Larian Studios Forums Divinity: Original Sin 2 Divinity - Original Sin 2 - General I feel so useless as an elemental mage :/

Ariel,
This may help.
There is a guy on Twitch named Kaen who has a channel called kaen_sg and is doing a solo honor mode elemental mage playthrough. He accepted a $500.00 US dollar challenge to beat the game lone wolf using no melee damage skills...
Check it out. He is a great player and prior to accepting this challenge from one of his viewers was well into completing the last fight of Ft. Joy with a totally naked (no armor, no weapons or rings) mage.
Either way you can learn a ton about game mechanics watching his stuff.
Hope this helps.

Also: As part of the challenge he is not allowed to play as Fane, and is only allowed to have Summoning at a max lvl of 6. He is allowed to wear armor.