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Kaubel · 04/25/08, 8:43 PM

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After 2.4 came out, I got a hold of a Darkmoon card: Blue Dragon from the darkmoon faire. I wanted to see if it would help with my mana regen.

Basically, what the card does is give you a 2% chance, on every spell cast, to get a 15 second buff. The buff lets you regen your mana at 100%, temporarily counteracting the 5 second rule.

Even with pathetic spirit, at around 100, my out-of-combat mana regen is still double my in-combat MP5 based regen. With wisdom, my in-combat MP5 is somewhere around 140, and my out-of-combat mana regen, which includes my mp5 + the spirit/int regen is probably around 270, or almost double.

I did a few tests where I would cast holy light until my mana bar was depleted. If the card activated, I could tell a difference and possibly get another cast or two off. Then I swapped out the card for my vial of the sunwell with the 15mp5. That was a much more consistent increase in mana. Much better than the darkmoon card, obviously when it didn't proc, and not quit as good when it did.

I'll do some more tests in the next few days and alternate holy light with flash of light until my mana bar is depleted, testing the different trinkets.

Also, I swapped in and out some crappy spirit gear to see what effect it would have. Basically, with my current intelligence value of 450ish or so, every additional point of spirit equates to an additional 1mp5 for out of combat.

Given that I"m an enchanter and can re-enchant my gear inexpensively, I might try to give myself a few spirit enchants and do all these tests again, just for kicks. As an example, if I were to enchant a few pieces with an extra 30 spirit, which should be easy to do, that would be an extra 30mp5 out of combat. However, combine that with the darkmoon blue dragon card, the results might be interesting, but I doubt it would make up for losing 6mp5 to chest and the int or whatever the other pieces already have on them... Still, it would be interesting to see how well it works out over 5 mana bars worth of heals....

Tokov