Elementals can't be directly hasted, only through staves. The fact that staves work but casting haste directly on them causes them to attack you is probably a bug.

Anyone who doesn't view this, in light of the fact that he has an archon with him providing sanc, shield, full healing of all maledictions, wrath, healing curse, sanctify room, protection from assassinate, protection from all forms of sleep, so on and so forth...as overpowered, doesn't understand game balance.

This is broken in the sense like, "I may as well never play anything else."

Why would you ever play any other class in the game if you could drop incredible burst, while having your own personal paladin + healer + utilities like familiars, clairvoyance, clairaudience, tesseract to gate anywhere in the game, phase door to skip over stuff you don't want to fight...I mean he's getting the stoneform amulet solo...

And there's plenty of logs of assassins getting wrecked in the face by these same elementals.

It's just blatantly, obviously overpowered, not sure what else it needs to do to convince some of you guys lol. Should it also have the slay command? Would that be proof enough that it's a little bit overkill? I haven't seen anything this obviously broken in years. In your orc example, there's 100 ways I can obliterate an orc through maledictions and if I can't maledict I can almost always outtank because non-malediction classes typically have more direct damage with damage reduction (invokers, shifters) or tons of damage reduction and tanking (paladins). What you're seeing here is a class that has the best offensive and defensive capabilities at the same time.