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Originally Posted by August
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Unless you're the type of person that meds AFK to get full mana and then comes back and blows your whole mana bar +WIS is a completely useless stat. So is +INT for a caster.
Regeneration of mana is not percentage based it's based on your skill level in meditation and whether or not you're sitting or standing during a tick.
If you are not at full mana, you are regenerating mana every tick by some amount.
This means that your higher mana pool from +WIS, or +MANA items does absolutely jack squat for you unless you're constantly hitting full mana or you find yourself in the situation I stated at the very beginning.
The best investments you can make for any toon is to get high HP, a weapon with good damage / delay if you're going to melee, and... that's it. You can't twink a caster. There's no way to make them deal more damage (like + STR for melee), there's no way for you to regen your primary resource (like a fungi) and there's no way for you to cast faster (like a haste item) and there's no way for you to fundamentally change the amounts you hit for (like upgrading to a new weapon).
Casters get the total shaft in classic timeline for twinking (I for one think focus effects really helped the caster's plight) , so buy yourself a nice wep, some 55hp/5ac rings, and go to town.
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This is only corect if you play 100% safe 100% of the time, I would be pretty bored doing this but if you like it go for it. Otherwise...
As Cecily mentioned, a deep manapool is how druids make quadding work.
Other than quadding, if you're doing anything interesting (group or solo) adds will be a risk. When your shallow manapool runs dry before the adds are dealt with you (and your group) are shit-outa-luck.
Real casters, wis or int, are not the same as hybrids. For a hybrid, mana regen is key to sustaining agro and/or pull pace, depth of manapool rarely matters much. For a real caster everything about mana is important, depth of manapool can be critical to success when breaking a camp, surviving a train, or just living life in the fast lane.