[Prestige]

Perfect shapeshifting is achievable through an application, but no, making into a RB race should not make you a god of trickery who's super hard to deal with from an OOC standpoint and not just IC. And it isn't hard just for players either. Shapeshifting (the full version of it, at least) is not something that is given as easily as it was in the past, and that's fine.

As for mimics themselves: I don't disagree about them feeling somewhat underwhelming. They have cool IC, but in terms of mechanics, they're probably the least appealing. I wouldn't suggest a sin-spell though because that's not meant to be so common. The ice weakness should be taken out. No race, and I mean -no race- has a drawback and it isn't fair to add one here because 'uhm... legacy! that's how they were in the past!'. They're magical creatures. Ice should not hurt them more than it hurts a normal magi.

In a perfect world, True Mimickry would also be fixed but it's way too bugged to ever happen, so yeah. Just wait for when you're 200 to use it.