Elementalist Tagging Tips for efficient Karma farming

     When karma farming you're going to find out really fast that other faceroll classes have an easy time instantly blasting everything down while you're still winding up a cast, or waiting for that Dragon's Tooth to drop.  By the time your spells are about to do some damage, things are either mostly dead or completely dead.  An Elementalist complained to me yesterday about not being very effective at tagging and I kind of explained to him how I was doing it since I don't have much trouble.

• Memorize spawn locations of NPCs in your events so you can pre-cast.
• Use a staff for Lava Font and Fireball (which does AoE damage on impact)
• Also Meteor Shower to a lesser degree but it isn't reliable and takes a long time to cast.
• Utility Skills
• Glyph of Storms (much better coverage and reliability than Meteor Shower)
• Arcane Wave
• Conjure Frost Bow (skill #4 Ice Storm gives you another strong AoE)
• Elite Skill
• Tornado isn't as effective as I thought it would be.  Its more of a crowd control ability... and the radius is small so its not that great as an AoE.
• Conjure Fiery Greatsword is better to use than Glyph of Elementals since your elemental can't do a lot of AoE.
• Learn to not blow every AoE you have, but spread them out over the course of several waves so you can sustain.
• Use Chain Lightning when only a few NPCs spawn in small clumps (3 max).
• Don't loot until the pull chain is finished.

     The point isn't just to make sure you're getting gold karma ratings, but that you're also getting on the loot table of the NPCs you're killing for efficiently farming gold at the same time.