02-16-2005, 09:44 AM
playingtokrush,Feb 16 2005, 01:10 AM Wrote:Some people don't mind drinking after every two or three kills -- this includes both mages and shadow priests. And it's possible to get cheap drinks from friendly mages. As a frequent supplier for a shadow priest who knows quite well what he's doing, I can tell you that there are shadow priests out there who use wands rarely, if at all.
Again, casters have the worst situation for building up "combat" skills.
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Stopping and drinking every two or three kills is not what my mage does as it is something that I do mind having to do. By starting the practice of mana efficient fighting early, it possible to get into a routine where you only need to stop every 8-10 kills to drink for mana recovery while soloing the more normal monsters. Then when you group with others, you can more readily keep up a pace of play that the does not come off as so annoying to do them of having to stop constantly to recover. Learing to use the wand at good skill is part of this technique. For example in my mages last run through Gnomeregan my mage only used about 12-14 water for the entire run. And most of that was from each time I had to do a massive iAE set of attacks to clear large normal group pulls.