I'm obviously not contesting that there is a mana advantage, or that a mana advantage is good.
I'm contesting the perceived assertion that Iksar is the only viable race.
4 mana per tick works out to 400 mana per 10 minutes. Or, 1278 damage per ten minutes using Pyrocruor, which is 2.13 DPS.
If we're using that mana for twitches, we can enable one cleric to cast one extra Complete Heal every ~23.33 minutes.
Both of those are positive numbers, and positive is good here. But Breeze is far less awesome at 60 than it is at 12.
Put another way, after ten minutes of non-stop action, the non-Iksar will need to med for an additional 1.67 minutes after the Iksar reaches full mana. Both of which will be full mana before any other class in the raid.
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