Originally Posted by
Count Zero
I picked up Shadowburn (no points in Backlash -- I went with the RoF/Conflag daze talent, as well as Shadowfury) for the quick shard refresh on fights with adds, as sometimes even if you have enough time to cast DS, you don't always get the soulshard generation if it hasn't been on the mob long enough before it dies (I don't think it necessarily has to have time for a full tick, but many times I've applied it just a moment before a mob died and didn't generate anything)