03-18-2009, 02:22 PM
I finally put Blue Dragon in the bank in preparation for 3.1. The content we see now we have strong enough gear that I haven't needed the regen since the first night on Malygos. And it's value drops rather significantly in 3.1
It's "MP5 value" is a function of OO5SR regen - IS5SR regen, a value which is decreasing significantly.
I use darkmoon: Illusion as an easy to obtain trinket with a good combination of stats (98 spellpower and an on use: that is mathematically 20 MP5). The cost of the cards is in fairly steady decline. People still want Noble cards, and all the other cards just go for cheap. It's a good starting option just because all it takes is gold.
Another good starter option for regen is the Soul Preserver trinket from normal Culling of Strat. The only issue here is nobody wants to run normal CoS, as heroic these days takes like 30 minutes for 5 badges.
Anyway that trinket is about -16 mana per cast if you cast for 800+ mana each time (2% proc rate, so 1 in 50 casts = -800 mana ==> 800/50 = 16) which makes it average ~30 MP5 on greater spam. If multiple target heals offer larger chance, it can potentially be worth over 50 MP5 when you use lots of binding or PoH / CoH.
Of course there's Darkmoon: Greatness, which is the best for mana regen period, but you'll pay a TON for it. I think it's down to attainable for only 4-5k now. Used to be 10k. The bell (Jazzebell but spelled wonky, I just search AH for bell) is also a very expensive, but very nice trinket. It's better than darkmoon:Illusion, with a tiny bit more spellpower and will typically yield more in the 30MP5 range. But the only way you'll get it is to pay 4-10k on the AH. Those two are "the best" non-raid options. However, not everyone had 8-20k gold to spend on trinkets.
It's "MP5 value" is a function of OO5SR regen - IS5SR regen, a value which is decreasing significantly.
I use darkmoon: Illusion as an easy to obtain trinket with a good combination of stats (98 spellpower and an on use: that is mathematically 20 MP5). The cost of the cards is in fairly steady decline. People still want Noble cards, and all the other cards just go for cheap. It's a good starting option just because all it takes is gold.
Another good starter option for regen is the Soul Preserver trinket from normal Culling of Strat. The only issue here is nobody wants to run normal CoS, as heroic these days takes like 30 minutes for 5 badges.
Anyway that trinket is about -16 mana per cast if you cast for 800+ mana each time (2% proc rate, so 1 in 50 casts = -800 mana ==> 800/50 = 16) which makes it average ~30 MP5 on greater spam. If multiple target heals offer larger chance, it can potentially be worth over 50 MP5 when you use lots of binding or PoH / CoH.
Of course there's Darkmoon: Greatness, which is the best for mana regen period, but you'll pay a TON for it. I think it's down to attainable for only 4-5k now. Used to be 10k. The bell (Jazzebell but spelled wonky, I just search AH for bell) is also a very expensive, but very nice trinket. It's better than darkmoon:Illusion, with a tiny bit more spellpower and will typically yield more in the 30MP5 range. But the only way you'll get it is to pay 4-10k on the AH. Those two are "the best" non-raid options. However, not everyone had 8-20k gold to spend on trinkets.
Conc / Concillian -- Vintage player of many games. Deadly leader of the All Pally Team (or was it Death leader?)
Terenas WoW player... while we waited for Diablo III.
And it came... and it went... and I played Hearthstone longer than Diablo III.
Terenas WoW player... while we waited for Diablo III.
And it came... and it went... and I played Hearthstone longer than Diablo III.