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Who hasn't seen the hilarious raiding incident of a mage hitting mirror image and then having "Surprise! You've got aggro!" as the invisible buff wears off and a dragon goes charging for his throat?
Up until today mages have had to pre-emptively invis (not really an option during Tenebron and Shadron on Sarth3D), beg for hand of salv's, or just generally squeeze their eyes shut, hover a hand over iceblock, and hope.
Today after a bit of begging, a friend of mine released an update to his mod:
http://www.wowinterface.com/downloads/info8187-MyThreat.html
It's based on the threat calculations done in this thread on Elitist Jerks.
When you're under MI, it shows your real threat, rather than a huge negative number (or zero, like Omen is doing now.) It also puts parentheses around it and colors it light blue so it's clear that your current threat is 'protected' by MI.
There's a configuration option to turn the new feature on and off.
Mages still have to guess at when MI will fade, since there's no buff/debuff in game to indicate it, but it's at least a start.
There's a nice, little-known macro command for this purpose: /in nn
Use this macro:
/in 25 /script DEFAULT_CHAT_FRAME:AddMessage("MIRROR IMAGE ENDING IN 5 SECONDS.");
That will cause a message to appear in your chat frame after 25 seconds (that's the "/in 25" part), letting you know that Mirror Image is about to end. You can also make it do a raid-warning style message, I think, but I don't know the script command for that.
To tell when MI is going to end isn't necessarily a guessing game.
I just add a:
/script Stopwatch_Play();
/stopwatch 30
to my MI macro which starts the in-game stopwatch at 30 seconds to countdown to the fading of MI.
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Ya I don't like that because the stopwatch doesn't go away at the end, I have to manually close it. It's a minor quibble though, that's true. I'm just too picky about my UI. As it is, I manually time it with living bomb, so I know about when it's going to end anyways.
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/in is a wow-ace only command, keep in mind. So unless you have some ace addon that includes the particular ace module that supplies the "/in" command, you won't be able to use it.