Which element is the most useful outside of combat?

Which element is the most useful outside of combat?

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Earthbending can allows access to construction or digging for oil or mining

Fire.

Air > Earth > Water > Fire

Earth for construction and mining
Water for fishing and medical work
Fire for smelting and cooking
Air for travel and.... that's basically it

lets elaborate on that, from a civilization point.
>Earth
Any construction you can think of you can build it in a less than a week changing the geography of your land to suit your needs.
shit like re directing streams, creating tunnels, mining, landscaping etc.

>Water
On their poles they can terraform to a lesser stent. they would easily have the best navy in the world. and god help you in they invent Pykrete.

>Fire
unlimited energy. all of them can get it but fire is the more direct one even before you put lighting in to the mix.

>Air
they have the best mobility of them all, using a wingsuit or similar could basically give them the reach of a early airplane. they could live in very high altitudes because of their better lungs so there is that

fire by far you're an unlimited power generator

Still sadly water or earth.
The circlejerk is right it sucks though.
If they would go depper thematicly they could balance it mayve out

>unlimited power generator
All of them can do that, wind and water turbines. you can even use mud if you dont want to build a new generator design based on sand or solid rock

would still pick air 100% of the time. just love the idea of being fast and having the freedom to fly and jump high and everything else that comes with it. its the one that would make me happy.

Whatever has the most permanence.
Earth bending.

fie bending is the only element you cant use for fucking

Can't keep your phone charged or power a jetpack with rocks, though.

earth
I wish I was an earth bender so I could fuck off from society and live in my autism castle that I built.

Earth > Water > Fire > Ar

based ted

Earth has interesting implications as far as technological development and metallurgy goes. Imagine how much faster a pre-I dustrial society could develop technology if humans can manipulate metal without the need for complex tools. Engineers developing electronics, transistors, circuitry, computers, etc could work a lot more efficiently and make faster discoveries via metal bending. You no longer need complex tools and measurements to achieve these things. I bet waterbending would aid similar rapid progression in fields like medicine and biotech too.

Well air and firebenders are capable of sustained flight. That's pretty rad.

Still bloodbending. People are the most important resource, so enslaving anyone to do your bidding would let accomplish whatever you want

Earth bending. It saves more labor than any other type of bending. They all have useful applications outside combat but earth is by far the most useful.

Water.
>Water, so surfing and not drowning and stuff
>Magic healing
>Fog/steam/mist, for stealth
>Plant control
>Mind control
>Ice

The best element in general, of course

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>construct large ferris wheel out of earth
>spin forever with earthbending
>hook up to generator
Wam bam type III civilization mam.

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With the inclusion of their upgraded forms, Blood, Lightning, Metal, and..
double air? Air never got one I guess...

It's hard to say. Fire essentially means that every bender is a walking generator, thus decreasing costs of energy (As seen in the shitshow Korra) and they are also capable of not relying on appliances like the stove or smelters or heaters.

Earth benders, like others have said, are extremely useful for rapid large-scale construction and groundwork as well as retrieval of minerals. That last one is 'especially' a bitch, even in modern days today. Earth Kingdom would definitely have the upper hand in a more modern setting.

Water bending is absolutely critical, however. They can simply bend water to purify it, avoiding polution. They can more easily regulate fishing and the population of marine life for better food stuffs, and they have medical properties that makes modern hospitals look like shit.

Air itself allows air travel and air superiority which, if it wasn't for the culture of the Air Nation, would mean they would be one of the ultiamte military powers. Air Superiority. Not to mention that Air Benders can do away with some of the biggest issues on the planet. Storms and Air Pollution. Tornado coming? Fuck you no it's not. Dust bowl? More like Dust gone. Los Angeles' air? More like Fresh Mountain Clear. They can also employ Air Bending for a boost during the industrial age by manipulating the air pressure itself as a form of energy. Wind Turbines or even Steam Engines. Remember; Steam Engines were not powered on steam but the shit that steam did; build up AIR PRESSURE.

It's really hard to say. In the end they're all pretty damn equal.

You can with Uranium. That earth benders would dig up with their mining operations using metal benders to pinpoint exactly where the goods are while also constructing tunnels from the earth perfectly with no need of other resources.

Upgraded air = Space? Cosmic energy? Fabric of reality?

A lot of people in this thread seem to think that metalbending is actually bending the metal. It's bending the impurities in the metal, so the quality of metal you can bend is poor and that means earthbending can't be used to create circuitry or super durable metal structures from it.

I wonder if waterbenders can boil water . If so, they can also use it for cooking.

You can't charge it with a bolt of lightning either. You'd just fry it.

Spinning something to use as a generator is easily done with earth, air or water.

>Fire essentially means that every bender is a walking generator
Modern electronics require very precisely controlled voltages. So you'd need to build something to take the sudden surge of a lightning bolt and turn it into a steady flow of power.

That's going to be bulky.

Only if the benders are capable of performing the precise, small scale bending needed for those technologies.

If they can't, they might be counterproductive because they delay the creation of tools for the fine scale manipulation below what benders can perform because tools that can do what benders can weren't required. Thus starting from scratch when they are, instead of improving previous tool designs.

>With the inclusion of their upgraded forms, Blood, Lightning, Metal, and..
>double air? Air never got one I guess...

The upgraded forms were things the Avatar couldn't do during the show. In Aang's time, there were no other airbenders. But we got to see blood, metal and lightning.

In Korra's time, she learned metalbending, at around the time we got to see others with lava bending. We also got to see an airbending technique she couldn't pull off: Flying without the aid of a glider or wingsuit.

>earthbending can't be used to create circuitry
Quartz and clay are both key components of circuits.

>That's going to be bulky.
Because surge protectors are bigger than a few inches amirite guise?