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
The combo for maximum Nightmare spam is as follows:
 * Echo;
 * Conjure Nightmare;
 * Arcane Echo;
 * Conjure Nightmare (Echo copy);
 * Auspicious Incantation;
 * Conjure Nightmare (Arcane Echo copy);
 * Conjure Nightmare;
 * Conjure Nightmare (Echo copy). Note that you need a +5 energy staff at the very minimum to execute this, and even so your energy will be zero at the end of the combo.

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.
 * Substitute Echo with Glyph of Energy for better energy management at the expenses of less Nightmares.