They can’t remove the healing. Paladins don’t work without healing. Frost mage functions perfectly fine without the water elemental.
Frost mages work terribly without the elemental pet in my op. And in my mind, my favorite spec for mages, has been nerfed.
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Or I can just report your post as it is an actionable offense and put you on ignore and I’ll continue posting here as if you didn’t exist. You enjoy your vacation while I keep posting. Bye 
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Man and give paladins exorcism back like we had from the start of dragonflight. And give hunters their actual aspects back to. That would be great.
Oh and the summon hurricane spell back to druids as well that summoned tornadoes for aoe.
And warlock observer.
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Icy Veins currently has a 3 minute cooldown for 25 seconds of use. I don’t even remember it exists with my playstyle, so no. I personally will not be summoning a water elemental with it. I won’t be seeing it at all. Except for my water or fetid wavelings.
I wonder, is anyone even going to appreciate seeing the water elemental? You aren’t casting Icy Veins for the elemental, you are casting it for the haste, spellcasting, and no damage interrupt. The elemental is an after thought. I will laugh so hard if high end players start screaming for it to be removed because it adds screen clutter but still want the extra DPS.
Some people don’t like the change. Some people do. At this point I don’t consider anything permanent in WoW. There have just been too many changes over the years, in playstyle, abilities, and lore. It makes Classic more appealing, even without the QoL changes.
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I honestly feel like I summoned it just because it was cool to have an extra pet by my side. I didn’t really care otherwise.
But it is a stupid change regardless. Especially if they nerf the damage or mess it up in some way. I still don’t always see the point in summoning the ghoul on my dk currently. It does like jack damage. Like is it even worth it wasting the cd when there might be better abilities to use lol. I just click it to see the ghoul dude every once in a while. That used to be permanent to.
But it is blizzards game. And they can do what they want. And the people who hate the change. They can complain if they want also.
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So frustrating. This was shaping up to be a decent expansion.
Paladins finnaly got exorcism back in dragonflight. Now, it is gone. Again. I just don’t understand what is going on with these changes. They make absolutely no sense. I honestly don’t see the point in playing ret until exorcism is added back.
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Instead of removing water elementals, they should be adding fire and arcane options for mages. It’s so dumb to remove stuff instead of adding
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Sure would be nice to have the masters of the elements take that water elemental over…
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and most of those 13 years frost mages used Lonely Winter, because elemental is just useless.
if you don’t know how to use it, then it probably is.
i love mine.
the long distance freeze is awesome, and i get the feeling that the “new and improved” version won’t function the same way when used in conjunction with Mirror Image.
no problems though, i guess they can just target Mirror Image for removal next. 
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Kinda stinks but elementals are shaman territory anyway.
There are pets in the game. If they wanna RP, summon a pet. This is a non issue
Summon a pet. Done. Youre welcome.
how is that companion pet going to aid with mage tower challenges?
…or act as an OT for achievements which require keeping certain mobs apart?
Kinda fair, WE hasn’t been used in a hot minute.
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I feel like people play for choice as well. And for art, and the sound effects of certain moves.
And now, paladins are missing exorcism talent for retribution tree. Now, I don’t even have the option of casting that ability anymore. I always felt like it sounded cool. Even the dragonflight addtion was cool. Not as good, but still pretty good.
All about options. And I think blizz is doing a good job, halfway down this expansion, of depriving folks of more and more options. And I don’t understand why.
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Just more Blizzard devs removing the ability to have fun to cater to the elitists.
The whole point a mmoRPG is having a fun IMMERSIVE experience. Having a permanent water elemental is fun and immersive. Removing it to turn it into a buff for elitists to use to squeeze out more meaningless numbers is not fun or immersive.
What is visually happening on screen is arguably vastly more important than what is happening numerically. The numbers should just be the backend part of the game figuring out how to make what is happening visually work. Focusing on the numbers instead of the visuals and the experience is the wrong goal.
There is no reason to remove water elemental. None. People who cares about numbers instead of fun already had the option with Lonely Winter.
All this is doing is removing fun from the game for no acceptable or justifiable reason.
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I mean, it is kinda odd that a FROST Mage summons a water elemental… shouldn’t it be a frozen ice elemental instead?
Like there’s some real Let it Go type stuff they can do here with the summons.
Not sure if serious post or really strong willed troll…
It’s trash and should be taken to the curb, all mages that play the content will agree that it’s finally time to take Old Yeller out back.