Mages in WoW cant summon water elementals?!?!?!

[Mik3y]

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that really sucks. it was one of the things i was looking for in WoW from the mage. in War3, we were able to (from what little powers the archmage had).

 

[Sylvanas]

if your looking for a ranged class that can summon, its the warlock for you.

 

[skace]

If mages had pets there would have been 0 reason to play warlocks. Too hard to balance.

 

[MrBond]

If mages had pets there would have been 0 reason to play warlocks. Too hard to balance.

Make them short lived pets then, on a 1 hour cooldown. I'd love to be able to summon a 10 min water elemental for big fights. If it's a late-game spell, that'd be perfect, because as it is right now, we don't get any "new" spells after level 40 (everything is just different ranks/versions of previous spells - ie: Conjur Mana Jade instead of Conjur mana agates).

We're not the only class that suffers from this, so it's probably intentional. I doubt we'll ever be able to summon water elementals unless it's a hero-class specific spell. Apparently at one time there was mention of mages getting a bunch of new spells, but there's been so little talk lately of it that I doubt it'll happen.

 

[40Hands]

Mages definitely need some cool new spells. We had invisibility taken away and we got slow fall instead? Bah. Most useless spell ever. On top of that it even takes a reagent!

 

[MrBond]

Mages definitely need some cool new spells. We had invisibility taken away and we got slow fall instead? Bah. Most useless spell ever. On top of that it even takes a reagent!

Slow fall saved my ass once in Gnomeregan. I was running down the ramp to the elevator to meet up with my group. I forgot all about the level 24-25 lepers that hung around the ramp, so I ran down there and aggroed 5 of them. Even with a 6 level difference, 5 mobs is too many for a mage to take on, and they got my health to around 50%, so I popped on my mana sheild, frost novaed, and ran toward the elevator. Luckily it was at the top, I blinked to it right as it started down - so I was falling. In a panic, I hit slow fall and it kicked in just in time for me to land softly.

I'd like to have invisibility back too - I guess it was a problem in closed beta where mages were climbing to hard-to-reach areas and nuking people where the guards couldn't get them, people do that on my server anyway (Gadgetzan and Booty Bay are especially bad) so they should give us invisibility back.

Unless it was causing some other problems I didn't hear about

 

[40Hands]

Yeah I was saved once by slow fall also. I was lvl 26 or so in hillsbrad and I was climbing up the mountain area to the south of Taren Mill. Some alliance start chasing me + I agro some of the lions up there which are lvl 35 IIRC. I am running away with my mana shield and come to the edge of the cliff, quickly I remember "oh yes that almost totally useless spell except in this situation" hit slow fall and float to safety. Although if you have the mana for it, mana shield will work when jumping from high places too..
They should tweak invisibility so that it is a feasible spell for mages to use. Maybe make it so jump will make us visible?

 

[torpid]

I've never even obtained the regent for slow fall. Is there some easy way to obtain it that I don't know about? All the classes I play (hunter, mage, paladin) seem to get pretty boring skills after 40...

 

[40Hands]

Light Feather. You can get it from the AH or go hunt lvl 10 to 20 ish birds. It will drop decently frequent but its a pain to have to go kill low lvl monsters to get a reagent for a crappy spell. Im horde and I find that the plainstriders around the x roads drop it pretty often.

 

[torpid]

Yeah that's what I figured... seems like a lot of work for little gain to me.

 

[CVSiN]

Originally posted by: torpid
I've never even obtained the regent for slow fall. Is there some easy way to obtain it that I don't know about? All the classes I play (hunter, mage, paladin) seem to get pretty boring skills after 40...

all classes are like that.. after 40 you wont get any new abilities... just more powerful versions of the older ones..

gets kinda boring but some of those new versions are pretyt neat.. like HUGE damage increases =)