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Comment by NarayanFR

Reminds me of the good ol' D&D 2nd edition mage spell Mirror Image

Comment by Bedrayne

Do these benefit from IV/Heroism/Bloodlust if it is up when they pop or would it be like a WE where the WE has to be summoned before the heroism, or do they simply not benefit at all?

Comment by Xjba

What if the clones could also cast mirror image? (0_o)
*imagines*

Mage /cast mirror image

Clone1 /cast mirror image
Clone2 /cast mrror image
Clone3 /cast mirror image

Clone4 /cast mirror image
Clone5 /cast mirror image
Clone6 /cast mirror image
Clone7 /cast mirror image
Clone8 /cast mirror image
Clone9 /cast mirror image
Clone10 /cast mirror image
Clone11 /cast mirror image
Clone12 /cast mirror image

(and so on)

.....30 seconds later...

News Flash!

Today Blizzard apologised to millions of angry players of it's online fantasy game World of Warcraft. Apparently a new "mage spell" caused a crash when the first person to cast it accidentally caused instant overpopulation...

Comment by 132457

Confirmed to be the mage's lvl 80 skill.

Comment by 104074

But if u look at the video, u can see them casting rostbolts while the main mage casts fireball... ohnoes =((

Comment by 152011

People are misinterpreting this spell's purpose. It's NOT intended to fool your opponent into not knowing which mage you are. This spell is NOT a defensive spell, but an offensive one, solely created to rise your damage output.

For this reason, it makes absolutely no difference they cast different spells, have different buffs, or are called Mirror Images.

Comment by 206461

i hope that images can cast a variety of spells. it seems silly put such a nice aesthetic, such a cool face on a such a mundane effect as essentially throwing out extra frost damage.

Comment by hpavc

At the moment its basically multiple water elementals spamming bolts.

Comment by 46812

Seems like when you are fighting two enemies at the same time, the images will "chicken" one and attack the other target

Comment by 117802

I'd like to get some feed on whether or not certain spells do bonus damage to images such as in wc3, dispel magic maybe ?

Comment by 28506

Insane
http://video.yahoo.com/watch/3464861/9650281

Comment by 208703

5 man Arena team with 5 mages

5 mages +15 mirror images+ 5 water elementals = 25 sources of damage

25 vs. 5 in arena should make if very fair for us mages.

Comment by 212273

Mirror Image:
- Copy you character with all detailes (hair, gears, even if you use noggenfogger, they will copy the skeleton or small size)
- Copy also the same stats and buffs as you have (so if you arcane power, they will be affected by arcane power, too)
- If you ran away too far from copies you will be blinked back to them
- If you attacking 2 or more targets, mirror images will Hex (chicken) one of them for a short period of time
- They attack same target as you, and follow you always - the only way they behave, and only way to control them
- They cast low level frostbolts, average damage from bolt registered 800-900

Comment by 150104

fun for blade masters in wc3. should be even more fun for mages in wotlk =]

Comment by ironballs16

Apparently, a Beta tester managed to solo a lvl 80 Elite, and 4 adds with just this spell...

http://www.wowinsider.com/2008/09/08/skill-mastery-mirror-image/

So I wouldn't imagine it'll take long for a nerf to occur. Maybe just 1, rather than 3, seeing as most mirrors DO only reflect once.

Comment by 111827

5 Mages vs Anything

Pop Images, PoM/Pyro, Iceblock, FrostFire, Fireball. Dead.

Comment by 202478

I lol'd. This spell is insane, even if I'm not in the beta @_@

Nerfbat ftw.

Comment by 87686

Oh no blizzard is getting thay're nerfsticks!

Comment by Krain

- Copy also the same stats and buffs as you have (so if you arcane power, they will be affected by arcane power, too)

Their copied buffs if you have 1second left on a buff does the copy loose the buff in 1 second or does it maintain the buffs for the duration of the image?

Further more if you get a buff after they are copied do they get the buff as well?

Comment by 104074

no reason fo this to get super-nerfed. i mean, you cant control them! no pom pyro or frostfie for you!

Comment by Cryptorchild

Man, I can't wait to play with this, but I also fully expect them to nerf the snot out of it for being so awesome. Granted, it's bordering on extremely overpowered right now, but hey, a lot of cooldowns still are.

PS: The dude with the YahooTube video with MSI rules.

Comment by 226000

Just rather curious about a few things:

1. If your frost, will this have any effect on your images? (will their damage be higher/get shatter effects etc)

2. Can you summon your images and a water elemental at the same time?

If both of those are yes, then Ima be afraid of frost mages.

