Just cruising the archives, found a 2/14/2001 post talking about how casters can get capped on +mana gear, making a differentiation from +INT/WIS. Is a rant on how they should add casting haste or something as further gear simply doesn't increase their total mana once capped.
https://web.archive.org/web/20010223.../057442-4.html
Quote:
What I don't understand, is why VI keeps refusing to give casters some form of 'haste' (for lack of a better term).
We have an INT cap, a +mana cap, so why are we continually getting items that add +int and +mana? So I can have a change of clothes that does the same thing but with the stats switched around? Where is my uber gear, that makes me a BETTER CASTER? No such thing exists. I still cast the same, I still get resisted the same, I still have max mana...I never become a BETTER CASTER. I just have a few hundred extra mana, maybe. I get to cast one more (resisted) spell. Or twitch a cleric one more time. That's the BEST I can hope for out of any new gear. Then you hit the cap on your mana...and there are no improvements from then on, ever.
What would be SO imbalancing about getting BETTER at casting your spells as you increase in levels? Isn't it...*gasp* logical that you would?
I just don't understand. What would be the problem? The ONLY difference in me naked and me with my gear is my mana pool. And my mana pool is still too small...if I even have anything to do besides feed mana to the cleric.
I just want to be useful, and wanted. Is that so much to ask? =(
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Possibly a bit open to interpretation if they are just adding up max +mana on items known to them, but seems more than that.