First off, the flaws in what you stated
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Originally Posted by Troxx
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Until a druid is old enough to quad kite mana pool takes a back seat to mana regen. The rate of healing and dpsing is limited not by the size of the pool, rather how quickly it fills.
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The only things you have that increase mana regen until high level as a druid are clarity and meditate. Meditate being higher increases mana regen per tick. So your argument right there is incredibly flawed.
A smaller mana pool vs. a larger mana pool does not interact with regen rate, just changes how much mana you have when at 50m.
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Mana pool is paramount with ventures like quadding where the pool needs to just be big enough to drop all targets before your tank runs empty - but quadding isn't something young Druids will be doing.
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Mana pool is also paramount for snare kiting which is what a lot of low level druids are stuck doing since dots are weak and root is short duration. 1 snare and 5-10 dd's are one mob down, having a larger mana pool means you can pull more on one bar of mana before going oom. Which suddenly means that if you have more mana and are keeping snare up for 15m you lose ALL functionality of the 5/55 rings
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As for 5/55s bring useless ... Heh ... Not sure that even warrants a reply. Especially at low levels, a pair of those can mean the difference between life and death. They are always in demand and hold their value. When you outgrow them, they also make great handmedown gear for Alts if you don't need the money.
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I don't know what druids you were playing but every time I died below lvl 10 it was because of adds or red con mobs and 110 HP's would've bought me all of 20 seconds of life(if that). Nice way to cherry pick my statement, I said they were useles when you have snare and sow. Could be useful low end but 60 mana is much more important because that has way more applications than 110 hp's
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Having said all of that, Druids can function and level perfectly well naked.
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One thing you said I actually agree with