Mana management? On BLM? I have infinite mana. I cast nonstop, every fight unless im forced to move. For BLM, you need to understand the 2 stances - astral fire and umbral ice. Astral fire boosts your outgoing damage(while essentially shutting down mana regen), so you do most of your damage with it up. Umbral ice boosts your mana regen to the moon(default mana regen is 1/10th your full total per server tick, with 1 umbral stack you get 1/4 of your mana back per tick while a full umbral stack is like 66% of your mana per tick) but doesnt boost damage. So you go into fire mode -> do a bunch of damage -> switch to ice mode -> regen a bunch of mana -> go back to fire to destroy things again. At level 4 you get Transpose, a 0 mana skill which switches your current stance to the opposite stance with 1 stack - meaning you can cast down to literally 0 mana then instantly switch to the regen stance to start getting your mana back quickly. At higher levels you also get spells(Fire 3, Bliz 3) that let you switch stances with full stacks. So... no. The review you read was wrong, mana isnt one of our problems.