The idea was to come up with pre-made abilities for each element, a passive, and some equipment or w/e, for people to choose from. They'd still make the character, but the resources they have available to them to construct the character's powerset and equipment are available to everyone and standardised. For example:

Element: Fire
Fireball, Fireslash, Heatwave, Burning Smoke, Fire Jump

Passive: Superstrong, durable, fast, acute, etc.

And then allow the player to choose three of those abilities from two elements or w/e, one passive, and so on.

It'd require a bit of work on the GM's part to construct a reasonable amount of abilities for each element, but it shouldn't be too difficult to balance it all.