Muuur, Crisis + reforged hailstorm still makes for some of the fastest shadow missions runs I've ever done. Of course that means I have to bring a slave along with me for every run and some rooms with lots of spawns (Fomor attack) don't go as well because hailstorm cancels and takes 6 seconds to reload.
Fun note, ran Offering elite with 3 hailstorm mages and 1 crisis user, BEST RUN EVER.
People tend to under-appreciate mages a lot nowadays. They get so focused on the " Oh x skill does far more damage compared to y skill" subject or " x talent is better than y talent because it is more practical to use." Geeze if it was all about practicality, we'd all be living in communist russia by now.