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Originally Posted by Jimjam
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The mana spent on casting invis certainly adds up quickly.
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I mean, I guess? But I really think the the potential saving of
two 70 mana Careless Lightings (plus possibly a second nuke and/or 1-2 roots/snares) matters more.
Ideally, you would finish every charm fight by 1HB-ing both mobs to death, mana-free. Norath is not ideal though: you need to kill runners fast to avoid adds.
How much mana does that take? It depends on the mob's HP when charm breaks. If they have 70/105 HP, you'd need two nukes and a root, for 175 mana total. But if both are at 40 HP, two roots (and a few club hits) does it for only 70 mana, or less (with a 15 mana snare instead of a root). That's a 125 mana difference between the two scenarios.
The thing is, if you try to chase those low HP "late breaks", you inevitably wind up with "too late" breaks, where a mob dies pre-break. This is the truth of charm fighting: either break late and sometimes lose mobs pre-break, or break early (with higher HP mobs left).
No one wants to go through a charm fight only to lose 50%/100% of the mob's XP. Without a ring, the only way to safely avoid that is an early break. With the ring, you can instead break late.
It's not about the "invisible mana" ... it's about the "finish him" mana!
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