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I have the Devastation Chance for Hold proc in my Jolting Chain, and it seems to hit fairly often. I have my Tesla Cage a different color, so it is easy to tell when the cage around a foe was caused by the proc in Jolting Chain. It is not uncommon to see 3 or 4 foes held with that proc.

I would say that something that can gather up groups and take the alpha strike, and then has good AoE. I know my Elec/Shield scrapper would be a good choice. Shield has a good aggro aura and the AoE damage of Shield Charge. Fire or Electric Melee would work well. A similar Brute would work well, too.

I can see the Scrapper/Brute gathering up foes into a group, then the Controller dropping Ice Slick, Freezing Rain and running in with Arctic Air to mitigate damage while the Scrapper/Brute wipes out the foes. If foes get spread out, the Controller can run around the outer areas with Hurricane to "herdicane" the foes in tight to the Scrapper/Brute.

Overall pretty good, but I have a few suggestions:

Blind: Replace the proc with the Quad Baz Gaze -- you need the accuracy. As for the two damage procs -- Mids shows that they provide slightly more overall damage than my usual preferred slotting of an Acc/Dam Hami-O and a common Damage, but remember that those procs hit randomly and you will have less accuracy, too. Personally, I would rather have the sure thing than the random chance of damage in Blind.

Spectral Wounds: I would replace the heal proc with an Acc/Dam Hami-O. There is a significant difference in damage, and the proc only give 5% heal 10% of the time.

Flash: I would prefer to replace the Lockdown proc with an Acc/Hold/Rech from any set. Flash needs more accuracy. The proc will only be effective 15% of the time against only bosses. Not worth the slot to me.

Time's Juncture: 4 slot with Dark Watcher. Pull the pure Confuse out of Deceive, and one of the Recharge out of Hasten. That adds another 5% Recharge. Plus that will make the power more effective.

Temporal Selection: Why not put a Heal and Heal/Rech from Numina or Miracle in there? I'm planning on only one-slotting it as slots are needed other places.

Phantom Army: replace the Dam/End with the Soulbound Dam/Rech and then the Recharge with the Soulbound Chance for Build Up.

Time Stop: Replace the triple with the Quad for more accuracy.

I'm not a huge fan of Leadership, but it is a viable choice. I would rather have a travel power and Frost Breath . . . you could put a Posi-Blast in Frostbreath and then replace the Glympse set in Spooky to the Unspeakable Terror set. Or use a purple set in Frost Breath if you can afford it. Or you could take Combat Jumping in place of the travel power (to get back your 5th LotG Rech and to provide Immob protection).

Spectral Terror: If you keep the Glympse set, replace one with the damage proc.

Doesn't Slowed Response need Accuracy?

That last Harmonized Healing in Chrono . . . I'm not sure why you used a Harm Heal instead of a common Heal, but I would move that to Slowed Response.

OK, let's start with a few basics about Controllers:

The two powersets for a controller are Crowd Control and Buff/Debuff. If you are using those powersets, you shouldn't need huge amounts of Defense. There is a misconception which is freqently reinforced on these forums that Controllers should have softcapped defense. That wasn't even possible until IOs came into the game, and we did fine before that. Even now, I don't build controllers for Defense with only one or two exceptions. So, while building for high Defense is a nice goal once you know how to play a controller, it should not be your focus for your first controller. You should be building to make your controller, uh, control better. Can you build for Defense? Sure you can, but it is up to you whether the trade-offs are worth it. I suggest you try making a controller maximized as a controller first before you fall into the "need moar d-fense" trap.

Why don't controllers need a ton of Defense? Because controllers should be controlling first, then debuffing. Good controllers are able to mitigate the alpha strike when solo or on small teams, or let the tank do his job and take the alpha strike when on middle to large teams. Then the controller makes it easier and safer for teammates to take down the foes. If the foes are either controlled or shooting at the tank, then you shouldn't need much defense. For the most part (but there are exceptions), controllers should not be running into melee until after other members of the team or until after the group is controlled.

So, if you don't build for Defense, what should you build for? Most of the time, Recharge and Recovery. You want to be able to use those control and buff/debuff powers as often as possible. Think about it for a second from your own experience . . . As a Brute on a team, would you rather have a teammate who utilizes his strengths to completely neuter the foes while buffing the team and debuffing the foes, or would you rather have a controller teammate who acts like a scrapper, running into melee and trying to take down one or two foes? The former will add a lot more to the team.

