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Every AP uses fire/lightning controls if they have them or (maybe) unholy for people who resist elemental. Cold/acid see no real use if the ap has the choice not to use them. Both of these controls seem designed around the principle of firing multiple times and stacking up over the course of a fight (low impact per hit but stacking affect which is fun), but against players this doesn't really work in practice because you're rolling multiple dices just to have a chance at one firing:
Defence di. Do I hit them.
Control di. Will the control fire this hit.
(Speculatively) save di. Will they save against the affect.
Fights where people are getting hit a lot resolve too fast for this to matter one way or the other. Fights where people aren't getting hit a lot mean the control won't fire anyway. This also really applies to unholy control, but that one lets you poke holes in duergars/dwarves so everyone likes it anyway.
Tldr: feels like these have been balanced around the one hit wonder of lightning control's on hit affect and basically see no use due to it. This is sad because they're super cool mechanics, and it would be more interesting if every AP wasn't using the same two controls.
For Christmas I would ask for the sad and forgotten children
of the blasphemous five to get some love, and if I can only pick one make it acid because that affect is super unique and at least you get cold before lightning so you might use it due to no other choice. My thought was just to turn these into non damaging progs so they fill the roll of more finesse controls but aren't locked into the melee system, but anything would be sweet and we can all roll aps for April in celebration.
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