NightHiker
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My Stormsinger has, respectively, 950/1000/950 spellpower (cold/electric/sonic) self buffed inside reaper not counting metas, 68/69/76 crit chance and 96/111/96 crit damage, with 125 evo and 122 enchantment DCs, which I find to be good enough on current end game. And then around 600 positive, which is as much as I could get. And I still have dino weapons with both mrr debuffs sloted, plus all the usual elemental dots/damage procs besides magma (2 rings and 2 weapons).Trying to get multiple elements with spell power, crit, and crit damage is a tetris nightmare that goes beyond limited spell slots/trees being a problem. There's gear set bonuses, LGS(dino) spell crit damage, etc., while also having decent enough DCs to not have every mob reflex (etc.) save, the gear isn't rigged to really support swapping element choices per mob type. Not having immunity bypass would require sweeping revamps of all sorts of parts of the game; so it makes sense we have immunity bypass, it's cheap to implement and requires less dev time to achieve the same end result even if it feels a bit lore breaking or awkward at times.
It's certainly not as high as the 12 or so hundred spellpower the dedicated element casters may be getting nowadays, but it's not so worse as to make it not viable even while soloing high reapers. Maybe for some classes it may be tougher on the DC side, but that's not as hard to fix either, I'd think. I do lose on some of the defenses I usually see on sorcs, though, that can dedicate more pieces to that side of the equation. Like I said, that demands a lot of tough choices, but I believe it can be done even with the state where the game is right now. Maybe some element combos are not covered as well as ice/electric/sonic (I haven't looked as much at other combos), but if so it's something that could be fixed with a few new pieces of gear. There would be some decrease in performance, of course, but not as big as the one I think you're implying - even more so considering that it would hit the most the classes that are currently the top performers as far as caster DPS goes anyways.
Cheers,
NH