Take a look at your build, and consider how much more open the build would be if you DIDN'T build for S/L defense. It would free up a ton of slots and power choices to do a better job at team support, or even adding some damage if you want to solo. I prefer to slot powers to make them effecive first, and then consider set bonuses as, well, bonuses. As a result, I dislike taking a power as a "set mule." I like to make my powers actually do something.

If you plan to solo, you may want to pick another build. Ice is arguably the lowest damage primary. Time adds some -Resist but has no damage on its own. So while you CAN solo an Ice/Time, it will be slow. Painfully slow if you are used to playing a Brute. And you will want to build as much damage into the build as possible.

Chilblain: This is a power you need to have if you plan to solo. Otherwise, it is skippable.

Block of Ice: This should be your most often used power. 4 Baz Gaze are a good start, but adding some damage is a good idea -- Baz Gaze is a little low on Acc, so add some Acc and as much Damage as you can. At level 47+ I like an Acc/Dam Hami-O and a common Damage IO.

Frostbite: AoE Immob with 12 seconds of -knockback. Some people say it should be skipped, but I disagree. It is a nice power for keeping groups together, especially when Ice Slick is recharging. Combine an AoE Immob with the -ToHit and Slow of Time's Juncture and -Recharge of Dispersion Field, and you have a group who can't move and can't fight back hardly at all. Plus, it is your fastest recharging power that sets Containment for any AoE Damage you can do. The best way to get damage out of this power is slot it up for Acc and EndRdx, and then damage procs -- they do more damage than slotting the power for damage. Ultimately, the Grav Anchor set is nice, if you can afford it, for the 10% Recharge bonus and the Hold proc.

Time Crawl: This is a nice power for the various things it can do, but the Slow sets kinda suck. Just put an Acc in this power and call it done. And now you have 4 extra slots.

Time's Juncture: 4 Dark Watcher for the 5% Recharge. The Impeaded Swifness proc is OK if you have spare slots.

Arctic Air: This power seems unimpressive until it is fully slotted and you get some experience with it -- I consider it to be the cornerstone power of Ice Control it is so good. This is the reason that Ice Controllers usually want to be in or near melee. It needs max slotting for Confuse and as much EndRdx as you can. It has three effects: Confuse, Slow and Afraid. Foes in its area slowly try to run away until they are hit by a confuse pulse, as which point that foe might stay an attack another foe or might run back and forth confused. The first proc you want is the purple Contagious Confusion proc, which seems to double the effectiveness of the power. Other procs are far less important and are probably skippable.

Teleport: You don't need Teleport -- try Super Speed with a Stealth IO to give you full invis. You can turn off AA and TJ, run in to the best spot to fire off your controls for maximum effect. You can also run away if things get too difficult. You can also lead your pet into battle to tank for you while the foes can't see you. You can also stealth missions.

Ice Slick: 2 Recharge. You want this power up a LOT, as it is your best Alpha-Strike mitigator.

Shiver: With all the Slow and -Recharge in Ice/Time, Shiver is very skippable. Not a bad power, but skippable unless you don't want to go into melee. Again, the Slow Sets suck, so just use 2 Accuracy.

Distortion Field: It seems to be popular to slot this with 4 Baz Gaze even though the Hold in it is really poor -- basically, it acts as a set mule even though the power is great. I'm finding that I use this a ton, much like Earth's Quicksand. I plan to slot mine with Recharge and then a bunch of procs if I have the spare slots.

Flash Freeze: This is the most-often skipped power in the set, since AoE Sleep powers are pretty useless when teammates have AoE attacks. It has it uses solo or even team, but it is situational at best. I would probably go with Hasten here, or maybe Combat Jumping (with a Luck of the Gambler Recharge) and would only take FF late in the build if there is nothing else to take. However, it can hold the cheapest of the purple sets for a nice 10% Recharge.

In case you haven't guessed by now, I would drop the Fighting Pool. I prefer powers from my primary or secondary, or other team friendly powers. Even Leadership is worth considering IF YOU HAVE ENOUGH ENDURANCE. If you want another attack, Air Superiority is my favorite, but even Flurry does decent damage.

Glacier: 4 Baz Gaze is good, but add an extra Acc/Hold/Rech in a 5th Slot if you can. Same with Time Stop.

