Elemental Savant vs ???

[redoubt]

Anyone else see the elemental savant enhancement idea and kinda limited?

Now, I don't mind them being there, but I'd really like to see some othe options.

Just like elemental savant lets you pick one of the four elements to further specialize in, how about some DC related ones to pick from.

I.e. additional spell penetration, additional hieghtening, additional spell focus. Stuff like this that is not related to simply being a nuking caster.

Maybe i could go down the "enchanter" path and get bonuses to enchantment DC, spell penetration, resistance to enchantments.

Or be a necromancer and get bonus to necromancy DC, -damage versus undead, spell penetration.

I'm kinda making it up. But something along those line for some variety.

What do you all think?

[Mindspat]

I would like something for crowd control, or negative energy.

What are the different Savants suposed to do?

[Junts]

the pnp versions both gain increasing abilities to make other elemental spells into their chosen element (unlikely here), gain elemental traits (immunities, including crit immunities, like elemental typed creatures), and eventually gain a feat which makes 50% of the damage from their element's spells untyped, so it breaks resistances.

Eladrin has stated that at-will powers mimicing lower-level spells of that element are likely (specific example: a tier 3 fire savant would be able to produce burning hands, scorching ray and fireball at-will, for no sp).

Things like crit- and hold- immunity are pretty cool.

[Pyromaniac]

gain increasing abilities to make other elemental spells into their chosen element (unlikely here).

That's the key benefit to the elemental savant, so I'm fully expecting that to be implemented.