The Manastone Calculation

[kjs86z]

Originally Posted by Castle2.0 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Here's another calculation for druid with manastone.

At 200 meditate you gain 16mana/tic sitting.

Chloro = 1500 hp over 15 minutes. That equates to 500 mana from manastone. Minus 200 mana for cost of chloro = 300 mana. That's 18.76 tics of siting down medding. That means you are saving 1m 52seconds -- every 15 minutes of active fighting.

That's 12.5% time saved.

If manastone takes 60 hours to camp. You would need 480 hours (20 days) of active play (using your mana for killing, porting, buffing, etc) to break even on time, and then you are gaining "free" time every minute from then on.

If you're a druid, do you have 20 days of /played time that was active? We're still in Vanilla and PoHate and SolRo isn't even out yet, and for most 50 druids, this is probably true - for anyone playing since Day 1 this is probably true.

Cleric even more insane with CH.

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One thing to keep in mind about this is the 20 days /played is only time spent when you're playing at max efficiency. I'd argue the average P99 Green player will hit maybe 50% of this across their entire time logged into the game on that character.

This is pure spit-balling but roll with me here.

So let's call it 40 days /played to break even instead for shits and giggles. On a healthy 15 hour per week average play time, it will take 64 real life weeks to truly break even for our average joe blow casual p99 druid player's unhealthy trip into the Autism Abyss for a m-stone.

No idea when Kunark is supposed to drop but if you have plans on acquiring a manastone still, you better get in line soon and plan on playing a LOT of everquest to make it "worthwhile." And at the end of the day, was it really worth it?

Consider Blue.