Jack Frost: Jack is sometimes describes as having the heart of a lion and the brain of a rock. Still, he can draw aggro away from you, can be lead into battle to draw the alpha Strike, and actually can do some decent damage for a set very low on damage. Consider 4 Expediant Reinforcement, an Acc/Dam and a Dam/Mez Hami-O. His Freezing Touch is often helpful.

Slowed Response: You probably want at least 2 Recharge.

Ice Blast: Slot this up for damage, not ToHit Debuff. You could use the damage.

Hibernate: This is a great power that only needs its default slot. I can't tell you how many times Hibernate has saved me.

The basic strategy of an Ice Controller is: Let the tank run in (if you have one). Then cast Ice Slick to control the group, then Dispersion Field. Then run in with AA (and TJ) running to debuff and mitigate -- the foes should be mostly flopping, and those who aren't might be confused, or slowed and running away while their ToHit and runspeed and Recharge is debuffed to the basement. Pick a foe to hold with BoI and damage with Chilblain. While the majority of your team cleans up this group, your Tank can run into the next group to draw their aggro.

Glacier is a panic-button power. Same with Frostbite+AA+TJ. Shiver can be used to slow down an ambush.

Looking at your build, I have a few comments: (I'll start this now, but I may have to finish it later, so I may edit it with additional comments.)

Ice/FF is one of the lowest damage controllers possible. Trying to solo will be slow compared to most other controllers. You can do it, of course, but the damage output will be limited because you have so little damage from your primary, your pet is somewhat lacking and your secondary has no buffs to damage or debuffs to resistance. Jack Frost is often considered one of the weaker pets -- I have described him as "Heart of a Lion, Brain of a Rock." He runs into melee and gets himself killed with regularity. The one power you are severely missing for solo is Chilblain. It is an OK damage power, and you need as much damage as you can get. Another option is Repulsion Bomb, which has some AoE damage even if it is not all that great. I'd recommend Chilblain first, and then Repulsion Bomb if you have room and slots.

You have a lot of ally-only powers for a solo character. Those powers are worthless when solo. Even if you want to have a build for both solo and team, you could reduce the slotting in a few of the ally-only powers to improve your slotting for your solo powers. Or you could make one build for solo and a second build for teams.

Block of Ice: Here's my standard response when I see someone use the Lockdown +2 Mag proc in a controller's Single Target Hold -- Let's use a little bit of reasoning to decide if it is worth a slot. A controller's single target hold (STH) will hold minions and lieutenants in one shot, and has a 20% chance to hold a boss on its own, if it hits. Accuracy varies, so even if we assume you are at the 95% level, you have to factor that in. So if that proc fires, it will do nothing at all unless it happens to fire on the 80% of bosses who were not held by the STH on its own. The proc only fires off 15% of the time. And Bosses are, guessing maybe 20% of the overall population of foes. So if we do the simple math: 20% of population times 80% of the bosses not held times 95% chance to hit times 15% chance to proc equals 2.28%. So the Lockdown proc will have any effect whatsoever only 2.28% of the time. It looks like it is having a lot more effect that that, because if the proc hits on a foe already held, it adds the tesla cage animation to the already-held foe but it has accomplished nothing.

So the question is whether a proc that has an effect 2.28% of the time is worth a slot. Compare this to slotting for damage or hold, where it hits ALL THE TIME. At level 50, my preferred slotting for most STHs is 4 Baz Gaze, an Acc/Dam Hami-O and a common Damage IO. But if you don't care about damage, you could go with 4 Baz Gaze and an Acc/Mez Hami-O.

That Lockdown proc has it uses. It is great in Choking Cloud or Poison Gas Trap or other low mag hold powers. But not in a Single Target Hold.

I can see that you tried for the two Damage bonuses, but I would use the Lockdown EndRdx/Hold/Rech instead of the proc if you want to keep the same bonuses.

Deflection and Insulation Shield: These could be reduced to the LotG Rech and Defense, saving two slots from each for other powers.

Fly: Needs an EndRdx in there if you keep it, but I suggest you change to Super Speed with a Stealth IO. With AA running, you don't need to be in the air. If you need to fly, you can always use a Raptor Pack with virtually no loss in speed. Full Invis is very, very nice solo, letting you pick and choose when you want the fight to begin. Then replace Afterburner with Combat Jumping, which provides Immob protection. Getting Immobed when solo often = faceplant if you don't have a Breakfree. You can keep Air Sup if you want, but Flurry actually does more damage.

