acid or cold

[CSFurious]

i have a level 15 pm & mainly used fire spells before the vale; i used the enhancements that increase fire damage/crits, etc.

i changed to acid the other day & like it so far; acid rain, acid fog & melf's work pretty well for me in the vale & gh

does anyone have any opinion on ice or electric spells? it sounds like ice can be pretty strong with that niacs biting cold, ice storm & polar ray

i liked it better back in the day when you could take the same enhancements for fire & cold spells

i guess i am sort of playing my wiz like a poor man's savant but i like to max out the enhancements on one damage line

[GotSomeQuestions]

All of the elemental damage enhancement lines are quite front loaded. While you can max out the damage, crit chance, and crit boost lines for one element (19 AP total), you'll get nearly as good results by going for full damage (50%), and taking the first ranks in crit chance (4%) and crit boost (25%), for only 9 AP. That lets you invest in two elements on the cheap (18 AP is less than you would have spent under the old system).

And if you don't want to go that far, it takes only 1 AP to get a 20% damage boost, which is a cheap and powerful boost to damage types you'll only use occasionally (Force for Disintegrate, Electricity for Eladar's Electric Surge on tough bosses, Ice for Niac's Biting Cold on tough bosses, etc). Get a 75% damage clicky (or a 50% boost from Potency), and you'll be able to swap those spells in for powerful situational use.

[Faent]

GotSomeQuestions is correct. You want two damage lines available to you. This means you max two Manipulation lines, and you drop 1 AP into the Deadly line for each element and 1 AP into the crit-boost line for each element (Corrosive for Acid, Glacial for ice, etc...). For leveling, I like Fire/Acid. For end-game, you will no doubt want to pick up Ice.

[Tuney]

As a PM , I picked Force and Ice. My reasoning , I'm mostly using Single target spells anyways and a few of the good ones like Disingrate and Ice Storm as well as Meteor Swarm are helped by Force. If I need to use some other AoE and I feel my luck is with me I always have Prismatic Spray!