The active bonus works, it is broken only with some skills. If you say "this effect is never triggered" you are not reporting it in the correct way. He doesn't trigger the insignia bonuses with Sly Flourish, he does with Deft Strike (but this skill has 20 seconds cooldown...).
Yesterday I skipped the equipment part when I read the thread. Yes you should start with what Kata said. A ioun with bondings is not bad at all, but a summoned companion with bondings is better when the sum of bondings is more than 100%. You can achieve 285% of compaion's stats with rank 12 bondings, but they are very…
You can use nwcalc.com/#/ to link your build. Equip: The best improvement to your dps, besides vorpal/dread, would be a summoned companion with bondings instead of the ioun and the wheel of elements instead of the sigil of the controller. Then you can work on the rest. Skills: The best class features in pve are chilling…
Divine FF is not a dot, but the logic is correct. On a single target, if you start your rotation with a dot you can reach condemned sligthly faster, but personally I don't find it convinient in my rotation. With multiple targets you reach condemned very fast, since you gain a stack for every mob you hit.