A new skill of the Psijic line, I’ve seen a lot of ppl starting to use it, but I can’t tell if it’s superior to most classes spammable. Here’s what I’ve come up with:

Magicka - Elemental Weapon

Sorc: Elemental Weapon superior.

* Unless using a perfected Asylum staff, Elemental Weapon appears to be superior. With perfected, damage appears superior using 5 body, 3 will power, Maelstrom destro backbar/ perfected asylum front bar. While you lose destro staff passives on the spammable over Force pulse, you gain reduced cost, and every cast will apply a status effect. Asylum staff regular requires 3 casts to apply the effects, as does Elemental. However, Elemental costs 800 less per cast (with reduced cost passive unlocked), apply same status effects, proc Spell Orb passive, and increased damage mitigation (psijic passives).

Templar: Elemental Weapon superior

*same as above. Asylum staff perfected is the only better option, but you lose out on a set bonus since the you’ll likely be using a Maelstrom destro backbar, so will have to adopt a similar build as a Sorc.

Dragonknight: Situatuonal

*If needing to fight at range, Elemental is superior, as Flame Lash is a melee ability. If melee range is acceptable, lash is superior. It’s fire damage, Engulfing Flames will up it by 10%, (dark elf +7%).

Magblade: Elemental superior, unless support from Funnel Health is required (as say in Cloudrest shadow realm with healing debuff).

*Otherwise, if you can keep another siphoning ability on bar for +Magicka passive, Elemental has consistently provided higher dps parses.

Stamina: Crushing Weapon.

Sorc / DK: Crushing superior.

*Both classes lack a reliable spammable (shrouded is okay, in trash mob situations), so the reduced cost of Crushing + self-heal is a more value-added spammable and easier to weave than with rapid strikes. Have not yet tested using newly fixed Maelstrom 1handers though. Would have to adopt Sorc build as above, as you’ll have a Maelstrom bow slotted, so more testing required. DPS parse for shrouded vs flurry vs Crushing weapon, though, Crushing reliably produces higher dps parse, as well as more value added additional effects.

Stamblade: Surprise attack superior, except when solo.

*This skill is too good, and gives valuable passives from Shadow Tree. Easier to weave, and reliably provides better parses. However. If you find yourself in situations that require more healing, Crushing is preferred (ex. VMA). Stamblade doesn’t have many options for self-healing outside of Blood Craze, Leeching Strikes, and whether you want to use a slot for Dark Cloak. All of their skill slots are mostly firm, however, so replacing Surprise with Crushing is the only reasonable option.

Stamplar: Biting Jabs superior.

*This one is the closest contest. Biting Jabs hitbox is still a little jerky, so Crushing can potentially provide more reliable damage. However, in the majority of situations, Jabs has provided higher parsing. I have noticed, though, that while Jabs provides higher parse in a raid test situation, it isn’t as reliable on a solo parse.

Outliers: Wardens. Can’t speak definitively to either class as to what’s superior or not.

I welcome any comments, or if I’ve mispoken or you disagree please share your opinion!