Elementalists have a pretty weak spell selection, especially compared to hemomancer. For example, they don't even get invisibility/improved invisibility while hemomancer does, and it makes a lot more sense for air elementalists to have access to it than blood mages; same with flesh to stone and stinking cloud. Similarly things like acid fog are missing.
This makes it hard to truly lean into a singular element, or even two, as there aren't all that many spells of the same element. Given we have to choose a path and can't pick a second, the class seems themed to focus on one or two elements, rather than just picking randomly - and at present that's not really possible except for fire.
So here are some spells I think should be on the elementalist spell list and the related element (many of which are pulled from the related cleric domains!):
1st: Entangle (earth), Defeaning Clang (air)
2nd: Invisibility (air), Barkskin (earth)
3rd: Displacement (air), Water Breathing (water/air), Sustenance (water), Spike growth (earth), Stinking Cloud (air)
4th: Improved Invisibility (air), Flame strike (fire), Wounding Whispers (air)
5th: Cloudkill (air/earth), Vine Mine (earth)
6th: Acid fog (air/earth), Flesh to Stone (earth), Stone to Flesh (earth), Drown (water), Stonehold (earth)
7th:
8th: Horrid Wilting (water), Mass Blindness/deafness (air), Bombardment (earth),
9th: Shapechange (but instead turns you into elementals!), Storm of Vengeance (air/water)
I realize some of these may be a bit too weak (like water breathing), but it's nice for flavour to be able to have that choice; and besides we have continual flame which is hardly worth a 3rd level spell choice. Some may also be a bit too powerful, but many of those spells (like SoV) are conjuration, transmutation or necromancy based; which would mean the elementalist would need to pick up more than just Evo focus. This'd make for more variance in the builds of elementalists, as they choose what is most important for them.
More Spells for Elementalists
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More Spells for Elementalists
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