New necro

[greatdane]

The only ones who should care about the size of their mana pool are quad-kiters and clerics. It isn't even so terribly crucial for clerics until they start raiding, but it's not as if there's a whole lot else to focus on stat-wise. You could put points in strength to better carry that plate gear, but I'm not sure I could bring myself to doing that.

For anyone else, and especially those with mana regeneration abilities, the size of your mana pool doesn't really matter. It's so uncommon that you go from full to OOM in one sequence, and if you do, you're probably either doing something wrong or you're fucked no matter how much int/wis you had. For the most part, the vast majority of your playtime should be spent in situations where it doesn't matter how much mana you have because you either don't spend enough to care or you're never near FM anyway. While grouping or soloing, you're probably always hovering between 0% and 60% mana, or if the content is easy, you'll have a mana surplus and never risk going OOM in the first place.

Really the only situation where int/wis/mana matters at all is when you spend a full mana bar in one go and still need more. It can happen to healers and quadders, but for anyone else, this should be so uncommon that you'd be getting better long-term results out of focusing on survivability or some other form of usefulness. On a class specifically known not only for its mana flexibility but also its aptitude for farming shamelessly, strength is a viable choice. I wouldn't personally do it, but if it isn't an alt and every coin counts, that higher strength will put money in your pocket. It's very likely that you'll reroll a more meaningful class anyway once your necro is level 53 or so, and by then you'll have made a reasonable amount of extra money just from being able to carry an extra bag of loot back to the vendor every time.