Comments on: Downranking is going down the drain http://www.everyjoe.com/wowobsessed/downranking-is-going-down-the-drain/ World of Warcraft Joys and Frustrations - WOW News Sun, 13 Dec 2009 03:19:05 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: b5media - Video games get even hotter this summer http://www.everyjoe.com/wowobsessed/downranking-is-going-down-the-drain/comment-page-1/#comment-524 b5media - Video games get even hotter this summer Thu, 14 Aug 2008 16:53:03 +0000 http://www.wowobsessed.com/downranking-is-going-down-the-drain/#comment-524 [...] Downranking is going down the drain (WoW Obsessed) [...] [...] Downranking is going down the drain (WoW Obsessed) [...]

]]> By: Dennis http://www.everyjoe.com/wowobsessed/downranking-is-going-down-the-drain/comment-page-1/#comment-523 Dennis Thu, 14 Aug 2008 13:21:29 +0000 http://www.wowobsessed.com/downranking-is-going-down-the-drain/#comment-523 I was really annoyed when I first heard about this. It seemed at first as if there was no point in bumping up your int~mana since since each spell was going to cost a fixed percent of what you had. But reading more carefully, the cost is a fixed percent of *base* mana, which is the detail I missed initially. So spells will cost less of your mana bar with higher int than if you had low int, which is just as it works now. So at first glance I thought a spell costing 10% of your base mana could only be cast 10 times (not counting mana regen) regardless of your int before you went OOM. But the higher your int~mana, the more times you can cast it, just like today. Seems like an OK change to me now. I was really annoyed when I first heard about this. It seemed at first as if there was no point in bumping up your int~mana since since each spell was going to cost a fixed percent of what you had. But reading more carefully, the cost is a fixed percent of *base* mana, which is the detail I missed initially. So spells will cost less of your mana bar with higher int than if you had low int, which is just as it works now.

So at first glance I thought a spell costing 10% of your base mana could only be cast 10 times (not counting mana regen) regardless of your int before you went OOM. But the higher your int~mana, the more times you can cast it, just like today. Seems like an OK change to me now.

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