Elemental Wheel, What's the point?

[Jinko]

Those are monsters not animals, so of course they can have an element. A Marmot is strong against earth coz they eat dirt ... or what ever ...

A Marmot is a monster ? /holds hand to mouth and giggles.

and no it does not make sense to me.

we are not naturally resistant, but there was a time where we could put the points where we wanted

And not any longer, nor do we current have the use of water spells.

We are actually naturally resistant to all spells now, check your elemental resistance in Attributes.

@ Felis, yea Flans are such an example where monsters are healed by spells and attacks of their attuned element.

Of course it took me a while to realise why I was doing such little damage on a Marmot as a MNK with Fists of Earth. (I agree that if the mob had been healed I would have noticed much faster) so you do have a good point.