Replacing the Invoke Ele

I'll throw in another suggestion: combine two of your own. IV/putrid bile does pretty satisfactory aoe, I used to follow it up with a putrid explosion to clear shrines in AB, so if you're not running a MM that's also an option. I did that on a N/A assacaster btw, so running command still shouldn't be a problem, although the single target damage probably wouldn't be comparable. Don't know if they fixed heroes usage of signet of sorrow, if not, I wouldn't recommend it.

Also if you're having trouble with vapor blades half damage vs enchanted, rethink your whole team. Blood might be exactly what you're looking for.

Although not against enchantments, high armour, destroyers, etc etc etc. I wouldn't run ANY of the builds in this thread, including old invoke. I prefer to do more damage outright than be able to switch and spike targets.

I'm trying to help you out finding a build that does most of the things it did plus a few new tricks. Seems more like I've stumbled into a huge 'QQ old invoke r gone!' thread than a genuine attempt to replace that slot. If you only look at what a build doesn't do, you're unable to see what it does do.

There's a type of builds heroes can easily use and abuse anywhere with no or few enemies that have enchantment removal.
I used this a lot before Nightfall, but after the last elementalist update, the +2 elemental attribute made me try it again, and I was gladly surprised when I saw the result. A type of build that I know call "Infinite-20 + variant name".

Elemental Attunement, attunement of the element chosen, Aura of restoration, glyph of elemental power, and then the 4 most expensive and fast recharging skills you can find.

For air, that would be Binding Flash, Lighning Orb, Lighning Hammer and Chain Lightning.
Along a +3 air rune in headgear, this gives the user 20 air magic.

When I use that, I do 90...170 damage every 2...3 seconds to level 30..33 enemies in HM, while healing myself for 48...100+ with each spell, and producing more energy than the energy spent, which keeps my energy maxed just in case the occasional enchantment stripping removes one of the three enchantments.
Heroes won't stop spamming the spells, and will blind all over the place like crazy, and perfectly maintain the enchantments.
So I call this variant "Spiker".


This can be replaced with any element.
For fire, use Incendiary Bonds, Fireball, invication of rodgord and then lava arrows, phoenix, liquid flame or meteor shower. Or instead fireball, mark of rodgord + lava arrows.
This variant I call "Nearby Nightmare". Not as good as the air one with single enemies, but along some Weaken armor in a necromancer, it's makes hordes of enemies disappear in seconds. And there's no place to run like when you use DPS AoEs.

For water, water spikes, vapor blade and rust. Then maelstrom or deep freeze.
This I call just "Water". Not as good generally, but against fire-based enemies like fire elementals and fire titans, it does wonders, specially if you strip the enchantments elementalist fire elementals usually have.

For earth, stoning, churning earth, and ebonhawk. And then earthquake or eruption. Or just the 3 of the 4 wards plus ebonhawk.
These I call just "earth" and "warder".

When I use this in heroes along a mesmer with stolen speed, the enemies go down so fast that I don't get to do anything, which can be rather boring.
Luckily, this doesn't work so when when enemies have lots of enchantment removal like in WoC and WiK and many higher-end areas.
Otherwise they would have to nerf the thing to oblivion.

By the way, Cynn has a fire build similar to this one in Prophecies and factions, without the elemental glyph. So she has only 18 fire magic.