For those on a budget, shawl is decent enough outside of raid settings imo—swapped it in during downtime or when there is no enchanter/bard present in group. Raid targets allowing, there are other, better options that are worth the DKP versus the time/plat investment shawl 7 requires.
For paladins, FTI helps counter the mana drain from divine purpose and, when coupled with crown of narandi, completely offsets it. SKs can take advantage of soul defiler proc, buy a narandi crown, and be set with or without shawl, but defiler is one of yelinak's rare drops. Since rangers can't wear narandi crown in this era, shawl wouldn't be useless, particularly for those who pull a lot both in and outdoors. Bards do benefit from flowing thought, though gear options only allow them access to the lowest version. It's still good QOL to have, especially since their mana bar resets to zero after accepting rez. That said, their mana doesn't get decreased by evac or various forms of mana drain so it isn't an absolute must-have if the bard is an alt that hardly ever uses charm.
It is kind of scraping the bottom of the barrel in terms of FT, especially for all of the required item acquisition/quest work, but LR for the hardest drops are cheap enough. In the long run clickies will save more mana than flowing thought but, as we are locked into the trilogy, por que no los dos?
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