Dev Watercooler - The Role of Role

[theckhd]

It's a bit more like mana's a relic that's still there because Holy uses mana and Prot and Ret have only one resource - Holy Power. There's a blue bar there because they haven't gotten rid of it yet.

I had sort of felt like Prot's main resource mechanic was Cooldowns/GCD's, because mana was so laughable. When your mantra is: OOM? Pull MOAR its not a very good resource.

Note that in the MoP implementation, our mana regen is fixed at 5% every 2 seconds. No mana return on blocking. Since the resource generation will be more consistent, there's a decent chance they'll be able to turn it into a real resource we care about. Provided they're going that route, of course.

[Klaudandus]

It's a bit more like mana's a relic that's still there because Holy uses mana and Prot and Ret have only one resource - Holy Power. There's a blue bar there because they haven't gotten rid of it yet.

I had sort of felt like Prot's main resource mechanic was Cooldowns/GCD's, because mana was so laughable. When your mantra is: OOM? Pull MOAR its not a very good resource.

Note that in the MoP implementation, our mana regen is fixed at 5% every 2 seconds. No mana return on blocking. Since the resource generation will be more consistent, there's a decent chance they'll be able to turn it into a real resource we care about. Provided they're going that route, of course.

That sounds really dangerous imo.

[benebarba]

post deleted: not correct thread, copied to MoP thread.

[Klaudandus]

It's a bit more like mana's a relic that's still there because Holy uses mana and Prot and Ret have only one resource - Holy Power. There's a blue bar there because they haven't gotten rid of it yet.

I had sort of felt like Prot's main resource mechanic was Cooldowns/GCD's, because mana was so laughable. When your mantra is: OOM? Pull MOAR its not a very good resource.

Note that in the MoP implementation, our mana regen is fixed at 5% every 2 seconds. No mana return on blocking. Since the resource generation will be more consistent, there's a decent chance they'll be able to turn it into a real resource we care about. Provided they're going that route, of course.

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