Vampire Queen + Underrated Pretenders?

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EA Ulm can actually get all elements at lv 2 natively, though the only one they consistently get that way is earth. It still gets them a wide variety of useful stuff, both in forging and combat spells. They can boost water up to 4 with a E1W2 smith by forging water bracelet and then robe of the sea.

Shamans can get both death and fire as random so EA Ulm has the ability to forge skull of fire straight out of the box with a little luck. By the time you hit Construction 6, you should have one E1F1D1 shaman. If you want boosters in all the elemental paths, then your pretender should take care of the air and fire deficiency, in which case a phoenix will do nicely. If you also want astral, then some other pretender which can cover all three paths and you're set.

But this thread is getting seriously off topic with this EA Ulm stuff. We can start a new thread on that one and copy the posts from here. We should concentrate on the under-used pretenders.