09-09-2008, 03:23 PM
Quote:In an interesting change, the chance to miss at all is being removed. This is going to make some theorycrafters quite happy.
While Mages in the beta are currently quite happy (and who can blame them) I can't help but feel that this is going to be getting a wee visit from the nerfbat.
What you mean is that the minimum chance to miss is being removed. You still need +hit gear. It's just that now, you can assure yourself of hitting all the time with enough of it. I don't see why it should make theorycrafters happier than anyone else, though.
Also, I don't know what mages on beta you've been talking to, but the class as a whole is a mess on beta right now and Mirror Image's shoddy implementation doesn't help. It randomly teleports you between the images to make it hard to figure out who you are (good!) but this teleportation interrupts whatever spell you're casting (bad!). Not only that, it doesn't scale at all with gear, so what this means is that our effectiveness will slowly decay with better gear since this spell has to be balanced at some gear level, which we won't always be at. It's godawful for raid DPS and way too bursty for balanced PvP. Lastly, the mana pools and spell costs are implemented so badly that the images run out of mana and melee for pathetic amounts near the end of the spell duration.