Now, I know others have posted on this before, but I thought to make a post, pointing out some facts. Blink does not exist, but the Talent Tree says it should exist.
- I have a level 63 Arcane Mage, and I originally did not spec into Shimmer.
- He did not spec into shimmer at the launch of the new talent tree.
- He did not have blink.
- There are talents for Shimmer (he had ice floes) and Talents for Blink
- I only got shimmer when I change my spec, but STILL NO BLINK.
- So shimmer did not replace Blink in the way, not in the sense people are thinking.
- I had blink until the launch of the new talent trees.
There are a number of possibilities.
- Shimmer did replace blink, but they effed up the talent tree and name a shimmer talent “Blink”. (Unlikely, but possible.)
- Blink randomly got deleted and they didn’t pay attention to the new coding. (Reasonable, but possibility unknown)
- It’s a random bug caused by overwriting old content and they didn’t notice, cause players and commenters on the forums automatically assumed that shimmer replaced blink. (Definitely possible, since most people just assume that things that happen are deliberate).
- Blink exists in the game, but it was deleted from the spellbook by accident. 9Most likely).
TLDR: I want my blink back, because Shimmer is god awful, and I have lost a lot of my play style with no blink.
If Blink was deliberately removed, then this is a massive eff-up for arcane mages and mages in general and we really got screwed.
Fix Blink, Blizzard, and at least admit what happened and why it disappeared, because there are no blue posts on blink disappearing.