Decided to try gale without 1st upgrade (I've always used first upgrade so it felt like a give) and wow you guys are right it's pretty good. I just wish it didn't miss sometimes.

After trying a bunch of builds I'll take back what I said about ice being better than FB. On paper ice seems better but in reality it's slightly below FB. Ice isn't completely useless though.

Right now I'm respecing back and forth between three builds to see which I like more:

Fire, Light, Ice, Shield. Mainly for bosses and maps that don't have many mobs.

Fire, Ice, Gale, Shield. Mainly for situations where I'm gonna get debuffed heavily and will be running on a team. I switched light for ice because the ability to freeze both bosses and mobs seemed more important to me for the sake of survivability.

Fire, Ice, Clock. Maps with lots of mobs