Comment by 227491

tbh, i don't we deserved to have it nerfed since other classes have so called OP spells too and its on a 3 min CD, so i say just let us have some fun with it and except you will get pwned once in a while :P

Comment by 226779

After looking at this spell on youtube (pre-nerf) I can say that is definitely was imbalanced. However, if they can be killed easily, and the damage was reduced then it will be a nice edition to the mage arsenal.

Personally I am most looking forward to Arcane Barrage, since it is very rare that I ever get to stand still and cast in PvP.

Comment by 93958

I just have to see a 5-mage multibox now...

Comment by Anoroth

I think Kael's getting this spell when he comes back from the dead.....again ;)

So, not only do we get to see him one more time, we get to see mirror images of him!

Comment by 99628

Reminds me of the classic Ragnaros speed kill movie, where 33 alliance mages(frost ofc) downed him. Was fun to see so many frostbolts lol :) Now...imagine 33 mages....x3 mirror images....=99 mages= amazing frostbolt shower :) Enjoy the eyesight :)

Comment by 158894

If I am a frost mage my images puts on the enemy the chill effect or not?

Comment by Maizou

Imagine 40 gnome mages all in an alliance using this. That'd make 160 Gnomes. Add on The Voodoo Gnome Trinket, to summon 2 more per mage...

240 Gnomes all coming at you attacking... :S

Comment by 125087

40 mage raid, 120 copies, 80 vodoo gnomes, 40 floating dwarfs from the direbrew trinkets, 40 water elementals
40+120+80+40+40=320 targets

for major laughs lets assume all 40 mages have the horsemans blade which summons 3 pumpkin adds. thats 120 more targets
for 440 targets now.

who knows what lvl 80 holds in store, more trinkets to summon adds, more weapons to summon adds. misc items to summon an add or more(SM dog whistle).

1 mage, 3 copies, 2 gnomes, 1 dwarf, 1 elemental, 3 pumpkins
geez. 1 is 11

Comment by Bareno

Apply Aura: Mod Total Threat (Fade)
Value: -90000000

It's almost Over (Under?) -9000! (or -90000000?)

Comment by Lukester

Testing it out on mobs out in icecrown.. doesnt seem that effective.. they do about 200 dmg per image and all i see its worth doing is if ur low on mana need to evocate and they pull aggro like a tank, pretty gay if you ask me =/

Comment by 220704

I want to gear my human mage in a tuxedo and darkest goggle's I can find cast mirror image and follow people around going "Mr. Anderson." . :D

Comment by desperat

5x multiboxing mages, with this skill, water elemental and the 3x gnome trinket...
i would love to see that

Comment by 161867

So while Mirror image is in effect you can switch clones? What do you do, just right click buff like a shammy's Sentry Totem?

People think this will be OP, but one critting AoE will clear them all out I think.

Comment by toastmaster7727

When I look at this spell I basically see another reason why mages are still favored more than moonkins. At least in the BC expansion, moonkins had our tree spell for PvP and it was pretty unique. Now I find my trees less interesting because I know of this mage spell. Why not give the moonkin trees more abilitites? Perhaps an attack bar with unique abilities that the AI can use or the moonkin directly controls (while still averaging out the trees dmg). While moonkins may still be druids which IS a hybrid class, it would be more enjoyable to play one if they have more unique abilities.

Comment by 256790

From my personal experience, I don't advise using this spell on bossfights featuring a boss with sheepable ads (like Grand Widow Faerlina). The images will attempt to poly one of the ads, which can prove fatal to the whole raid.

Also, on boss abilities that target random players (like Archavon the Stone Watcher's Shards or charge, etc.), the images may also be targeted.

Comment by 158964

"There would be 588 Gnomes and 3504 Humans. That would make a total of 4092 mages and mirror images."

OMG server crash inc

Comment by Tabmoc

This spell makes soloing Gurubashi Axe Throwers in Zul'Gurub cake. You hardly get hit by their Axe Flurry ability.

Comment by Gosgosgosu

Yeah it was a Blademaster spell, so technically Warriors or Rogues should inherit it family-tree-wise. But...

