Not sure how, but discovered I was missing Magus Crimean. There are 19 souls available in the Epic Magus Souls. I dropped 42 or 43 Epic Magus souls and of course got zero of Crimean. Still don't have him so I've been running the heirophant. Only had 1 loss in many key runs.
I've since switched out the Derby Demon for the Wolf Cultist Evolved (awakened a couple times to get the multi target ability version). Running similar times.

Can anyone tell me what happens to skill shards when you awaken a skill on one of these awakenable characters? If you skill shard one then the skill evolves to the new skill will it still have the skill shards applied or do they reset? I've been afraid to spend any cause I wasn't sure if they would reset when the skill changes.