Water Elemental

I’ve been sitting on this for a while now and I know there have been other posts about it but I just can’t keep pretending that I’m ok with the changes to water elemental for frost mage.

My elemental’s name was Squirt and he was with me from the very start of my account on my first character. He didn’t do much for my dps but that never mattered, I’d be damned if I ever took Lonely Winter talent, if I was gonna do something then Squirt was gonna be there too.

I don’t understand why Blizzard couldn’t just make the icy veins thing it’s own talent. Why remove the one thing that kept me going as Frost? I don’t need to be optimized for damage and I don’t care if higher end content was better with the Lonely Winter talent, none of that pays any mind to sentimental value.

I feel so empty without my elemental like I’m missing something. Overall it doesn’t really affect my ability to dps so I’m effectively playing the same way I always have been, but I actually am finding that I’m not enjoying playing mage anymore, this small change ruined the whole class for me. The thing that spawns when I’m using icy veins isn’t Squirt, it’s a complete stranger, a cheap knockoff.