I had an idea once, but I kept convincing myself it sounds bit OP It's about Kinetic Ward - successful shielding would additionaly trigger combat technique effect on the attacker (on a separate x-seconds cooldown maybe). That way shadows get a nice to boost to their self healing (which could be nice for trash tanking, since they tend to eat shadows in seconds), and threat generation, which is allready great. I'd also consider restoring 20% armor buff on Martial Prowess talent.

I've played shadow since the game was released, played infiltration spec at first, but at lvl 50 and decided to try balance, and I sticked to it since then. 2.0 changes, like loosing Shadow Strike or our unique way of restoring force, hurst me as well, but I have some ideas of my own: The first thing i'd suggest is to rework Shadow Strike, due to its force cost only KC and Infiltration has any use of it thanks to their talents. I think of reducing its base force cost from 50 to 15 or 20, and put it on 9 or 12 seconds cooldown. Then remove force cost reduction on Infiltration Tactics and Shadow Wrap talents, and make Infiltration Impose Weakness talent to finish active CD on SS. That way all specs get to use SS, while Infiltration and KC get their significant buff to the ability. Next thing is Lambaste. While I like the idea of splashing our Force Technique on multiple targets, why it has to be on an ability that has almost no use? My first idea is making Shadow Strike trigger Force Technique off its normal limit on the target and up to 4 additional enemies in some area. Second idea is to make Force Technique spash on 4 additional enemies every time it triggers. Both effects wouldn't affect incapacitated enemies. As for now i gave up full balance build, and plaing a 0/18/28 hibrid. giving up Sever Force and increased dmg on execute phases, at least I get to play the class loved pre 2.0 and I feel I'm doing more dps than full build.

@OP, Judging by the stuff, you've been posting for last 2 months, I really hope you're trolling