QUOTE(hitokiri84 @ Jun 8 2013, 13:02)

Because they have advantages such as alternating between the two to get status effects with 25% elemental resistance reduction, 10% MMI reduction with Breached status effect, and explosions. They also have Drain augmentations.
I've been trying 3 different styles.
Pure cold element, pure dark, and hybrid holy/dark.
Pure cold wins hands down for doing anything > 100 rounds. It basically wins on everything aside from cure power.
Dark did... nothing really compared to cold.
Holy / Dark hybrid gets the resist reduction and decent cycling of T2 spells + better cure, but the damage isnt noticeably different from cold element spamming and the mana cost is 3x. Hybrid also has a lower one shot potential and probably needs a sustained damage boost to make it viable (ie. make explosions more than a token boost do damage) since your upfront burst is lower. Hybrid also requires getting 2 different imperil bonuses. Bleh.
TLDR elements > dark / light and hybrid needs help.
edit: also, drain is useless.
This post has been edited by marcho: Jun 8 2013, 20:40