[Kameron8]

The Spellthief passive Tricky casts Create Shade at the beginning of each combat. Currently, shades appear to be spawning anywhere on the map, and often times not at all. Here's an example of the beginning of combat against a Jammer, where Create Shade was cast with Tricky:



In this instance, two shades spawned in total, and one outside of range of where it could have been naturally cast from the starting position. This interaction does not change when Shuffle is equipped or unequipped.

[Neus]

Does this happen in every battle? I'm wondering if it might be an issue brought on by another bug, like the dense tile bug.

[Kameron8]

I checked to see if any dense tiles were near the area of the map players spawn in, they were not present. This happened in ten out of ten encounters with a Jammer, so at the very least, it's frequent. The configuration is not always the same -- sometimes you spawn the triangle of shades off in the opposite corner of the map, sometimes only one is spawned.