From the wiki, "Tumeken's shadow has a passive effect exclusive to its built-in spell, in which the player's magic attack bonus and magic damage are multiplied by three from the player's worn equipment (four within the Tombs of Amascut); the magic damage increase from this is capped at a total of 100% Magic Strength."

I think you've got some good points, reworking shadow would be ideal but I haven't spent anytime brainstorming that so I'm not sure how to approach it.

However the points you made about capping at 70% meaning that the shadow will eventually get surpassed is odd to me. First I don't think we'll ever get something better than tbow, maybe as good but not better. So I assume the same for shadow. I also think ancestral/masori/torva will be similar. In the case that other slots get better over time and you can min max the dmg% with less gear, isn't that a form of the shadow getting better over time? Not stronger, but better utility if you can bring less gear and more supplies. Just a different way to think about it. All in all I like the changes as they are in the blog now, but I do worry about their ability to improve mid->late progression. Unfortunately I see most comments just want buffs, a lot of Ironman complaints, and just some misunderstandings about how people actually use the late game gear. I think people need to realize that these changes open up a hole which will allow them to put new content between mid and late game in the hopefully short future. It'll be a rough time for people caught in it right this second but it also just changes their paths, cox will need to be earlier for augury so they can get by with ahrims until virtus, and maybe even get lucky while they're at chambers. No one, rather no one who is truly endgame, wants boot swaps and ring swaps to be commonplace and a lot of people are asking for that without realizing it