Mana check?

[Seeatee]

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]

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]

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]

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]

always %

[Chanus]

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

[ziggyholiday]

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]

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]

I've also never heard of this bubble format

son is you trollin us

[SirAlvarex]

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.

[Seeatee]

haha im not trolling, its the way it was on fennin ro back in the day, it was always 1m, 2m, 3m, LoM, OoM. etc. never much more specific then that.

I know there are a few folks here who can confirm this :confused:

[Erazmus]

Yeah, I always do percentages in the form of "20m", "40m", etc. In a good group at 20m to 30m and I'm gtg.

[Rhambuk]

I remember people announcing mana in bubbles, but they wouldn't say 2m they'd say 2 bubbles or bubs

[karsten]

i just dont ever ask!

[Slathar]

why the hell would you ever stop pulling is my question

[Mosharm]

But maybe I just never got into a good group :).

[zt004]

i just dont ever ask!

[mattkwi]

2m = 2% on live for me. Another weird thing is for Invisible VS Undead. On my servers was always IVU and I've found alot of people call it ITU.

[Walabaego]

I've been in a group where someone was doing the 2m, 3m before. Scratched my head and said, 'Wtf, are you thirsty?'.

[Uthgaard]

Your mana is so fat, it has to be reported in scientific notation.

[Nedala]

Im used to 20m = 20% 80m=80% etc, haven't seen anyone doing it different here. On live i remember people saying 2 bub or 4 bub tho.

[Yinaltin]

as nedala said , on soro it was always only 20m equals 20 % . i heared about that bubble thing before in our guild on p99 . only one person . so im almomst sure it was a server habit and not an everquest wide thing .

[Uaellaen]

40m is what i do or 40% like back in the days!

[Zigfreed]

I'm with the percentage folks. When I first started on live I thought oom meant that you were meditating for more mana so I would always say oom since I was a wizzy. Confused groupmates in blackburrow..

[Uaellaen]

2m = 2% on live for me. Another weird thing is for Invisible VS Undead. On my servers was always IVU and I've found alot of people call it ITU.

appearently the spell was changed on live and is not called invisivility versus undead anymore, but invisibility to undead ...

[hedbonker]

% and I generally only report my mana if it is potential issue...

[Kaleadar]

so how do YOU answer mana checks?

I say "pull till I say stop or someone dies, whatever comes first. Stop wasting EXP time doing mana checks!"

[Chanus]

I say "pull till I say stop or someone dies, whatever comes first. Stop wasting EXP time doing mana checks!"

Then I look around for a smiling child and I punch it in the face because THIS IS REAL LIFE GOD DAMN IT! NO TIME FOR GIGGLES, SHIT FOR BRAINS!

[Alawen Everywhere]

I remember mana checks being reported in bubbles. Did the original interface even report %?

[Agecroft]

In 10 years I've never seen this bubble format. It's always 40m for 40%.

[Chanus]

% on a default interface didn't happen until like four years ago. I think everyone just knew a bubble is 20% as there's five of them.

[ir0nfist]

I normally say the percentage but don't bother with the m. So just fm, 60, 30, LOM, OOM. That's about the size of it.

[chr0nix]

Fennin Ro here since classic, always have reported mana by bubbles as in 1m, 2m, etc. I thought it was a little odd that almost every time I grouped on this server someone asked what I meant or why not use %. Thanks for posting this!! I am no longer forever alone.

[Morlaeth]

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?


I've never seen the bubble method...I've always used percentages.

[corradojeff]

This thread needed a poll...

[Falliton]

I also played on Fennin Ro and recall it being in bubbles. I also played on a Tholuxe Paells, Vazaelle and Firiona Vie and it was always percentages on those.

[Slathar]

fennin ro sucks because they go by bubbles

[Maneuk]

%age on firiona Vie
And rougues would also say "oop!"
(out of poison)

[Tumdumm]

i remember bubbles on morrell thule but % on xev, i like % better

[Datante]

I remember mana checks being reported in bubbles. Did the original interface even report %?

Yep, back in '99-2000 it was always bubbles (or rarely a nice round percent) due to a lack of percent overlay. I recall saying 1b, 2 bubs, etc.. The "blue experience bar" was also not in existence back then...that yellow exp bar just seemed to stand still for soooo long!

[Randy]

I do the 40m for 40%... maybe its because i played until they starting having percentages in the UI. I don't remember ever seeing the 1m,2m,etc. for bubbles of mana. But I figured out what people meantby it. Of course, I played a ranger on live so mana check never mattered to me.

[Lelroni]

Always used percentage aswell. 10m = 10%, 50m = 50%, FM = full mana, oom = out of mana, etc.

[Bubbles]

Even Bubbles herself uses mana % to report.

[Dirtnap]

I always say 1m or 1b. I always used bubbles. Most of Druzzil Ro did it that way too if memory serves me right.

[Pyrocat]

20m = 20% = 1 bub

all are valid

[Maddy]

If you got mana left you are clearly doing something wrong. There is no need for manachecks in groups. on raids its different tho

[bluejam]

XXm = XX%

Sometimes I say "X CH left".