Ranger mana pool gets chipped away at. With limited regen options and often little time to sit, more mana means more uptime, regardless of clickies, regardless of starting full or not. 80% of 2400mana is still more than 80% of 1800.
Bcbrown ranger's magelo is more or less EC BIS, leaning on the sturdier side. Yeah it is hard to get more mana on a EC beat but if you want more there are options. Melees get the 12mana/wis treatment too and you'll pretty much always be under the 200wis softcap so it is good returns. Yeah, you'll have to sacrifice some stats but depending on the task at hand it might not matter much. If you have the "luxury" of raiding gear it is even easier.
Sidenote: when I started chanter, almost everybody told me mana doesn't matter because you have high regen but even with +14 mana regen is always an issue. Different class with different struggles but a bigger pool is a bigger pool.
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