It makes perfect sense that the only class who could use this spell to make copies that can kill would be a Mage, if Blizz had given this to Warriors or Rogues it would have just been a distraction/confusion ability due to their strictly non-magical nature...... And if Blizzard had given this to DKs I'd have screamed :P

I love you Blizz! Give us more cool looking abilities, who cares what they do, just make it cool :D
With how WotLK is playing out I think Blizz is really learning how to make a great game ;)

Comment by Luxor0

I don't know if I'm getting the "Apply Aura: Mod Total Threat (Fade)" Wrong but doesn't this drop your threat? Haven't had a chance to try it out threat wise.
That would give it another defensive mechanism for PvE.

Comment by 28864

Some clarifications about this spell, because it has changed substantially since beta and many comments on this page are no longer accurate:

-The names above the heads of the mirror images display as your own name, not "Mirror Image." Therefore, it is more difficult to distinguish between yourself and the images. A smart player should easily be able to determine the "real" mage because of his movement patterns and the variety of spells he can cast. However, the spell does have the potential to momentarily confuse targets in PvP. Your enemies may click the wrong target and waste a cast.

-The mirror images cast a fireblast and a frostbolt. Their spell damage scales with your own spell power. When I had 981 spell power, the frostbolts were hitting for ~265 damage each. When I removed my staff and had 685 spell power, they hit for ~235.

-Similarly, their health scales with the mage. I have 10.9k life, and my images had ~2230 health. They also had nearly 11k mana, which is more than enough considering their spells cost only ~100 mana and they last only 30 seconds at maximum. They will not run out of mana under normal conditions.

-The spell has some very interesting and useful properties in PvE, in addition to the obvious DPS increase. If you look on the top of this page, you'll see that the first spell effect is a very powerful fade. When you cast mirror image it "tricks" NPCs and they will not attack you as long as at least one of your mirror images remains. When the images die, you will regain back all of your threat, however.

Comment by Manicminer

I can't believe nobody mentioned so far that this WIPES aggro on mobs in PvE for the duration of the spell. So if you are on the aggro threshold on a boss you can pop this spell and wipe your aggro to zero, giving your tank the chance to regain stability. Your threat will return to its previous value when the images die.

Now I know threat is not a major issue so much in WoTLK - but on bosses like Malygos, it's very possible to pull aggro when you're throwing out 25k FFB's over and over again. Also you get the odd double scorch + hot streak proc at the beginning of a fight which can catch some tanks unawares.

Similarly if you manage to body pull or have adds running at you, popping this spell will make the mob target one of your images, saving your life.

EDIT: Blergh, missed Jforsyth's post above!

Comment by 90630

I play rogue and I seriously hope that this is a bugg, When a mage pops this in a duel and lets say he's 20 yards away from me, It actually puts me out of stealth ;s Pretty strange , anyone else who had this experience?

Comment by 106869

Too add to this,
Images take advantage of all raid wide buffs, specifically Shaman Bloodlust. If you can coordinate with your raid shaman to pop these before bloodlust goes off they wil get a casting speed increase. Just a useful tip if you are using them for damage =)

Comment by 283858

I have an idea for a new 5v5 arena team.

Im a night elf disc priest so i get 4x arcane mages then POM/pyro one target down and then pop this to confuse the enemy more then they alrdy are. The whole time im in shadowmeld then come out for heals when they ice block.

This makes 16 mages out there that there are trying to target and call out

Comment by Mumpley

Enough of the numbers. Thousands of Mages and their minions: priceless.

Comment by SameN

What I really like about my mirror images, is their personality.

Comment by 255117

epic for dueling. frost mage+ 3 minions+ water ele+ invis and just chill somewhere for your 20seconds, pop a ele frost nova+deep freeze and start ur chain stunlocks and watch them fail :)

Comment by 143038

Add a few moonkins to the icing of the cake ;p

Comment by hpavc

Your forgetting some goodness here.

Comment by 125087

Effect #1 Apply Aura: Mod Total Threat (Fade)
Value: -90000000

in game does not state this, wowhead says that. and its a most valuable fact.

when you use mirror image, for the next 30 seconds"whether the mirror images live or die" you generate ZERO threat, and the clones themselves generate minimal threat aswell.
on top of that it serves as a "sort" of aggro wipe. i say "sort" because your aggro goes to your clones if you have any upon use.

so for example lets say your fighting Malygos and you pull aggro off the main tank. Now among being flamed, yelled at, and talked to by your GM/RL/class lead/everybody else....you should get killed....BUT...Time it well enough and if you pop mirror image he will kill your three clones and you have 30 seconds of aggro free dps in which it would be very wise to use invis(assuming Malygos doesn't use his frontal cone attack and wipe the raid)

30 seconds of aggro free dps....this helps me bypass the slow start for warrior and druid tanks while they stack their debuffs.

