Drifting shade - does anyone have any love for it?

The members of the group I play with routinely recycle nightmare sigils with drifting shade affixes.

Why?

Diablo is such a visual game that having an affix that leaves you running blind through half the battles spoils the fun and turns some fights into complete guesswork.

Drifting shade (DS) can be challenging to spot when it drops under the very similarly coloured domes that provide umbrellas for some elites. In that circumstance, it doesn’t matter what level of HDR your screen has, in the middle of a big fight DS can turn it into a complete lottery.

If the DS pools were a bit smaller and contrasted with the elite umbrellas it would be a massive improvement. As it is at the moment, DS can so dominate tactics that the quality of the rest of the dungeon becomes completely secondary and I can’t believe that was the intention for this affix?

When playing druid or barbarian, I simply recycle all sigils that have Stormbane or Drifting Shade. Why bother with them? They are just frustrating to complete.

I also recycle any that have Poison enhanced or Cold enhanced. Just stupid that half the screen is a pool of poison or you get beat to death while frozen 10 times in a row. I know, they supposedly fixed it, but I’ve developed the habit now and have no reason to go back.

Frozen are nerfed…
Drifting shade ? Its no bad at all, comparing to deathpulse.
You realy wanna tell me deathpulse is better then Shade ?.. Sure :rofl: