Comments on: Mana Management

By: Phaelia

Phaelia — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 22:20:15 +0000

@Zal: I think that even more common than discounting the value of a Green is discounting the value of a Blue. The Bangle of Endless Blessings is actually one of the best trinkets available for a Kara-level Druid, despite the fact that she has access to several purples of a similar item level.

@Starkore: Your experience sounds similar to mine. I could probably have a much higher +Healing value if I gemmed more pure red gems, but I tend to put +Healing/Spirit into blue slots, +Healing/Intellect into yellow slots, and pure +Healing into red slots. This gives me what I feel is a good balance of stats and makes my Innervate available more often than not for other raidmates.

One thing you might benefit from is MikScrollingBattleText. It’s configurable to play a sound when your mana and/or health reach a certain minimum threshold, making it a lot easier to keep track of when to Innervate.

I actually don’t have an article on battle rez order, although I do have one on resurrection order after a wipe. I like the idea of writing about battle rez precedence, though.

By: Starkore

Starkore — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 12:36:01 +0000

Nice article. I’ve found that keeping my spirit stat as high as possible at the expense of less heal bonus has been a nice balance for my resto. Nothing scares me more than running out of mana and often I’ve gotten so caught up in the action as to wonder why my rejuv isn’t casting, (am I spell-locked, silenced), no, oom! Emergency innervate, phew, tank still alive, carry on as before with just a little more attention to mana bar please. The beauty of being herb/alch is 2 fold, you make your own pots and you benefit form you Alchemist stone buff, now redeemers, the must have healing trinket. Equipped as such, I usually get by with just pots, and I try to keep my innervate for holy priests, but I love the idea of using a feral innervate on a SP, great that.
I keep my innervate for emergencies I guess, dual benefits of resto druid being, should one of your holy priests die half way through a boss fight, not only can you get them back from the dead, but also give them back all their mana – a major boost to a raid.
On that subject, you probably have a thread on ‘Who to use your Rebirth on?’, I’ll go look. I get asked for battle rez as much as I do innervate ><

By: Zal

Zal — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 14:29:22 +0000

Great thanks for that Phae. I seem to have got into the trap of thinking that just because something is green that it isn’t very good. I have the Heavenly Inspiration on my priest and I don’t know why I never thought about it for my druid!

By: Phaelia

Phaelia — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 07:09:01 +0000

Zal originally wrote: "I'm currently working on getting my Beasts deck all completed (3 cards left and just got my ubrs key finally so i can get at the Beast himself) and was wondering if in the meantime it's worth me using my [Mar'li's Eye] which I got way back in the mists of time from ZG? Currently I have my Oshu'gun Relic and my Airmans Ribband of Gallantry. I know the ribband wont help one jot with healing but i dont really have anything more useful other than what i linked above!" This comment was lost in the last move, and I wanted to make sure it made it back on here! Considering that Mar'li's Eye only affords you a maximum of 10 MP5, there are many trinkets out there that would be better for you (even the Mindtap Talisman from Dire Maul gave 11 MP5). You should complete the Netherstorm quest line for [Heavenly Inspiration] for use in the meantime while you run Botanica to get your [Bangle of Endless Blessings]. You might also consider the [Lower City Prayerbook] as a mana regenerative trinket. It's available at Revered reputation with Lower City. I hope this helps!

By: Phaelia

Phaelia — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 17:48:35 +0000

@Kuhbi: I'll have to give the Lower City Prayerbook a try. I like the idea of macroing it to your Lifebloom that way. I've previously had my +Healing trinket tied to Lifebloom so that I would start off with it each fight. My Spirit is pretty paltry (having something to do with the fact I wear two pieces of PvP gear - I'll have to do something to correct that soon), but I still want to get the Ace of Beasts (which only drops from the Beast in UBRS of all places). With this change, I really think they should open up the [Earring of Soulful Meditation] to Druids!

By: Kuhbi

Kuhbi — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 10:11:14 +0000

Ever since I heard about the nerf to trinketed Lifeblooms I have switched from two +Heal on Use trinkets to the Lower City trinket and the Darkmooncard: Blue Dragon. The Lower City one is macro’d to my Lifebloom and thus always on cooldown. They are just amazing for manaregenration. Raidbuffed I’m at 650 Spirit and just over 260 MP5 (in FSR), so a Blue Dragon proc should give just over 1000 mana which is fine.

As I’m always in the MainTank’s group I have only myself to rely on for mana regeneration and with those two trinkets and an odd PvP-manapotion I hardly run out of mana from rollen Lifeblooms or Rejuv. It’s only when I have to spam Regrowth that I really need to rely on my inervate to bring me mana back. In fact my inervate usually goes to another group’s shadowpriest or our CoH spamming priest.

The only thing that bothers me is that there’s no better trinket in sight at my current level so these two will have to stick with me for quite some time (We’re at 5/6 SSC, 3/4 TK). The Lifebloom nerf has limited trinket choices way too much imo

By: Phaelia

Phaelia — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 20:48:28 +0000

@Ms. Bellwether: Whoops! Corrected. =)

By: Bellwether

Bellwether — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 18:44:15 +0000

Thanks for the link, I really appreciate it! Though…one small thing…um…

I’m a “she.”

>_>

<_<

But thank you! XD

By: Bellwether

Bellwether — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 16:35:42 +0000

Here you are! http://4haelz.blogspot.com/2008/01/mana-recovery_14.html It’s shorter than yours, but I don’t like repeating other people It’s for resto and balance, though my balance knowledge is a bit rusty.

By: Hokuto

Hokuto — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 10:30:36 +0000

I actually didn’t think much before hitting the “buyout” button (or something like that) for that reason: I’ve never found many cards around, and I heard that the ace only drops on pre-BC stuff, being REALLY rare.

I didn’t test it a lot, since I just raided once since then. I’ve done Mag yesterday, being at MT/raid healing (like everybody else, actually), and it procs quite a lot for something with a 2% chance. I’ve had tries where it didn’t more than once, but I had two that it did at least two times even before Mag broke free – and when it happened, I ended up being at full mana at that moment.

I’ll test it more this week, but so far I think it’s worth the trinket slot for long, mana-sensitive fights. Maybe, MAYBE if I learn to use innervate on myself I can replace the alchemist stone