I had the same curiosity about Elec/Fire, so I tried one out.
The damage from Fire is amazing, which helps with Elec's low damage output- BUT, the DoTs really hurt the usefulness of Static Field. I noticed that the melee DoT practically made the target immune to the renewing sleep effect (with some random instances where they would fall asleep for less than a second in the middle of the DoT, which did prevent an attack from occurring sometimes).
In addition to the long DoT on the melee attack there is also Combustion (which I did not get high enough to test) that is also a long DoT, but on everyone around you- which seems like it would just cancel Static Field altogether.
Static Field is just one power, but I think it is one of the best powers in the set. The renewing sleep has saved my bacon more than I can count (on my Elec/Earth).
I didn't play much past 14 with the Elec/Fire, so maybe other powers in the Elec set compensate for the poor mix of Fire DoTs and Static Field, but once I switched to /Earth things went a lot smoother and faster, despite the lower damage from /Earth.
I've just rolled one and I like it so far. Fire has a good single target attack chain that works great with Static Field. The AoE's are best saved for teams and/or when you have Synaptic Overload confusing a group.
...haven't seen any around Praetoria yet, and been thinking about going this route with one, what are the current thoughts on it?
Is it just terrible due to Fire's DoTs and Elec's Sleep?
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