Omen will show you at 0.0% threat for those 30 seconds. you can go Arcane Explosion happy in the spider wing of Naxx and generate no threat. a healer will pull aggro before you. this does NOT make you invincible though. remember that 0.0% threat is higher than "blank" threat. so body pulling will cause them to come for you if your alone in that sence.

i must contradict myself however, because if you have mirror image up(ie-ready to be used) theres something wrong. failure to use CDs most likely means failure to use a hot streak pyroblast when it procs.

Comment by 63715

Now if only Blizz would let Arcane Mages add this spell to Arcane Flows...then you could macro it all together.

Arcane Power + Mirror Image + Presence of Mind + Trinket + Fireball (or Pyroblast, whatever's your poison). Icing on the already high-stacked cake.

Comment by testdrug

I don't know if this has been answered before, but does anyone know if the Mirror Image's adopt it's casters resistances as well?

I assume not, but interested in a confirmation.

Comment by 303401

after reading the posts on this skill I did not notice anyone touching on a few key facts about this skill. Firstly as mentioned before upon using this skill threat does drop to 0% and during this time u can not pull agro. However after the 30/s are up and the images collapse all the threat u previously were not seeing is added in (including the threat the copies produce).

Proper ways to use this spell in a raid enviroment would be as follows. Fight starts pop MI and blow all CD's for top DPS continue your typical max DPS rotation until 5 seconds remain on MI copies. Keep in mind when you MI's drop you are going to get a HUGE amount of threat added way more then any tank would produce in the beginning 30/s of any raid boss, we combat this by simply using invisibility in the in the final seconds of MI to erase all established threat and start over with 0 threat ( basically the same threat u would have if you bodied pulled ).

Some things worth noting Invisibility 3 min cd, MI 3 minute cd also this cycle could/shud be repeated every 3 minutes. With the current DPS/threat mages can produce this is the only way the mage has to combat pulling threat and allowing you continue to use your MAX DPS rotation.

some misconceptions would be that this skill is like a OH S**T in case you pull agro, which it is but the idea is to not pull agro while maintaining max dps and we do this by using it early and often as needed.

Comment by matoh

i love this spell,, it create the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th most handsome mages in WoW,, after me ,,

Comment by 219697

Holy *!@# you guys lets just think all day about this random o 1 mage = 11. Think of it this way if this was possible WHY DONT MAGES DO THIS! because they are very squishy thats why even though all the damage u and your 11 adds are doing they honestly wouldnt stand a chance.

Comment by 315859

Let us imagine the hugest arena team ever!

Take 5 mages, each using a Mirror Image to create 3 copies of self. Thus, 20 mages.
Then suppose each mage is deep frost specced. Thus giving us 5 water elementals. The total number rises to 25. The amount of people that it takes to defeat Illidan!
Then suppose each of these mages is exalted with Netherwing... 5 commander's badges makes us 5 whelps, for a total of 30.
And than let's imagine that each of our mages is a Zul'Aman raider and posesses a Tiny Voodoo Mask! That gives us 3 more mobs per mage, thus 15 more mobs, for a grand total of 45 players and mobs! This is more than it took to defeat Kel'Thuzad pre-TBC! And if you add some non-combat pets too, we can have a grand total of 50 mobs and players against 5... Of course most of this army can be defeated with a couple of AoE spells but the enemy is guarantied to be surprised. And if they have a bad videocard... well the lagfest might even prevent them from defending themselves properly...

Comment by 196104

There's also a little thing I noticed bout this spell and PvE that I lovingly call "Silent Threat."

I use Omen3 threat meter, and while I have Mirror Image active I have anywhere from -3 to 0 threat on any and all targets that were not actively attacking me before. This means, you have 30 second of not pulling aggro.

In my experience, you could completely unload everything you have for thirty seconds building this Silent Threat, after which the threat you have built up suddenly reappears all at once. (For me, I usually end up in the top five on threat afterwards, but still well behind the tank) The only way this works though is when you have a decent tank that can out-threat you over this thirty second period.

Comment by 252039

So is this not working properly against bosses anymore? I iattempted to use it against the last boss in MGT on heroic. I was at 100% threat, popped mirror image and the threat never dropped. I stood at 100% threat while he never even touched the images.

Comment by 173812

Man, since when did mages have mirror image in lore? It's a blade master thing, and since arms warriors is bladestormers now, WE should have mirror imagine *!@#ing BlizzTard. Yeah, 4 warriors, all performing bladestorm and whirlwind.

