I think the others have summed it up pretty well. As they said, focus on one or two roles and let people know which roles you are filling. If there's a cleric in group, focus on buffing with some "oh crap" heal help on the side, as your constant rebuffs will be costly.
If someone is constantly "haste plz" that doesn't mean you have to do it. If you're main healing, tell them you can't heal and haste unless they want to constantly stop pulls for you to med.
Tell them that your haste costs a lot of mana to maintain on multiple people and maybe just give it to the tank (for hate) and one other melee at most.
Regens, honestly, I only ever kept on myself for the most part unless I was main healing. It can be a waste of mana otherwise.
And yeah, slowing won't be "needed" except on raids, and honestly should be ignored until higher levels.
One of my grand philosophies in EQ, no matter which class/role I played, was of mana costs. Is it mana efficient for me to be hasting everyone so they're more likely to pull hate off the tank? Am I nuking/dotting so much I'm always running oom? Am I pulling too fast for the group to get some med time in? Can this group handle multiple pulls efficiently, or is it just costing everyone extra mana?
I always tried to keep my mana equal to the main healers as a DPS, and mitigate my buff casting with the mana required to heal or cast necessary debuffs.
Oldschool EQ was all about micromanagement, when we didn't regain full mana in 10 seconds or have 100 mana per tick regen without sitting. Plan your mana out for 5 fights from now and try to keep it somewhat level, or at least decreasing at a moderate rate.
Let your group know to slow the pulls down a bit or to let the tank get more hate if you're blowing half your mana bar healing in one fight.
I'm really hoping that this server won't suffer from EQLive syndrome, where everyone can burn and debuff like mad and their merc tank or well-geared PC tank can keep hate off them NP, or in most cases, they just let the hate get on them and tank instead.
That don't work so hot here!
Sorry, I digressed a bit :P
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