Buff Mana Shift... plz

[Hugowulf]

Isn’t the cooldown for mana shift shorter than refresh?

[Shurrikhan]

Isn’t the cooldown for mana shift shorter than refresh?

Kind of irrelevant. All that really matters is the MP/min. Mana Shift's is both far inferior and comes at cost of the caster's own mana.

[Kabooa]

Kind of irrelevant. All that really matters is the MP/min. Mana Shift's is both far inferior and comes at cost of the caster's own mana.

Don't forget Black Mages hate it because it requires UI, foreknowledge of the mana tick, an instant cast / transition, and taking it comes at the detriment of (most likely) addle, because swift, sure, diversion, and lucid threatdrop are pretty mandatory all around.

[P_Wing]

Don't forget Black Mages hate it because it requires UI, foreknowledge of the mana tick, an instant cast / transition, and taking it comes at the detriment of (most likely) addle, because swift, sure, diversion, and lucid threatdrop are pretty mandatory all around.

I think you can drop diversion for addle. Using lucid when threats are nearly at max worked fine (at least for me though).

But I agree it's clunky with requiring to be in UI thing. The only situation that doesn't incur dps loss for BLM to use mana shift is that you have thunder proc ready and Blizz 3 > Blizz 4 > Thunder proc + Shift > Foul, which is not that uncommon but troublesome to use XD.