Originally Posted by Reiker
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It doesn't but it should.
Although I think I remember a dev saying that they remember pet canni, and plan to look into it, but needs to know what % the mana return was based on hps. The way it worked in the past was that you got a specific % of the pet's hps back as mana, and the level 49 earth pet had the most hps to mana cost ratio to summon of any of the pets through 60.
I remember the % was 10% of the pet's hps, but the proof of this was lost a long time ago (I tried finding it again, but haven't had any luck yet, but as soon as I find the proof, I plan on making a post in the bug reports section of the forum). The level 49 earth pet has around 3k hps unbuffed which at 10% of 3k is 300 mana returned for 200 mana cost to summon the pet. That may seem like a lot of mana, but it's not as much as some may think do to the fact that you won't be sitting and getting meditate mana, and it takes 9 seconds to summon a pet, so it's like 100 mana every tick and a half.
I can't really give you an exact level, but eventually it becomes 100x more efficient to just reclaim/recast than to wait for a pet to regen or heal up a boatload of HP. It depends on the situation though, sometimes the downtime may outweigh the time it takes to get a high level pet if you already summoned one.
Reiker is right about this. At your level (28) pet's cost a TON of mana in comparison to what you have for a mana pool, so for now it's going to be far more efficient to heal, or let the pet regen to full. Currently the level 24 pets cost 240 mana to summon, which at level 24 you should only have around 700+ mana depending on how much int gear you have. The pets also don't have that many hps at that level (around 6-800 hps) so your 150ish hp heal for 100 mana is pretty efficient. Your pet mana cost goes down to 200 starting at level 29 pets, and doesn't go any higher for mana cost until level 51+ (Kunark)
Now think about at level 49, say if you're using even your fire pet which has the least amount of hps of the level 49 pets. The level 49 fire pet has 2100 hps with pet focus. Say you've solod a few mobs, still have 70% mana, and are ready to continue, but your pet is down to 200 health. At 30hp/tick your pet would take 63 ticks to regen to full without heals. It would take about 9 heals to heal your pet to full (or 900 mana to heal it). Or you could reclaim the pet, get at least 100 mana back for reclaiming it, resummon a new pet for 100 mana (since you got 100 back from reclaim), rebuff burnout (150mana)
Long story short.
63 ticks (over 6 minutes) to regen on it's own
900 mana to heal the pet with pet heal
Or 250 total mana to reclaim, resummon a new pet and cast burnout
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