Comment by kimmisc

Be thoughtful of where you use mirror image, because if they're still alive when the current pull dies, they WILL pull any other nearby mobs.

Contrary to what has been said, they do not always attack the mob YOU are attacking. A good example of this is when my mirror images attacked Grand Widow Faerlina's adds before she was enraged. On first glimpse it looked to others like I was attacking the wrong target. Thankfully their dmg is low.

Their polymorph is penguin, and if there are enough extra mobs, they will poly 3 of them. This has actually saved one of my groups from a wipe when the tank died in heroic UK. Even the short duration of their CC saved alot of dmg to us squishies.

Comment by 218363

I just want to add that if you pop your mirror images in the shiny mess during the malygos fight, they gain the buff as well and aren't affected by the swirling tornado thing maly does. Mine were critting above 1k damage when standing in two of the buff circles. So pop these right in the center of the shiny crap right before you're lifted off and you get some more dps when you're limited to only using instant casts.

Comment by 258092

Hopefully this is actually new info and I didn't just miss it while reading all the posts. If you have enemy nameplates on and "show class colors in nameplates" on (I think that's under combat options), enemy mirror images have NPC-fire-engine-red nameplates, not mage-powder-blue nameplates. So there need be no fear of momentarily losing the real enemy mage, even with a totally standard UI.

Comment by 336578

On 3.1 PTR:

Mirror Image: The images no longer cast Polymorph.

Source (Mmo-champion)

Comment by 101807

The images no longer cast Polymorph.

On 3.1 PTR

Comment by 336774

that is awful,

how can no one notice how bugged is that spell. there is no way to control it, or if there is one, pls tell me. in arena those mages always attack wrong target or do the wrong thing.

Here is an example: i fight a lock he got 2k health left i got around 3. I cast mirror image then ice block, thinking those little dummys will finish that damn lock. But while i sit there freezing as chicken what do i see? Those little pieces of crap are poly-ing (and so healing) that *(?*&%)*%$)?*$) lock whos laughing as a pig.

another example? : funny it is when you arrive to poly a healer at the right time to kill his dps and the statement ''immune''' pops up because your little ''let me have fun'' image decided they want to play with the cute pinguin

so thank you so much blizz for removing that random ''i loose button'' polymorph. thank you again!

but there is still a problem up: you wanna kill a hunter, you dps him, you cast mirror image (so he loose his target and incease your damage done) that hunter fainght death ... who will the crispy mages attack after? the pet ........................ *%$&(?(?%$

Comment by Mdj71

They should really make the mirror images different, one arcane, one frost and one fire.
That way using the spells you are specced for wouldnt be such a give away, it would be easier to blend in and confuse people.

I know that the MI has a different colored healthbar, but it would not be as easy as now to identify the real player :)

Comment by kekwtf19

If you got addon that shows target hp you can see that Mirror images have 3k and player over 15k so it's easy to spot real you ;p

Comment by 281630

As well as everything that's been said, I've noticed that after your target dies the images will do whatever they want.

Sometimes, this includes attacking a random target, attacking your new target, or just standing there.

Also, I've come across times where I cast mirror image without establishing aggro on anything, and they run off to attack something 30yds plus (far enough where I couldn't tab target them) behind us when I've a boss right in front of me, which caused us to wipe.

From what I've noticed this does not just shift the aggro to your images either. In a
PvE group, after using it, it seems to drop aggro from you and your images making the mob run off to another person in the group.

This spell has caused me to wipe enough times, that in spite of the increase in dps I'm tempted to take it off my bar.

Comment by zearamoth

This spell reminds me to Pokemon with "Double Team" :P

Comment by Azulinde

Please don't cast this spell if you're an ugly looking mage

Comment by Robmozs

I have read your comments about the heavy numbers of gnomes and etc... and found that none of you have counted in the Glyph of Mirror Image!
https://www.wowhead.com/cata/item=45739

It summons an additional clone as stated. And that's nice. Just imagine those great numbers increased by 1 per mage :D

Comment by 81205

shadow clone jutsu

Comment by Gali

Be careful with these in instas. They are extremely dumb.

IQofMirrorImage = (IQofPlayer/NumberOfImages)*0.01

Comment by 258919

If I was a boss, this would be my raid wiping move.

It's cool in theory but more useful for threat wiping and a little extra dps in PvE than it is for actually quadrupling your damage. For some reason, mobs tend to attack the mirrors first, so you can evocate to full health/mana and use bandaids and whatnot. It's also pretty awesome to see three clones of yourself casting at the same time.

