Spells: What is MIrror Image useful for?

[MaxWilson]

1. Yes, in combat. Vans and Eriu with high levels of Air magic get more images, which IMHO is indicative that it's the same mechanic as Mirror Image. Obviously they also get stealthy.

2. Melee combat. If you have 5 images, then only 1/6 hits will actually hit you, until someone does hit you, and then the images go away. I am not sure whether hitting your shield still counts as hitting you (although it is fairly common to lose mirror images without taking any damage, so it definitely counts if they hit you and Prot blocks it). I am also not sure whether mirror images protect you from losing -2 to def for each attack, like Ethereal reputedly does. Could check with -d switch.

3. Nope. Not against any spells.

4. Melee combat, that's it. It used to protect against arrows and spells, but this was removed in a previous patch because it was unthematic and made the glamour nations too good against arrows and spells.

5. I dunno. I imagine it's sort of like the Defense/Prot divide. Against giants I would probably take Mirror Image over Mistform (Mistform will dissapate after one blow and then you're dead, Mirror Image + high Defense will last for a while). Against Jaguar Warriors I'd probably avoid Mistform because they'll just nickel-and-dime you to death anyway, so I'd take Invulnerability and maybe Mirror Image. However, I haven't played much with Air mages so maybe I'm under/overestimating.

-Max