Yeah, as one who preferred icy-spec too - I would really have preferred if they had given it some tank’yness instead, I really liked having the companionship of it when I’m derping around to compensate for squishyness but also purely for fun, this kinda removes alot of my desire to play mages. Oh well…
The Elemental give you someone to talk to when you’re alone. I like the company and someone to bounce ideas off. I’m really going to miss that elemental a lot. We had some good talks.
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Not quite. If im reading this right, they are removing the spell that permanently summons it. the elemental still pops up as a cooldown ability much like shaman elementals
Only differing in that the water elemental turns up more as a side-effect of casting Icy Veins rather than a direct cast as with Shaman Elementals.
Eh, I still miss it being always up for PvP.
To be specific, I miss pet freeze to ensure some shatter opportunities.
Never cared much for the pet itself.
And we should have Ice Elementals, not Water.
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wow always had issue with conjuror which is why they don’t exist outside npc here and thhere now there giving mages middle finger by removing them as a last #$@$ you to the eq players that actually play frost mage…
tbc frost mage had first water elemental, it did great damage and was very tanky but only lasted for like 30 seconds or so, and had a cd of several minutes
You’re almost a year late to the punch
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holy necro batman
Bring back our beloved summon water elemental blizzard!
Tune it proper so it will be atleast another CHOICE of playing!
Don t be lazy, improve!
I don’t want it back as a permanent pet. I never wanted it to be permanent. Mages aren’t a pet class. However, I do want them to bring back the spell Summon Water Elemental and get rid of Icy Veins. The way it currently works is all backwards. The summon should be the primary spell, not a tacked on side effect of a haste buff. After all, mages have summoned water elementals since back in Warcraft 1!
Plus it would mean we can glyph it for different looking elementals again!
It would be so easy pal:
Just a small corner in our talent-tree with: Summon water elemental ← for people who want it.
Otherwise just spec into lonely winter.
Ofc a BIT tuning+some talents to improve the perma pet would be lovely too.
Such as tanking outside, support the group e.g. e.g.
Nobody should be forced to take it. Just give it us back as an option for the pet-lovers 
I don’t want lonely winter back either. The water ele should exist as a cooldown.
This still makes my mage cry to this very day.
I had to adopt my now deceased elemental’s orphaned Waveling, it cries every night for it’s missing papa.
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