i think shade dd is okayish. i used to hate to go pande with my shade because to play it right you have to coordinate and click and blah all the time. its the most stressful toon to play for me, including doc and enf. so i think that sort of evens it out. but op has a point with the sustainability that is possible, the absorb, the healing, the evades, the init debuffs...all that with the dd and alpha potential, yeah, that's a joke.