Arcane Bolt on a ranged Fortunata?

[Lhanis]

I've got a ranged Fort setup for when I dont feel like being scrappy, and it's got a seamless ST rotation with procced out TK Blast/Subdue/Dominate. It's fairly solid overall, and I'm happy with it's output.

 

But... 

Subdue's sfx are nails on chalkboard, and the rotation goes so quickly that it's never not playing. I was looking at maybe replacing it with Arcane Bolt since I'm dipping heavily into Sorcery anyway, and it seems to fit similar enough that I shouldn't feel a loss. Bolt has slightly less damage and slighter longer anim time, but Arcane Power procs should theoretically make it a dps increase depending on how often it does come up. It also provides a non-psychic attack (even if Energy is resisted fairly often) to help soften how much robots and rikti suck.

 

Thoughts? Opinions? Alternative solutions? For the most part I actually like the game's sound, and don't want to be driven to muting it over the endless PEWEWEWEW q.q

[nihilii]

Perhaps an alternative solution could be to mod out Subdue's sound specifically.

[twozerofoxtrot]

I'd take Gloom.

 

I had a Fort who had enough recharge that her chain was Gloom and Procd Dominate back to back. Just those two.

 

Not sure what her DPS was but it worked out well enough when I stayed at range. She had a few melee attacks as well.

[High_Beam]

the windup on Arcane Bolt is too slow to me, I think only my Mind/Emp Controller still uses it because Mind/Emp.

[Lhanis]

8 hours ago, twozerofoxtrot said:

I'd take Gloom.

 

I had a Fort who had enough recharge that her chain was Gloom and Procd Dominate back to back. Just those two.

 

Not sure what her DPS was but it worked out well enough when I stayed at range. She had a few melee attacks as well.

 

This! Thank you! I'd forgotten I can just grab gloom from /soul. And that is a significantly better option than the alternatives I was looking at. It comes late, but it will do just fine.

 

11 hours ago, nihilii said:

Perhaps an alternative solution could be to mod out Subdue's sound specifically.

 

I have tried a few sfx mods for psychic powers and found them either generally more intrusive or just to loud, and unfortunately I don't know enough about that kind of modding to make a file myself. I did find the guide posted here in the forums about editing said files, though, and I may look into it. There are a few other outliers I'd love to find silent options for.