Quote:It just seemed to me that 872 mana (base cost to shift to moonkin) was a pretty steep fixed floor you'd have to overcome. How much mana do you typically get back from the melee proc?
As a priest, of course, I use this "regen downtime" to wand, but druids don't get that choice, so maybe it makes sense.
I plan on having the talent that reduces shape shifting by 20%. That still would make the transition cost 700 mana which is still expensive. I haven't found any formulas yet that give the proc rates and amounts of the melee mana regen. (Maybe I'll need to derive this myself) Frost suggested that some friends of his that he knows in the BC beta think that from a feeling the mana regen seems to be effective. How effective for the situation I describe has yet to be determined.