Title, even if you are a fire mage, your mirror images are constantly casting frostballs, that personally ruins my spec fantasy.
¿Does anyone else find it odd?
I would very much prefer if they cast fireballs.
Call me crazy, but that change can really make me reroll in Shadowlands.
¿What do you guys think?
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Mirror images have always been that way, not that I particularly liked it. You do get the benefit of the frostbolt slow for pvp, although I don’t know if that’s currently the case in beta.
They’ll probably put the glyph back in that allows your MI to cast spec-specific spells like they had before. You know Blizzard, give you what you don’t want and remove what you do.
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Not true, currently they cast Fireballs if you’re fire and Arcane Blast if you’re arcane.
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It slows your targets down AND give a damage reduction. Screw the immersion lol. Do you not use frost nova for the utility?
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Untrue. All specs cast frostbolt now. This is a good change tbh, it’s great having MI passively slow your target so you can run.
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Makes sense. It’s a defensive CD now. The slow from the frost bolts accentuates that nicely.
Not sure how it destroys the spec fantasy: we have access to spells from all three schools in SL. It doesn’t impact spec identity anymore than all 3 specs having Frost Nova does imo.
Agreed. And who wants MI to cast arcane blast anyways? You literally can’t hardly notice the spell vs frostbolt which looks great
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I was talking retail as of “currently”, so it is true.
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I noticed this too and it really breaks my immersion. I loved the introduction in Legion to my Mirror Image finally casting the same spec spell as me. I want a wall of flames when I cast MI as a Fire Mage. It looks cool and there’s no reason why it can’t still retain the slow effect with the fire effect look.
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I’m not sure why you would, it would still do like no dmg and at least the frostbolts slow.
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