Comment by 158727

This is officially my most hated spell.

Every time I use it, I regret it. :/

Has a nasty habit of killing of NPCs if used to defend yourself in a neutral town. (just killed off two guards and a few quest givers in Cenarion Refuge after I was jumped by a DK just outside of town)

Lost me 500 rep. I'm dumb enough to keep using this spell.

Comment by 366889

Best use is with Glyph of Mirror Image and Invisibility. It summons four copys of you and when you fades, there are only the copys. It look like you and three copys (whitout Glyph of Mirror Image).

Glyph of Mirror Image https://www.wowhead.com/cata/spell=55342
Invisibility https://www.wowhead.com/cata/spell=66

Comment by 153818

Using Mirror image while in Furbolg form via Dartol's Rod of Transformation creates three (four with glyph) furbolgs to roar at your side in battle!

Comment by Tanman28

Name: whatever it wants to be
Date: there are different dates? oh boy...

0 gnomes and 0 humans to both questions because i killed them all. AoE ftw!-answer torabidmoncy's question.

Comment by 298992

A little note for the mages that love having fun :)

Mirror Image will copy your exact appearence ,meaning that if you have used an underbelly elixir
and suppose you look like a tuskarr or a wasp, then your images will look like that also ^^

Which kinda makes me wonder..is the druids' Insect Swarm a reaaally
small mage that has used an underbelly elixir to become a wasp and then miror image?

Comment by 98874

Note for the Epic:

Pygmy Oil + Voodoo Gnome Trinket from ZA + This + glyph = Sheer win.

Come on, Downrate? really?

Comment by 322127

This spell is really a homework type, big maths for a tiny little spell and a raid of hundreds of mages, that would be the greatest raid of all => really epic if you ask me
or if we have 1 less mage because of some invisibility? it's cruelty against anyone in the Arena
love mages or they gonna pawn you to the ground without mercy
I love them ^^

Comment by 364275

This spell does have one drawback. If you have a shammy healer assigned to you the mirror images will take jumps of the chain heal for themselves. We did Heroic Occulus last night with a DK Tank, Resto Shammy, 2 Arcane Mages and an Affliction Lock (me).

The two mages would spam Mirror Image and the images would hog all the chain heal jumps. It got to the point that the healer wouldn't even use it when one of them had images up, relying instead on his Lesser HW's and Riptide.

We got it done and the images helped but the mages were much harder to keep alive than I was (and I life-tap like a fiend).

Comment by 82808

I think the spell is made all wrong. I would like it a lot more if it was like the Blademaster spell from WC3 where the copies could not be told from the true hero, so you got confused. Sorta like, the mage's feign death. The NPCs should appear as players but do no damage, just like in WC3. THAT would own!

Comment by odincore

Shadow Clone Jutsu!

Comment by 174212

One mages' strudel x3!
(x4 with glyph) GLYPH FTW!

Comment by JamieK

all the mages seem to open with this, the only way to beat a mage is to keep him/her stunlocked by a rogue, i tried to take out a mage once, i was slaughtered by it cause he instantly used mirror image.

I personally found it overpowered, but thats just me.

Comment by 208103

Nobody seems to have mentioned this so I'll add it: The mage casting this (if you have class-coloured name plates on) has a blue name plate and the mirrors have a red name plate, so you can easily pick the real mage out.

Comment by Wint

What can I say...

KAGE BUNSHIN NO JUTSU! xD

Comment by Zeonidus

For added awesomeness, make a macro with this script:

/script PlaySoundFile("Sound\\Creature\\GrandMagusTelestra\\TelestraSplit01.wav")

anyways anyone knows some good sound script except for that? Having Telestra voice on a male isn't really.... appropriate...

Comment by frmorrison

4 Piece T10 bonus: * Mirror Image is 30 sec and damage bonus is 18%.

So it makes MI rarely nice.

Comment by Tesslyn

Anyone else think it'd be kind of unfair if an Arcane spell gained from frost talents but not Arcane talents?

(For the scaling with talents comment)

Comment by 180146

Note to self, never use this on the Herald of Volazj in Old Kingdom.

I got eight effin' clones after me in the Nightmare phase, instead of four. Either that's a thing I've never noticed before, or something bugged seriously.

Comment by 133375

Anyone else think this is OP in an arena? Why is it that a DK can not use army of the dead but mages can use this? And does anyone know why when I am attacking the mage and he casts this it changes my target to one of the mirror images?

