Mana Issues with Ret?
Hey guys! Just wanted to take a few mins to talk about something that seems to be bother a few peeps.
Josh @ Eye for an Eye posted about his mana issues and having to go for Glyph of Consecration to over come this.
Now Glyph of Consecration increases the length and cooldown time of Consecrate by 1 second. Meaning you spam it less often.
Rather than use Glyph of Con. I use Glyph of Seal of the Martyr/Blood. This increases the amount of mana you receive from Spiritual Attunement by 10% while the seal is active.
This little awesome glyph keeps you topped up in fights like Patchwerk where you don’t(shouldn’t) receive much healing. (don’t get me started about random 14k Chain-Heal procs you shamans!!)
Reading the comments about the glyph on wowhead.com it seems no-one agrees and now has me 2nd guessing something that seems to help me keep my mana going.
The only time I ever have to consume a potion is if i’m solo’ing stuff now. In last nights raid for instance we cleared 3 wings of naxx-25 and I didn’t take *ANY* potions – not even health pots.
I’m wondering if I should start carrying around DPS potions for the last 20% of boss fights when I pop wings or when Heroism is up.
I’ll list what Glyphs I’m using later in case you’re interested.
Last night I was invited in the Naxx as someone dropped out at the last minute.
Once again all that dropped was stupid Protector T7.5 items, but I manged to get to 60 something Emblems of Valor so just purchased my shoulders that way instead.
I did however get 1 loot item:
Aged Winter Cloak
Back
154 Armor
+38 Agility
+57 Stamina
Equip: Improves critical strike rating by 43.
Equip: Increases attack power by 110.
Equip: Increases armor penetration rating by 28.
Which is lovely! I had the emblem cloak before so this was a nice crit upgrade for me.
I also got gems fitted to my t7.5 shoulder and legs, and enchanted my new gloves:
Crude Discolored Battlegrips
Hands Plate
1436 Armor
+75 Strength
+82 Stamina
Equip: Improves hit rating by 74.
Equip: Improves critical strike rating by 43.
This was the last piece i needed to get me over the hit cap again which is now sitting at 294 meaning I can possibly play with some new boots/belt/neck or something in the future.
I also went for the Massacre enchant for my Axe – controversial? +110 AP is pretty nice!
I’m sitting at 35.1% crit now unbuffed and way over 3k Attack Power.
(In raids fully buffed I’m hovering around 5k AP and 40-45% crit depending on Druids!)
4 Responses so far
Rohan
January 29th, 2009
4:52 pm
Use the Glyph of Spiritual Attunement instead. Glyph of Seal of Blood is worded badly, it actually only gives you an extra 1% (10% of 10 is 1), for a total Spiritual Attunement of 11%.
Glyph of Spiritual Attunement gives a straight 2% bonus, for a total Spiritual Attunement of 12%.
Stoico aka Impadin
January 29th, 2009
5:52 pm
I cant see why you should use any of the above. I use none of em, and have no mana issues in 25 man. Can have a few in 10 man on low healing fights.
But I would recommend the glyph on Con. Not for the mana issue, even though its nice. But for the longer time on it. Gives you more time to weave in other abilities on undead. And it gives you less cooldown clashes. Which is problaly the biggest plus on it.
Jong
January 29th, 2009
7:49 pm
grats on the leet sauce gloves! probably best in slot for us atm?
I gotta go with Stoico on gylphs. Glyph of Cons is a must. It reduces the number of GCD clashes we have to manage. efficient clash management wins games.
I go full throttle with J,CS,DS,Cons,Ex and never had mana issues. I have so much mana that I’m thinking about switching to Glyph of Piss Away Mana.
Anonymous
February 3rd, 2009
5:39 am
Don’t mean to burst your bubble, but with your new gloves you’re 32 over-hitcapped–the cap is 8% or 262 rating since WOTLK came out. But hey, now you have some leeway.
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