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Originally Posted by Toony
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If you cant use it in Kunark how does its value increase? The whole bind/port thing is a pita. I remember the bottom dropping out of them right as Kunark launched on live. Why would things be all that different here?
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I don't know what server you played on, but within the first 3 months of Kunark on my server, manastone's price jumped 250%. They were going for 50-75k before release, and 150-200k within 3 months of the start of Kunark.
And the bind/port thing is not a pita. You have a druid take a cleric team to GFay and they all gate back FM 2 minutes later. Wizards can port out, eat up manastone hits on their epic's rune, and gate back FM. Any group/raid with a porter and a healer can get any and all casters they want to FM in a matter of about 2 minutes with a manastone.
The item just becomes more and more useful as mana pools grow. It's literally an invaluable item. A cleric with a manastone can run himself OOM at the beginning of a raid encounter, get ported out, manastone to full, gate back, and be FM again for the same encounter. Wizards are insanely OP'd burst DPS with epic/manastone. Druids are the most obvious users. It's just a game-changer. If you're a caster, and more specifically a cleric, wizard, or druid, it's literally the most valuable item in the game for you. And it's still highly useful for other casters. And that completely ignores the toy, status-symbol aspect of the item.