[quote=@Grimoire]
Was think to go dark + fire or aether route, can you expand on the possibilities with the pairing?
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Fire + Dark usually makes hellfire, which easily burns normally nonflammable materials and deals a mixture of Dark and Heat damage. Those two are both destructive elements, so combining them usually gives you high-damage attacks.

As for Dark + Aether, that's probably good at assaulting opponents' minds with negative emotions and feelings, e.g. pain and fear. You may also add the metamagical effects of Aether to Dark, and result in energy drain or disruption that passes through solid matter and targets structures made of energy.