A really bad idea

[Seijana]

People say the Mimic tear is too strong as it is.

But what if... it took on not your form but that of your enemy?

[vamirez]

Then it would be even stronger?
However, it's not too strong - it really depends on how you set up for it.

[Grizzly]

Originally posted by vamirez:

Then it would be even stronger?
However, it's not too strong - it really depends on how you set up for it.

eh, thats the thing

Edit: thanks for the points! you must have found my post really good when you give me steam points for it!

id rather say it has the possibility to be too strong. i made a post under morgotts great rune about a self healing tank build and i know the mimic cant use great runes but the last part that i wrote that lists your HP regen and max HP doesnt include the great rune
https://eldenring.wiki.fextralife.com/Morgott's+Great+Rune

Originally posted by Underestimated:

Reason why thats my favorite great rune
"Increases health by 25%. This multiplier gets applied after all other health increasing buffs"

this with
-60 vigor, 1900 base HP
-Crimson Amber Medallion+2, thats 8%
-Erdtree's Favor+2 that gives HP (4%), Stamina (10%), and Equip Load (8.0%).
-Godskin Swaddling Cloth talisman that makes Successive attacks restore 30 + 3% HP, small weapons after 7 hits, normal to bigger after 5.
-Dragoncrest Shield Talisman+2, 17% Physical Damage reduction
-Opaline Hardtear, Increases all damage negation types by 15% for 3 minutes
-Crimsonspill Crystal Tear, 10% extra max HP for 3 min
-Boiled Prawn, 15% dmg reduction for 60 sec, reaplyable as long as you got some of them in your inventory.
-Great Stars weapon with Prayerful Strike ash of war (weapon regenerates 1% HP per hit, ash of war regens 30% HP per hit)
-any heavy armor with good poise

and you got yourself 2347 HP with 54% physical dmg reduction, 15% dmg reduction for everything else, regenerate 23 HP per hit, 690 HP per ash of war, and 99 HP all 5 hits because of the talisman. but you didnt hear the best thing yet, this DOESNT include the 25% extra max HP yet
so your actual HP is now 2933 HP.

Have fun being so tanki that nothing can kill you

if you use this setup with a mimic +10 he will outheal any damage it gets and the HP/damage reduction is so high nothing matters (he doesnt get tear or consumable damage reduction tho (idk if he doesnt get consumable, would be funny to watch if he would use that, cause he does uses throwing stuff))

[vamirez]

Yep, entirely possible, but the amount of effort is similar to using an OP build for your char. Some players do that - they look that stuff up and build accordingly. But I'd wager that most won't and will just have a copy of their own char which can be anything from relatively weak to quite strong, but usually not OP.

[Killer Kitten]

I found Tische to be a better summon than the mimic tear... which is my build, so what does that say about my build?

I hate these deep philosophical Elden Ring questions.

[Grizzly]

Originally posted by Killer Kitten:

I found Tische to be a better summon than the mimic tear... which is my build, so what does that say about my build?

I hate these deep philosophical Elden Ring questions.

Tiche is a really good summon, but you can easily make the mimic stronger. the only enemy were tiche will do better no matter what i think is malenia simply cause tiche actually dodges most attacks, the mimic tries but isnt close to tiche dodge.

having a summon that doesnt heal malenia cause malenia cant hit her is lovely

[Kleerex]

They should've let players summon defeated bosses.

[Sabaithal]

Sometimes other summons are better than mimic. Commander Nail comes to mind, any mimic I try to send against him just gets wrecked.

[Fineous🔥]

Mimic is the only viable choice for max NG+, all the others even fully upgraded are useless...now thats something they should fix instead PVP malarkey.

Anyways back to your question OP. No mainly because that will mean retconning the mimic lore. It is something created by Nokron priests to become the perfect copy of a lord AKA Elden Lord.

[Mr_Blank]

Originally posted by Seijana:

People say the Mimic tear is too strong as it is.

But what if... it took on not your form but that of your enemy?

I am mimiclea, blade of mimiqella. And I have never known a nerf.

[Seijana]

Cower before Mimikleth, the Mimic Blade!

[Terror]

Originally posted by 𝕱𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖔𝖚𝖘🔥:

Mimic is the only viable choice for max NG+, all the others even fully upgraded are useless...now thats something they should fix instead PVP malarkey.

Anyways back to your question OP. No mainly because that will mean retconning the mimic lore. It is something created by Nokron priests to become the perfect copy of a lord AKA Elden Lord.

It still exists as a boss so the lore wouldn't need any change

[Terror]

I'd say it doesn't matter that the mimic is this strong simply because there are tons of other things in the game that people could consider ''too strong''.