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The Elementalist binds elemental servants and fights through them. The official archetype phrase is Elemental Binder, and the rework describes the class outright as the game's most pet-focused class. It is one of the seven true caster classes, it performs well solo because its companion can tank, and its damage is built around spells that route through the companion rather than around a bigger nuke.

Identity and role

The class covers fire, water, earth and air. Its companion fulfils a different role depending on which element you summon, and the spell list is written so that spells and pet reinforce each other: elemental debuffs land, procs trigger, and imbued effects stack. The Elementalist also has innate elemental resistances tied to its chosen school, and summons elemental weapons and focused utility items for itself and for other players.

One stated plan was reversed outright. The class page lists generic convenience conjurations under what the class would have less of. That did not happen: food, drink, bandages, manastones and the elemental weapon summon lines all carried through essentially unchanged, because Elementalist players valued them. Treat the class page bullet as superseded.

Playable races

The Elementalist is open to Deep Dwarf, Deep Elf, Deep Gnome, Dwarf, Gnome, High Elf, Human and Ogre.

That list covers the full designed race roster. Deep Dwarf and High Elf are designed but are not among the races playable at Early Access launch on October 1 2026, so the practical choice at launch is the remainder of the list.

The companion

There are four servants, one each for Water, Earth, Fire and Air. The companion now stays in sync with your own level when summoned, up to the maximum for that summoning spell.

The upgrade schedule changed with the rework. You no longer get pet upgrade ranks for all four pets every four levels. Instead you unlock all pet types by level 12, and get a new rank every 16th level. The worked example the team gave: a rank 1 Water Pet summons a pet from level 1 to 15 based on your own level, and rank 2 arrives at level 16 and summons Water Pets from level 16 to 31.

Damage

Companion Strike being the main damage dealer is the clearest expression of the class design. An Elementalist without a pet is not a diminished caster, it is a caster missing half its spell effects.

Conjurations and buffs

Removed: the old escalating fire nuke chain from Fireburst through Fires of Eth; the Repel the Elements through Devastate the Elements line, merged into Strike and Blast as a bonus; and Invisibility versus Elementals.

Playing an Elementalist

Class details below come from the ability rework that rolled onto the closed beta servers through 2026. The developers state plainly that there is a high probability some aspects will change before they reach the beta servers, so treat specific ability behaviour as a snapshot of the beta build rather than a settled launch state.

Elementalists are one of the seven true caster classes, so they receive cantrips and keep one memorised spell through death, with the first at level 4. See Death Penalty.

Against the Necromancer, which is the other heavily pet-based caster, the team has said the two are being given a more distinct interaction tempo. The Elementalist's version is element selection and spell-through-pet damage. In a group it contributes damage, a mana regeneration aura from the Water Pet, summoned food, drink, bandages and manastones for everyone, and summoned weapons. See Grouping, Items and Equipment, Combat and Classes.