For what it is worth I saw this post about a slightly alternate formula for mana that was posted 3 months before Luclin, could run it by the ShowEQ results from Velious to see if the cap would match:
Mana Calculator:
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To nit pick a little, the formula is really
((WIS/5)+2) x Level = base mana + mana from items = total mana
where wis is less than 200, and
42 * level + (wis-200) = base mana + mana from items = total mana
((Same, using INT for int casters))
Want to see something funny, loot your corpse at low levels with a lot of +mana gear on. Suddenly your mana bar drops to half without ever casting a spell!
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Not sure where that +2 came from, but could see if the ShowEQ results match up. For 255 wis/int @ Lvl 60:
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(((200/5)+2) * 60) + (255-200) = 2,575 base mana
2,575 / 2 = 1,287 (rounded down) +mana item cap
Max mana = 3,862 mana (not including buffs).
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That is roughly 200 more mana from Daldaen's calculations. Again no clue on the authenticity.
Interesting to read the last comment about going to 50% mana from looting a bunch of +mana items at low levels, one would expect 66%... Would assume they also looted +wis/int gear too, but perhaps the mana cap scaled differently as you leveled? We may never know.