headhunter is just dumb and abyss smoke cloud is a bad choice.

Why do most rares give you the teleport shadowstep ability, yet they dont do this ability themselves... Does GGG think up ways to make the game less fun and tripple down on them? It is so frustrating to play this garbage. I decided ill unequip and re-equip the belt each time i got the dumb "buff" ... well it turns out MOST rares give you the stupid teleport with random timing. Try to play their scuffed pull abyss rares out of the smoke cloud when they prefer to just stand in the crap while you get teleported randomly around. Get the enemy out of the cloud and it recasts its cloud as soon as it is about to die regardless of if it is frozen or not... great design choices... Like, do you have meetings where you actively discuss how to make your game worse? See you all next season if this crap gets adjusted

GGG Will likely never change this... and they shouldn't.

The rare modifier you're talking about is shroudwalker and yes while I agree its annoying and Headhunter would be better without it, you get used to it after a while. It kinda sits in that grey area where it can be considered a debuff but sometimes it does save you and it can actually help with faster mapping as well.

At the end of the day Headhunter does exactly what the item says, it gives you the rare mobs abilities after killing them... Not gives you only the good modifiers or gives you only the modifiers you want.

If the item is getting you killed just take it off and move on. That probably says more about your build than the item itself.

Don't pull the mob out of the cloud, instead walk into it and you can deal damage to the mob.

It looks like something that does damage to you, but it doesn't.