I'm happy with how much dark shade's functionality has been improved, and shadow image will always be my favourite skill in PvP, yet the visuals don't make much sense.
This ability "Summons a shade version of yourself", yet it doesn't look and sound like the player character at all. I'd rather not have vocals if it doesn't match the character to be honest
Ideally it would summon an actual copy of your character. Other games, like Guild Wars2, have your character cloned and i looks so much better;
Right now there are several points that could be improved:
-Match Gender
-Match Race
-Replace the distinct and dated 2014 barbaric motif, and use something more shrouded instead
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Most ideal; the entire character gets copied like in the above image (but with a dark/red theme of course)
If a direct clone isn't possible, it would be so much better to make it look like:
On a slightly related note; i agree with the influx of threads asking for more customization or updates to class abilites, pets and summons. The sorcerer's pets come to mind;)