Nuke

Nuking is a term used in gaming for causing great amounts of damage to a number of enemies. This is normally done with using high-damage AoE spells (like Meteor Shower) to take out a group of enemies at once. A player who Nukes is referred to as a Nuker. The term originates from the devastating real-life nuclear weapons. A nuke contrasts with a spike in that it focuses on dealing damage to multiple opponents instead of one.

Elementalists have access to a large and diverse array of such skills, so is usually favored to fulfill this role in a party. When asking for a Nuker, players almost always mean pyromancers (like the E/Me Echo Nuker or E/any Renewal Nuker), who inflict highly damaging AoE spells. However, some Necromancer builds match the damage dealing potential of Elementalists, and are sometimes called Nukers (see especially N/Me SS Nuker).