Wait, is THAT what is happening?!?? I couldn’t figure it out. WHY!?

Definitely better than the Commanders

Its hidden, but there’s a link to them from the post. See them here: https://news.blizzard.com/en-us/diablo4/23976339/season-of-the-malignant-coming-soon?blzcmp=blizzard-news#Transmute

The “regular” ones look fine, but nothing crazy. A couple of the super ones seem potentially very powerful, but also some of them seem like trash.

I had the exact opposite experience. Things were going well as Firewall Sorc. I saw this thread and others and tried Ice Shards for some variety. It was horrible compared to Firewall, especially on bosses, I switched back after only a couple hours.