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Ataelos
I keep going OOM during raids, I've only tried ToC 10 and the weekly but no matter what I do I keep running out of mana. I've been doing this "rotation" to save mana: DI at the beginning to throw out beacon, shield, my first Judgement and spam HL a bit. Then after DI falls off HL/FoL and Judgment spam depending on whats needed. At about 40% mana I pop DP and AW at the same time, which usually gets me back up to 80% or so unless I have to spam HL (which I had to during one of the raids I was in), but after that I'm kinda just stuck. My mana pool starts to rapidly fall and eventually I'm stuck in between cooldowns with just Lay on Hands left to get me mana, but I don't like using that since it's my "Oh no!" button for the tanks. So what I'm wondering is, what am I doing wrong? What can I be doing better? How do I not run out of mana all the damn time?
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Post by
svirve
At about 40% mana I pop DP and AW at the same time, which usually gets me back up to 80% or so unless I have to spam HL
You do know that DP only gives you 25% of your mana pool back ;p
Also don't combine AW with DP, that's one of your problems. Use AW during periods were damage is heavy, you can combine it with DI but not with DP.
Don't use DP at a set percentage of your mana, use it when you have some time to spare during a fight. Aim to use it every minute and at times when you can get atleast 2 ticks (6 seconds) out of it without having to cancel it due to too much incoming damage.
And do as much as you can to not heal when DP is up, cutting the effectiveness of your healing spells in half is not a good way to preserve mana.
Use SS, even though it doesn't shield for 10k like disco priests it still mitigates some damage, which means you have to spend less mana healing that damage.
Keep the FoL hot ticking, once again it's not much but it helps.
Bacon is WTF pwn. Try to refresh bacon when DI is up to reduce the mana cost of the most costly spell in your arsenal.
Post by
pezz
One thing you can do with DP is beacon/HoSac something, then heal yourself while it's up. In a roundabout and kind of not completely effectual way, it completely cancels out the MS effect, provided you're only assigned to one target.
Post by
Ataelos
Well, your first problem is the 6k mana pool. :D
Seriously, though, it kinda sounds like a gearcheck. You could try using LoH as a mana battery. Panic buttons are great and all, but a casting healer with no CDs is more useful than an OOM healer with unused CDs.
I logged out in my tanking gear. Normally I'm sitting at 23-26k mana, depending on buffs.
Post by
Ataelos
You do know that DP only gives you 25% of your mana pool back ;p
Yes, but my MP5 + Meleeing the boss and everything else I do pushes it back up there.
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161859
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Post by
Ataelos
Do you use Seal of Wisdom, and glyph for it?
Yes
Do you also use the Holy Light mana reduction trinket?
There's a trinket that reduces the mana of Holy Light?
Also, I cast DI at the beginning of the pull because I want as much uptime on Beacon as possible since it's such a huge mana sink.
edit: Wrong word in the wrong place
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Post by
pezz
That HL mana cost reduction trinket probably refers to the libram. There's a spirit + spell cost reduction trinket but it's less than fantastic.
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Post by
Ataelos
No, my glyphs are HL, Divinity, and SoW
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