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Originally Posted by Troxx
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/facepalm
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.
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Again with the cherry picking my statements. The 20 second it buys you is below lvl 10 when druids would be snare/nuke kiting. I'd like to see anyone make root rot efficient when root takes 10% mana and lasts 2-3 ticks. It won't happen and in that case it is when you use snare/nuke, then at 14 you start charm kiting and around that level mobs start hitting for 30 damage so it buys you a few hits is it, drastically diminishing returns over 30 or 60 extra mana