> I'm not exactly sure what you mean about Shaman buffing without exceeding
> their regen rate....
> I can buff TWO people fully before I'm out of mana. Yes, some of the buffs
> last longer but if I"m debuffing during the fight, and I am even needed to

Just to clarify what it means to "buff without exceeding your
mana regen rate..."

Say each buff costs you one bubble. Say each buff lasts 60
minutes. Say you meditate back one bubble a minute. That
means you can keep a maximum of 60 buffs up.

How many buffs you can cast going from FM to OOM is pretty
irrelevant since buffing is almost always done during
downtime. What matters is how many buffs your mana
regeneration rate allows you to maintain.

This is the type of analysis Verant failed to do (and is
failing to do) every time they go off on one of their "but
bards use no mana!" tangents. No we don't use mana, but
because of the short lifespan of our songs and the
(relatively) long "casting time" for our songs, it's pretty
much the same thing as using mana. In fact, you can think of
our songs as spells that last 12 seconds, require 5 bubbles of
mana to cast, and our mana regen rate gives us back 5 bubbles
every 3 seconds.

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John H. Kim
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