Mirror Image

Mirror Image is a Utility Wizard skill unlocked at Level 14, creating an illusionary duplicate of the character.

Background

Ice Armor in action

In order to avoid close combat as much as possible, the Wizard can create duplicates of herself, who will also aggressively attack opponents.

Skill Effects

The following is a very quick list. See the Mirror Image rune effects page for a more thorough summary of rune effects, or any of the individual rune pages for numbers, screenshots, blue quotes, and much more.

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Mocking Demise

[e] When an image is destroyed it explodes, doing 135% weapon damage as Physical and has 50% chance to stun enemies it hits for 5 seconds.

Mirror Mimics

[e] Spells the images cast will do 70% of the damage as your own.

Extension of Will

[e] The duration of the images is increased to 31 seconds and increases the Life of your images to 60% of your Life.

Duplicates

[e] Summons 6 illusionary duplicates that have 25% of your Life each.

Simulacrum

[e] Increases the Life of your images to 125% of your Life.

Note: Information is based on a level 60 character and rank 7 runestones.

Skill Design

This skill creates a duplicate of the Wizard that uses Wizard spells to ferociously attack monsters the instant it appears. The Image's spells don't do any damage, so it's more like an animated Decoy than a Shadow Master. But it works like a tank, with monsters attacking the Image if it is closer to them than the Wizard, and as anyone who has played artillery characters knows, a tanking minion (or another player) is beyond value.

Mirror Image animation sequence in the BlizzCon 2008 Demo.

Synergies

• No synergies with any of the Wizard passives are yet known.

Development

Mirror Image was first shown at BlizzCon 2008 when the Wizard was unveiled, where it was at Tier II on the Conjuring Skill Tree. It then spawned five illusion images.

The BlizzCon 2009 version increased illusion health; it seemed likely the number of images probably could be increased through the use of skill runes. Flux found it useful in the right circumstances:[1]

I didn’t use this one very often during play, since the Wizard was powerful enough to slaughter most attackers without needing the assistance, but the few times I did Mirror Image, against big mobs, it worked marvelously. The mirror doesn’t last for very long, usually dying to the monster onslaught, but it didn’t have to. The Wizard has a number of nice AoE spells, even at low levels, and all the MI had to do was provide a focal point for the Fallen or Dark Cultists to swarm around to turn them into fish in a barrel for Arcane Orbs.

Mirror Image was still listed at BlizzCon 2010, but it wasn't one of the Wizard's starting skills. Skill tiers were removed for the July 2011 Press Event, and Mirror Image became a level 15 skill.
Later in the beta, Mirror Image was moved down by a level, becoming level 14 skill.

Previous Versions

See the Wizard skill archive for more details on previous versions of Mirror Image and other Wizard skills.
Or see Mirror Image (BlizzCon 2008) for the original version of this skill.

In Other Games

Mirror Image is basically a combination of the Assassin's Shadow Master and Amazon's Decoy from Diablo II. The Mirror Image attacks monsters with a variety of skills, like the Shadow Master, but doesn't do any actual damage, like the Decoy.

Media

Mirror Image can be seen in action on video here:

• Cinematic: Wizard
• Video: Blizzcon 2010 Rune Effects

You can find pictures in the Diablo III screenshot and picture gallery:

• Diablo III screenshots and pictures
• Mirror Image specific gallery contents

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  Mirror Image shot.

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  The Mirror Image animation.

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  Mirror Images casting Spectral Blade.

Related Articles

• Duplicate Conjuring is a retired skill that provided for more images.
• Conjured Health is a retired skill that gave more health to Mirror Images.
  

Skill runes made both skills obsolete.

References

• BlizzCon 2008 Wizard Gameplay Report
• BlizzCon 2009 Full Wizard Skill Trees
• Zediono's translation of JudgeHype's pre-beta report -- IncGamers 1st Aug 2011
• Silva's Wizard Runestone Effects -- IncGamers 5th Sep 2011
• Wizard Active Skills -- Diablo III 12th Sep 2011

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