Mana check?

Seeatee · #1 01-07-2011, 12:34 PM

there you are, in a lower guk group, the tank just pulled 5 mobs , your group kills them with no deaths, and then the tank asks "hows mana?"

how do you answer this question?

I have always been old school , even in EQ live in current times, even here with the percentages clearly posted prefer to answer in the 1 - 5M format "2m" meaning 2 bubbles of mana, vs 40%.

I have even had people ask me what I mean by 2m etc, they had no clue what I was talking about.

so how do YOU answer mana checks? the "bubble" format or Percentage format?

Chanus · #2 01-07-2011, 12:35 PM

In almost twelve years now I've never seen anyone post the number of bubbles. It's always been percentages.

Maybe it was a server dialect thing.

Seeatee · #3 01-07-2011, 12:38 PM

thats very well possible, on fennin ro for a very long time its the way almost everyone did it, never really gave much thought to the idea that it was a server specific thing.

freakyuno · #4 01-07-2011, 12:39 PM

I've never heard the bubble format. I've always heard percentage, which never made much sense to me to be honest. 40% on 1 cleric may mean 4 CH's, and on another cleric could mean 2.

Kassel · #5 01-07-2011, 12:39 PM

always %

Chanus · #6 01-07-2011, 12:40 PM

Yeah, it's funny how things are different depending on where you started... and I guess it makes sense.

ziggyholiday · #7 01-07-2011, 12:41 PM

Percentage.

In all my years of playing on live I never saw anyone use the bubble format. However I have seen one person on P99 use it and I don't think it was you.

Chanus · #8 01-07-2011, 12:41 PM

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I've never heard the bubble format. I've always heard percentage, which never made much sense to me to be honest. 40% on 1 cleric may mean 4 CH's, and on another cleric could mean 2.

At any given level, the percentage is a pretty decent rough estimate of how much mana you have left, I would think.

It's not like one guy is going to have 500 total and the other is going to have 2000.

senna · #9 01-07-2011, 12:42 PM

I've also never heard of this bubble format

son is you trollin us

SirAlvarex · #10 01-07-2011, 12:43 PM

If I'm at 40%, I say 40m.

If I were a naked half-elf druid, 40m would pretty much mean a single snare. So, I'd follow up "40m" with "not gtg".

If 40m is enough for a pull, I'll say "40m", "gtg".

Really, when I play a healer, I speak like a robot. Real words mean nothin.