Originally Posted by taciturn

I have a quick question regarding the dps opportunity costs of using the different mana regen options, I remember seeing somebody about it before here, but I cannot find it with search. My appologies if the information is somewhere else and i missed it. Currently, i'm running molten armor, and using my mana gems, and mana pots but trying to avoid stopping to use evo and saving it for a backup, but I don't really know if this is ideal.

Obviously my options are:
mana pots vs destro pots
mana gems vs flame caps
mage armor vs molten
and evo vs no evo.

Mabey our SP are doing something wrong, but as fire I seem to need to use pots and gems even with one if i use molten armor. I'm really not sure how to go about calculating the average dps gained or lost over mana gained via the different options, but any help or recommendations would be appreciated.

Originally Posted by Roywyn

Mana vs. Damage

This is a list of choices you can make to maintain your mana.
It's ordered by efficiency, by the amount of mp5 you gain per point of sacrificed damage.

1) 5.27 mp5/dmg - Chaining Mana Potions over Destruction Potions gives you +99.5 mp5 at the cost of -19 damage.

2) 3.70 mp5/dmg - Chaining Mana Gems over Flame Caps gives you +100 mp5 at the cost of -27 damage

3) 2.86 mp5/dmg - Evocation gives you +140 mp5 at the cost of -49 damage.

4) 2.03 mp5/dmg - Arcane Concentration instead of Icy Veins yields +79mp5 at the cost -39 damage.
5) 1.80 mp5/dmg - Arcane Meditation instead of Elemental Precision yields +54 mp5 at the cost of -30 damage.

6) 1.40 mp5/dmg - Serpent-Coil Braid gives you +28 mp5 at the cost of about -20 damage.
7) 1.35 mp5/dmg - Mage Armour gives you +69 mp5 at the cost of -51 damage.
8) 1.36 mp5/dmg - Talented Blessing of Wisdom over Blessing of Kings gives you +25mp5 at the cost of -19 damage.

9) 0.89 mp5/dmg - Untalented Blessing of Wisdom over Blessing of Kings gives you +17mp5 at the cost of -19 damage.

10) 0.63 mp5/dmg - The Alchemist's Stone gives you +47 mp5 at the cost of -75 damage.


This means if you're min-maxing to the extreme, you'd chain mana potions as first priority, and mana gems as second priority.
Using Evocation is a clear third priority, and respeccing to 10 or 18 arcane are choic 4 and 5, both with comparable returns when you can get the hit from somewhere else.