Comment by 492842

Anyone else have some aggro issues with this? maybe its a glitch, but if i use mirror images, on a mob that was previously encountered, but not killed, it aggro's it, For instance im in PoS soloing trash, almost died on a trash pull, i go to the other side of the zone to kill something else, but when i use mirror image, this elite comes running form the other side of the zone, just from using mirror image.

Comment by tuckmuck203

i think some people may be over looking the fact that these guys just have no spellpower gear, so maybe they just do the regular amount of damage for that grade of frostbolt

Comment by 324503

"Patch 3.3.0 (2009-12-08): Now reduces the damage your pets take from area-of-effect damage by 90%, but no longer applies to area-of-effect damage caused by other players" (Referring to Avoidance)

This should mean that MI is no longer an 'I-Win' in 2v2.. A Seed of Corruption or a few seconds of Hurricane, or maybe a good Whirlwind should be able to take these pests out.

Comment by 110092

Thes guys have huge agro-range. I've tryed them in Nexus and Zul'Aman and in both of those places, Mirror-images "body-pull" mobs that wouldnt agro You as player.

Comment by Onijitsu

Man, I don't know what he is, but I am most definitely a Warlock.

And I envy you guys this awesome spell. I LUUUUST after it!

One might even argue that we Warlocks are more evil, and so illusion and fakery would be more up our sleeves. But meh. I've got my own tricks.

I often wonder why it is that mages and warlocks think they can't get along. Honestly, I'd love to partner up with a mage for some serious painspamming against someone else.

Comment by Kaltzor

We need 40 alliance and 40 horde mages with Glyph of Mirror Image fighting each other and all of them using it at the same moment, would be most epic 30 seconds ever in wow.

Comment by 230590

yo dawg, i heard you like mages, so i put mages in yo mages so yo mage's mages can dps while you dps

Comment by 318094

A lot of people emphasize the synergy this spell has with Invisibility in PvE and PvP. For all you troll frost mages out there, this spell has excellent synergy with Berserking, as well. Whereas Arcane has a 2-min Invis, the 3-min cd for a troll frost mage works well with the 3-min cd of their racial to the point where you could macro both together, off-setting the threat you generate in your hastened state with the aggro-management of your clones.

Edit: Also, for all you first time pet owners out there like me (never made a hunter or a lock before, and my shadowfiend is going to hit something on my priest; I have no time to give it other instructions and I want mana), as has been previously stated, your permanent water elemental allows you control over the mirror images. My personal experience, however, is that your water elemental will only allow you limited control over them. If you pop Mirror Images, they will start off attacking your last target. For some reason, if you change your pet's targets during this time, even if your pet obeys you, your images sometimes will not. What you can do for this, however, is manually change their targeting by resetting it. Make your pet follow you and they will do the same(which erases their order to attack the target they were just on), and then your pet (and them) will attack your next target. Assuming, of course, that your pet is not on aggressive.

Comment by Muzzle248

What Mirror Image does:

Creates three incomprehensibly handsom people that will fight for you for 30 sec. Everything thing about the Mirror Images is completely perfect in every way.

"From the book of the conceited mage"

Comment by Choiceface

I would REALLY like to see a larger arsenal from the images than just the 1 frost spell.

Comment by naturesgrace

Mirror Images cant talk luckily for you they cant laugh either.

Comment by flopper393

Changed to learn at level 50 at patch 4.0.1

Comment by 641559

Fought a mage earlier, as a DK. threw Dark Simulacrum up as he cast mirror image. Next thing he knew, three more DKs, firing frostbolts back at him. Kinda wish the mirrored DKs would do something else, but it still surprised him for a bit

Comment by nonentity

I really wish they'd just remove that damn spell and give us something useful, or fix it FFS...

Lately the Mirror Images have done more harm than good, they pull mobs that are nowhere near attacking me etc. They actually ruined two Ozruk tries in Heroic Stonecore because they actually ran to the beginning of the room and pulled a group. First time we had no idea where they came from, second time I actually saw them heading there as soon as I popped them (while I was already fighting the boss) and start attacking the mobs. The group was like 100 yards away.
Damn bugged things.

