Elementalist

**Elementalist** is a job class that hailed originally from Xostya.

## Background

According to Tomoe, Elementalists are listed as arcane magic casters that specialize in the use of a particular element. In other words, all sorts of elemental damages done with spells were counted as magic attacks. For hybrids between magic caster and warrior, it can also be counted as physical attacks if the weapon they are using is elemental. Further specialization within a specific elementalism can be made. While so, other elementalist types ranged from aspects like acid, poison, gravity, and so on.

## Known Elementalists

* Tomoe (Air Element)
* Shift (Air Element)

## Abilities and Powers

Since Elementalists mainly focuses on one element they specialized in, this means their attack power increases greatly. However, at the same time, they are also said to be quite weak and vulnerable outside their area of expertise elementally. Sekhmet noted no matter how powerful a specialist was, one could not prepare to resist all elemental attacks. However, by focusing on specific resistances, a character could make themselves immune to elements to which they should have been weak to.

According to Sekhmet again, the only way to discern a person's elemental weaknesses was to use the [Life Essence] spell to check their HP and barrage them with attacks of multiple elements, then see whichever one hurt them the most. However, that method only works as long as the foe doesn't use the [False Data: Life] spell ahead of time. When elementalists use elemental attack spells on foes weak against a particular element, they would be affected by status effects or debuffs. For foes not weak against such elements, they will end up having immunity as long as they have items, innate elements, resistances to ward off its effects.

Including Super-Tier Magic and Metamagic Enhancements like Maxmimize Magic, the higher the tier level for an attack spell of an element ascends, the greater the elemental damage it can further sustain to foes who are weak against it. While their exact resistances varied between type, every high-level being be it demons, undead or humans had their very own strong elemental resistances respectively.

Even if one can’t defeat the power of an Elementalist who specialized in elements such as Earth, one can still go out of their way to exploit the foe's elemental affinities and compatibilities to turn the tables in one's favor.

## Trivia

* There are a variety of different ranking elemental monsters such as the Primal Elementals that functions almost similarly to their class counterpart, Elementalists, but it's unclear if they have a weakness of their own
* Among Sekhmet's array of class skills, [Purifying Javelin] was known to focus on the holy element, effective against the undead.
* In Xostya, there are spells, or even items consisting of equipment and weapons empowered with a powerful elemental enchantment. Frost Pain was one of those elemental weapons that are known to exist.
* Different elemental spells can create the same object for offensive means, but through unique elemental attributes, it usually becomes known as [Burn Lance], [Freezing Lance], and [Shock Lance].
* Non-elemental damage happens to be relations to darkness which comprised of dark energy such as the kind from the [True Dark] spell.
* Under the Yin and Yang principle, there are elemental spells that hailed some connection with the Five Elements used by monsters.