Issue 184 of the DDO Chronicle is now available!

[alancarp]

Rube Goldberg would have this solved quickly:

1. Air elemental enters room.
2. Wind gust blows a toy car, which is pushed across a table.
3. Car falls off table into a bucket
4. Bucket is one side of a balance that was balanced evenly, but now the bucket is lowered with the added weight of the car.
5. Other side of balance is raised, which is another bucket.
6. The rising bucket strikes a wire, completing an electrical circuit that starts a wheel turning
7. This wheel has a match attached to its side.
6. The turning wheel runs the match across a striker, which ignites the match
7. The wheel is stopped by a brake, holding the match in position... conveniently at the wick of the candle.

Air elemental leaves the room, its task complete.

[Eric_the_Dead]

Air elementals are smart enough to know that blowing stuff around won't get the job done here. So they apply a little logic and switch tactics: Instead of blowing, they suck.

[Newbie_Man]

The same way anyone else does, with a flamethrower. Duh.

[NabeGewell]

With a torch.

[rfachini]

It couldn't do it alone. It would have to befriend a fire elemental and get it to light the candle for it.

[hodforum]

who knows!

[Nesis]

They would use a captured fire elemental.

[LucasMacKinnon]

I Answer it Monty Python holy grail style. DDO asks how an air elemental lights a candle. I ask is it an eberron air elemental or forgotten realms elemental. DDO doesn't know the answer and falls into a pit of despair and dies while I collect the turbine points

[krzyysiek098]

Just by gazing at it.

[EiAisq]

You know you would never have gust it, but the answer is so shocking it will just blow you away.

[Jango-EX]

They wait for a wizard to summon them and then ask the wizard to cast continual flame on the candle.

[Edwinge]

With lightning, of course.

[PsychoBlonde]

How would an air elemental light a candle?

Find an adventurer with Fire Shield and huck them.

[DDO_Addict]

How would an air elemental light a candle?

With fire of course!

[gottagoodun]

Candle? What candle? -- Illusionist

[Dulcimerist]

Very Carefully

[Dark_Helmet]

Candle? What Candle!

[Ambulance]

Like a boss!

[Lanadazia]

How would an air elemental light a candle?

trying to light something wooden with electricity, then whirlwind-kick the candle into the fire

[Portibraf]

An air elemental can for sure change its density and internal heat - in other words its refractive index. So, an air elemental can shape itself into an air lens and use the sun to light the candle.