Ex-Spirit-mentation

Well, I can’t post one right now because Warcrafter, the awesome tool I used for the previous post, is currently down.

Internal Server Errors, my sweaty troll arse.

I can try to remember what things are…

Ok, the T4 mage had the staff from… something, full T4 set (meaning that, yes, a successful run of Gruul’s and Bagtheridon is required), the bracers from Attumen… uhh… something from Maiden of Virtue, something from Curator… something from Prince, I think, a quest chain ring… and something else from… somewhere…  I think…

Yeah, ok. This isn’t working. I’ll get a proper list once the damn site works.

All items were enchanted as best they could. The T4 mage used blue gems, the T5 a mix of epic gems and blue gems, the T6 mage had the best of the best epic gems.

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Now the question is, how much does this mana regeneration actually help out Arcane?

By it’s very nature, Arcane is an intense spec where mana is concerned.

Assuming that you are spamming Arcane Blast, have it running at it’s full debuff, you are spending 633 every 1.5 seconds; even faster if you have spell haste.

Let’s take a cool, all nice and slow like.

Seconds : Not-quite Seconds

00:00 – Mage starts casting Arcane Blast

02:50 – Arcane Blast completes, 195 mana spent

04:67 – Arcane Blast completes, 536 mana spent

06:50 – Arcane Blast completes, 1023 mana spent

08:00 – Arcane Blast completes, 1656 mana spent

09:50 – Arcane Blast completes, 2289 mana spent

Wow. Dear old Arcane mage has spent over 2k mana in under ten seconds. Give him another 5 seconds, and he’s already far past the amount even the most powerful mana potions can restore.

So let’s balance it out. Take something nice and simple. Assuming roughly the same thing I assumed yesterday (that is, Shaman in the group, BoW, and, oh, let’s say the mage himself has exactly 301 mp5 so the total is something retardedly simple like 400) let’s see what happens to our mana consumption in the same ten seconds.

00:00 – Mage starts casting Arcane Blast

02:00 – This is where mana would restore, but he hasn’t spent anything yet, so nothing happens

02:50 – Arcane Blast completes, 195 mana spent

04:00 – 160 mana restored, 35 mana spent

04:67- Arcane Blast completes, 376 mana spent

06:00 – 160 mana restored, 216 mana spent

06:50 – Arcane Blast completes, 703 mana spent

08:00 – 160 mana restored, Arcane Blast completes, 1176 mana spent

09:50 -  Arcane Blast completes, 1809 mana spent

10:00 – 160 mana restored, 1649 mana spent

Same ten seconds, except now the mage has an extra 640 mana to work with; enough mana to cast another full Arcane Blast at max debuff.

Alright, let’s do this a little more extreme. There’s a shadow priest in the mages group, capable of outputting 800 DPS. However, it does take him a few seconds to really get going, so for the first 6 seconds he restores a little under what he normally would.

And I have here a ten sided die (0-9, technically 1-10, but the “0″ represents ten) to simulate clearcast. If it rolls a “0″ the spell is free. Mage still has BoW and a shaman in the group.

00:00 – Mage starts casting Arcane Blast

02:50 – Arcane Blast completes, 195 mana spent

03:00 – 25 mana from shadow priest, 185 mana spent

04:00 – 160 mana restored, 30 from shadow priest, 0 mana spent

04:67 – Arcane Blast completes, 341 mana spent

05:00 – 35 mana from shadow priest, 306 mana spent

06:00 – 160 mana restored, 40 mana from shadow priest (now running at full DPS), 106 mana spent

06:50 – Arcane Blast completes, 593 mana spent

07:00 – 40 mana restored, 553 mana spent

08:00 – Arcane Blast completes, 200 mana restored, 986 mana spent

09:00 – 40 mana restored, 946 mana spent

09:50 – Arcane Blast completes, ZOGM CLEARCAST PROCS NEXT SPELL IS FREE, 1579 mana spent

10:00 – 200 mana restored, 1379 mana spent

11:00 – Arcane Blast completes, 40 mana restored, 1339 mana spent

12:00 – 200 mana restored, 1139 mana spent

12:50 – Arcane Blast completes, ZOGM THERE’S CLEARCAST AGAIN, AREN’T WE LUCKY, 1772 mana spent

13:00 – 40 mana restored, 1732 mana spent

14:00 – Free Arcane Blast completes, 200 mana restored, 1532 mana spent

15:00 – 40 mana restored, 1492 mana restored

15:50 – Arcane Blast completes, 2125 mana spent

16:00 – 200 mana restored,  1925 mana spent

17:00 – Arcane Blast completes, 40 mana restored, 2518 mana spent

18:00 – 200 mana restored, 2318 mana spent

18:50 – Arcane Blast completes, 2951 mana spent

19:00 – 40 mana restore, 2911 mana spent

20:00 – Arcane Blast completes, 200 mana restored, 3344 mana spent

Well, despite the extreme boredom that comes with numbers talking, the numbers do speak for themselves.

Compare this. In those 20 seconds, this arcane mage ended up with 3344 mana less than what he started with.

With no mana regeneration whatsoever, no priest, no clearcast, no mage armor, this exact same mage would have spent 6720 mana in that same time span.