It’s better than Shimmer will ever be, and I’m tired of pretending that it’s not. Why is it better?
Sure you can cast while activating shimmer but half the time you are no longer facing the boss so you need to cast again, and it’s off the GCD but you should have planned ahead.
Blink > Shimmer
Anyways give me a second charge of Blink as a talent please!
I prefer shimmer,blink is outdated.
Yeah, i’m on team blink as well. We get alot of instant spells anyways these days and the ones that don’t have the ice floes option.
Agreed, I will ALWAYS use blink instead of shimmer in many dungeons. If you try to shimmer out of roots, the roots come with you… if you try and shimmer out of an ice trap, it comes with you, and if you try to shimmer out of that purple goo in last boss of city of echoes, it comes with you. I have always hoped shimmer was simply a double blink…boy I was wrong 
All three, Blink, Shimmer, and Ice Floes, are outdated. Only having one charge of Blink at baseline is a joke, especially since it’s wasted a good 2/3 of the time. Being punished for getting two charges via Shimmer by not only losing the root/stun removal but also getting a much longer cooldown is a joke. Having to manually activate something like Ice Floes or macro it to individual spells when most games have had casting on the move as a baseline feature for years and years is the epitome of outdated.
Adding insult to injury is the fact that Mage and caster mobility in general is so bad solely because the melee dominated PvP community never stopped crying about not being able to stunlock and wail on casters 24/7. God forbid they have to chase us for more than 2 seconds.
how do you guys find so much confidence while repping incredibly mediocre stats and progression
all of the best mages in the world say that shimmer is mandatory for max dps potential, but that doesn’t dissuade you from knowing that YOU actually have the best strategies and those silly rank 1s are just confused
Well I’m usually always doing mechanics for my guild. Like Gallywix I’m the one running the bombs to the platforms. One-Armed Bandit im the one getting the coins etc.
Blink just has more utility than Shimmer and I’m sure if there was a talent to get 2 charges of Blink most of those Rank 1s would probably go Blink.
im referring to m+, i dont care about raid parses
no, they wouldnt take blink if it had two charges. shimmer gives us more dps because it doesn’t interrupt our rotations, simple as that
if you find yourself with shimmer frequently on CD when you need to use it, you are using it unnecessarily
Ah for M+ I haven’t really started that grind yet I’ve been doing PvP for elite sets and such. I’ll get to it soon and hit 3k.
the problem with both blink and shimmer in raiding is blizzard hasnt fixed a 20 year old bug that causes mages to not go anywhere, tp a short distance, or just fall through the ground. Shimmer basically gives us a second chance if we mess up and need to get out of something, having the casting continue is just a bonus effect that most mages hardly really take advantage of. Gallywix is a circle fight, and to avoid the big bombs you have to usually face away from the boss and shimmer loses its potential. Icy flows is great for long cast times or filler between mechanics. A frost mage can get a lot of benefit from icy flows over shimmer due to glacial spike taking 2 patch cycles to cast. they both have their place and will always be up to the player. I personally like icy flows because it allows me to maintain good dps while moving, and I keep the stun and root removal from blink. In short the drawbacks of the teleport mechanic make icy flows more reliable and versatile.
I like Blink and Ice Floes when playing Frost, but it’s not needed for Arcane and Fire. Shimmer is extremely good for when you need to move during cooldowns since these two specs are all about how much you can fit inside their burst window because it doesn’t cost a GCD.
I just started to main a mage this season, both are horrible. Little thing in the way, well you just blink in the same spot. Literally hate it. Why is this a thing? I’m sorry but I should be able to blink on top of 1 stair…
Definitely an Ice Floes enjoyer, if only for micro-movements and Shifting Power, though it definitely felt a lot more useful as Fire in DF for getting SKBs off. Shimmer is probably always better for higher level play but I don’t trust myself to be able to reliably not Shimmer into something bad mid-cast and pivot in time to get it off lol.
You’re definitely not alone in this and frankly I don’t trust anyone who claims they can reliably do this in the midst of a boss encounter. Those who do are frankly deluding themselves into thinking they have way better reflexes than is humanly possible.
While shimmer is the agreed superior tool by the majority, they are both so close. If shimmer were to be removed then people would do just fine with ice floes
Honestly much as I’d love two blinks it’s kind of a good choice node. Ice Nova vs Ring of Frost drives me nuts
Everyone arguing blink/shimmer as superior is wrong.
They’re both crap.
It should function more like Heroic Leap, except instantaneous. The only difference being Blink removes roots/stuns, and shimmer allows you to continue casting. Otherwise, there should just be a targeting reticule and POOF! there you are. Sure, you might run into “no path ways” but at least you don’t run into that twig that was 2 yards away so you’re still in melee range.
I like shimmer to double blink across the terrain. I don’t really care about roots or stuns, that’s the healers problem
Theres quite a few top 50 mages world who use ice floes over shimmer. It’s a matter of preference lol. Taking this hard of a stance makes you look silly.
The biggest advantage of Shimmer for me is not even that you can ‘complete a cast’ by using it midway, but it being off the gcd allows it to be slightly more reactive than Blink.