Originally Posted by Zong
Mana Tide is amazing for shadow priests, coupled with wrath of air. Consider a resto shaman, maybe?
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This means you're putting mana tide in a shadowpriest group rather than a non-shadowpriest group, i.e. giving tide to people with VT regen rather than those without access to VT. The value of mana regen likely diminishes as you get more*, so mightn't it be better to swap the shadowpriest into the shaman's group for tide? Or dropping Tide in the healer group instead and innervating the shadowpriest.
* e.g. a mage can scale up their DPS by consuming more MPS: wand -> scorch -> fireball -> arcane blast. The DPS gain you get by adding another 100mp5 is going to be less the higher up the scale you go, in the extreme case you can't use the mana fast enough and the DPS gain is zero.
(Edit: tangent but because Vontre mentioned it - an arcane mage will scale with mp5 the best of any spec, since they have the best arcane blast to use. Their DPS gains will still diminish as mp5 is added but they could still be one of the better targets for MTT when they have a spriest already - where a fire mage might not and an affliction warlock certainly wouldn't)