Arctic Air: The duration of the Confuse pulses makes a difference. When the pulses are longer, the foes are able to take a shot at one another, and there is a greater chance that the next pulse will hit and continue the confusion. Once nice slotting is 5 of the Confuse purples, plus a common EndRdx in the 6th slot instead of the Acc/Rech. You get 10% Recharge that way, but give up the damage proc. However, more confuse means that the foes will do more damage to each other.

Aid Other/Aid Self: Do you really need to spend 5 slots for Aid Other on a solo character? Yeah, you can heal up Jack, but that's about it. Maybe you can find a better use for those slots. And do you really need Resusitate at all? There might be a better power to use that will add to your damage . . . like Chilblain or Repulsion Bomb. Use some of those saved slots to slot it up for damage. It is not a huge amount of damage, but it can help. You need every bit you can get.

Recall Friend: For a solo character? I would choose Maneuvers instead to buff your overall defense. Then you might be able to re-consider the slotting of Frostbyte. Maneuvers will add to all your defense, not just S/L.

Negate: You didn't post the Data Chunk and your Datalink is broken (That seems to always happen when you edit a post after posting the build . . . that's why I post the Data Chunk generally.) As a result, I can't check your numbers. But few things I see:

You really don't need to put a Slow into Time Crawl . . . it only effects run speed and Time Crawl is already at the 90% cap. It will only have an effect on higher level foes, and the other aspects of the power are far more important.

Blind: No damage in this power is really missing out on the opportunity to make that Blind-SW-Blast-SW attack chain far more effective. Try to find two slots for an Acc/Dam Hami-O and a common Damage IO.

Time's Juncture: I would go with 4 Dark Watcher, even if you have to take slots out of Temporal Selection. You get the same 5% Recharge in one less slot. And the debuffing of TJ is substantial -- one of the bet parts of the Time set. You can let PA go in, then skirt around the outside of groups, debuffing the ToHit of foes not focused on PA.

Phantom Army: The biggest problem I see is that PA is underslotted. PA is not only the main source of control-through-distraction, but a major source of damage, too. Throw in a Dam/Rech and Chance for Build Up from Soulbound.

There are a few other places where an extra slot would help: Flash could use an extra Acc/Hold/Rech. In Farsight, is there any reason why you didn't use a LotG Defense instead of the common Defense? You would get some nice Regen with no loss in enhancement amount. In Phantasm, drop that defense proc and replace it with some extra Acc/Dam. Phanty uses his decoy a lot, so doesn't need defense. And if they ever fix the run-into-melee bug, Phanty won't need defense at all.

I really don't see a good reason to take both SJ and SS for travel, unless it was done for PvP. There are a lot of other useful powers that could be taken instead of one of those. At the very least, if you have Super Speed, take the Celerity Stealth IO to make full invis, so you don't have to worry about clicking GI every few minutes.

Power Blast is underslotted. It needs enough Acc/Dam/Rech to work in the Blind-SW-Blast-SW chain, and you want as much damage out of it as possible.

TheOOB is making a lot of the points that I have made for a long time. I prefer the Ice APP over Primal.

Gravity: Good single target damage, but very slow in delivering that damage. Has an attack chain of GD (the Single Target Hold)-Crush-Propel for solo, or GD-Crush-Lift if you are only on teams. Poor AoE control. The pet, Singularity, adds a ton to this set and makes it a lot better. Singy is tough and can act as a tank/controller. Personally, I liked Grav solo, but it is not a great team controller.

Mind: Starts with good single target damage and starts with weak AoE control. Later gets lots of AoE control, but lacks in AoE damage. Mind gets Mass Confusion instead of a pet. Mind has trouble setting AoE containment because it does not have a fast-recharging AoE Containment setter but otherwise has strong AoE control with Hold, Fear, Confuse. Personally, I think Mind is better for a Dom than a controller.

Electric: Has a mixed bag of control powers with endurance drain, chain knockdown, AoE Immob without knockdown protection, Sleep patch, chain confuse. The sleep patch, in particular, will provide a lot of control. Can be played in melee to take advantage of the PB AoE endurance drain toggle. Low damage, as the two pets provide most of the damage. Elec Control is susceptible to interference from other characters, especially Fire Controllers, as any AoE DoT will mess up the Sleep patch, and any AoE -Knockback will mess up Jolting Chain -- Fire Cages does both.

