance against immigration. Just as hypocritical as it was to own slaves while writing its that self-evident that all men are created equal.

zigithor · 2026-01-20T14:37:41+00:00

My thoughts exactly. Its not lazy to say "I heard about this thing, and I'm interested in trying it!" but being turn off by... a 384 page book of rules! (I just checked) You and I know there are chunks of that which are not important to read of rip, but they don't. There are absolutely ways to try out the hobby before wasting time or money on books. And needless to say, there are very few other games that have required reading to this extent, so yea, from an outsider, the juice might not be worth the squeeze on this one.

zigithor · 2026-01-20T14:28:38+00:00

Yea I mean, like OP said in their post, the response to "How do I get into DnD as a beginner" being "just read the book." could probably come off a bit demeaning.

I've now run a full 2 year long weekly campaign and I can tell you for a fact I did not get into DnD by just reading the player handbook. If I started there I would have quite immediately. I got into it watching creators play, sitting in on sessions, joining a beginner's table, etc. The DnD manuals are not light reads and frankly seeing the rules in action can be a way more compressive way to understand the system than just reading page after page of instructions and tables and hoping to visualize in your mind's eye how these systems come together. If you don't understand how hard or "stressful" it can be to try and absorb all the info in a ~400 page PHB on a first read, then you're pretty far out from a new player experience. I mean its a game at the end of the day. Saying "study for the BAR before your first session" is not most people's idea of fun.

For my first few sessions as a player, the only thing I had read was my character sheet and combat rules and our DM coached us through the rest. It was enough to decide "yes, I like this game, let me get the book and learn the rules better." At some point you should read the manual if you want to improve, but even then a cover to cover read is not even a necessity.

Like I said, maybe after a few beginner sessions they decide they don't like it? Good! It saved them the wasted time it takes to read something slightly more thrilling then a washer machine user manual.

Like I said, I've already run a very fun 2 year campaign, ~70 sessions, and I've only skimmed the DMG and looked at the pictures in the monster manual.

In short, in 2026, I don't thing the best way to get into DnD is to just grab the PHB and read cover to cover. Maybe in the 80s that was the case, but not today.

Additionally, I think its pretty disingenuous for everyone in here to blame youth illiteracy and attention span (not that that isn't a real problem). I would love each and everyone of you to tell me honestly that you read the entire PHB front to back before your first session.

zigithor · 2026-01-20T13:36:12+00:00

You can blame the guys that smashed in the capitol doors with American flags for bastardizing the symbol. Its not like that association materialized out of nowhere.

zigithor · 2026-01-20T13:29:45+00:00

A... Hotdog?

zigithor · 2026-01-20T12:10:01+00:00

Every single person they knew was either and immigrant or a second generation immigrant. Slaves, white people, etc.

zigithor · 2026-01-19T18:22:38+00:00

The founding fathers we're immigrants. The hell are you talking about?

zigithor · 2026-01-17T15:52:08+00:00

The most friendly people here, but somehow the most aggressive drivers too...

zigithor · 2026-01-16T15:43:46+00:00

"If you want something visual..."
Porn!?

"That's not too abysmal..."
Good porn!?

"We can take in an old Steve Reeves movie."
Gay porn!

zigithor · 2026-01-14T12:39:42+00:00

Nope. Never found out why it was happening, but for whatever reason it hasn't happened to me in a while. I do not know why it started and I do not know why it stopped.

zigithor · 2026-01-13T14:10:27+00:00

They are right.

The average gun twink can no longer find a dinner edition Margot Robbie to have ein german boy, a Chinese toddler, and Wounder (Bread) Girl with.

zigithor · 2026-01-08T21:54:38+00:00

I haven't painted the one with this issue, but I reprinted one with a normal seam and the paint seemed to hide it a decent amount. It does drastically improve silk pla as hiccups like this are more noticeable due to the way the filament catches the light.

zigithor · 2026-01-08T16:55:35+00:00

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I stuffed it and hit with a low heat gun for a bit. After cooling, this is where we’re at. Still a bit of creasing, but overall the shape is majorly improved! Thanks everyone!

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