MAY CONTAIN SPOILERS ABOUT ITEMS
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Try doing this:
Equip your mage with cloak of mirroring
Cast symulacrum
Throw a magic missile (or flame arrow or similar) to your image
Then see how it bounces from your character to the image due to the cloak
Well this becomes boring after a while (3 hours or so

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"Let my spells do the dirty work" Ertai, High Sorceror of the Holy Flame