Quote Originally Posted by Coglin View Post
I think your few months late for this discuaaion.

Anyway, MP cost as you can see, were so low before, it might as well been 0 to cast anything. Now there is a reguirement for MP management and strategy.
its funny to me that people think MP management is strategy at all. all you need to do is pace yourself and use your 1 free spell buff whenever applicable... thats strategy?
in other MMOs, even if i run out of MP there is a relatively quick way of getting it back.
the strategy comes with being a massive uber enmity magnet - i can either choose to nuke almost endlessly with a 99% chance of death/wipe or i can chain a handful of nukes to manage my enmity. in between chained nukes i do less powerful spells and rebuff myself. this keeps me very busy as a DD mage in other MMOs.
either way it keeps me busier longer because im not just standing around in between nukes and not required to heal anyone in the meantime (your magic DD should never have to do a healers job just as your melee shouldnt have to)

I just dont see extreme MP management as either fun nor strategic since all you do is pace your nukes, quite slowly at that.