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Originally Posted by pharmakos
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that's not true. for a paladin, a larger mana pool is effectively a larger HP pool. it doesn't matter as much for most groups, but in oddball groups or when soloing having a large mana pool is important for a paladin.
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Extra mana will hardly ever matter.
Extra mana may provide some benefit if shit goes sideways when you're at/near full mana, but that doesn't come up often as you just don't go around breaking camps with groups that are on the ragged edge of fail all that often. Extra mana may be of some benefit if you're at a camp with so much downtime that you sit around doing nothing most of the time, but choosing race for a tank based on the notion of sitting at some lootcamp all day twiddling your thumbs seems like a doubtful path to me.
Half-elf has very poor wis, and I assure you that it was NOT the mana limitation that made soloing my Half-elf paladin suck. Rather it's the "solo"+"paladin" part that sucks. A deeper mana pool would not have averted any deaths nor increased the glacial XP pace.