I would suggest fire/dark as a better option than dark/fire or fire/fire. Dark Assault comes with one of the better PBAoE's that dom's get (almost as good as psychic shockwave) and 2 very nice melee attacks. All which will play better with hot feet than the cone in fire assault. While you will lose out on the fire damage boost in embrace of fire, gather shadows offers a decent damage boost(34%) and will boost the duration of flashfire quite a bit. Midnight grasp + smite is going to give you a very nice close in striking ability and the health boost from life drain is a nice bonus. Midnight grasp also offers the advantage of slotting the dom ATO set, so you can put the +damage proc in it and get a lot more mileage than if you put it in a control, since dom's tend to attack more than they control. I used to consider fiery assault my favorite dom secondary but dark assault has come to replace it, or at least sit equally with it.
If you really want to stick with fiery assault, go with fire control. Dark control is not quite as nice on a dom as it is on a controller - without a debuffing secondary to stack with fearsome stare you can't use it as a primary alpha mitigator, which means you have to use fearsome stare to get into range for the PBAoE stun (even if you can stealth into point blank range, firing off the stun on its own means you suck down the entire alpha strike due to the long cast time and the fact that the stun doesn't take place until the END of the cast time). So you might as well go with fire for the ranged AoE stun so you don't have to fire off two powers just to do the work of one.
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Alright. I plan on rolling out a Maleficent-esque character. Her secondary will be Fire no matter what just for character adaptation.
My real dilemma is with the primary. I have played both sets and I love them both which is what makes it even more difficult. I love the damage and the ease of Fire Control, but Darkness Control is also luring me.
Just asking for opinions on which set you would pick either technically or just for fun. Thank you!!
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