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When we talk about having spells level 100 at character level 100, this is to give you an idea of the amount of spell experience that your character will have at level 100.

The total spell experience received when reaching character level 100, and if you used only spells from one branch, equals the amount of experience required to level two spells to 100.

Now, at level 100 in mono-element, you could still have something like 1 spell level 100 and two spells level 80 (I'm giving random numbers here).

You will still receive spell experience when the cap level is increased, so even though you leveled more than two spells, you will still be able to level some of them to level 100 along your way to level 200.

Personally I am not so interested in the dungeon, since I have no use of air set, but I gave it a try last night. The experience reminds me of the tedious crafting system, which I in another post accused of being terrible game design. My crafting experience is based on the one from beta, yes they've changed it a lot and there are a lot more useful stuff now (set items now can be crafted). But bottom line is, people still need to craft things just to throw away in order to level their profession. That, is the sign of bad design.

So this monk dungeon puzzle is really trying to be 'clever' but fails miserably, to me it seems Ankama just wants this monk island to last longer so they have more time to prepare the upcoming new content. This is not a bad intention though, just a very cheeky way of achieving it. Here's what I think about the dungeon puzzle:

The game expects a theory for opening the dungeon to somehow materialize without giving the players a clear 'start here', and for players who are confident enough about their theories, they will need to execute it, but the game again, presents no milestone to encourage players who are on the right track, or to signal players who are just doing it wrong. So from a game design point of view, there is a gap, you either make it to the other side or you don't, giving players the impression that the game simply doesn't care whether we unlock the dungeon or not.

Of course this is just my opinion of the game, but the fact is: nobody seems to be enjoying their endeavour to unlocking this puzzle. And this fact, in my opinion, justifies my statement: This is bad game design.