QUOTE(hitokiri84 @ Dec 25 2010, 14:06)

He is, but it has a somewhat low fire damage bonus.
Interesting thing though. I tried out a +15 Niflheim cap with Snowstorm, and it gives better damage than using T-Storm with a 40+ proficiency Elementalist cap, so it seems even a moderate damage boost of any type will beat out the best of Elementalist proficiencies.
Since I started wearing these
Surtr pants with +13 Fire (at my level) and another +13 Fire from the
God Staff, I have been one-shoting basically every round @ Normal, both Arenas and Exquisite IW, without a Boss, regardless of which monsters are there. Manthra does very rarely survive with 90+% damage from Meteor. Without a mid, I can clear with just Inferno. (Basically means ignoring
X resists your spell.)
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