Fearless leveling build for Elementalist

Due to the rough enemy health and attack value scaling, fearless can be quite challenging for Elementalist early on. Many enemies take multiple hits to take down and standing still to cast spells can get you swarmed and killed pretty quick. Things do get a lot better later on when one gets access to Painlessness and powerful Tier 3 skills.

Add in some mana regeneration from Quintessence and cooldown reduction from various sources and many of the earlier skills start to become much more viable as well.

This build is focused on spamming many of the good fire and forget skills elementalist has while letting Katarina, Storm spirit(s), Mirror image(s) take hits and distract most of the enemies. With this build you should also be spamming as much rage for power-ups to paralyse, freeze, burn and kill enemies.

Build also utilizes painlessness, Chaos armor and Ink leap for survivability while having more than enough defense and HP to soak some hits.

## Levels 1-20

Start by unlocking all listed spells, then level each of them up to level 5. Power-ups for Spool of energy and Elyctric discharge are good so make use of the rage you get from kills. Some enemies are immune and more resistant to instant-kill but many are not making Charged spike good against many enemies with high health. Spool of energy deals constant damage so Paralyze can effectively freeze many enemies to their place for whole duration of the spell.

From weapons you should prefer spellcuffs as they come with cooldown reduction. This increases your casting speed resulting in more damage overall. Best source for damage are +x elemental damage bonus enchants which are usually found on weapons, rings and amulets. They can be spread to other items through artifact forge. Don't neglect defense and resistances as Elementalist can be quite fragile early on.

Put all points to Corporeal balance for levels 1-20 as it gives you extra survivability which is more important than very minor damage boost early on.

Elementalist
 Spool of energy | 10
 Elyctric discharge | 10
 Aura
 Focus Damage | 1

## Levels 20-40

As the elemental bonus damage from spellcuffs starts to get higher the usefulness of Focus damage aura becomes much more useful. With the arcane mastery we can convert the damage to arcane damage which ignores all enemy resistances. Chaos armor is one of the best auras in the game and together with painlessness and later on ink leap it can save you from many tough situations.

Swirling void with yawning void deals constant AOE damage with really good range when boosted. This can help you deal with large groups of enemies especially ones containing a lot of small enemies with low health. Mirror image and Storm spirit are decent fire and forget spells that also work as a decoy giving you more time to spam more and more spells at enemies.

Make sure you have enough mana regeneration from Quintessence and enchants to spam spells. Use Profane essence to increase item defence of chest armor, cloack, boots and gloves when possible. Save all rare items with good enchants and use them to keep your gear on level with your character preferably with good enchants. Don't forget Katarinas gear as she needs a lot of defense, resistances and hp to act as tank while you spam spells.

Perks:

* Ghost whisperer
* Focused
* Veteran Hunter
* Scholarly ghost
* Alchemist

## Levels 40-60

Once you reach level 45 or so you should respec all extra points from Swirling void and Spool of energy to level Frost pillar and Flame serpent and unlock their power-ups. Frost pillar is all around better version of spool of energy dealing more damage, slowing foes down and freezing them up to 6 seconds. It and upgraded energy bolt will be your go to damage dealing moves. Flame serpent is basically invulnerable turret that spits out 3 fire-balls each dealing the listed damage. Flame serpent has very low cooldown combined with fairly long duration so you can have 3-4 of them at the field at once raining fire upon enemies. Ink leap is great move to get out of trouble if you happen to get surrounded, boost it up with some rage and you'll get up to 3 mirror images of yourself to fight for you and distract enemies.

Many of these moves require upkeep so we'll be picking Reduced mana upkeep aura as well as masteries for these skills that reduces their upkeep. Max mana isn't much of a problem as we can get more from pendants, cloaks and enchants (both +x mana and +x Arcane influence.) and mana cost increase pretty much stops after you get tier-3 skills to level 10.

As for gear try to keep weapon damage as high as possible while having 6% Damage gained as mana with Quintessence. You can use Capacitive essence and Greater Capacitive Essence (Can be found from treasure chest in Industrial port map.) to add capacity to weapon that doesn't have any or very little. Wearing armor with good item defense from enchants and further boosting it with Profane essence will greatly increase survivability.

## Level 60-100 (WIP)

At this point you can respec the extra points from elyctric discharge and go for the Blazing barrier skill. Blazing barrier is great when combined with Frost pillar with spool of frost power-up as enemies will stand frozen while flames deal constant damage. Blazing barrier can also spawn number of flame serpents when killing bunch of weaker foes (basically weaker versions of hydra spawned with flame serpent skill). When your main skills and auras reach max level (keep ink leap at 1 point) you can boost tier-2 and tier-1 skills for blazing barrier and Frost pillar threes for more damage. Frost barrier is also great skill so you may consider swapping mirror image for it at some point.

As survivability can become more challenging especially with VH2 campaign throwing bunch of hit scanning enemies at you (soldiers using guns that cannot be evaded like fireballs.) so leveling painlessness to 10 and unlocking both masteries should be a priority for decreased cooldown and increased duration. Same goes for chaos armor as it will give you up to 15% chance for 3 seconds invincibility when hit. Leveling Mirror image will also further reduce the cooldown for painlessness.

Best ways to increase damage at this point is to max out critical hit chance (50%) and critical damage (+450%) which will make half of your hits deal more than four times the damage. Now to increase base damage best way is still to increase weapon damage, second best will be to increase elemental mastery through enchants (around level 80 items can have +20 to any given ability which with elemental mastery means +10% more elemental damage, godlike items often have +50 for all three abilities). Flat damage enchants are still good for some skills with decent enchantment modifiers and while they do not benefit from elemental mastery they do benefit from critical damage bonus.

When it comes to ability points you might want to increase arcane influence to point where you have around 400 mana for comfort. Having total of 50 point should be enough as you'll easily get +50 from rings alone around level 75. Amulets and mantles will further improve your mana. As for the rest ability points you can keep spending them half to corporeal balance and half to elemental mastery for survivability and damage. Some may prefer to go glass cannon route and go all out with elemental mastery but being able to take hit or two really helps and makes storm spirits and mirror images slightly more durable.

With Katarina I would suggest Touch of death and deathless shroud and something like half to corpus and half to ethereality. This way Katarina will be doing your instant kills instead of having to rely on elyctric discharge power-up. Needless to say having high attack rate can help Katarina trigger this more often. Putting one point to Wail of Vengeance is also great, not because of the damage but because of the very noticeable explosion that signals you to be more careful with Katarina being out for a while. Sprit guardian is also amazing skill for elementalists as it'll allow Katarina to take up to 40% of the damage dealt to you in your place.