3.7 Elementalist

It seems Elementalist is built around stacking buffs on yourself and then gaining crystalline missile spam for 8 seconds or so.

At least, if it is more complicated then that, then it is not worth playing, as there is a LOT to potentially keep track of.

Buffs to keep up as much as possible:
Velocity (from crystalline missile)
Ignite
Raging Elements (100% uptime, use every 30s manually)
Elemental Forces (dps boost, 50 charge, use if counter expired) alternatively, internalize charge might work here?)
Cycle of Air/Fire/Earth/Water: Get these all up to use crystalline missiles.
Prismatic Armor (janky occasional 1 sec gcd, is odd)
Synergize
Conduit of Power: I'm always doing more damage with the pet out, so I think something is bugged here. So maybe don't use this yet.

Burst buffs:
Intensify Elements (1 min)
1 gcd skill.... not sure when it is useful given the armor proc, very lame

Methods of gaining all 4 cycles:
1) Prismatic Volley: Easy! Hit the channel and instant buffs. It does great damage so try to use it all.
2) Elemental Burst: Instant, easy, cast it once and then can spam crystalline missiles at high damage.
This is available every 30 seconds.
3) Icy Carapace -> Volcanic channel -> Stormbolt: If you stick to this rotation you will somewhat effectively be using Icy Carapace reliably, and end up with all 4 cycles up. Stormbolt is available every 25 seconds.
Sometimes you might get a dps boost if you Icy Carapace -> crystalline missilex4 -> Lightning Strike... ymmv, to me it just seems awkward since having a movement phase will be a dps loss if you can't follow up with that lightning strike.

So, clearly we will be stuck without some of the cycles, some of the time. I'm not clear what to do there. There is not much fine control over triggering individual cycles.
Cycle of Air up, not earth/fire -> cast lightning strike

SO the strategy I am using is:
Prioritize Lightning Strike cast (cycle of air boosts, only 1s cast)
Get all buffs up, spam crystalline missiles

Macro 1:
cast Icy shield
cast Lightning Strike
cast Crystalline Missiles

Macro 2:
cast Icy Carapace
cast Volcanic Eruption
cast Stormbolt

I'd paste my kalerts but rift just took their shards down again.

I was bursting well over 100k and sustaining maybe 80k on a dummy, with the air elemental pet attacking also... but I was screwing a lot up to so not sure. It is way more to keep track of then what I usually do, so I don't think it is actually viable to play if I also have to watch mechanics. The spec needs utility for me to care about, like a big damage reduction maybe.

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3.7 Elementalist