water lore, ewave, and uphunting

[gilchristr]

Before the water lore changes, I definitely noticed my ewave fell off a cliff at exactly 8 levels of uphunting. That was true at 16 hunting reivers 24 with 16 minor elemental ranks, and that was true uphutning storm giants at 31 with 25 ranks of minor elemental. I am talking about so rarely successful it was not worth casting.

Now, after the water lore change, I got about 24 ranks of water lore and 25 minor elemental, and I could definitely use ewave at 41 vs. stone sentinels 53... when I brought that up to 44 ranks, it got even better. I mean sometimes knocking 3 of 3 stone sentinels prone with a cast. I can't quantify whether I got a knockdown 50% of the time, or 66% of the time, but either way its in stark contrast to how ewave was useless with this much uphunting.

[gilchristr]

At 44 I was able to have some success against stone giants, which are level 58. I have 47 ranks of water lore and 30 elemental spells.

[Gnomad]

For what it's worth, I have no problem using the 909 STOMP when uphunting +9 and +10 levels; it knocks them over around 95% of the time. +11 it falls off dramatically to under 50% or so. (I don't use it enough to get a real #).

Doesn't give the target RT, but it doesn't give you CastRT either, so if you can stomp and then reliably stun, it works perfectly fine.

[gilchristr]

What is your training in the relevant factors?