Any reason for elemental toys?

[Celestial Tesla]

In my last run i added poison to my golf club and dear good was that a mistake. The extra damage was no near worth the cost of costantly poisoning myself(luckly i had like 20 medicines saved up). Once you hit someone every step they take(including the knock back from the golf club) leaves poison on the ground making it extremely difficuilt not to poison your self and costing you time as you try to avoid the poison, when you should be wailing on them with your sword.

So are elementals worth it, i assume fire would do the same thing as poison, so you would just end up lighting yourslelf on fire alot. The only useful purpose i could see, would be for ranged toys that you use to kill them off enemies without ever getting close to them such as the laser ring or bow.

And what exactly does the third element do, is it as destructive to yourself as the other two.

So any tips or tricks for using elemental toys?

[mr.randem]

Ether Infusion + Cat's Eye Ring = Easy ether proc application

Vinyl + Fire Infusion = AoE burn application, replicated with use of Fire Elemental Attacks + Toy use, but requires applying Burn first.

Never use poison, you'll just end up hurting yourself and dropping creep everywhere, minimixing your room to dodge and fight.

Fire is the god element, followed by Ether as a second-tier. Fire doesn't leave creep, and it will not jump to you. All element upgrades, depending on the toy, can be worthless or worth it.

Anything with multi-hit + Ether is always good, especially with Yo-Yo. Fire needs to be on a low-cost or high AoE spreading Toy with range.

Fire Procs possibly could need a nerf.

[tobeyny27]

How about fire applied to the laser ring?