Mana check?
 

there you are, in a lower guk group, the tank just pulled 5 mobs , your group kills them with no deaths, and then the tank asks "hows mana?"

how do you answer this question?

I have always been old school , even in EQ live in current times, even here with the percentages clearly posted prefer to answer in the 1 - 5M format "2m" meaning 2 bubbles of mana, vs 40%.

I have even had people ask me what I mean by 2m etc, they had no clue what I was talking about.

so how do YOU answer mana checks? the "bubble" format or Percentage format?

In almost twelve years now I've never seen anyone post the number of bubbles. It's always been percentages.

Maybe it was a server dialect thing.

thats very well possible, on fennin ro for a very long time its the way almost everyone did it, never really gave much thought to the idea that it was a server specific thing.

I've never heard the bubble format. I've always heard percentage, which never made much sense to me to be honest. 40% on 1 cleric may mean 4 CH's, and on another cleric could mean 2.

always %

Yeah, it's funny how things are different depending on where you started... and I guess it makes sense.

Percentage.

In all my years of playing on live I never saw anyone use the bubble format. However I have seen one person on P99 use it and I don't think it was you.

At any given level, the percentage is a pretty decent rough estimate of how much mana you have left, I would think.

It's not like one guy is going to have 500 total and the other is going to have 2000.

I've also never heard of this bubble format

son is you trollin us

If I'm at 40%, I say 40m.

If I were a naked half-elf druid, 40m would pretty much mean a single snare. So, I'd follow up "40m" with "not gtg".

If 40m is enough for a pull, I'll say "40m", "gtg".

Really, when I play a healer, I speak like a robot. Real words mean nothin.