I have 2 problems with that approach:
- if you introduce another modifier to the Mind Spells we will never have a decent builder that does acceptable damage outside of cooldowns. Mind blast and mind flay / spike are all a joke right now. Non-buffed mind blast deals like 400-500k damage and a fully juiced up void blast is 7.5 million. It is absolutely insane in my opinion.
- Mindbender is an extra button to press that adds to the list of our burst-preparation which is already a pretty bad sequence. There was an idea that our main cooldowns should automatically pop Shadowfiend / Mindbender which could work here.
I like the exploding Shadowy Apparitions ideas and your idea of how to rework Idol of Y’Sharrj though. I’d just scrap the Mindbender talents completely. It was nerfed heavily in DF S3 and Blizzard never cared to re-adjust Inescapable Torment afterwards…