Mirror image awesome? - Page 2

The high level part of D3 must be insanely hard, looking at all the defense skills they prepared for the wizard.|||I really don't like this skill... because it's a defensive one :P

Anyway, for PvP, Warcraft III showed that miror image can be countered with micro and experience. For exemple, miror images might not take same damage and might be recongnizable this way, and if only the player and not the images do damage, then you can target the one you see doing damage, or even easier, the only one casting a spell! So wiz with this spell will kinda need to be kept from using spells while dueling. I'm sure this won't be a thread in PvP.

As for me, I'll be going strictly PvE without many defensive spells... So miror image = bleh.|||Well I can see how greatly effective this will be in PvM. Imagine what those 3 mirrors, if that's the stock level, would by in amount of time. In d2, being a completely different game almost, 4-7 seconds is enough to clear a screen espicially those meanies like the minions of destruction or a boss. In d3, I see it being a great help in the boss fights. For example, king Leroic fight where you start off surrounded. This would buy you enough time to get out of danger, and depending on the mirror images life span/stats, it may give you enough time to wipe out those minions.

I have a feeling that d3 is going to be less of high damage as fast as possible and more of startegy given by the class. Barb, tanker with damage. Wizard, offensive from a distance with some effect spells (slow time, mirror). Witch doctor, all round damge (fire), defensive (zombie wall and summons).

EDIT: of course we won't know any permanent stats or balances until later, much much later.|||Why is it that you assume Mirror Images won't do any damage?

Sure, Mirror Images in WC3 didn't do any, but there are several custom maps (including DotA, which Blizzard employees have recognized) in which they do a percentage of your character's damage.

It should make for a lot of interesting builds, as you can choose to buff your image damage in different ways.|||I pray to every god that there will be a skill rune to have your mirror images to cast the same spell as you simultaneously even at a tiny fraction of the damage.

I mean, damn, Imagine 10 Distingerate Beams flying all over the place! Even better, imagine a PvP battle between 3 such Wizards?|||Mirror Image doesn't seem to have any offensive synergies, of course we don't know what the synergy system will be but looking at the other skills, they seem to be increasing numbers and defensive capabilities of the images.

However, if they did have some offensive power, I think it'd be a particularly useful PVM skill as well as PVP. We can't assume much yet but, imagine if they could cast the basic spells too Mirror Image + Magic Missle? Cha Ching!

KT|||I like the fact that the wizard has more defensive options than in DII. And let's face it, the way the diablo series is, the wizard will need it, because high level game play is always insanely hard in the diablo series. And I sure hope it will be no different in DIII. And hopefully there will be hardcore mode (haven't heard much about this myself).

Mirror image seems like a very good confusion/escape/defense tactic. As was said before, if there's a way to become invisible, the combo of invisibility and mirror image would be an excellent escape tactic.

I don't think the images deal any damage though, I believe they are there purely for defensive purposes, or escape, distraction etc. Even if they don't deal any damage at all or don't cast spells, there are still many uses for the images, too many even.

Distraction, confusion, escape, defense, even scouting (let the image peek around that corner).|||Quote:








I pray to every god that there will be a skill rune to have your mirror images to cast the same spell as you simultaneously even at a tiny fraction of the damage.

I mean, damn, Imagine 10 Distingerate Beams flying all over the place! Even better, imagine a PvP battle between 3 such Wizards?




That would be crazzyyy awesome. Perhaps they'd have to limit the skills your MI's could duplicate, like...not Disintegrate |||I have been looking at the wizard video and i think i know how the mirror will work: it will copy the spells you have currently selected. In the video we see the images that are close to the monsters use the melee magic attack while the real wizard is seen using some kind of cold magic, HOWEVER another mirror image is seen at the left side using cold magic too! So the wizard must have as melee option ability the melee magic attack and on the other click the cold magic.|||i want my "mirror image" warrior to do damage, and be based youre atleast half youre skill levels like the assasins shadow does now somewhat.

id also like her to do the damage and spawn with whatever weapon you are holding and use it also.