Ill/Cold is hands down my favorite pairing for controllers, probably in the whole game. However, it takes a long time to reach maturity and while pretty decent with basic enhancements it benefits tremendously from set bonuses.
/dark is good pretty much from the get go and stays strong the whole way.
/cold can't really protect itself if you join a bad pug and you pull a lot of aggro with your powers so prepare to faceplant.
/dark imo doesn't have as high of a ceiling as /cold but can arguably help a mediocre team better if/when things go wrong.