Comment by seahen

Some observations about the images' targeting behaviour:

If I'm targeting an enemy when I cast Mirror Image, the images will always attack it. This made me start using a focus macro for Polymorph shortly after Cata hit. (I wasn't using Poly in Wrath dungeons, and I was leveling mostly through dungeons by the time I got Mirror Image, so I wouldn't have noticed whether this was an issue then or not.)
They won't target critters or crowd-controlled units as long as I don't. (I don't think freezes are counted as crowd control, at least not my own when I'm in frost spec.)
They only switch targets when the current target dies. At that point, I think they'll always target my target if I have one that's attackable.
I believe they have a larger aggro radius than a Water Elemental on aggressive, since they'll run toward a target who's outside their attack range, which the Water Elemental (who I think has the same attack range) won't do unless ordered.
They will sometimes pull guards by attacking enemy players (I've only tested this on a PvP server). When this happens, the guards attack me, not the images. This is a shame, because they'd otherwise be a great help when farming for Volatile Earth in front of the shelter at Nordrassil.

Comment by 373395

Something I have not seen mentioned here is how buffs affect your images. After some cursory testing, it does seem that the intellect buff from Synapse Springs does affect the damage your images put out. To benefit, you must use your gloves first, then use MI. They do not receive buffs that you use after they are out.

Note that I could be wrong, but damage I have recorded with recount shows a damage increase with synapse used before MI.

EDIT: Further testing indicates that trinket abilities also affect MI damage. In my case it was Talisman of Sinister Order

Comment by xoddie

Does anyone else have this problem? Sometimes I pop mirror image and it will aggro mobs from way way far away. At first I thought it was just a one time glitch, but now I notice it does it quite often. On the last boss in Stonecore, I have stopped using this spell because it will pull mobs that we skipped from 1000 yards away.

Comment by Froswaldthegreat

I never noticed them pulling mobs that I don't want pulled, maybe they fixed it. I have noticed that they seem to tank enemies for me, I was unloading arcane blasts that usually would make the guy (Cho'war) want to impale me, but he always stayed at 99% threat for me until the images died.

Comment by 125087

Useless fun fact.

currently in 4.0.1 your mages can exploit Presence of Mind.

meaning that if you have PoM on yourself,(and how clones gain all of our buffs even though they don't display) that your clones will insta cast whatever spell they are supposed to(FB by default, or AB with the Glyph).

in 30 seconds, my clones spamming arcane blast with 4 stacks and not going below 94% mana had put out 78k dmg.

plus side: could be useful damage in pvp
downside: no using any hardcast spells(only lance, barrage, missiles, fireblast, and slow)

*Losing PoM causes the clones to lose it as well and resume hard casting.

Comment by Detin

The more you know ...
Mirror images do not have weapon enchant.

Comment by 787695

Too bad these don't copy you when you do an emote, four dancing mages doing the /rude emote at the enemy.....Or even funnier, a raid group full of lvl 50 gnome mages all doing the /train emote

Comment by 804246

mirror image IRL http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rw4CJlPxDGA

Comment by Allakhazam

A Cool Trick I have found and Spread with the Mirror Image Spell!
I found this almost as soon as I was able to use the Spell.

The trick is, If you find a cramped space in the game, where you cannot jump and barely move, You then Use Mirror Image Spell and "OMG! How the hell did you do that!" Instead of copys of yourself. Shadows casters appear instead! It is also possible to get 2 ghosts and 1 copy of yourself.

Just thought I'd share this with the world! seems No-one else has found it yet.

Have fun mages!

Relentles - Argent Dawn - EU.

Comment by dcsn

Any1 having problems with mirror image not attacking nothing at all? A lot of times I pop them up and they stay put and don't attack nothing the entire duration of the Mirro Image spell.

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Mirror Image

Mirror Image
10% of base mana

Instant	3 min cooldown

Creates 3 copies of the caster nearby, which cast spells and attack the mage's enemies. Lasts 30 sec.

Buff

Spell Details

Duration

30 seconds

School

Arcane

Mechanic

n/a

Dispel type

n/a

GCD category

Normal

Cost

10% of base mana

Range

0 yards (Self)

Cast time

Instant

Cooldown

3 minutes

GCD

1.5 seconds

Effect #1

Apply Aura: Mod Threat Flat - Temporary
Value: -89999999
PVP Multiplier: 1

Effect #2

Dummy
Value: 4
PVP Multiplier: 1
Server-side script

Effect #3

Apply Aura: Periodic Dummy
Value: 1 every 1 second
PVP Multiplier: 1

Flags

Cannot be used while shapeshifted
Aura cannot be cancelled
Generates no threat
No AutoCast (AI)
No Caster Aura Icon
No Target Aura Icon
Reset cooldown upon ending an encounter

Mirror Image

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