Why elelock is so powerful? Because you can maintain several skills in same time. Kino is good, I really love Fire Fox/Gravity Pole combo on my kino-onmyouji, but you can do nothing else while casting. Same thing with Sage. Dimension Compession - cool skill, some crowd control, great damage… but such waste of time.
Now look on elememe. Here is skill rotation that I personally use:
To simplify calculations, let’s say that casting time of every skill is approx. 1 second (actually +/- depending on your reaction/ping/etc., but who cares). Thus we have about 6 seconds of peak dps… wait, what a coincidence - that’s ideal for chapparition card!
And now let’s count up our dps. Approximately, of course - I don’t have any dps meter:
Mastema Lv15 - 2033% (stigma hits have around 1/2 power of first hit, so 1016,5%)
Hail Lv15 - 1067% (I can’t say how many hits it deals with Falconer’s Aiming, but, for example, 5 per second)
Storm Dust Lv10 - 332% per 0.3 seconds
PoA Lv1 - 281% per 0.3 seconds
PoA Lv15 - 496% per 0.3 seconds
So we can get ((1016,5 + (281 + 496) * 3.3) * 1,5(lv5 drain boost) + (1067 * 5 + 332 * 3.3)) * 1,6(lv100 attributes) * 1,15(lethargy boost) * 1,3(chappa boost) = around 28200% per second. Add to this x2 Demon Scratch, Prominence and perhaps Flame Ground scroll (remember, you can do what you want for these 6 seconds).
Seriously, I don’t know how other classes can surpass this damage. IMC should give to Sage3/Onmyouji3 veeeeery devastating skills (or attributes) to reach the same power.