Why would you want to outdps another elememe in ET? You want to destroy the mobs as fast as possible such that the timer don’t run out. You barely has enough time as a high INT elememe, why do you think you can do it with 200-400 lesser matk?
Let me show you my video of tanking workshop mobs with 1 dmg each with my elememe, once I get back from work. Get a level 220 plate armor set, and get aspersio buff. You can easily reduce the damage to nothing. Even blue spion archer will spiral arrow you with 1 dmg (proven by alot of video).
Archer 2 ranger scout or archer ranger 3 use 4 rank to be DPS, which is a stricter condition than wiz 3. Yes they use more than 1 class to be the base combo, but it still a combo of 4 ranks.
Swordsman in kToS is getting +50% slash damage buff from cleave. Archer is getting high critical rate which is equivalent to more than +50% damage buff with archer 2 (yes you need gears, but archer can deal more DPS with good gears), and even more when combined with ranger. Those are permanent too.
The good part about Ele 3 Warlock is that they are cheaper to be relevant, but with high investment their DPS eventually lose to others (such as QS3 with 200% damage buff)
Following that logic, FC has a cooldown of 30 seconds thus they are not DPS, but burst too.
The only reason why Elememe is good in this meta is not because of their DPS (which many class can outdo them), it’s because their DPS is burst AOE, which is suitable for grinding, ET, and WB because it’s too lag to utilize a low CD build.
We will easily see the meta turn away from elememe if the new map after level 280 has alot of lone mobs with even higher HP (such that elememe can’t one shot them with one frost cloud), or they are flying.