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Originally Posted by DrKvothe
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I think we've all agreed that the racial regen bonus is great while leveling, but there's an ongoing idea in this thread that it only helps with "easy stuff." The suggestion that racial regen doesn't help on hard stuff pre-60 is just plain false. Pre-torpor it's very rarely burst damage that kills a shaman, where not getting bashed means you can cast that one spell that will save you. What's more likely to kill you or force a reset is the additional mana burden of a root break or an add when you were already having trouble holding down the other four. Pre-torpor, if something is doing enough damage that bash is the difference between life and death, it's too tough for you to solo anyways. If you've got more than 2 mobs beating on you, it's because you screwed up somehow. Hopefully you screwed up right next to a wall, otherwise FSI won't get your cast off!
On the other hand, root rotting 4+ mobs is all about 1) the break and 2) mana/hp management. The break is gonna cost you a puppy, and is thus a mana issue itself when attempting to hold down multiple such rooms. You want to hit as many med ticks as possible, you want to position the mobs in such a way that you're not getting hit and if one breaks you can root and still have somewhere to move to, etc. The harder the fight the fewer the med ticks you're going to catch. FSI will save you the occasional extra round, but this should be rare if you're playing properly. Fights are likely to last 6-10 minutes, so regen actually really matters to the total amount of mana you have at your disposal.
Using canni 3 (and assuming the 100 to 47 value on wiki is accurate), at 59 a standing ogre gets ~34 mana per minute while a standing troll gets ~67 mana per minute. If you're missing a lot of med ticks because you're scrambling to keep everything rooted/dotted or you're busy positioning, this is a ridiculous difference. It's a 47 mana per minute difference if you're hitting every med tick.
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you made a good argument for why regen is good at level 59
but levels 1-49, the regen is not really a big diff
i hope no one thinks they're gonna have fungi regen 1-49 while leveling up
check the graph
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