Better Elemental Spells

Is it just me or are elemental spells just not very... interesting.

Comet is cool, except quite literally nobody casts it themselves. It's always part of a "Cast on __" package.

It's kind of lame how Spark is the foundation of the vast majority of Elemental caster builds because the other spells just aren't very good or interesting.

Fireball feels weightless and unimpactful, only useful for proccing "Cast on __" effects, while Fireball from Diablo 2, a game 20+ years old, feels powerful, explosive, impactful, and fits the theme of this iconic ability.

Why doesn't it just shoot one big projectile that explodes? That's what a fireball does. It doesn't shoot out little projectiles. Why are we trying to reinvent the wheel here? Fire builds currently don't really have any good options for a primary skill and this should be that.

Orb of Winter versus Frozen Orb - Why would you make such an iconic ability into something so... for a lack of better words, lame? For needing such a high level to access it, it's sad you can't really build around it. Ground effects are so scarce that its bonus effect will basically never come into play, and even if you do manage to do it, it's quite literally doing 15 damage at level 45 or whatever, so you're adding a whopping 5 damage. So the critical weakness effect is the only useful thing it will ever do.

Arc feels like a static shock you would get from rubbing your feet on a rug. Where's our big, ground-shaking lightning bolts? Why can't it shock?

Lightning Conduit is another instance of a spell nobody will ever cast themselves.

Flameblast was kind of cool, but its been gutted to the point of being borderline unusable.

Frostbolt is boring and just serves as another way to proc "Cast on __" effects. Glacial Spike was way more interesting of an ability. I'd rather launch a giant spike of ice at the target than a slow-moving frozen fart bubble.

A lot of the mace skills feel more like spells than Elemental spells do. Right from the get-go, Earthquake is making giant rock explosions, while casters get boring spells that have no weight.

I can go on but hopefully you see the point. Elemental spells honestly feel worse the higher level they are, which doesn't make any sense.

I feel like we need to just get back to the basics with a lot of the spells. Give us an actual Fireball, a big thunderbolt, chunks of ice or a blizzard -classic spells everyone can relate to.