Besides, in-combat cloak has cooldowns and counters in any other MMORPG. Only in ESO(as far as I know) where the rouge/assassin class can spam Cloak and "crit n can run away" whenever they feel like i
You seem to miss the point of balance. Cloak is a powerful skill. The counters are also very powerful but that is what makes it balanced. Considering we have multipole choices of counters for cloak
Shadow Image isn't a reliable defense (it is bugged). Cloak isn't a reliable defense (easily countered). Most of the magblades I've seen running around Cyrodiil still are 1) ganking, or 2) Akinos PVP