Quote Originally Posted by LunarEmerald View Post
Lucid earns about as much as you spend normally attacking. Every time you rezz you're down 2500 for the rest of the fight. Unless there's downtime to make up for it.
I didn't bother to work it out entirely, but if you just spam Jolt and Verwhatever, that's 700 mana every 4.94 sec (with my SpS), which is a little under 6900 mana per minute. Since Verholy and Verflare cost 500 instead of 400, but you spend about 5 seconds not using mana every time you do a melee combo, every melee combo spends 600 mana (500 for the finisher + the extra 100 for Scorch), so it's actually 100 mana less than you'd spend in about the same amount of time. Lucid is worth 3500 mana per minute (500 * 7 ticks) and you passively regen 4000 mana per minute (200 every 3 sec). Before even accounting for any downtime, you have a surplus if you use Lucid Dreaming as much as you can.