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Originally Posted by Pyrion
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Mana regeneration is way more important than a big mana pool. With a big mana pool you can heal yourself up once. And then? Take a long time to med back up. In the end you spend the same time healing up as with a smaller mana pool if you want to be FM at the end again
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That's not a universal truth: it REALLY depends on what you're doing.
I'm coming at this from a Shaman's perspective, but the basic idea is the same. When you are leveling, whether solo or grouping, it's all about your ability to kill as many mobs as possible over the course of an hour (or more). Max mana/HP gear only gives you more HP/Mana for the very first fight in that hour; after that it has no effect on your kill speed. Regeneration/Flowing Thought gear however gives you more and more HP/Mana as the hour progresses, so after a few fights it does more to improve your kill speed than wearing higher maximums gear.
BUT not all of EQ is a steady stream of (as efficient as possible) killing. If you're planning to solo a tough mob, unless the fight lasts a
really long time, starting with higher maximums is going to give you more HP/Mana for that fight than the regen gear will, because the regen gear won't have time to regen much. Similarly if you are killing raid bosses everyone waits until the raid is ready before the boss fight, then they kill the boss (usually in under a minute or two), then they recover again. So again you have a situation with a relatively short fight, which means maximums truly are better than regen (for most raid bosses at least).