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Who's gonna do the AOE damaging when the ele goes full support tho =/

Good post, but I'd rather have 20 points in fire to do at least some damage

Renewing stamina comes from the same trait like, but you'd be giving up blasting staff. It's more of a scepter or d/d skill. The amount of vigor you get from it is really high though.

There's also soothing distruption to consider if you're running a cantrip-heavy build.

Just wow.  Someone can not take valid criticism without being butthurt.

When someone puts forth criticisms and the OP attacks them with sarcasm and ridicule instead of valid arguements, the debate is won by the more mature side.  My opinion.

This severely undermines your credibility.  Not only can Staff apply pretty much the most bleeds on a single target within a set period out of all our weapons it can apply those stacks onto 4-6 targets just as easily.  Yes, you rely heavily on Eruption to do the bleeds but there is nothing wrong with that - it frees up your other skills to apply other conditions (like Weakness, Chilled, Vulnerability and Burning.)  As others have said, raw healing isn't really the Ele's strength (although Water 1 puts out a LOT of healing when you need to) so you need to go for a fuller, Support build.  The defensive Conditions are a key part of that, so gearing for condition damage and increased condition duration is so much better than using those Crests.  You can have permanent weakness on a boss - which means a 25% reduction in their damage.  That's huge and shouldn't be neglected just to sit in fire and throw a few fireballs (which without the investment in Pre/CritD will be rather lame) - so spec Earth/Water/Arcane and play to the classes' strengths if you want to go support.