Quote Originally Posted by Klive View Post
Yoshi put out the cap for materia stats when the system came out. The cap is 10*(Max Lvl IV). So manathirst caps at 550 MP, which increase your mana per tick by 41.25.

I'm a GSM and play with manathirst all the time, because it is so frigggin cheap. Once you get you MP over 4000, your mana regen is fast enough, you have to be rather reckless to run out. Even if you run out, you get roughly 100+ Mp a second standing still and even more with a bard's magi. In a full group you get a 10% bonus to mp, which furthers increases this mana regen.

The compounded fact that you have more mana to burn and get more mana regening, stacking manathirst really increases your casting endurance. Try it, you should be able to get manathirst gear really cheap...
you wont gain speed with having to cast more spells though. less spells that hit harder are ideal, i have no mp materia and no no mp issues, i have mega ethers on macro that i rarely even need. Thundaga for instance has a fairly long cool-down, you are only gonna get to cast it a couple times on a boss so you have to focus on potency not extra mp.

I guess if you could actually get 550 mp on your gear it would be more beneficial to whm then blm.