Fire/Dark build critique

[Snokle]

I was going over an old build of mine which I was never happy with, which was my Fire/Dark troller. I went through what it currently has on it it and trying to change and retool the character. I do not think I had a real specific goal in mind like perma-fade, just looking for a nice well rounded character. I think it is almost there, but maybe missing a spot or two. I just wanted to see if there was something obvious I missed before I started the retooling.

 

Controller (Fire Control - Darkness Affinity) 2.mbd

 

[Meknomancer]

 

I might consider dropping rise of the phoenix and arcane bolt. Phoenix will hardly see any use and arcane is unslotted so i'm assuming will be completely unused. Take spirit ward as your first sorcery pick and toss the preventetive in to get and extra slot and a power pick (like vengeance for an extra luck of the gambler)

 

I've played a fair few /dark trollers and they work much better on maxxed out recharge so i try to aim for perma fade/soul absorb without being too reliant on the ff+rech firing off in bonfire. It does help alot if your hitting at least 45% ranged as you don't always have time (or in my case i just forget) to apply darkest night to cover that defence gap you have.

 

Slotting shadowfall and fade with a mix of defence and resistance will really help you out surviving when you do take hits, even with fades defense debuff protection its nice to have slightly higher resists than you have.

 

If your taking sorcery for flight i get it, if your taking it for rune i get it, if your taking sorcery just to get rune for an anti mez clicky you could always swap in psi mastery and get a perma indomitable will clicky, you'd still have what i consider a better aoe in psi nado. But if fire is necessary for theme i'd consider @Camelbuild and get your defence and recharge up. And just take clarion.

 

The reason its not looking well rounded is because you have no single target damage outside of a procced hold which puts you totally reliant on dot damage from hotfeet and bonfire and the imps tickling stuff. Try tossing slots into arcane bolt or taking ring of fire or fire blast so you have something to throw at bosses. Its much more fun than standing there clicking the hold over and over vs hard targets if you can get some sort of single target attack chain. I'll admit this is hard, slots and power picks are tight when your chasing recharge and defence and resistance all at once on a controller.

 

Aim for something. Its always better to build that way. 

[Snokle]

Fire Epic, is not there for thematic purpose, I think I just had it there, mainly there as I had it there cause I did have what I had originally on the build which is currently on the build. This is just a 1.2 re-tweak of the build which feels better than what I have right now, but does not kinda feel good on paper yet. So I will look at taking the Psi epic as a replacement for fire and piece around stuff.

 

Also originally in my re-tweak I did have arcane bolt 5-slotted with Apocalypse which I think gives the best oomph, but I forgot about a couple of other pieces I did not slot properly. Which kinda made a mess at the end. If going Psi mastery for Indomitdable gives the mez resistance, I would easily move off RoP, as that was more for the emergency button.

 

I will take a look at the Camel thread and see what he has done out and make my plans accordingly.