Dozer,Jun 16 2003, 09:21 AM Wrote:If you wear Gloom's Trap, two SOJs, Silkweaves, Magefiasts/Frosties(either one) and Lidless wall, no skill besides perhaps nova will drain your mana fast enough to require more than one point in warmth and 100 energy.Hail Dozer,
I couldn't disagree more. With an 8 FPS casting speed, my DR sorceress using only Charged Bolt level 36 and a Warmth level 18, I burned through mana so fast in cows, albeit a lot of the mana drain was undoubtedly from mana shield. When I stood still, my mana fully regenerated in about 20 seconds or less, however the point is that I had 120 Energy with the best gear (I'm not being chauvinistic, I'm serious) a DR sorceress can have and still barley managed to have enough mana at times. If my gear was any less up to par or I had any less energy, it would of been a challenge so great, I most likely would of died long ago.
My whole point in saying this is that at 8 FPS, you can really burn a lot of mana quickly and if you get hit a lot, you can ensure that much more mana loss from Mana Shield. So theres another variable... how do you play your character? Up front and personal or in the back and cautious?
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