[Erati]

Even if everyone agrees Mana was capped originally, classic gear is so basic that I truly don't understand this crusade to nerf the top 5% players here by suggesting the Devs to gut and re-do how mana is calculated/stored through items.

So let me break this down for you on why this seems a bit overreaching in terms of a 'wishlist' change here: My druid who probably has the highest mana pool of all hierophants is sitting around 4,380 mana, and using Dald's estimate of 3,683 would represent a 16% nerf to my main's mana pool. If we whack off 350 mana from my druids total which would be closer to the avg lvl 60 raider and then calculate again, Dald's figure ( again the most conservative ) would represent a 9% nerf. Basically this nerf would only be felt by anyone who has above 4k mana unbuffed and even then you have to ascend to the top 5% of mana pools for it to actually be somewhat significant and make much of a difference as we are basically talking about one less 300 mana-ish spell for the average raiding player.

For a ton of backend work on how the Titanium client interacts with the server in terms of every single player's mana pool calculation from meditating to spell casting, you are looking at basically a less than 10% nerf to the general raiding public. This is a neat idea if the Green server ever becomes a thing as then you would see this actually affect twinking significantly however on the 10 year old blue server, this effort seems a bit misplaced considering how many longstanding bugs that are seemingly easier to correct are still on the table. ( LoH bug going on 9+ years, White Dragon helm bug 2+ year, Paladin Defense/Disc etc etc etc )

In conclusion, Mana was always mysterious and hard to solve how it was calculated, my classic fix here would be to remove the client mana # display then people can just blissfully speculate and wonder how much they truely have while others won't be so focused on trying to remove 1 additional 300 mana spell cast from the general raiding public.