Why Do Mana Users Have To Manage Their Resource?

[Raldo]

I half-agree.

Healers - MP still makes sense to me. They shouldn't be able to spam their strongest heals with impunity.
BLM/PLD/DRK - MP still makes sense, because it directly impacts their rotation. Running out of MP is not a "problem" for them.
SMN/RDM - I don't know why these jobs still use MP. As I understand it, this job could lose all its MP costs and its rotation would not change.
Everyone else that doesn't use MP - Why is MP still part of my UI?

Do we know yet if ShB retains the "If you die, you now have zero MP" penalty? With TP gone, I don't think MP should be zeroed out upon death anymore.

[Penthea]

SMN - I don't know why this job still uses MP.
RDM - I don't know why this job still uses MP.

Obviously I can't speak for ShB, but currently it's so they can't spam their heals and resses endlessly.

[Seraph522]

Obviously I can't speak for ShB, but currently it's so they can't spam their heals and resses endlessly.

Pretty sure that's not changing in ShB, either; from the tooltips we've seen, Resurrection and Verraise work the same as always, and presumably still benefit from Swiftcast/Dualcast, so MP still acts as a limitation on them.