Meh, really, no love for Aether? C'mon...I started with Mono
, it got me so far. Sure, it was heavy on the quanta use, so I always got my balls rocked by the quanta denial strat phase the whole of Elements was going through when I first started playing xD. Bah, yeah, no I am standing strong. Aether is the best! This is a totally unbiased decision on my part!
Dim shield was a great stall option, the majority of the creatures are CC immune, and it has the best single-use unupped spell in the game. Bias or not, I think
is solid, albeit it has a sort of inferiority complex with
and
.