Of those three, I'd probably go with Elec/Time.

Well, there are a few problems with the new build. Especially your slotting for Choking Cloud. This power needs to be slotted to the ED cap for Hold due to the unique nature of how the power works. (My Illusion/Rad guide explains it.) You need to 6-slot Choking Cloud and cap Hold, and put as much EndRdx in there as well. The hold pulses happen every 5 seconds, and the hold lasts 7.45 seconds with no slotting. With capped slotting, those pulses last nearly 15 seconds, or through 3 pulses. With less than full slotting (95%), it will only last through 1 or 2 pulses. It needs to be slotted for Hold and EndRdx first, then procs only if you have room.

Since I-18, Fly is at Flightspeed cap with no enhancement whatsoever. It is a complete waste to slot Fly with Flightspeed. Flightspeed in Swift is wasted, too, except for Hover. I haven't tried Afterburner yet, but I question whether Flightspeed is doing anything there. On my two Fire/Rads, I went with Super Speed instead. Since I spend all my time in melee, I don't really see a benefit to Fly . . . if I need to get up and over something, the Raptor Pack works great. Hoverblasting works great for a blaster or other ranged character (I do that on my Ill/Rad), but not a Fire/Rad who has to be in close for Hot Feet and Choking Cloud. Another huge advantage of Super Speed -- throw in a Celerity Stealth for full Invisibility. No need for Smoke (which I don't particularly like). Plus, you have two extra power picks when you replace Hover/Fly/Afterburner with Super Speed. (Combat Jumping is a good choice for the Immob protection and another place for some handy IOs. IW does not have Immob protection, and getting Immobed when you need to run into melee sucks.)

I'm not a huge fan of the Resist (or Defense) procs for Fire Imps. Why? Those little buggers run all over the place, usually outside of the range of the proc. Plus, they have no base resist to build on. I love those procs for Earth's Rocky or Grav's Singy both of which have high resistance, but you just don't get much benefit on Imps.

Just for comparison, here is my build. I don't have the expensive purple damage sets, which would be a nice addition. But this build performs very well, as was designed to work well with other Fire/Rads while being able to solo.

