You only need the elemental weapon to apply the buff and use the elemental skills, but you can apply the buff on switch and then swap to your ww weapons, only you wont be doing any phys dmg, which really doesn't matter if you 1 hit everything. I didn't bother to farm TU gear when I was leveling beca...

Regarding leveling and early game; I've found that maxing snake first, maxing conflux second lvl 1 Earthquake and lvl 1 Whirlwind to be completely OP. Once you hit level 50 you get big AOE on whirlwind and Earthquake isn't so necessary. Later you can spec into wolf companion aura, ancient blood or m...

Any tips for life sustain on the ele version of the build?

For normal leveling Fireheart Totem + Soulchain has been crazy good for life regen - 113 life regen at lvl 52, thats about 7.5% life regen at the moment. Fireheart does more dmg and out ranges the other totems early game. Defs fire for low lvl, you need a few totems before Frost takes off with targe...

Solid guide. For leveling: I recommend skipping Meele Devotion and maxing harvesters + bloom for the move speed. Clear speed of Harbinger is amazing at low - mid levels, but you will be too squishy, the harvesters are great as tanks and bloom will make you run super fast. Pick up an honorific armor ...