03-22-2023, 03:03 AM
Mana Capacity is a ghost stat with no use, Mana is just a funny blue bar on my HUD that I never see go below 75% unless I'm using Wayfinding.
That being said, going OOM can be unfun, but if you have no chance to OOM there's no point in having a mana bar in the first place.
I think all invulns should be a solid 30-40 mana, extremely high damage and extremely high AoE spells should have larger mana costs (Talking mainly masters. Precision Slash, Sword of Heaven, Judgement Beam, Shadow Cannon, Water Dome, etc). I don't think there's a point in increasing spell mana costs across the board, only specific spells. Or, alternatively, increase mana costs but also massively increase the mana regen offered by the mana stat after a certain threshold (perhaps 140, so negative mana doesn't feel like a free trade for other positive stats) so that mana can also be useful.
I'm just throwing ideas out there, I have zero idea on what is the 'correct' solution should be. But, mana is useless, the mana bar is pointless, and OOMing is annoying, and I don't know how to correct all three of these issues at once.
That being said, going OOM can be unfun, but if you have no chance to OOM there's no point in having a mana bar in the first place.
I think all invulns should be a solid 30-40 mana, extremely high damage and extremely high AoE spells should have larger mana costs (Talking mainly masters. Precision Slash, Sword of Heaven, Judgement Beam, Shadow Cannon, Water Dome, etc). I don't think there's a point in increasing spell mana costs across the board, only specific spells. Or, alternatively, increase mana costs but also massively increase the mana regen offered by the mana stat after a certain threshold (perhaps 140, so negative mana doesn't feel like a free trade for other positive stats) so that mana can also be useful.
I'm just throwing ideas out there, I have zero idea on what is the 'correct' solution should be. But, mana is useless, the mana bar is pointless, and OOMing is annoying, and I don't know how to correct all three of these issues at once.
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