User:Kessel/E/Me Quintuple Nightmare

This is a pressure build, tapping on the high Energy reserves of the Elementalist primary to inflict massive degen on multiple targets and cause panic amongst foes.

Attributes and Skills

 * Substitute Resurrection Signet into the bar as required.

Equipment

 * Archmage's or Battlemage's Armor, depending on personal preference
 * Max energy wand and focus, or staff with +5 energy modifier
 * +15 energy weapon swap set (optional)

Usage
On a single target:
 * Cast Conjure Nightmare.

On two targets:
 * Cast Echo.
 * Cast Conjure Nightmare.
 * Cast Conjure Nightmare (Echoed).

On three targets:
 * Cast Echo.
 * Cast Conjure Nightmare.
 * Cast Arcane Echo. You may wish to precede this with Auspicious Incantation.
 * Cast Conjure Nightmare (Echoed).
 * Cast Conjure Nightmare (Arcane Echoed).

On four targets:
 * Cast Echo.
 * Cast Conjure Nightmare.
 * Cast Auspicious Incantation.
 * Cast Arcane Echo.
 * Cast Conjure Nightmare (Echoed).
 * Cast Conjure Nightmare.
 * Cast Conjure Nightmare (Arcane Echoed). This full combo will cost you around 75 energy.

In all situations:
 * Use Power Drain and Drain Enchantment to help you interrupt, disrupt and manage energy.
 * Aura of Restoration provides you with massive heals while you are casting your combo.
 * Distortion helps keep you alive.
 * Remember to switch targets to spread the degen around. Consider reapplying your copies of Conjure Nightmare to targets that have lifted it successfully, or have had it run out on them. Most targets lack consecutive hex removal skills, and in the latter situation you can maintain a devastating eight degen on one or two targets for an extended period of time.

Counters

 * Hex removal is the bane of this build. Counter hex removal with your Echoed Nightmares.
 * The Echo chain is long and complex. If it gets broken, the effectiveness of this build is reduced.

Variants

 * Ether Feast can provide a more direct self-heal.
 * Conjure Phantasm can be substituted to maintain degen while the main combo is recycling. If the target applies health regeneration, it will also all but guarantee high degen in conjunction with Conjure Nightmare unless the health regeneration is very strong.
 * Leech Signet can be substituted as an unconditional interrupt.