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Pyrophore: Level 50 Technology Controller
Primary Power Set: Fire Control
Secondary Power Set: Radiation Emission
Power Pool: Speed
Power Pool: Flight
Power Pool: Leaping
Ancillary Pool: Psionic Mastery
Hero Profile:
Level 1: Char -- BasGaze-Acc/Hold(A), BasGaze-Acc/Rchg(3), BasGaze-Rchg/Hold(27), BasGaze-EndRdx/Rchg/Hold(27), HO:Nucle(29), Dmg-I(29)
Level 1: Radiant Aura -- Dct'dW-Heal/EndRdx(A), Dct'dW-EndRdx/Rchg(23), Dct'dW-Heal/Rchg(31), Dct'dW-Heal/EndRdx/Rchg(31), Dct'dW-Heal(31)
Level 2: Fire Cages -- GravAnch-Immob/Rchg(A), GravAnch-Acc/Immob/Rchg(3), GravAnch-Acc/Rchg(21), GravAnch-Immob/EndRdx(23), GravAnch-Hold%(25), Posi-Dam%(25)
Level 4: Accelerate Metabolism -- Efficacy-EndMod(A), Efficacy-EndMod/Rchg(5), Efficacy-EndMod/Acc/Rchg(5), Efficacy-Acc/Rchg(17), Efficacy-EndMod/Acc(33), Efficacy-EndMod/EndRdx(33)
Level 6: Radiation Infection -- DarkWD-ToHitDeb(A), DarkWD-ToHitdeb/Rchg/EndRdx(7), DarkWD-ToHitDeb/EndRdx(7), DarkWD-ToHitDeb/Rchg(36)
Level 8: Hot Feet -- Sciroc-Dmg/EndRdx(A), Sciroc-Acc/Dmg/EndRdx(9), TmpRdns-Dmg/Slow(9), TmpRdns-EndRdx/Rchg/Slow(11), HO:Nucle(11), EndRdx-I(15)
Level 10: Super Speed -- Clrty-Stlth(A)
Level 12: Flashfire -- Amaze-Stun(A), Amaze-Stun/Rchg(13), Amaze-Acc/Stun/Rchg(13), Amaze-Acc/Rchg(15), Amaze-ToHitDeb%(17)
Level 14: Hasten -- RechRdx-I(A), RechRdx-I(19), RechRdx-I(21)
Level 16: Enervating Field -- EndRdx-I(A), EndRdx-I(19)
Level 18: Cinders -- BasGaze-Acc/Hold(A), BasGaze-Acc/Rchg(42), BasGaze-Rchg/Hold(43), BasGaze-Acc/EndRdx/Rchg/Hold(43), EoCur-Acc/Hold/Rchg(43)
Level 20: Lingering Radiation -- Acc-I(A)
Level 22: Air Superiority -- HO:Nucle(A)
Level 24: Mutation -- RechRdx-I(A)
Level 26: Bonfire -- Det'tn-Dmg/Rchg(A)
Level 28: Choking Cloud -- UbrkCons-Hold(A), UbrkCons-Acc/Hold/Rchg(34), UbrkCons-EndRdx/Hold(34), UbrkCons-Dam%(34), Lock-%Hold(36), EndRdx-I(36)
Level 30: Combat Jumping -- Krma-ResKB(A), LkGmblr-Rchg+(33)
Level 32: Fire Imps -- ExRmnt-Acc/Rchg(A), ExRmnt-Acc/Dmg(46), ExRmnt-Acc/Dmg/Rchg(46), ExRmnt-EndRdx/Dmg/Rchg(46), S'bndAl-Dmg/Rchg(48), S'bndAl-Build%(48)
Level 35: Fallout -- HO:Nucle(A)
Level 38: EM Pulse -- BasGaze-Acc/Hold(A), BasGaze-Acc/Rchg(39), BasGaze-Rchg/Hold(39), BasGaze-Acc/EndRdx/Rchg/Hold(39)
Level 41: Indomitable Will -- RechRdx-I(A), RechRdx-I(42), HO:Membr(42)
Level 44: Mind Over Body -- ImpArm-ResDam/EndRdx(A), ImpArm-ResDam/Rchg(45), ImpArm-ResDam/EndRdx/Rchg(45), ImpArm-ResDam(45)
Level 47: Psionic Tornado -- Posi-Dmg/EndRdx(A), Posi-Dmg/Rchg(48), Posi-Acc/Dmg(50), Posi-Dmg/Rng(50), Posi-Acc/Dmg/EndRdx(50)
Level 49: Mental Blast -- HO:Nucle(A)
Level 50: Spiritual Core Paragon
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Level 1: Brawl -- Acc-I(A)
Level 1: Containment
Level 1: Sprint -- Jump-I(A)
Level 2: Rest -- RechRdx-I(A)
Level 2: Swift -- Run-I(A)
Level 2: Health -- Numna-Heal(A), Numna-Regen/Rcvry+(37), Mrcl-Heal(40), Mrcl-Rcvry+(40)
Level 2: Hurdle -- Jump-I(A)
Level 2: Stamina -- P'Shift-EndMod(A), P'Shift-EndMod/Rchg(37), P'Shift-EndMod/Acc(37), P'Shift-End%(40)
Level 4: Ninja Run

Personally, I think having both Cinders and EM Pulse is a very, very good idea. A Fire/Rad lives in melee. Most of the time, Flashfire+Fire Cages will handle your control and then Cinders can fill in if Flashfire is recharging. Where EM Pulse is great is as a "panic button" power because it activate so fast and holds in a HUGE radius. If you get a big ambush or aggro another group, then EM Pulse is the answer. Or it can be a "boss killer" since Cinders+EM Pulse will easily hold bosses.

The Lockdown proc in Char is not very effective. Think about it. Char will hold minions and lieutanants on its own, and has a 20% chance to hit a boss. So the proc does nothing on anything other than the 80% of bosses not held by Char. The proc has a 15% chance to hit. If the proc hits a foe already held, it will show the Tesla Cage animation even though it accomplished nothing. Bosses are, what, less than 20% of the population of bad guys? So 80% bosses not held by Char times 15% chance to hold times 20% of population = about 2.4% So, that proc has an effect about 2.4% of the time. Is that worth a slot? I don't think so.

On the other hand, due to the unique nature of how Choking Cloud works, the Lockdown proc in Choking Cloud is worth it. The problem with the Unbreakable Contstraint set in Choking Cloud is that there isn't enough EndRdx in that set.

Putting Flightspeed in Swift is wasted . . . Fly is already at flightspeed cap. Use Runspeed instead.