SK Race question + item help (have never played a tank)

[DeathsSilkyMist]

Originally Posted by Snaggles [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Blood Ember COSTS you peak mana in the example I mentioned. Nobody is killing anything tough with engulfing darkness and boot clicks (or likely mediocre without being frustrated). You can’t even fear it…it’s tap-quest.

Blood Ember doesn't cost you mana, that doesn't make sense.

Here is a simple example. Blood Ember Greaves save you 60 mana per FD. When singling out a mob, most of the time you don't need to use Death's Peace or spell FD. If you need to FD 20 times per hour to single out mobs, that is already the equivalent of a Flowing Thought II item.

If you are pairing Gloves with that, you have 2x Flowing Thought II items. Saving 2400 mana per hour means 12 less minutes of sitting and meditating. I use Blood Ember Gloves/Greaves all the time. Boots are more situational, but they still save me mana after the initial fear on living mobs.

Even when killing hard, unfearable mobs, those mobs are not always alone. You need to spend mana to split the mobs.

If you are talking about killing single, unfearable mobs like Cliff Golems, Blood Ember Greaves are still great mana savers. You can FD to let your pet take some damage and come back up without spending mana. You're not going to use Greenmist on Cliff Golems. The DPS loss is not worth the DoT, and typically you want Epic for Cliff Golems anyway since it is simply better.