Thread: Shaman Math
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Old 10-24-2010, 11:29 AM
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Because it will take you more time to make up that extra HP you lost, so overall, doesn't make you regain your HP/Mana any faster. In a situation where you're just soloing things one after another, you care about minimizing the amount of time between pulls, which means maximizing your AC (to lower damage taken, and by extension time spent healing) and regen. Having a higher HP or mana pool will not affect the amount of time between pulls in the long run; it will just maybe give you a little bonus at the very beginning when you arrive at your destination with full HP and mana after having been sitting in EC for a while or whatnot. Having a higher HP or mana pull does help you take down tougher pulls, so if you're going after a single very tough thing rather than an indefinite series of not-that-tough things, yeah, you'll want a large HP/mana pool. Otherwise? It's about minimizing the amount of time between pulls.
Chain canni is about equivalent to FT9. Shaman 1 is essentially buffed with FT9 for for 48 seconds, and then has to sit and regen mana normally. Shaman two is essentially buffed with FT9 for 64.5 seconds, and then has to sit and regen mana normally. Shaman two is able to regen approximately an extra 150 mana in 16.5 seconds compared to shaman 1. To say this doesn't affect the amount of time between pulls is like saying if they added a 5 minute "wait" period before your clarity could be refreshed, it wouldn't affect the amount of time between pulls. It sure as hell would.