So you’re in an NM dungeon in S1 as a rogue, and you’ve put Shadow Decoy Trap into your build, and have a few skills that trigger it. Most of the time, elites just ignore it, but fine, doesn’t hurt. Vampiric elites, on the other hand, drain life from the “shadow” decoy to heal? WTF?!? How do shadow decoys have any health to leech at all to begin with?
So essentially, to deal with vampiric elites, you have to ignore them if possible, deal with everything else, and then fight them without the decoy by kiting them and spamming ranged attacks. Not cool at all. I ran into a pack of three of them in one NM dungeon, and yep, after about 20 minutes I dropped a decoy, ran away, teleported from the dungeon and turned off the game.
Come on, Blizz! Hard is fine. Impossible sucks and reduces my desire to play your games (and pay my hard-earned money for them as well).