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Originally Posted by Jimjam
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Its a fair argument Gustoo. Maybe if i work on the SK he'll get to the point where I don't have enough mana to safely split, etc and i'll (or groupmates) will start dieing cos I'm oom, but i haven't reached there yet.
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That won't happen. I've been using my Shadow Knight a long time and there are a few situations that run me out of mana, but none of them have much to do with ordinary group activities. What does? Solo can, often enough. That's by far the most common case of straining the mana bar. I have at times had solo battles where being able to cast a couple extra taps or an extra snare meant the difference between winning or losing, and lots more cases where having some extra mana allowed for maintaining the safety net of at least being able to feign if needed. I've also occasionally lost solo battles due to running out of mana. Some niche situations where I need to do burst damage (such as getting an add while duo'ing that has to die ASAP) also strain the mana bar. Very high-level Shadow Knights do respectable burst damage while the mana bar lasts. Finally, I've run into a few situations where I've had to feign many many times in succession and run myself low or out of mana that way. That last one hasn't happened recently since FD-memblur was tinkered with but I'll mention it anyway.
I like INT on the large races because their normal melee statistics are so high to begin with, but it's not required and other allocations give good service as well. You can't really hurt a large race character the same way something like a Dark Elf on a fresh server with no added strength will be in for a bad time for awhile.
Danth