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Originally Posted by Seredoc
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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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There's not really a flaw with what I'm saying man, I think you are misunderstanding me. The point is there is no way to increase mana regen other than level for more meditate and finding external buffs. The *point* is that the bottleneck is a factor largely beyond your control - it's not like you can meditate any faster. Having more mana means you can go a bit longer before meditating - but it also means it takes you longer to meditate back to full.
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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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Unless you are routinely running yourself dry each single target kill (in which case I'd argue you're biting off more than you should chew), 100-200 extra mana just gives you a bit more of a mana buffer - nothing more or less. It's presence doesn't increase your xp rate.
Will 5/55s help you kill faster? Nope. Will it make you nuke harder, meditate quicker, run faster, or shoot laser beams from your eyes? Again - nope. Will it make you sturdier when shit hits the fan (either solo or grouped)? Yes. At low levels before you can afford good mana or wisdom (increased returns at higher levels) gear, it's really hard to find a better value ... I don't care what class you are.
I didn't die often, but especially when my druid has sow, yes ... 110hp makes the difference between life and death. It'll nearly buy you a full round from that wandering Hill Giant you didn't see (or hear? lol) stomping up behind you. In a group, it might just buy you the
twenty seconds <your words, not mine> needed for the tank to taunt off you, the rogue to burn it down ... etc.
My point is simple. 60 mana for the sake of 60 mana isn't nearly as useful in the long efficient grind as some people make it out to be. It isn't your mana pool slowing you down ... it's the rate you fill that pool. For raiding, quadding, and high level high intensity grouping a mana pool will buy you added degrees of safety ... but once again these aren't things that a low level druid is going to be doing.
If you're snaring/nuking on a low level druid ... that's a pretty bad way of getting xp compared the the much more mana efficient root/rot or better yet charm methods of xping.